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Noble Ire wrote:
[I thought they were capable of supporting 800. Confused ]

[Only for brief periods. 500 is the normal maximum.]

The ship carries a crew of 255, an aircrew of 206 and 480 Royal Marine Commandos. An additional 320 marines could be accommodated in a short-term emergency. HMS Ocean is capable of transporting and sustaining an embarked military force of up to 800 men equipped with artillery, vehicles and stores. The ship has capacity for 40 vehicles but is not designed to land heavy tanks. There are four LCVP Mk 5 vehicle/personnel landing craft on davits.

Tasoth wrote:Egads, you trust me with a metric fuckton of soldiers? Ack, whatever happens, I'd prefer the position with less troops to handle to ease my multi tasking. But, as it would seem, I'm at the whim of the high commander.

Brigadier General Isaac "Ire" Reynold

Steadfast and loyal, the CO of CTF 81's Expeditionary Strike Group is career soldier. Born in Nashua, New Hampshire (US) in 1948, he was first deployed to South Vietnam on his twentieth birthday, on the heels of the disasterous Tet Offensive. He saw comparitively little action, but nonetheless served with distinction, and bore the rank of Corporal by the time his unit was withdrawn in 1974. Over the next decade, he recieved a commision and served in several US naval task force operations, rising to the rank of Captain by the outbreak of World War Three. Reynold was WIA during a USN landing operation in the North Atlantic early in the war, and upon returning to duty, commanded a Marine Company near Hamburg for the remainder of the war. His most notable action during the conflict involved the daring rescue of a group of British Marines trapped in enemy ground by a Soviet offensive, an action which won him an honorary Military Cross.

After the war, Reynold served in Europe for several more years before withdrawn to an administrative position in Washington, D.C. He was briefly a tactical advisor to the President of the United States, but was quitely removed after openly voicing support for the formation of the UN's GDI. Though officially supported by the US government, several generals in the Pentagon disliked what they viewed as the subversion of the nation's ability to exercise military power. Reynold would have likely have been pushed into early retirement, but the influential Admiral Christy, under whom he had served briefly during the opening of WWIII, offered him a command position in the newly-formed GDI Coalition Task Force 81. The appointment was supported by a British member of the UN Security Council, whose son had been among those Reynold had saved near Hamburg, and soon the Marine officer found himself in command of a segment of one of the most powerful multi-national task forces ever assembled, along with an entire Brigade of US Marines.

Though hardened by the carnage of war, Reynold was convinced by his time in Europe that mutli-national cooperation through the UN, militarily and politically, was the only way to prevent another major conflict, and as such places the utmost importance on his new role. However, though he has served aboard Navy ships before, he has never commanded them, and is somewhat nervous about his new role, even he if doesn't like to show it.

Though typically understanding and relatively lenient with those under his command, Reynold usually wears a stoic and even combative persona when on duty, which has earned him the nickname Ire amongst the non-comms of the 10th Marine; he rather likes it.

atg wrote:Plan 1: Modify Renown to include a ski-jump bow to allow the use of JSF's or Harriers if necessary. Pull out diesel propulsion system and replace with steam-turbine system (perhaps nuclear?) to raise speed from 18 to 28knots.

Plan 2: Replace Renown as an Ocean-class assualt carrier with an Invincible-class Carrier modified to support 1000 troops long term. Currently the Invincible's can carry 950 men short term. Doing so would reduce the aircraft capability but gives a 28 knot speed without needing to change the drive system.

Vicious wrote:Surlethe, why switch to nuclear reactors over the diesels? The USN experiement with a CGN and found that it was cheaper in the long term to run them with diesels, and the nucplants gave no real advantage. She can already make 30+ knots, which means she can keep up with the fleet just fine.

Ar-Adunakhor wrote:Oh, no reason at all.

Darth Raptor wrote:[CWM: The Iron Curtain has, for the most part, been lifted. East Germany (hell, Eastern Europe for that matter) is still a shithole though. There's constant fighting within and between the Slavic countries. In fact, that's part of the reason for the GDI's revitalization: The bulk of NATO's ground forces have been in Europe on UN peacekeeping missions for almost fifteen years. With the sudden explosion of global terrorism at the turn of the century, the world needed a new power to lighten the load of the US Armed Forces. Also we could have our European Nod-esque organization deliberately funding the wars and exacerbating the problem. Anyone feel like going to the Mediterranean?

Anyway, here's a tentative breakdown of regional alliances across the world: Map.]

Surlethe wrote:[That map seems to pit industrialized first-world nations vs. second- and third-world nations; I can't see a big, viable enemy arising out of that unless we somehow splinter the first-world alliances. Perhaps, though, I'm simply misunderstanding; what does "NOD" mean?]

Uraniun235 wrote:How long until all of these modifications are completed? I'm getting antsy to head out to sea.

phongn wrote:

atg wrote:*snip*

No.

*snip*

Also, no.

Vicious wrote:@A-A: On the modifications list, please change the two SH-60Hs to one SH-60B and one SH-60F. The two Block 1A Phalanxes have been swapped out for an additional set of Sea-RAMs (so Arclight has no R2s but 4x Sea-RAMs). In addition, I'll keep to the standard hull dimensions right now. I do like the stealth-paint, though!

Ar-Adunakhor wrote:[Done, but why would you want to trade Romeos for older versions?]

[Edit: Wait, you misread. They were SH-60Rs, not SH-60Hs.]

Darth Raptor wrote:East Germany (hell, Eastern Europe for that matter) is still a shithole though.

Anyway, here's a tentative breakdown of regional alliances across the world: Map.]

Uraniun235 wrote:[Woah, what's up with North Korea?]

Civil War Man wrote:Just wondering. Does this mean that East Germany is still independent from the West? Or that it is simply a shithole-y part of united Germany?

1. Almost the entirety of OPEC is not aligned with us (assuming our alliance consist of the yellow countries), which could cause all sorts of problems. But hey, could actually give a good reason why you guys would so willingly welcome a pirate into your ranks. Early on, he has a deal where he hijacks tankers so the US and USSR could still get the crude. And him taking command of a warship could be due to the red countries forming heavily armed convoys to protect their oil.

2. The Panama and Suez Canals are in hostile countries. That'll present all sorts of problems, even if we have friendly troops in control of them (i.e. not giving the Panama Canal back, despite Carter's promise, etc).

Uranium235 wrote:[Woah, what's up with North Korea?]

Civil War Man wrote:Excellent. Just one more question and I'll be able to post a full and cleaned up bio of Captain Langarek: What country is considered the de-facto head of the enemy alliance?

MRDOD wrote:[The Balkans are just mutually suspicious about GDI, right?

Belarus and Russia had a falling out? Did Latvia drop out of NATO? Ukraine must have elected Hardline instead of Democracy. Orange Revolution, Shmevolution...]