[Gskdmidd]

[timmybrown]

Isn't that redundant?

[Zs3ZASpA]

Can anyone confirm the gay sex would be better in space than in underwater submarine. Thanks.

[bataovady]

It might be due to something as simple, as the fact that marines and naval brigades have taken a strong foothold in popular culture, while on the other hand, who would want to read a story about the RAF Regiment or the Air Force Security Forces in space?

[shinesw]

Put it this way: you're a writer describing a group of 500-foot spacecraft bristling with laser cannon and plasma torpedos and whatnot.

If you use a naval analogy, it's a fleet or armada of frigates, destroyers, cruisers, battleships, battlecruisers, dreadnoughts...
If you use an air force analogy, it's a...wing? flight? of...you have to make up a whole bunch of new names.

Unless you create a sci-fi universe full of small, nimble, lightly-crewed spacecraft and nothing else, you're going to have to depend on naval terms or else make up a whole new lingo. And it makes more sense that we'd adapt the old when moving into the future, rather than make up whole new terminologies.

[Paiblyelaxy]

Marines = Air Force Regiment/Gunners/Security Police/Security Forces/Defense Guards

[gariharlj]

And what about pirates ?

Have you ever heard about anyone boarding an airplane from another ???? No, it has to be done from a ship.

Kurt Russel did that. Got Steven Seagal killed in the process.