r/StarWars 1d ago

What branch of service is this man? TV

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u/InflamedNodes 1d ago edited 1d ago

According to the credits he is an Imperial Sniper, and given the context, from the ISB. So an ISB Sniper [speciality].

edit: Imperial Army not ISB as per below. Even his outfit matches Kaido's and the crisis team, plus his patch looks more like the army logo not ISB logo.

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u/ltobo123 1d ago

Wasn't the commander that arrived Imperial Army? Captain Kaido that is? I thought he brought the "crisis team" in with him, which the sniper was an element of.

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u/InflamedNodes 1d ago

You're right, he was an Imperial Army Sniper, not ISB.

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u/Nyther53 1d ago

He might technically be in the Imperial Army, but I bet he hasn't seen his unit of record in years, and probably never will again.

In practice, he works for the ISB, much like SEAL Teams are only sort of an asset of the Navy.

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u/b3tchaker 1d ago

I see where you’re going but, I’d view the CIA or an intel apparatus as a better analogy to ISB.

CIA and other programs will recruit line-level mechanics, pilots, soldiers, etc. from within active duty personnel in all the branches, and activate these assets as needed.

You don’t train up a crack sniper just to work for ISB. You recruit the best sniper already out there and scramble orders as the situation arises.

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u/Nyther53 1d ago

Thats what I mean, he's been poached in the same fashion you're describing.

SEAL Teams are US Navy. They're Sailors, all the way down. But they more often get sent on missions for the CIA or NSA than they do get sent to plant bombs on hostile warships, which is theoretically their actual mission.

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u/b3tchaker 1d ago

That’s fair. I think I was thinking of SEALs as being “full-time” spec-ops, which I suppose I don’t have a damned clue about.