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Character Name: T-5 Eugene "Doc" Roe
Series: Band of Brothers
Age: 22
From When?: Episode Six, Bastogne - After finding Renée's body in the bombed out hospital.
Inmate/Warden: Warden - Eugene Roe is an extremely selfless, good hearted person who consistently puts the needs of others above himself.
Item: His medic bag.
Abilities/Powers: Gene is a baseline human, but has been trained as a paratrooper by the US Army, so he's extremely physically fit and has had extensive training with weapons and in hand to hand combat. He also speaks fluent French and can jump out of a plane without killing himself or breaking his legs.
As a medic, he is well versed in first aid and can expertly administer medicine, disinfectant, blood transfusions, and painkillers, splint broken bones, sew stitches, apply tourniquets, and other life saving first aid, including very basic emergency surgery like appendectomies if necessary. Although he does not have a medical degree, the extensive classes and field experience have made him an extremely skilled medic.
Personality: Early on in Gene's centric episode, we see him crouched in his foxhole with a rosary murmuring a prayer: Oh Lord, grant that I shall never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, or to be loved as to love with all my heart. This is pretty much everything you need to know about Doc Roe summarized in one sentence. As Easy Company's medic, Gene's only job is looking out for his fellow paratroopers and trying to get them through the war in one piece. Almost every time we see him in the series, he's working to patch someone up or bringing them things they need, whether it be coffee or new boots. He never asks for anything, just offers it to other people, and it really takes a lot to prevent him from immediately running towards whoever's crying out for a medic, even if they're under heavy fire and he'd be safer in a foxhole.
Gene is extremely brave. He would never think to describe himself that way as he's also just really firm in the belief that running towards fire to save your wounded comrades is the only decision to make when you're faced with it, but running into fire without thinking about his own safety definitely makes him a brave person. He's so selfless that it's both his biggest strength and greatest weakness, because while he'll always be there for people who need help, he's shit at taking a step back and doing anything self protective. Instead of asking for help for himself, he throws himself back in and sees what he can give to other people. When Renée gives him a chocolate bar - real chocolate, not the kind that comes in their ration packs - Gene gives it to Babe Heffron instead of eating it himself, because even though Gene's starting to fall apart at the seams, he thinks Babe needs it more than he does. After he and Renée fail to save a wounded trooper, they're both devastated, but Gene spends far more time trying to reassure Renée than looking for reassurance from her. This isn't some weird self hatred coming out, he just genuinely values the needs and wants of others more than his own, which makes him a very good medic. It does, however, make it difficult for him in the long run, because he doesn't feel like he can talk to anyone when everything starts feeling too much for him to deal with.
In training, it was emphasized that medics should keep some distance between themselves and the rest of the men in their company. If you make friends, you get attached, and you'll be too upset to be able to function or help as well as you could when things were impersonal when they get hit and you need to stop them from bleeding out. Doc Roe absolutely took this advice to heart. As much as he likes the other guys in Easy, there's a sort of distance between him and them. He's not often seen in group shots, and in his centric episode, we see him on more than one occasion actually sitting on the periphery instead of being in a large group with the others, watching and even kind of responding to their conversation, but not really participating. Babe also points out that Gene doesn't call anyone by their nicknames, having to be repeatedly reminded to call him Babe, not Edward. By the end of "Bastogne", it seems that Roe's started to open up a little more with the other guys, as he does start using Heffron's nickname without prompting.
He's also very much a team player. Gene doesn't expect special treatment from anyone, nor would he really know what to do with it if he got it. Easy Company's training emphasized working hard as individuals to support each other as a group. Between that and Gene's childhood in Depression-stricken Louisiana, he's been molded into someone who works hard and doesn't expect special favors in return. After the 101st Airborne's medical company was captured by the Germans in the early days of the Battle of the Bulge, medics were considered especially precious to the company, and so Gene was occasionally benched from more dangerous patrols during the campaign. He argued against this and often waited impatiently just behind the lines in case the other guys called for a medic. When Winters suggests he go into town to get some hot food and a break, Gene is often reluctant to go, and he doesn't linger in town after dropping off the wounded either. The other guys need him, and he doesn't want to let anyone down.
