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So is there a back story about a Navy SEAL who doesn't want to board a submarine? It sounds like Special Forces Airborne Ranger BA Baracus being afraid to fly.

I don't know how empty ERs were in 1975 compared to today as the show continued to the later seasons you could see on the status board how many more paramedic units Rampart where controlling from the base station and they emphasized "County" 51 as I supposed other departments were starting there own paramedic programs. In real life there were more hospitals around as the smaller ones have disappeared and the larger survivors grew ever larger. One thing I noticed on an episode where the boys were field training a new paramedic. Being firefighters first as is the LA County way it is different from every fire department show since it where there is a paramedic trying to become a firefighter

There were Loki's natural parents

This entire Nazi/Hydra thing baffles me. How could Ward not know about the link unless he was raised by Holocaust deniers in a TV free home? Were there not movies and books in the MCU? We know they were there during WWII when Captain America was on war bond tours and later in newsreels when he went into combat. Just as movies would have been made about the flying fighter pilot aces and bomber crews, submariners and other sailors Marines storming a Pacific beach and the Paratroopers on Normandy I would expect there would have been Captain America and Howling Commandos and the Strategic Scientific reserve, (maybe even becoming SHIELD as the OSS became the CIA), also rotating on TV before a Band of Brothers equivalent was made in part to honor the last of that generation. to deny all of that is also to deny what he found on "the winners" sites if he studied it for himself. It only works if he started out as a Nazi, but a smooth one. The type who would not get the tattoos if he spent more time in prison.

I only know the one show. I saw was DWTS and it was the same quality of contestants in the first season, a reoccurring character actor from Sienfeld, an ex Playboy Playmate who was about to be written out of her soap and the same collection of a football player or fighter, reality star on her second "reality show", former child star, to which they have added a political/news type a senior and an overweight contestant and now other a dancer with physical disability... What was different was that it was not yet a hit so the network didn't give them more and more time needing filler material which the D list celebs can not fill on their own. And now it so bloated about a third of the dances don't even pretend to be ballroom anymore.

I know its H50 but bombing a single cell gets you out a supermax you then go on a killing spree like the escapees on that Marshal show Chase a few years ago and then two face is able to fly to Hawaii when with Bin laden dead he has to be high on the 10 most wanted list. But then again mercenaries killed a pre Grover SWAT team at Hawaii's supermax to bust Wo Fat out before.

The way I saw it was that after 70 years or maybe around 50 in Agent Hand's case SHIELD and Hydra recruited from the same pool with the same assessment criteria. Those who passed the final test like Garrett and Ward were taking into the secret organization of Hydra inside of SHIELD. In other words the gray actions of Hand, Ward, Fury or Garrett were not different from each other until Captain America found out and kicked off the SHIELD Civil War. At which point Hand was going just as black hat as Ward and Garrett That Skye as a civil libertarian outsider saw until the SHIELD wasn't entirely white hat but she came to trust folks like Coulson represented the greater good. What I don't get is how secret is SHIELD? In some scenes it is like nobody ever heard of it like with the recruitment of Ward, in others they have an academy in America's heartland and a headquarters building overlooking Washington DC. It sort of reminds me of 24 the first season when Jack Bauer calls out CTU and a local cop has no ideal what he is talking about but by the second season they had unit patched uniformed agents running around like SHIELD does

Why not? There was no segregation in 1940s America in the MCU

I am not sure high high they were but I do remember the Bus was still in VTOL flight mode with the jets titled for vertical flight. So it is possible that it was flying as slow as a helicopter can and Special Forces do make helocast into the water

Just look at how the NBA today is reacting to words, I don't think a corporation would be so cavalier to hire a Hydra today. 70 years after they were destroyed with Nazi Germany. Especially since the corporation is not preparing for a possible war with the Soviet Union, whose armies had just destroyed Germany's

I don't think so, the US had already shifted into a Cold War mode and it was the FBI not a HR department which cleared the German scientist of their Nazi history. Germans for the most part who just happened to be born on another side of a political line, not adults who decided to join a secret organization linked to the Nazi's. many may be like Raina and didn't know their organization had a Hydra as its head, but scientist throwing a double armed Heil Hydra would find no love.

Making prosthetics is one thing hiring staff from a secret society which was last heard of working with Nazi Germany is something else.

Special Operations Command draws from all four armed services. Colonel Talbot is USAF.Trying to have Hydra be bad but not Nazis is causing all kinds on narrative confusion. As you suggested how could any company hire Hydra who were outed because of the SHIELD civil war?

The difference being on the Shield the Captain's hunting Vic played a larger role

I learned that all local gang crime was cause by real estate speculators paying off gangsters to lower real estate values so they can buy up property just before the federal government puts urban renewal money into the community

We're in total agreement, there are those who disagree with us. The template was set when US segregation was ignored in Captain America The First Avenger. Marvel's decision not to go there left us a debate topic

I agree but in post show discussion many are taking Ward's positions since Hydra didn't specifically target Jews

I think some think the scene where Hydra assassinated the SS wipes away the Nazi issues for us. It should not for the characters in the MCU

He looks like Vince McMahon acts like Vince and like the WWF/E shows he sends us. Watching a big man act has its appeal

Real world stuff replacing Ward with Trip would appease ethnic bean counters since there are no dark skinned people on the main cast and while Ron Glass may show up again I think Samuel L. Jackson would be held for bigger things

You are correct I missed who called them "soldiers" which in the US is both specifically US Army and the generic people involved in land combat which Marines, Naval Special Forces (SEALS) and Air force Special Forces all do. Was it the Colonel or one of the SHIELD agents, some of who come from other countries with a different military etiquette or like Skye with her on the job training would be expected to know. .Sort of like in the Army specifically a "trooper" sometimes called a "troop" when talking about an individual and not a company sized unit is supposed to be a Calvaryman or Paratrooper but the term is used by many as a generic for soldier.

The national governments and armies are after SHIELD because Hydra is so intertwined that. 2/5ths of the known second tier leaders were Hydra

I think the series was made about 10 years after then Governor Reagan signed the bill making paramedics possible in the pilot and during its run you could see the paramedics become increasingly autonomous. Of the show's spiritual children, 240-Robert, Baywatch, Third Watch and Chicago Fire it, with only the LA County Sheriff rescue squad in 240 Robert and the Baywatch lifeguards being under the same political leadership, the paramedics do seem to have gained more autonomy as the years have passed. speaking to Jack Webb and his real world focus I was just watching an episode where the squad came under sniper fire and Gage used the Army approved term to seek "concealment" instead of the common civilian usage of "cover" when using a tarp to block the snipers line of sight.

The big argument is does Hydra have actual Nazi roots with the double Seig Heil salute substituting Heil Hydra for Heil Hitler which by Garrett's response will have seen. Or they are not double Nazis because in Captain America The First Avenger Hydra assinated the SS Inspector General sent to reign them in and the Red Skull's map had Berlin along with New York being nuked

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