iakus wrote...
MassivelyEffective0730 wrote...
No Special Forces qualifications, no schools where she's learned skills that might make her stand out, no experience in the field (shore assignments and crap posts), history of being black-listed... I'm not seeing anything that makes her not replaceable by someone else of the same rank (who with the benefit of not being black-listed is much, much more likely to have practical field experience and more diverse skills from attending schools that Ashley's name keeps her out of).
She has commendations for being a good infantry squad leader. And that's about it. Sure, she works hard, but she has nothing I need for this mission (except a vagina). Sure, she got screwed by the alliance when she got black-listed, but in all honesty, the very fact that she's been black-listed means I don't want her. It means that she's missed out on all the other experiences, details, and schools to learn different skils (airborne, air assault, etc. and I mean the ME equivalent as such). She's got nothing that another squared away NCO doesn't have (with that NCO having more experience and useful skills). This isn't an infantry mission. This is an assignment that requires a lot of maverick ideas and unorthodox skills that are extraordinary nature.
Ashley might be one of the best of the ordinary, but that doesn't cut it when it comes to a matter requiring the extraordinary. I don't hold her on that level.
My Shepard apparantly disagrees, as he commented that her file showed she was an exemplary soldier who should be serving with the Fleet. That her talents were wasted on guarding colony worlds.
She has apparantly trained in various fields (she's zero-g qualified, for example) but hasn't had a chance to put that training to use until joining the Normandy
Let's put it this way:
From my perspective (that I will arrogantly admit is rather well informed) and using the modern military as a setting, she's a junior NCO who has no skills beyond say, Air Assault (and I'm being generous, since we don't know if zero-g training is standard for all alliance military personnel or even just combat arms). Despite having a strong record of good conduct and discipline (which is standard I'd expect of any NCO under me), she has no field experience, no time playing in the sandbox or dirt pitch (depending on where you're deployed), no overseas postings (Germany, Korea, Turkey, etc.) and nothing beyond stateside postings at posts that are secondary installations (Ft. Hunter-Liggett, Ft. Campbell, Ft. Knox, plus assorted NG Camps).
She's a very hard worker with an exemplary record... which is something any NCO of her rank should have. And those NCO's are also likely to have all the things she doesn't have, like Airborne, Air Assualt, Combatives, Ranger School, NWT, MWT, etc along with deployments in the field.
Sure, her blacklisting is rather unjust, but feeling bad for her because of it doesn't change my feeling on her abilities and skills. Her blacklisting has prevented her from gaining anything that I need for my mission, thus making her undesirable to me. Plus, her job simply isn't that exceptional. Infantry is bloody hard, but it's also very common. Not many people join the military to file paperwork. People want to do something exciting when they join.
I'd be able to find an NCO that is much more experienced downrange with much more skill diversity than her with nearly any other NCO of her rank. It's the simple truth that I see. She doesn't have anything that makes her truly standout beyond an abnormally strong drive (which isn't all that abnormal as I'd be expecting that of any NCO under me). I headcanon that due to the rush of the mission and the need for an emotional outlet (which she fulfills), Shepard simply doesn't have time to bother finding someone else who's better suited. He just leaves her on the ship and makes sure she maintains everything for when he needs it.
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(and of course the problem then becomes that Wrex is an optional character). 
