Plus the occasional logic gaps, like using officers trained as fighter pilots for grunts!
I go to a lot of media SF cons. I could never get the serious S:A&B fans I would encounter at these cons to understand how unrealistic that was. Anyone can be a foot soldier (well, if not anyone, then certainly a lot more than can be fighter pilots).
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Tom Beck
my LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tomfodw/
_The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop._ fan club: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/j_henry_waugh/
New York (Football) Giants: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/Go_Big_Blue/?yguid=176842240
"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the last." - Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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