Stargate sg1 seems like the better model for military in space. Col/Gen Jack O’Neill would kick any Star Trek Captain’s butt.
Han was leading a ground force, so that makes sense. Lando, that one is troubling. He should have been named a Captain or an Admiral, IMHO.
Having served with hundreds of Marines as a US Navy Seabee, I’m well aware of that. Are you saying that the Air Force would use Naval titles and insignia much as the Marines use the Army/Air Force ones? I suppose that’s a possibility and one that I would support.
They kill people with it, from airplanes.
They plan to kill people with it, from airplanes or ships.
Indeed. Is the added value of the SOPGM from the small size and weight alone? A kind of ultra-Small Diameter Bomb?
Secretary Mattis says the idea of a Space Corps is stupid:
http://www.talkmedianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Sec.-Mattis-LTR-Space-Corps-7.11.20171.pdf
But… it would mean we would have space cadets and even, with inter-branch personnel transfers, Space Marines which would surely please the Emperor.
The Air Force ran thinks just fine in Men Into Space.
Great pic.
Reminds me of one schlocky SF B-movie from the late 50s/early 60s where the spacemen driving their hokey spaceship were all wearing box-stock then-current USAF uniforms but with all the Sergeant’s and Airmen’s sleeve stripes sown on upside down. Space!!! It’s … different.
The Israelis get along with all three services combined into the IDF.
Without gravity, is there really any right-side-up?
Somewhat amusing that almost all Scifi pictures space ships as a Navy like structure, but in real life what we have tends to be run by Air Force people.
In regards to the frame of reference of a uniform, yes.
That’s because in real life, space has less buggery and more golf than sci-to writers anticipated.