[quote=@kingkonrad]Seriously, two Polish characters in this RP, and they're not mine. You better do a good job of being Polish, or else I'll smash a bottle of Dabrowka vodka over your head. :D

(I'm a 3rd generation Polish person in the UK and speak it fluent)
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We've met sir! ;) We worked on some RPs together years ago, Kingkonrad before the original forum went down.

I used to work with a first generation Pole. He was my Engineer and I was the Conductor on a Freight train. He also served with a LRRP Team in the US 173rd Airborne Brigade in 1968-69 in Vietnam. I used to listen to a lot of his stories. They were awesome. Albeit I struggled to understand him at first, but eventually I caught on. His Polish accent was very thick as he came from a small village about 20Km west of the Belorussian border and grew up speaking both Polish and Russian. On another note, I served with a couple of Polish Airborne Officers in Bosnia-Herzegovina in support of Operation Joint Forge in 2001.

[quote=@Crossfire]
I would've thought the lower ranked guys wouldn't be trusted to do much due to inexperience. Insert "The More You Know star" here I guess!
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In today's world, Company Grade Officers and Junior NCOs are the ones doing all the [i]fun stuff[/i]. It is the Squad Leaders, Team Leaders and Platoon Leaders who knee deep in the action. The Platoon Leaders, however are the most inexperienced leaders on the battlefield. They often tend to be clueless. The successful ones are those who either served as NCOs before they went to OCS or allow the NCOs to do their jobs. They listen to their NCOs who are more often than not voices of experience. I probably shouldn't call it [i]fun[/i] because if you ask any of them who served in combat, fun is usually not the term they would use to describe those experiences.

Captains, Majors and higher tend to serve more in Planning, Coordinating, Support and Oversight positions. They are Information managers. When I was in Bosnia, my title was that of a "Battle Captain". My job was to maintain situational awareness of all significant events in our Division's Area of Responsibility (AOR) and then report these events to the Division Commander, his staff, SFOR headquarters in Sarajevo and 7th Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. It was very boring, but I knew what was going on in country all the time.