Some Thoughts...

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Just out of curiosity...  how do other folks out there handle the prospect
of military career characters swapping services?

Some background here:   When I was in the U.S. Navy (1975-1981) we often had
folks that were called OSVETS.   (Other Service VETeranS)   They would
typically come into the Navy and instead of attending boot camp they would
attend an orientation school that would acclimate them to the Navy environment.
Typically they would keep their old rank or at most drop one rank.   They
would, however, need to take the rating exams for the rank they were holding
and pass them.

With that in mind, in some of my own campaigns, as well as some that I played
in, multi service characters were allowed.   The methodology in place was
as follows:

	1) Muster out of the original service.

	2) Make the enlistment roll.

	3) On 1d6 < 3 (if using Mercenary rules) drop
	one rank.  Exceptions:  If prior service was
	"unranked".

This option was allowed for "enlisted" characters and not officers.  An
officer gets his commision in one branch and pretty much stays there.
The exception to that rule is Marine officers who want to switch to the
Navy.  They need to make the enlistment roll with a dm -2 and then roll
2d6 10+ .

Thoughts????

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