I'm afraid i do not have any idea how the military works IRL. I can't imagne the FPS shooters are that accurate to reality.. :/
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Tough to say, mixing them would make sense in the long term, but in the years after the EU forces are just forming it would be better to keep them seperate but allow people to volunteer to other units if they can speak the language.
I would like individual units to keep their own uniforms, hats and badges, such things give you a lot of pride and help distinguish you from the other units. I would hate to be like the US army wear everybody wears the same thing and you all look indentical, I think the British Regimental system is perfect and needs to stay.
The force would mostly stick to ARMY style ranks/leadership. with specialist wings for the stuff the marines/navy do.
weapon of choice, well, CZ 805 BREN - beautiful piston operated AR, currently in service with the Czech army.
Sidearm, I think a glock is a fairly unanimous choice in this thread, however, Im going to say a nice modern .45. purely for stopping power.
as for vehicles, so long as they have blackhawks in the sky, and challengers on the ground. its all good!
as for troop mixing, I would keep it mostly divised by lingual standards. so group A = british/irish/welsh/scots group b = swe etc the only times It would be mixed up would be for special teams, be they divers, or simply first responders. action transcends language.
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The only way to run it with a straight chain of command leading to one HQ and one supreme commander.
I would divide europe into 4 military entities or (four big blocks if you will) France/spain/portugal would form the first one, scandinavia + england the second, germany + austria + poland and the baltic nations would form the third. The last block would be italy greece hungary romania bulgaria slovakia and the czech republic.
French and English would be the languages for the first block, English alone for the second, German and English spoken required in the third block, Italian and English languages will be used in the last block.
Its tempting to just scrap all other languages and just make English universal, but i fear that pride would make it impossible.
The first block would primarily be focused at training in Africa, the second focused at nothern Russia and the north pole, the third focused at eastern Russia, and the last focused towards turkey and the rest of Asia minor.
Equipment would be uniformed within each major block; so each block would get equipment best suited for combat in their respective region.