I did a little research and apparently it's a Navy social media shibboleth to capitalize Sailors when referring to members of the US military, as opposed to mere lowercase-sailors who work as crew on civilian vessels, with their slovenly lack of discipline
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And yet I'm pretty sure the stereotype Austin Powers is referring to is specifically about the Navy
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Replying to @arthur_affect
oh god they're just as bad as the Marines and I never knew it we airmen never put on such airs
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Yes the services that originated under the Dept of the Navy vs the ones that started under the the Dept of the Army seem to have very different attitudes Land people and sea people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The land people are, so to speak, more down to earth (Even the ones that became sky people)
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It's a whole cultural thing, living on a ship in this enclosed environment where in order to survive you and everyone around you have to be this one organic unit Getting the sense that you're a different species of human than the landlubbers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The whole concept of the "merchant marine" Like, you can't have a regular job on a civilian ship working for a private business without being part of this whole military rank structure that comes with quasi-military discipline (the concept of an officer class etc)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah, there's kind of this sense that joining the profession of seafaring changes you culturally, like it's simulating being part of an actual diaspora
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It's why people always reach for the naval analogy with Navy ranks and whatnot for a fictional space military Because they live on spaceships long term and develop a separate culture from planetbound society
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Although Trump's Space Force, as I understand it, uses Air Force ranks (which are derived from Army ranks) Since they don't actually live in space, or even go into space
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Or do much of anything at all (Much like the Air Force *rimshot*)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
lol I'm sure I told you this before but back when I was stranded in San Angelo I came up with the joke that I was the four-star in charge of Air Force Fantasy Command (FANTCOM) because all I did was sit around at a desk imagining being anywhere fucking else
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
I never actually relinquished that command so I guess technically I'm still a fantasy general
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