[quote=Knight]
Espatier is just a fancy word with no dictionary definition. It supposedly originates from the French language and basically means Marine, though people have been using the term as a sort of "Space Soldier" or "Space Marine" In the end you're just arguing tomato and tomato. But I see what you mean. Technically Marine refers to water, though in popular science fiction the spaceships are still considered Navy.
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"Tomato with tomato"
-Knight, 2014

I'm going to steal that line. But I get your going for. Its not Heinlein, its... Campbell Marines? Yeah, I think thats it. In the end, arguing about something you've set and what is obvious is an utterly dumb maneuver on my part. NATO Marine ranks, other country, or is there a different ranking system?