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Originally Posted by Hans Rancke-Madsen
Why would any Imperial world specialize in marines?
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Tradition, maybe? Or perhaps its modest tech and features of its education system prepare comparatively few volunteers with the basic technical skills and aptitudes the Navy tests for, and its lack of shirtsleeve-habitable outdoor environments mean that comparatively few kids develop the instinctive habits of fieldcraft that the Army favours. Perhaps there are cultural reasons. Perhaps there is a Navy base or Marines base but no Army base, so the kids who want to get into personal combat think "marines" rather than "army". Perhaps a lot of discharged marines settle there (being discharged at the Marines base there) and raise kids who tend to want to follow their parents' examples. Perhaps the word "Army" is homophonous to a childish dirty word in the local dialect and teenagers feel self-conscious about saying it int the Imperial Service Recruiting Bureau.