Troops may join the Army or Air Force National Guard, as well as the Reserves for each service.

Thanks to Benjamin Gilberg for his update to US Navy and Air Force special forces.

ISSUE EQUIPMENT

• M231 Submachine Gun (Twilight scenarios only)
• M177 Carbine
• M16A2 Assault Rifle
• M21 Sniper Rifle (USMC - M40 Sniper Rifle)
• HKCAW Shotgun
• M249 Automatic Rifle
• M60Machine Gun (USMCM60A3 Machine Gun)
• M9 or M1911A1 Pistol
• M1 Main Battle Tank
• M60 Main Battle Tank (Marines)
• M3 Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
• M2 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
• LAV25 (Marines)
• AH64 or AH1 Attack Helicopter
• UH60, UH1, or CH47 Cargo Helicopters

 ARMY

 Special Forces

• USSF Table - These are the "Green Berets", although they prefer to be called simply "Special Forces"
• Delta - SAS Table
• Rangers - Raider Table
• Divisional Recon Teams - LRRP Table

 NAVY

The US Navy has everything.

 Navy Special Forces:

• SEALS - Naval Raider Table Must have Swimming 3+, Scuba 3+ to enter unit).  The Navy also supports the SEALS with several Special Boat units.
• Naval Special Warfare Development Group (aka Seal Team Six):  SAS table.  This is the Navy’s counterterrorism group.
• Underwater Demolition Teams (USN) - Frogman Table

 US MARINE CORPS

Nominally a part of the navy, the Corps is in effect a separate service. Characters may use any Army career except Airborne.

 Marine Special Forces

• Sniper - Sniper
• Force Recon - LRRP Table

 US NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AIR SERVICES

 Aircraft Used (Update courtesy Scott Steinmetz)

• Fighter - F14 (Phasing out), F/A18 (E/F model phasing in in 2001)
• ReconS3, E2
• AttackFA18, A7 (AV8Marines)
• EWEA6B
• Strike: F/A18 (E/F model phasing in in 2001)
• Tanker: KA6 (Phasing out in favor of F/A18E/F in 2001)
• Transport: C3 COD

 COAST GUARD

Includes Aviation elements. Use Air Force tables to generate Coast Guard Pilots.

 US AIR FORCE

Updates courtesy Norm Hughes and Scott Steinmetz

• Aircraft Used
• Fighter - F15, F16
• Recon - RF4, U2
• Attack - A10, F16, F4
• EW: EA6
• Strike - F15E (F111 until ‘90’s)
• Wild Weasel - F4G phasing out of service
• Bomber  - B1, B52, B2 (FB111 until early ‘90’s)
• Tanker - KC131, KC10
• Transport - C5, C130, C141
• Special - F117A Stealth (both as bomber, and potentially as an anti-AWACS plane)

 Air Force Special Forces:

• ParaRescue Teams (USAF) - ParaRescue Table
• Special Operations Squadrons - Raider Table
• Combat Control Teams - Recon Units Table.  These troops serve as forward air controllers, calling in air strikes behind enemy lines.
• Warhead Recovery Teams - Raider Table
• Security Police - Air Force Security Police.  Fight as infantry, but equipped with Peacemaker armored cars, armored HMMWVs, LAV-25.

 (Officers may add Warhead: 1 to first term, Warhead and Combat Engineering to subsequent terms)

Civilian Agencies of Interest

• FBI - the national investigative force. Careers include Federal Agents and .Intelligence Analysts,
• HRT - the FBI’s counterterrorism unit.  SAS table.  HRT members must serve a term as State/Local Law Enforcement or Federal Agent or in a military special force, and have CON+STR+INT 18+ to join.
• CIA - foreign intelligence.  All intelligence careers.
• National Security Agency: All technical intelligence fields.

Prior Conflicts:

• Korea
• Vietnam
• Mayaguez incident (mostly navy and Marines, 1975)
• Lebanon (mostly Marines, 19821983)
• Grenada (1983)
• Panama (1989)
• Gulf War (1991)
• Numerous UN deployments - Egypt, Somalia, Haiti, Yugoslavia
• Kosovo, 1999

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