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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Mate, I grew up in and still live smack in the middle of the Salisbury Plain Army Training Estate, so I'm no stranger to tanks, squaddies, apaches (noisy bastards), tornados and artillery barrages. Seriously, we're so used to distant explosions and low altitude flybys around here that if the south of England ever gets invaded, we'll be the last to notice. So I don't have a problem with the military, I just perfer not to see it on starfleet signage. Perhaps a tad naive given that Starfleet clearly has a substantial military element, but I'm one of the few who refuse to accept the idea of a standing army of Starfleet Marines, aside from the fact that the term is ridiculously archaic, I just don't like the idea of it. Also it adds to the Earth centric image of Starfleet, which gets on my nerves a little when the organisation is supposed to represent over 150 worlds. Obviously we saw ground troops at least twice on DS9, but my theory on them is that they're more like reservists, probably spend peacetime acting as local police on their home planets or indeed they could be retired non-comms (remember that little used reserve activation clause?), like say the Bajorian Militia, as none of the soldiers were officers...not that I'm trying to derail the thread of course. ;-) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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