[@AtomicNut], accepted. Post her to the Char tab and post away. The squad is just getting to know a few new recruits after a briefing, so now is a good time for her to approach them.
[@Willy Vereb], I plan to avoid the classes from VC2/3, mainly because that sets a dodgy precedent for magical musicians, men with uberhammers and other frankly weird things that don't quite fit in on a WWII-esque battlefield. That said, I'm not against your character having a sword.
Just prepare for every man and his dog to mock the living shit out of him and for it to be effectively useless anywhere but in (very) close urban combat. He will need to use a gun most of the time, or else he'll probably come up against the same problem that Japanese officers did in real life: charging bare-arsed at a man with a machine gun tends to get you dead. That said, Meulemann made it work to a degree, so I don't mind limited swordplay.

In other news, after 15 hours in hospital I feel a bit better. I'll try to post soon to prepare for the new arrivals, then my new post after that will timeskip us on to the mission.