What? I thought special qualifications mean you can do things other soldiers can't. Taking your profession seriously I thought was just expected of every soldier, as is being up to the task (with the training determining what that task is). When I mention Ashley's dedication and willingness to prove herself, you said that's routine and expected of everyone. So which is it? Is everyone supposed to have it? Or is it only those who are specially qualified?
Other ways, such as physically demonstrating her competence in an area where it doesn't say she has training? Because that's what I was asking. Skills on paper are skills in RL fine. But paper is written by men and can be incomplete. I don't mean through negligence or falsification. I just mean Ashley has never been trained and tested for skill x so her paper say she doesn't have skill x. But if she demonstrates skill x in the field, again by some random act of chance, is that ignored?
And no, Ashley is not qualified to run the Special OPs mission. But she's not running it is she? She's just another gun. And since you like to compare her to Jenkins, is Jenkins qualified to run the mission? No. The mission to track down Saren is not the original mission of the Normandy. The original mission was a shakedown with a secret pickup. Is there such a thing as a test crew for military vessels? People that can run the tech but that wouldn't be assigned in combat situations? Because if that's the case the entire crew could potentially be unqualified for current mission. But they're what what you have and they do pretty well all things considered. So maybe the whole mission isn't as neat and orderly as what military regs would specify. But they come through in the end. Would that not matter at all in future decisions?
I accept all of this as fact. But again, if you saw that soldier demonstrate the skill or qualification you were previously 99% sure they didn't have, would you acknowledge it?
I personally found her more useful than Kaidan. I let each of them do their thing and just sniped. She provided supressing fire and mowed down everyone I missed.
But Eden Prime isn't the only place she can prove herself. You have the whole business on the Citadel before you set out again. Again, if your playstyle made more use of Kaidan, there isn't going to be much empirical evidence for you as to how well Ashley handles herself in a fight. But the way the story unfolds she does well enough to stay on.
On the first point: It was bad wording on my part. I was trying to emphasize that special qualifications didn't mean that you were necessarily a superior person with a higher being; Yes I've seen egotistical soldiers who think they're the **** when they get their Airborne Badge. That's more what I mean. Ideally, yes, Ashley's dedication is to be expected from everyone. That said, special skills, training, and experience make you a more versatile Soldier with more training, further access to additional training, and more adaptability.
On the second point: if she's never been trained or tested or experienced in a skill, how would she know it? There isn't a lot of things in the military that require natural affinity when it comes to these skills. They really do have to be learned. And if she did know these skills without any qualifications, two possibilities immediately come to mind: One, somebody else in her unit had the training and disseminated to the rest of the unit, or two, she did have the skills but they weren't on paper. Which would go down as an administrative failure somewhere down the line, possibly even intentional. If she did possess such skills, I'd probably have her assigned to a unit that specializes in applications of such skills.
When I say run, I'm not referring to her being in charge of it, I'm referring to her participation. I'm saying she's not qualified to be on the mission period. Jenkins may well not be up to the task of chasing down Saren. And no, you don't have a shakedown cruise or run an op with a test group. The test group already tested the ship in port. The sea (or space trials) have already been run as well. An actual shakedown cruise is performed by its actual operational crew compliment. Which means that Jenkins is a part of the crew, as is everyone else. A shakedown is when the performance of a ship is tested with the actual crew of the ship before being declared operational, whether with a new vessel, a crew change, after an overhaul, or a repair. As for the case, no it would not matter.
If I personally saw a Soldier performing a skill he wasn't supposed to have? I'd be getting suspicious and doing some digging on his history. I'd be interviewing him about his skill and wondering how or where he picked it up. I'd tell him that I have an SOP in place and that he's not to deviate from it, and leave his 'skill' to the discretion of his chain of command that's below me while I continued my investigation. Because if he has a skill he's not supposed to have, that actually has alarm bells ringing off about this Soldier. Chances are, if the Soldier has a skill he doesn't have training to utilize or perform, he's going to have lied about it, especially since I expressly went over Soldier records with all incoming arrivals (and anyone who had been in the unit prior to myself taking command would have interviewed them over their record). And if he's lying about a skill that he's not suppose to have, I'm wondering where this Soldier got his training to begin with.
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