Working as a medic on the battlefield has made him an extremely adaptable person. He's taught himself to be good with rolling with the punches, doing what he can for people even in situations where he doesn't have good equipment or the exact right thing to treat this unknown ailment. This is likely something that he was used to doing before the war too, considering he grew up in very humble circumstances during the Depression. He's relentlessly focused on getting what he needs to help his buddies out, rifling through people's bags for scissors or bothering them for more morphine.
When at-the-end-of-his-rope overwhelmed, he has a tendency to retreat further into himself instead of reaching out to anyone for help. Late into the siege at Bastogne, Gene is so beat down by everything that's happened that he curls up in his foxhole, alone in below freezing weather, even when he starts hearing people screaming for a medic. When Babe Heffron arrives to find him and tries to drag him out of the hole, he fights against him for a moment before coming back to himself and realizing where he is before rushing off to help. This brief psychological break both illustrates how resilient he is, and how bad it can get when he doesn't have someone around keeping an eye on him too.
When trying to comfort Renée after losing a patient, Gene tells her he admires how her touch is able to calm people, calling it a gift from God. Renée dismisses it, saying God would never give anyone such a painful gift. Gene genuinely believes what he said, and although he doesn't envy Renée for her gift, he thinks of her as more naturally inclined to healing than he is, and wishes he could do better for the men under his care. As a quietly faithful person, Roe believes a gift like this shouldn't be wasted, and does his best to live up to the task he's been given. He also takes what comfort he can from his faith and God.
All this responsibility has made Eugene seem a lot older than his years. Despite having only just turned 22 in 1944, his position as a medic gives him so much responsibility over the other guys in his unit, he needs to act like an authority figure and a mature, responsible adult, even when compared to officers. Very few other people could get away with chewing out their commanding officer(s) for screwing something up, but when Gene blows up in Winters and Welsh's faces after they nearly give Moose an overdose of morphine and don't properly indicate how much he's already had, he doesn't get disciplined or yelled at. Both Dick and Harry are incredibly shamefaced and know they screwed up, apologizing to Gene (and Moose) immediately without any kind of reprimand for cussing out a commanding officer.
So maybe it goes without saying that Gene does have a bit of a temper, even if usually it's kept under wraps. It takes a lot to get him really worked up, but when he is, he's not afraid of getting up in someone's face and giving them a piece of his mind. His sense of duty and working as a team makes him impatient and frustrated with people who are incompetent or not stepping up to the responsibilities they've allegedly earned. This can be seen during the above incident, but also in his trying to hold his tongue around Captain Sobel's less than impressive displays during battlefield exercises and drills.
When he does start to let himself open up to someone - Renée, later Babe - he is warm, polite, and has a sense of humor. He cares a lot about his people and enjoys spending time with them. Later in the series (and after things are a little calmer than they were in Bastogne), Gene can be seen singing and playing baseball with other members of Easy Company. Without the pressure of the war weighing on him, he can let himself be a little more comfortable and open. He's also calm and patient when trying to coax people into accepting help. He doesn't lecture or nag about the small stuff (usually giving people disappointed frowns more than anything else when they give him a hard time about not being able to keep off a bad leg) and that gentle approach sets patients at ease.
Barge Reactions: Calm days on the Barge are likely to be a welcome change of pace for Gene, who has been away from home for several years and for the past several weeks has been a part of a defensive line during a siege in the middle of winter. Having a warm bed, hot showers, clean clothes, and consistent access to tasty food is going to be a real relief and treat for him, even if it comes at the price of being far away from most stuff he finds familiar.
