| The Mad Vicar | 05 Mar 2007 8:29 a.m. PST |
This Saturday instead of painting, wargaming, or other useful pursuits, I spent the day with my reserve unit doing mandated training on various subjects (WHIMIS, Radiation training, updates to the unit voluntary contribution plan, drugs are bad so don't do them, etc). Yours truly had to deliver three hours worth of ethics training. With all that in mind, I had the idea for the following minis, no doubt suitable for any modern western army. Any of you who are figure sculptors, these ideas are offered free of charge:
1) Officer with laptop and memory stick
2) NCO setting up LCD projector
3) Bored soldiers sitting listlessly in folding chairs (various poses)
4) Hungry soldiers sorting through bag lunches (various poses)
5) Padre lecturing and pointing to screen
6) Section discussing ethics case study (various poses)
7) Soldier sneaking off for a smoke
Blessings on your die rolls,
Mike the Mad Padre |
| VonTed | 05 Mar 2007 9:28 a.m. PST |
If you could model day old donuts and stale coffee you could do a nice diorama. |
| Helstrom | 05 Mar 2007 9:33 a.m. PST |
There's definitely a game in there. All players have one soldier – they must sneak out of class before they die of boredom. One player controls the lecturer and must attempt to keep as many soldiers in class as possible. The first one to draw a gun loses :) |
| Doc Ord | 05 Mar 2007 10:05 a.m. PST |
What did you lecture about-the Decalogue? "Lord, Have mercy upon us & incline our hearts to keep this law" |
| The Mad Vicar | 05 Mar 2007 1:31 p.m. PST |
I like the wargame idea. We could call it "Death By Powerpoint". >What did you lecture about-the Decalogue? "Lord, Have >mercy upon us & incline our hearts to keep this law" I see that someone else is an Anglican! Well, it was sort of a modern version of the Decalogue. Mostly along the lines of how can a soldier know what is the right thing to do, how to make ethical decisions so that we don't end up with Abu Ghraib or similar situations. If you want to see what one western military is doing to make its members more ethically aware, see the Canadian Forces ethics site: link Mike the Mad Padre |
| Doc Ord | 05 Mar 2007 1:59 p.m. PST |
Yes, I tried to get our vicar to use the Commination at the start of Lent. We could add some sentences for wargamers-"Cursed is he that droppeth his neighbour's freshly painted figures." I |
| Noble713 | 05 Mar 2007 8:23 p.m. PST |
"2) NCO setting up LCD projector
3) Bored soldiers sitting listlessly in folding chairs (various poses)" Hahahaha, that's Sergeant's Time in a nutshell right there. Also need some of soldiers hunched over filling out countless forms. |
| Etranger | 05 Mar 2007 10:32 p.m. PST |
Well Eureka do make a "seated military office worker" to go with their modern office furniture……. |
| Patrick FL | 06 Mar 2007 7:45 p.m. PST |
Sergeant's time with Power Point ?!?! I used to drive my team wayyyy out to some God forsaken training area on Ft. Hood, where the CSM or 1SG would never find us. Then spend a couple of hours practicing COMSEC procedures, using a GPS system, setting up an AN/GRC 193 radio mast or some such, smoke and joke for an hour, and then head back to the ranch for "family time." Never, ever stayed in garrison, got some useful training in, and still had time to goof off. |
| Jay Arnold | 06 Mar 2007 9:09 p.m. PST |
8) Lost lieutenant
9) quiet huddle of specialists (lance corporals for you non US types)
10) chaplain with a jeep
11) soldier raking sand and/or gravel
12) three-war veteran infantry platoon sergeant explaining the difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault
13) new private with a box of grid squares |
| Noble713 | 07 Mar 2007 4:49 p.m. PST |
"13) new private with a box of grid squares" Don't forget one holding up a big trashbag with an "Exhaust sample". |
| captvaliant | 26 Apr 2007 5:15 a.m. PST |
privates with tins of paint and brushes dont forget teh sleeping private in chair. i was unfortuante tio fall asleep during a lecture and i got beasted |
| Helstrom | 26 Apr 2007 4:10 p.m. PST |
Having recently sat through a series of lectures given and attended by different branches of the military, how about a game of "quips". Each player has three or four figures – one speaker and the rest listeners. Each player represents a different branch of the military. Your objective is to shoot off as many quips as you can when your opponents are lecturing, and to receive as few as possible when it's your turn to lecture. Might make a good drinking game?
My favorite of the session:
Air Force Captain, showing slide of his unit's barracks in Afghanistan, flooded with knee-high water: "Obviously, this was something we're not really used to in the Air Force." Marine: "What, bunk beds?" |
