Once we lock-in the players, I want to organize via the boards a group character creation. This way everyone is aware of the kind of character everyone else is playing. There is a reason for this, and it is mainly due to the fact that you are all military people. So each of you will have a rank.
Only one player will get to be an officer, one player will get to be a sargent, and everyone else will be corporal or below.
So we'll either have a group concensus of who's gonna be what rank, or we can have roll-offs for certain ranks.
There is also the need to balance the squad, so one guy might be the demolitions dude, and another may be the sniper, etc, etc, etc.
So, I'm not concerned about people rolling their characters in secret or not, it just due to the fact that I want you guys to design a well-balanced team that I want the group creation session.