During a crisis, he'll jump back into being intense and focused, happy to follow directions from another competent warden or give them himself if no one else has stepped up to organize things. Although he will be caught pretty off guard by anything involving magic, superpowers, science fiction, or other general not-from-Earth stuff, he's largely desensitized to violence and shock, so he might be caught off guard, but will do his best to roll with it.
There is also a decent chance he might get antsy and bored without something to do. Having a break will be fun for a while, but he's the type to prefer to keep busy than to lounge around indefinitely. Volunteering with the infirmary and reading up on medical techniques will help fill the time, as will staying on top of his physical fitness and generally trying to educate himself more, something he didn't really have time for back home too frequently.
He'll be an attentive and dutiful warden, who is very likely to try and encourage his inmate to get out and find something productive to occupy themselves with. It might take a little while for him to warm up to them enough to feel comfortable getting super personal about himself, but he'll advocate for them and take their time together on the Barge very seriously. He'd be a good fit for someone who needs a rational voice to bounce ideas off of or act as a role model/boss, and definitely has the potential to warm up to an inmate enough to form a genuine friendship. He's not especially easy to physically intimidate because he's made a sort of peace with getting horribly wounded or killed, so an inmate with harm in mind isn't necessarily something he can't handle, but he will lose his patience with an inmate who's interested in fucking around with him too much.
Path to Redemption: N/A
Deal: Gene is making a deal with the Admiral to save the life of Renée Lemaire, a Belgian nurse he befriended who was killed while Bastogne was being shelled by the Germans.
History: Eugene Roe on the Band of Brothers Wikia
Sample Journal Entry:
I'm runnin' outta bandages.
[Gene looks exhausted. There are dark rings under the medic's eyes and he runs a shaky hand through his hair, mussing it up. There's dried blood on his fingers, but he doesn't seem to notice, or if he does, he doesn't care.
It's familiar, at least.
(Something's gone horribly wrong. No one's sure if it's a take over or another encounter with the "other Barge" or what, but they're without power, locked out of most of the main rooms on the Barge, and with the temperatures dropping and the supplies running low, it's almost like Gene never left Bastogne. Almost.
The fact that weird, faceless creatures have started leaping out of the cracks in the structure of the Barge and seem to like nothing more than tearing chunks out of passengers, including most of the other medical professionals - or what passes for them here, anyway - hasn't exactly helped, either. A lot of people are dead, and they're not reviving, either. Doc Roe doesn't know why, or how long this is gonna last, but he can't just sit back in his cabin hoping this sorts itself out.)]
Bar's locked up, too, I checked. I'm gonna need any alcohol people've got in their cabins. Painkillers too, if you've got 'em. [He assumes some of you have a stash of something, and he'll take anything at this point. The morphine in his medic bag's all gone.]
And sheets, I guess. [He grimaces, scrunching his face up with something like frustration, or just being flat out overwhelmed.] I can show you how to sterilize 'em.
[Someone's got to have access to hot water, don't they? Even if the ship's going to hell?]
Anyone seen Grayson? He ain't in his cabin.
Sample RP:
It's not that Gene hadn't believed Frank Frink when he'd said he came from a universe where they'd lost the war and the United States got split up between the Nazis and the Japanese. Plenty of people come from different worlds. Who's he to question what life would be like for other people back where they're from?
It's just that he never expected to be dumped right in the middle of it. Walking down the street of what has to be New York, staring up at the skyscrapers to see Nazi flags draped from every other building as people in gray uniforms start setting up for a parade is unsettling in a deep down to his bones way. He's not scared, exactly - not like there's any way for anyone to know that he fought in the war against these assholes - but there's some ugly, unpleasant feeling churning away at the pit of his stomach as he heads to the address Andrew had sent him.
The only Nazis he's really seen up close are dead, prisoners, or in pictures. Now he's brushing shoulders with them as he pushes his way through the crowds, apologizing as he bumps shoulders with a cop. He apologizes on instinct and then freezes, staring.
It's a normal blue police uniform, except the guy's got a striped swastika armband around his bicep.
