I'll find you!

Quote from: Lord Keksworth on December 03, 2014, 07:23:33 PM

If there's nothing after life, then your life is pointless. Not worthless. Far from it.

Why does that make life pointless?

Quote from: Lord Keksworth on December 03, 2014, 03:27:30 PM

Oh, I had to do a lot of research on this for my own novel.

The US Marines are a rapid response force typically seen as more 'elite' and better trained (and that's not an unfounded idea). The army is a much less selective military branch, with a much higher passing rate. The American marines are typically used as shock forces (that is, the first ones on the frontline) while the army typically, though not always, arrives later. Soldiers are in the army; this might not be true in your story, but in real life you never refer to a marine as a soldier. The US Marines are primarily riflemen; every one of them is trained to use one, regardless of what their actual job is within their group. The army, on the other hand, tends to specialize their recruits to a specific task, though they all receive at least rudimentary training in infantry combat.

The marines in your story seem more like the British Royal Marines, though. American marines focus more on turning people into marines; the Royal Marines are much more exclusive in their pickings, much like in your story. You have to already be among the best and the toughest to join the Royal Marines. Unlike the US Marines, they are commandos, more akin to the Navy SEALs.

Both are considered underequipped and undermanned when compared to their respective armies. Neither has any combat medics, as they are all supplied by their respective navies.

Well the marines are seperated into some main groups; ExoWar, responsible for 0G ops and boarding/ defending capital ships, DPT soldiers (Drop Pod Troop) or colloquially knwon as Stormtroopers are much like ODST's, the CENTURION takes the best of the maries as the personal guard for the HVTs and the Sentinel program (temp nameuntil I think of a better one after realising the similarities to Halo) is robotic drones like Titanfall's spectres. Marines are more heavily armoured and heavily equipped, and trained in the use of all weapons as well as encouranged to create a custom loadout of weapons and armour upgrades to suit their preferences. In battle, they drop as a squad in a single pd or ship and take the fight as a shock force against the enemy before additional reinfocrements arrive.

The army is more standardised, having designated squad roles. They don't use power ssisted armour (They still have genetic upgrades though) and are a long occupant force for combat in seigeworks or other long operations. They also make more use of vehicles and artillery and also have another small branch for policing operations (The Colonial Police are a direct part of the military) alongside setting up bases for permanent defence. Both have their own dropships and helicopters, and the Air Force is relegated to mainly dogfights, escorts and bombing runs. there is a separate branch of Combat Aid including Resupply Corps, Medical Corps and Engineering corps which all aid in combat zones by brining ammo and supplies, medevac and vehcile repair, respectively. This services all branches of the military.

Overall, the rank system and roles of soldiers are both based off the royal army, marines, navy and air force, with the additonal branches of SpecWar and NonCom. The SAS/ SEAL type black ops stuff is done by the Dragonfires, a subbranch of Special Warfare.

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I have zero doubt in my mind that Batman v Superman will outgross Avengers and Age of Ultron.

I have zero doubt in my mind that this guy is insane.

I have never even heard of Suicide Squad.