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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Ok, I didn't want to derail Hobbes's thread, but since he's an ex-swabbie I'm sure he'll forgive a discussion on the military in Starfleet. Now, the here's how I see it; the way the Federation's 'Army' works is that each member world has it's own semi-autonomous security force, like the Bajorian militia, local Colonial Police, what's left of the Andorian Imperial Guard and Vulcan High Command etc, all under the larger umbrella of Starfleet Security. Now in peace time they're mostly concerned with planetary security/policing. That covers ground and air patrol, policing the cities, monitoring criminal activity and being on hand for disaster responce. Now most of these would be made up of weekend warrior types, like the TA here in the UK, or I think you yanks have something called the National Guard? Anyway, when the Federation needs to mobilise an army it draws it's ground forces from these organisations, put's Starfleet Officers and experienced Non-Comms in charge of them, puts them through a quick (a few weeks) course of training and rolls them off the the front lines. Now remember that this has only happened on a large scale once or twice in Federation history and these kinds of soldiers are certainly not the first wave. Take the Dominion War for an example, in the initial outbreak (right before the fall of DS9) Starfleet would have only just started calling these people up, starting training programs and recruitment drives. The initial missions would have been carried out by specialists with Starfleet Tactical, People like Ro Laren, Tasha Yar and possibly a bunch of veterans like O'Brian. So in terms of labelling, they're not "Marines", because the term is outdated and they're not career Starfleet. They're truely Federation Soldiers. That is skilled and trained people from every world of the Federation. Not fleet officers or gung-ho ground-pounders, they're Soldiers. When mobalised they're under Starfleet Command because Starfleet is responsible for the greater scheme of Federation Security and they're the only ones with the equipment, logistics and of course ships to transport them. After the war, most of them would be demobbed, at which point they hand back their combadges and go back to being whatever planet they came from. Or not. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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