Special Operations Forces in the Year 2K.

[Targan]

My last campaign was based around a core group of SF characters and the CO of the unit went out of his way to recruit/have transferred to his command other personnel with SF training. The majority of the unit were not SF troops. At the unit's height (back in the CONUS) the CO divided his SF types into teams of 7 to 10 men each based on specialty, but due to the difficulty of finding suitably trained personnel there were men pressed into roles they weren't specifically trained for. Also some of them were in the CONUS because they had been injured during the war and brought home for extended treatment.

For instance the "Blue" team was nominally Major Po's SEAL group but only three were actual SEAL operators (the team's CO was also PO's XO and he was a SEAL, a Master CPO who was a Vietnam-era SEAL who had been brought out of retirement and another SEAL who had been injured early in the war and had mostly recovered from his injuries) and the rest were SDV, SBU and Coast Guard boarding action specialists as well as a UK SBS operator.

The "Green" team was made up of a handful of USMC recon, Scout-Sniper and FAST troops with marine-type troops from several other nations as well (including a British Royal Marine Commando and a Filipino Marine recon specialist).

The "Black" team had a few US Army SF types mixed in with the only Delta operator the group ever encountered, SF troops from both Panama and Pakistan and a Sayeret Matkal operator who was an Ethiopian Jew.

Po also had a "Red" team consisting of men who had completed the Ranger course, a former SWAT team member and experienced front line combat personnel (infantry, cav and others).

The "Gold" team was a catch-all team for personnel with rare/important specialties such as a USAF F-15 pilot, a South African chopper pilot, a USN Corpsman, a USAF dog handler, an Army intel officer, a signals specialist and a number of technicians and engineers among others.

[Webstral]

Targan, that's a very interesting concept. Very interesting indeed. Where did this group operate

Webstral

[Targan]

Targan, that's a very interesting concept. Very interesting indeed. Where did this group operate

Webstral

The core members of the unit were the survivors of the Poland part of the campaign but SOG 1 (as Po styled the unit) was fully brought together at Little Creek, Virginia in January 2001. A hefty chunk of the group's fast movers were from "Team Panama", a hodge podge of US and allied personnel who had been forced to find their own way back to the CONUS from Panama after that area was abandoned by MilGov forces (many of them had been operating in other parts of Central and South America and ended up in Panama too late to be evacuated with the rest of US forces).

I forgot to include one very useful component of Po's command, a four-man ISA team which had also come back from the south with "Team Panama". Unlike many of the other SF personnel whom Po basically poached from the units they were serving in in and around Norfolk, the ISA team was assigned to Po's unit by the MilGov commanders who tasked Po with recovering the NYC gold reserves. It was felt that the mission was important enough to justify assigning him that high level of specialist intelligence assets. The ISA guys were some very switched on dudes.

SOG 1 was engaged in aggressive reconnaissance of NYC, resulting in some vicious battles with harbour pirates as well as forces of The Dukes and Hizzoner the Mayor. There was also a nasty little shadow war going on between Po's men and an entrenched and very active CIA cell which was also looking for the gold reserves. SOG 1 ended up wiping out the CIA cell to the last man. That was a fun part of the campaign for me as GM.

[pmulcahy11b]

Team Gold sort of sounds like the rumored "Funny Platoon" in Delta -- full of strange but useful specialties.