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[Drew Lewis]

On 8/19/07, Carl Gustav Horn <once at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> > Misato is not a professional soldier.  She is a fighter definitely,
> > & the NERV cops are paramilitary I guess, but more like armed police.
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> What the 1995-97 story never explained is how Misato acquired not
> only combat training, but training sufficient to take out three
> assault-rifle packing JSSDF troops armed with only a pistol, a pistol
> she had never been seen before to use, except for pointing it at
> people's backs. (It would be one of my special otaku requests to have
> such a special flashback scene in the new films explaining this).
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              I always figured that she was seconded from some other branch
of the UN military to Nerv for the duration of the crisis.  I can't think of
any evidence of this offhand, but it would explain a few of those questions
if she were a former infantry or  armor officer.