On 29May2019 1652, Cian Witherspoon wrote:
> 4 people on a scout? Are you joking? Sure you’ve got your
> pilot/engineer/navigator, but what about the rest of the team? At bare
> minimum you’ve got another 7 people. Put more supplies in the cargo bay,
> accept a very crowded lounge, and you can hotbunk another 8-16 people! You
> can move almost an entire platoon of scouts with one type S if you know
> what you’re doing. Sure, they have no heavy gear available, and the
> air/raft is replaced with racks of groceries, but you can find enough space
> to park the thing at the Costco parking lot, right? What kind of mission
> doesn’t need 24 scouts?

Just about every mission 'needs' a couple of dozen scouts. Just about
every mission is actually assigned personnel on the 'one mission, one
scout' basis, and yet somehow, the scouts are usually successful.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
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