So, what exactly would a character with the "special operations" career be part of in Sweden in the game?
I just made characters with my players today and one of them had a stellar career in the Swedish Military.
She did 2 terms in Combat Support, 1 term in Combat Arms and 3 terms in Special Operations, earning a promotion in each term, ending up with the rank of Kapten, which made her happy since her dad was a Kapten in the Swedish forces back in the day.
So here's my question. What would she be serving as during those terms in Special Ops?
Her specialities for those 3 terms were Ranger, Sniper and Infiltrator (in that order).
I know that SOG wasn't around back then, so what would she be serving in?
Re: Swedish Special Forces in the 90's - 00's?
Those specialities sound pretty much like what most types of jägarförband used to poke around with, so she could easily start off as a career officer (yrkesofficer) in Livgardets husarer, Fallskärmsjägarna, Kustjägarna, etc. … any of those.
During that time, her main task would be to train conscripts in those very skills.
In the historical timeline, our first professional Special Ops unit, SSG (Särskilda Skyddsgruppen), comes around in 1994.
For my own part though, I’d be inclined to determine that in the game’s timeline, its necessity would have become obvious no later than by 1992, and so it would have been possible for her — if she was good enough; their acceptance criteria were pretty stringent! — to join that unit some time after it formed, and work full-time on perfecting and applying those specialist skills herself.
I am not familiar with whatever career system the game’s service mechanic is intended to emulate (American?), but in Sweden, it wasn’t common to switch tracks a lot during a career (more common nowadays, though).
I'd therefore recommend “baking” all those terms together into a more linear career where she does Combat Arms and Combat Support and bits of Special Ops concurrently while working at eg. K3, and then focuses more on Special Ops after switching to SSG.
If you say what specialities she rolled for the other two, perhaps that would generate some ideas for a more specific service niche.
In any case, SSG only recruited from jägarförbanden, so she’ll by necessity need to put the first part of her career somewhere there.
(BTW, there is a podcast … somewhere … with an interview with the first female operator in SSG’s successor SOG. Of course, it centres on the context of GWOT — which obviously is largely irrelevant — and the post-mandatory service Swedish military, but it might be … inspirational for your player nonetheless, as it also talks about the kind of obstacles a female character would have needed to overcome in joining)
During that time, her main task would be to train conscripts in those very skills.
In the historical timeline, our first professional Special Ops unit, SSG (Särskilda Skyddsgruppen), comes around in 1994.
For my own part though, I’d be inclined to determine that in the game’s timeline, its necessity would have become obvious no later than by 1992, and so it would have been possible for her — if she was good enough; their acceptance criteria were pretty stringent! — to join that unit some time after it formed, and work full-time on perfecting and applying those specialist skills herself.
I am not familiar with whatever career system the game’s service mechanic is intended to emulate (American?), but in Sweden, it wasn’t common to switch tracks a lot during a career (more common nowadays, though).
I'd therefore recommend “baking” all those terms together into a more linear career where she does Combat Arms and Combat Support and bits of Special Ops concurrently while working at eg. K3, and then focuses more on Special Ops after switching to SSG.
If you say what specialities she rolled for the other two, perhaps that would generate some ideas for a more specific service niche.
In any case, SSG only recruited from jägarförbanden, so she’ll by necessity need to put the first part of her career somewhere there.
(BTW, there is a podcast … somewhere … with an interview with the first female operator in SSG’s successor SOG. Of course, it centres on the context of GWOT — which obviously is largely irrelevant — and the post-mandatory service Swedish military, but it might be … inspirational for your player nonetheless, as it also talks about the kind of obstacles a female character would have needed to overcome in joining)
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Re: Swedish Special Forces in the 90's - 00's?
Swedish Spec OP Groups.
Flightbase Rangers (Lynx). Thos spec i to deffend our military airfields, they are also use dog in groups (World best Snipers competions 1plc 2021 2022 ).
North Highland Rangers (Wolf head): Winter combat/ survivors, ski combat. They protect our northen regions.
Coast Land Rangers (Thor head at the game Trident): Deffend our Coastlands (They have Attack Diver School, best divers and combat divers in world).
Airborne Rangers (Fly attacking Eagle): One of the best Rangers in sweden they work in Sea/Air/Land.
S.O.G: They recruit only soldiers from Swedish Ranger schools, they operate over the world with other forces.
[Special Police Groups]
Peketen (The Point) SWAT in Gothenburg. Malmo. Stockholm. you have them im our big cities and they aouthority is in region with city.
National Task Force: The work in all regions and in all swedish cities. They recruit only they best Swedish Police, (From start: they have no women yet who has completed all the tests).
Flightbase Rangers (Lynx). Thos spec i to deffend our military airfields, they are also use dog in groups (World best Snipers competions 1plc 2021 2022 ).
North Highland Rangers (Wolf head): Winter combat/ survivors, ski combat. They protect our northen regions.
Coast Land Rangers (Thor head at the game Trident): Deffend our Coastlands (They have Attack Diver School, best divers and combat divers in world).
Airborne Rangers (Fly attacking Eagle): One of the best Rangers in sweden they work in Sea/Air/Land.
S.O.G: They recruit only soldiers from Swedish Ranger schools, they operate over the world with other forces.
[Special Police Groups]
Peketen (The Point) SWAT in Gothenburg. Malmo. Stockholm. you have them im our big cities and they aouthority is in region with city.
National Task Force: The work in all regions and in all swedish cities. They recruit only they best Swedish Police, (From start: they have no women yet who has completed all the tests).
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Re: Swedish Special Forces in the 90's - 00's?
The Life Regiment Hussars (mentioned in the operations document for Sweden) actually contains the following units:
Is this applicable to your question?
- 31st Ranger Battalion
- 32nd Intelligence Battalion
Is this applicable to your question?
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