There's a pulse of fury as he sees the striped Swastika armband and he glances sharply up at the officer's face. He's older than Gene, maybe in his forties or so, and he's staring at him suspiciously.
"You okay there, buddy?"
He's got an American accent. This guy's an American.
(Did this guy sit the war out, or did he come home from Europe just to work for the assholes he'd been fighting against? Would he turn on guys he'd fought alongside of if they were part of the resistance Frank had talked about? If he had fought in Europe, how could he wear that armband after seeing paratroopers stuck in the branches of a tree with their throats cut, hearing about murdered French and Dutch kids, knowing that they shot at people trying to rescue wounded friends so they could take the bodies behind their lines and strip them for loot like this was some fucking game? Were they even fighting the same war? None of the guys in Easy would just accept the loss and go on to be a Nazi police officer.)
"Fine," he forces himself to say, voice calmer than he expected it to be. "Excuse me."
He does his best to vanish in the crowd of onlookers and tries not to think too hard about what would make a man accept what happened like that. Andrew had sounded reasonably spooked in the message, and helping the kid out's supposed to be his top priority, not getting arrested because he backtalked to some American Nazi police officer.
Special Notes: Band of Brothers is very accurate, but not a documentary and a lot of liberties are taken with the characters, especially in the case of Roe. This app is for the fictionalized version of him. In real life, he was apparently a lot more rough and tumble (completely contrary to his depiction in the show), without a strong accent, and his grandma wasn't a Cajun faith healer. There's also no historical evidence that he and Renée Lemaire ever met each other, let alone shared a friendship during the siege of Bastogne.
Minor note, the wiki says that Gene is a Technician 4th Grade, but the chevrons on his jacket in Bastogne, The Breaking Point, The Last Patrol, Why We Fight and Points have him at a T-5, so the promotion likely came just before being discharged, which was pretty common.
Also here's some extra recent samples of Gene in action: one, two
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betterdeadthanredE-mail: isthereair@gmail.com
Other Characters: None currently!
Character Name: T-5 Eugene "Doc" Roe
Series: Band of Brothers
Age: 22
From When?: Episode Six, Bastogne - After finding Renée's body in the bombed out hospital.
Inmate/Warden: Warden - Eugene Roe is an extremely selfless, good hearted person who consistently puts the needs of others above himself.
Item: His medic bag.
Abilities/Powers: Gene is a baseline human, but has been trained as a paratrooper by the US Army, so he's extremely physically fit and has had extensive training with weapons and in hand to hand combat. He also speaks fluent French and can jump out of a plane without killing himself or breaking his legs.
As a medic, he is well versed in first aid and can expertly administer medicine, disinfectant, blood transfusions, and painkillers, splint broken bones, sew stitches, apply tourniquets, and other life saving first aid, including very basic emergency surgery like appendectomies if necessary. Although he does not have a medical degree, the extensive classes and field experience have made him an extremely skilled medic.
Personality: Early on in Gene's centric episode, we see him crouched in his foxhole with a rosary murmuring a prayer: Oh Lord, grant that I shall never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, or to be loved as to love with all my heart. This is pretty much everything you need to know about Doc Roe summarized in one sentence. As Easy Company's medic, Gene's only job is looking out for his fellow paratroopers and trying to get them through the war in one piece. Almost every time we see him in the series, he's working to patch someone up or bringing them things they need, whether it be coffee or new boots. He never asks for anything, just offers it to other people, and it really takes a lot to prevent him from immediately running towards whoever's crying out for a medic, even if they're under heavy fire and he'd be safer in a foxhole.
