Why in Sci-Fi they always use Marine or Naval terminology and structure instead of Aviation for the spaceship structure, navigation and military ranks? - eviltoast

I don’t really know how to structure this question, but yeah, why is always Naval and never Aviation?

  • Exocrinous@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Another weird quirk too is that common military rank terms like “captain” and “lieutenant” don’t line up between the Navy and the others (at least in the US). So the OG Star Trek guys would be Colonel Kirk and Captain Uhura under Air Force terminology, and that just sounds weird

    Colonel O’Neill and Captain Carter