Need for troops in places, so that normal troops do not have to do it. Or why many POWs and Blacks found themselves doing military duty on the US Western Frontier?
Or Japanese POWs did duty, dealing with VC "rebels" in southern French Indo-China, the British did not have the troops and will to put down the "popular" uprising after the Japanese were defeated, and the French did not have troops available, since most were POWs being released or to far away, doing more preSsing duty. Mike Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:20:28 To: The GURPSnet mailing list<[email protected]> Reply-To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [gurps] Re: Prison Regiment? Another thing to keep in mind: Historically, what was the purpose of penal units? * Get expendable troops for questionable missions. * Get a punishment less final than an execution but worse than frontline combat. In the first case, they want them to win, at whatever cost. In the second case, winning is secondary. The troops are supposed to suffer so that OTHER troops don't step out of line. So when aliens want human troops, it is the first case -- alien troops would not be impressed by the threat if they are not at risk of being reassigned. Mike wrote: > all too true and been done many times in history and will likely happen > again. or when the aliens show up, will they slaughter all, or hire the > locals or ... _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
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