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   From: g_d_pusch_remove_underscores@xnet.com   
      
   hondainsightful@yahoo.com (Troy Heagy) writes:   
      
   > g_d_pusch_remove_underscores@xnet.com (Gordon D. Pusch)   
   >> Roddenberry wrote that he originally modeled "Starfleet" more after the   
   >> U.S. Coast Guard than the U.S. Navy. .....   
   >   
   > Coast Guard?  Interesting.  How is life in the Guard different from   
   > the Navy?  I always assumed they were basically the same.   
      
   The Coast Guard is more of a "Policing And Rescue" organization than   
   a "Force Projection" organization. The Coats Gaurd is designed primarily   
   "To Protect and to Serve," and only secondarily as an arm of the military;   
   the Navy is pure military, designed solely for acts of aggression.   
   Military organizations are notoriously bad at carrying out policing   
   and law-enforcement, because they are neither designed nor trained for it.   
      
      
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