Gene is extremely brave. He would never think to describe himself that way as he's also just really firm in the belief that running towards fire to save your wounded comrades is the only decision to make when you're faced with it, but running into fire without thinking about his own safety definitely makes him a brave person. He's so selfless that it's both his biggest strength and greatest weakness, because while he'll always be there for people who need help, he's shit at taking a step back and doing anything self protective. Instead of asking for help for himself, he throws himself back in and sees what he can give to other people. When Renée gives him a chocolate bar - real chocolate, not the kind that comes in their ration packs - Gene gives it to Babe Heffron instead of eating it himself, because even though Gene's starting to fall apart at the seams, he thinks Babe needs it more than he does. After he and Renée fail to save a wounded trooper, they're both devastated, but Gene spends far more time trying to reassure Renée than looking for reassurance from her. This isn't some weird self hatred coming out, he just genuinely values the needs and wants of others more than his own, which makes him a very good medic. It does, however, make it difficult for him in the long run, because he doesn't feel like he can talk to anyone when everything starts feeling too much for him to deal with.
In training, it was emphasized that medics should keep some distance between themselves and the rest of the men in their company. If you make friends, you get attached, and you'll be too upset to be able to function or help as well as you could when things were impersonal when they get hit and you need to stop them from bleeding out. Doc Roe absolutely took this advice to heart. As much as he likes the other guys in Easy, there's a sort of distance between him and them. He's not often seen in group shots, and in his centric episode, we see him on more than one occasion actually sitting on the periphery instead of being in a large group with the others, watching and even kind of responding to their conversation, but not really participating. Babe also points out that Gene doesn't call anyone by their nicknames, having to be repeatedly reminded to call him Babe, not Edward. By the end of "Bastogne", it seems that Roe's started to open up a little more with the other guys, as he does start using Heffron's nickname without prompting.
He's also very much a team player. Gene doesn't expect special treatment from anyone, nor would he really know what to do with it if he got it. Easy Company's training emphasized working hard as individuals to support each other as a group. Between that and Gene's childhood in Depression-stricken Louisiana, he's been molded into someone who works hard and doesn't expect special favors in return. After the 101st Airborne's medical company was captured by the Germans in the early days of the Battle of the Bulge, medics were considered especially precious to the company, and so Gene was occasionally benched from more dangerous patrols during the campaign. He argued against this and often waited impatiently just behind the lines in case the other guys called for a medic. When Winters suggests he go into town to get some hot food and a break, Gene is often reluctant to go, and he doesn't linger in town after dropping off the wounded either. The other guys need him, and he doesn't want to let anyone down.
Working as a medic on the battlefield has made him an extremely adaptable person. He's taught himself to be good with rolling with the punches, doing what he can for people even in situations where he doesn't have good equipment or the exact right thing to treat this unknown ailment. This is likely something that he was used to doing before the war too, considering he grew up in very humble circumstances during the Depression. He's relentlessly focused on getting what he needs to help his buddies out, rifling through people's bags for scissors or bothering them for more morphine.
When at-the-end-of-his-rope overwhelmed, he has a tendency to retreat further into himself instead of reaching out to anyone for help. Late into the siege at Bastogne, Gene is so beat down by everything that's happened that he curls up in his foxhole, alone in below freezing weather, even when he starts hearing people screaming for a medic. When Babe Heffron arrives to find him and tries to drag him out of the hole, he fights against him for a moment before coming back to himself and realizing where he is before rushing off to help. This brief psychological break both illustrates how resilient he is, and how bad it can get when he doesn't have someone around keeping an eye on him too.
When trying to comfort Renée after losing a patient, Gene tells her he admires how her touch is able to calm people, calling it a gift from God. Renée dismisses it, saying God would never give anyone such a painful gift. Gene genuinely believes what he said, and although he doesn't envy Renée for her gift, he thinks of her as more naturally inclined to healing than he is, and wishes he could do better for the men under his care. As a quietly faithful person, Roe believes a gift like this shouldn't be wasted, and does his best to live up to the task he's been given. He also takes what comfort he can from his faith and God.
