SE4 and the Navy

[Darwin]

This brings up and interesting question in my mind. Lets Say we have all this SE technology on earth and we find some alien and we want to kill them (we allway do) What department would space combat fall under? The Marines?

[Spyder]

Yeah, but is he a Marine Captain or Navy Captain? If we knew, we'd know how bad it is....

Hey! I made Corporal! That's almost as cool as doing it for real

[Triumvir Emphy]

You always have the option of not reading this thread,.. seeing as nobody seems to object to people using the forum to rip off SEIV, i don't see any objection to a little bit of humor either.

[Possum]

Spyder,

If he was a leatherneck, he wouldn't have said anything. He would've just had his company gunny kick our asses.

That kind of "fanging" is a navy specialty.

[Instar]

At times I get confused by the two different ranking systems, so I have a handy dandy chart I use. (Its got O-1 to O-10, but not E-1s or nothing)

[This message has been edited by Instar (edited 23 February 2001).]

[Seawolf]

OK ok ok ,

First if we had to engage enemies from space they would make a new branch of the military so they could have more generals or admirals.

Second Navy and I wear a "BUD" on my sleeve so I do my own whipping when needed.

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Seawolf on the prowl

[Possum]

Good man, Seawolf, thanks for taking it in the humorous way

About the aliens question - here in San Diego, there is a navy command called SPAWAR, which stands for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. I believe these are the same folks formerly known as NRaD, and therefore organized under NOSC, the Naval Ocean Systems Command. Whew, acronym city!

Yeah, I used to work for a defense contractor, how'd you guess?

Anyway, the only point to all this is just that these organisations appear to already be in place.

[Derek]

Of course the Navy would run space combat. They are allready adept at running ships in areas where there is no air (aka submarines, more properly called boats, not ships)

Besides all of sci-fi always has the Space Navy, not the Space Air Farce (oops, I mean Force, not farce) and we just have to stick wwith tradition.

Besides the Navy makes good bus drivers for us Marines.


Derek

[Triumvir Emphy]

i do believe the SP in SPAWAR stand for Special, and not space,.. but as i was just a lowly electrician i could be wrong.

[raynor]

Here's a pretty cool website:
http://www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace/

Definitely not focused on defending against little green men. But the US does plan to have a fairly comprehensive space based component to the armed services in place by, at the latest, 2020, I think I read once?