TD3306 Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 do you think that sandtroopers are just stormtroopers with different equipment or are they "specially trained"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD9009 Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 specially trained! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abntroop Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 we're better, ergo trained.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD3306 Posted August 9, 2004 Author Share Posted August 9, 2004 so by that rational...there were sandtroopers on the deathstar and on star destroyers....just waiting to be deployed...same with snowtroopers and scouts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abntroop Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 roger roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motman241 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Are you kidding me?!? With all this crap we carry around?? We'd better be specially trained! Seriously, though, I read somewhere that the sandtroopers are good at crowds (thus the easy recognition via the pauldrons), cities, towns, dessert, and just general operations "on their own". I'd figure biker scouts and snow troopers have their own problems to be trained for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troopertk2427 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Yeah! and wait until i unveil my Dirty TX trooper! IN BLACK! thats my contribution to the Sandy Empire! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD257 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Better at building sandcastles too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD1149 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Yeah! and wait until i unveil my Dirty TX trooper! IN BLACK! thats my contribution to the Sandy Empire!Now that I want to see. Sounds cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD3306 Posted August 10, 2004 Author Share Posted August 10, 2004 Yeah! and wait until i unveil my Dirty TX trooper! IN BLACK! thats my contribution to the Sandy Empire! never thouht of that, that does sound cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SethB6025 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Specially trained in sweating. A lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK1066 Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 I always had kind of figured they were all 11B (Stormtroopers and Sandtroopers), but that they had specialized training based on where they were stationed. My basis for this is the US Army. In the Army, Infantry units are stationed and trained in all sorts of environments, Desert, Jungle, Mountain, Arctic. They are all still the same Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), in this case 11B. In the case of the fantasy world of Star Wars, the Stormtroopers seem to kind of function like that. "Stormtroopers" seem to encompass the "Infantry" and are trained and equiped depending on where they will be stationed. From the Star Wars databank Stormtroopers abandoned individuality in exchange for their loyalty. They are completely encased in a white armored spacesuit shell, and are armed with blaster pistols or blaster rifles. Their helmets contain comlinks for long-range communications. Officers were denoted with colored shoulder pauldrons. Specific environments called for specially trained and equipped stormtroopers, such as the snowtroopers that besieged the ice world of Hoth and the lightly-armored scout troopers that patrolled the forests of Endor. So Sandtroopers, Bikerscouts, Snowtroopers, etc are all the same level of MOS (Infantry), they just differ in where they are stationed and how they are equiped. For the Death Star Troopers, they probably were not "waiting" to be deployed, they were probably "permanent party" (i.e. stationed) on the Death Star for internal security. With the size of the Death Star, it could also be reasoned that their could also have been special trained contingents statinoed on the Battle Station for deployement on hostile environment worlds as need. So if the Death Star entered a system with a Desert world and wanted to send down troops, there would have have been a Battalion or more of Sandtroopers available. Also, it is very probably that all Stormtroopers would recieve some familiarization training with the various armors so they could deploy to whatever environment needed. So while they would not be quite as effective as a unit specifically trained and equiped for say "Jungle Warfare", they would know the basics. Anyway, this last part is all just my random musings, but Stormtroopers/Sandtroopers and the other "White Armor" do mostly seem to be only different in equipment, location and some specialized training related to where they are stationed. At the core, they are all still, just like me, 11B, Infantry"!! Hoo aahh. Tim Ex 11B3x (Drill Sgt) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abntroop Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 that's a double Hooaahh Ex 11B1P (airborne infantry, 82nd airborne div.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD3306 Posted August 15, 2004 Author Share Posted August 15, 2004 wow, i guess that settles that thanks for the info Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abntroop Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 I see somebody stapled some extra pages into the sandtrooper/ stormtrooper section of their star wars dictionary LOL!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK1066 Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Just waaaayyy too much extra time on my hands on the 12th. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abntroop Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 LOL, Tim you're not supposed to admit to that! that's how budget cuts happen and next thing ya know the legion command staff has been cut in half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK1066 Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 And you all know how messy being in cut in half can be, yeesshh...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abntroop Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 LOL!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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