All this responsibility has made Eugene seem a lot older than his years. Despite having only just turned 22 in 1944, his position as a medic gives him so much responsibility over the other guys in his unit, he needs to act like an authority figure and a mature, responsible adult, even when compared to officers. Very few other people could get away with chewing out their commanding officer(s) for screwing something up, but when Gene blows up in Winters and Welsh's faces after they nearly give Moose an overdose of morphine and don't properly indicate how much he's already had, he doesn't get disciplined or yelled at. Both Dick and Harry are incredibly shamefaced and know they screwed up, apologizing to Gene (and Moose) immediately without any kind of reprimand for cussing out a commanding officer.
So maybe it goes without saying that Gene does have a bit of a temper, even if usually it's kept under wraps. It takes a lot to get him really worked up, but when he is, he's not afraid of getting up in someone's face and giving them a piece of his mind. His sense of duty and working as a team makes him impatient and frustrated with people who are incompetent or not stepping up to the responsibilities they've allegedly earned. This can be seen during the above incident, but also in his trying to hold his tongue around Captain Sobel's less than impressive displays during battlefield exercises and drills.
When he does start to let himself open up to someone - Renée, later Babe - he is warm, polite, and has a sense of humor. He cares a lot about his people and enjoys spending time with them. Later in the series (and after things are a little calmer than they were in Bastogne), Gene can be seen singing and playing baseball with other members of Easy Company. Without the pressure of the war weighing on him, he can let himself be a little more comfortable and open. He's also calm and patient when trying to coax people into accepting help. He doesn't lecture or nag about the small stuff (usually giving people disappointed frowns more than anything else when they give him a hard time about not being able to keep off a bad leg) and that gentle approach sets patients at ease.
Barge Reactions: Calm days on the Barge are likely to be a welcome change of pace for Gene, who has been away from home for several years and for the past several weeks has been a part of a defensive line during a siege in the middle of winter. Having a warm bed, hot showers, clean clothes, and consistent access to tasty food is going to be a real relief and treat for him, even if it comes at the price of being far away from most stuff he finds familiar.
During a crisis, he'll jump back into being intense and focused, happy to follow directions from another competent warden or give them himself if no one else has stepped up to organize things. Although he will be caught pretty off guard by anything involving magic, superpowers, science fiction, or other general not-from-Earth stuff, he's largely desensitized to violence and shock, so he might be caught off guard, but will do his best to roll with it.
There is also a decent chance he might get antsy and bored without something to do. Having a break will be fun for a while, but he's the type to prefer to keep busy than to lounge around indefinitely. Volunteering with the infirmary and reading up on medical techniques will help fill the time, as will staying on top of his physical fitness and generally trying to educate himself more, something he didn't really have time for back home too frequently.
He'll be an attentive and dutiful warden, who is very likely to try and encourage his inmate to get out and find something productive to occupy themselves with. It might take a little while for him to warm up to them enough to feel comfortable getting super personal about himself, but he'll advocate for them and take their time together on the Barge very seriously. He'd be a good fit for someone who needs a rational voice to bounce ideas off of or act as a role model/boss, and definitely has the potential to warm up to an inmate enough to form a genuine friendship. He's not especially easy to physically intimidate because he's made a sort of peace with getting horribly wounded or killed, so an inmate with harm in mind isn't necessarily something he can't handle, but he will lose his patience with an inmate who's interested in fucking around with him too much.
Path to Redemption: N/A
Deal: Gene is making a deal with the Admiral to save the life of Renée Lemaire, a Belgian nurse he befriended who was killed while Bastogne was being shelled by the Germans.
History: Eugene Roe on the Band of Brothers Wikia
Sample Journal Entry:
I'm runnin' outta bandages.
[Gene looks exhausted. There are dark rings under the medic's eyes and he runs a shaky hand through his hair, mussing it up. There's dried blood on his fingers, but he doesn't seem to notice, or if he does, he doesn't care.
It's familiar, at least.
(Something's gone horribly wrong. No one's sure if it's a take over or another encounter with the "other Barge" or what, but they're without power, locked out of most of the main rooms on the Barge, and with the temperatures dropping and the supplies running low, it's almost like Gene never left Bastogne. Almost.
