> On 8 Feb 2017, at 15:41, James Catchpole (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> No idea about the rank, but I'd assume a pilot/astrogator and an engineer as crew, with the marines acting as gunners and maybe supplying a medic.

Here and now, Marines don’t normally supply medics - they borrow them from he Navy and call them ‘Corpsmen’

I wouldn’t have thought there was sufficient justification to move away from that model, and that makes the Marines more of an ‘everybody fights’ force.

Regards, Andy
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