Hello My name is Nick Bradley.
I have an interest in doing German WW2 reenactment and have been looking into groups. I was just wondering if you could tell me about yours.
Mainly I'm just curious of what is asked of the members? How many times a year do you meet up? is it only for battles, or do you meet before battles to prepare too? Where do you meet? I live near Albany New York. Would you be the best group for me to join? or are there groups that are closer to me that you know of? Do the Battles have audiences?
I am actually a current U.S. Army reserve soldier; Army Medic. So I wonder just how realistic your groups gets. Do members reenacting as soldiers get assigned MOS's (military occupations) and have tasks they need to do while reenacting? Or do they just show up in uniform and charge into battle shooting things? Can/How do members get promoted in the group? And for that matter who decided who is an officer and who is enlisted? In the actual army one either joins goes to basic then becomes enlisted or joins goes to ROTC and becomes an officer. What I'm getting at here is realistically one would not get promoted from Sergent to Captain. So if I want to lead would I have to join as a lieutenant? I have another question about your groups accuracy. My girlfriend would also be interested in joining. She too is in the Army, and is a truck driver. She is interested in having some fun reenacting. But realizes as a women during WW2 she wouldn't really have a very cool job. So how accurate is your unit? She already sports a buzz cut. Would she be allowed to battle with the rest of the guys or would she have to join some special Frau unit being a nurse.
Is using German while reenacting done? I speak a little German and thought this might be a good way to keep my interest up and learn more. So is any German taught/used either formally or informally? As a follow up would knowledge of things like German Language/rank structure...etc increase promotions?
Thank you for your time. I know its a lot of questions. I'm just new to the concept of reenacting.
Thank You again. Nick Bradley