The fact that weird, faceless creatures have started leaping out of the cracks in the structure of the Barge and seem to like nothing more than tearing chunks out of passengers, including most of the other medical professionals - or what passes for them here, anyway - hasn't exactly helped, either. A lot of people are dead, and they're not reviving, either. Doc Roe doesn't know why, or how long this is gonna last, but he can't just sit back in his cabin hoping this sorts itself out.)]
Bar's locked up, too, I checked. I'm gonna need any alcohol people've got in their cabins. Painkillers too, if you've got 'em. [He assumes some of you have a stash of something, and he'll take anything at this point. The morphine in his medic bag's all gone.]
And sheets, I guess. [He grimaces, scrunching his face up with something like frustration, or just being flat out overwhelmed.] I can show you how to sterilize 'em.
[Someone's got to have access to hot water, don't they? Even if the ship's going to hell?]
Anyone seen Grayson? He ain't in his cabin.
Sample RP:
It's not that Gene hadn't believed Frank Frink when he'd said he came from a universe where they'd lost the war and the United States got split up between the Nazis and the Japanese. Plenty of people come from different worlds. Who's he to question what life would be like for other people back where they're from?
It's just that he never expected to be dumped right in the middle of it. Walking down the street of what has to be New York, staring up at the skyscrapers to see Nazi flags draped from every other building as people in gray uniforms start setting up for a parade is unsettling in a deep down to his bones way. He's not scared, exactly - not like there's any way for anyone to know that he fought in the war against these assholes - but there's some ugly, unpleasant feeling churning away at the pit of his stomach as he heads to the address Andrew had sent him.
The only Nazis he's really seen up close are dead, prisoners, or in pictures. Now he's brushing shoulders with them as he pushes his way through the crowds, apologizing as he bumps shoulders with a cop. He apologizes on instinct and then freezes, staring.
It's a normal blue police uniform, except the guy's got a striped swastika armband around his bicep.
There's a pulse of fury as he sees the striped Swastika armband and he glances sharply up at the officer's face. He's older than Gene, maybe in his forties or so, and he's staring at him suspiciously.
"You okay there, buddy?"
He's got an American accent. This guy's an American.
(Did this guy sit the war out, or did he come home from Europe just to work for the assholes he'd been fighting against? Would he turn on guys he'd fought alongside of if they were part of the resistance Frank had talked about? If he had fought in Europe, how could he wear that armband after seeing paratroopers stuck in the branches of a tree with their throats cut, hearing about murdered French and Dutch kids, knowing that they shot at people trying to rescue wounded friends so they could take the bodies behind their lines and strip them for loot like this was some fucking game? Were they even fighting the same war? None of the guys in Easy would just accept the loss and go on to be a Nazi police officer.)
"Fine," he forces himself to say, voice calmer than he expected it to be. "Excuse me."
He does his best to vanish in the crowd of onlookers and tries not to think too hard about what would make a man accept what happened like that. Andrew had sounded reasonably spooked in the message, and helping the kid out's supposed to be his top priority, not getting arrested because he backtalked to some American Nazi police officer.
Special Notes: Band of Brothers is very accurate, but not a documentary and a lot of liberties are taken with the characters, especially in the case of Roe. This app is for the fictionalized version of him. In real life, he was apparently a lot more rough and tumble (completely contrary to his depiction in the show), without a strong accent, and his grandma wasn't a Cajun faith healer. There's also no historical evidence that he and Renée Lemaire ever met each other, let alone shared a friendship during the siege of Bastogne.
Minor note, the wiki says that Gene is a Technician 4th Grade, but the chevrons on his jacket in Bastogne, The Breaking Point, The Last Patrol, Why We Fight and Points have him at a T-5, so the promotion likely came just before being discharged, which was pretty common.
Also here's some extra recent samples of Gene in action: one, two