Examples of the Cardassian Ground Force

[Mikey]

Can I join the Starfleet Infantry????

You'd have to CREATE the Starfleet Infantry.

[Sionnach Glic]

[Captain Seafort]

To be fair you would have to create it - you'd just have to take it apart completely and rebuild it from the ground up. Which would probably be a more difficult job.

[Sionnach Glic]

Creating one from scratch and relegating the redshirts to shipboard security would probably be a lot easier.

[Mark]

That's ok.............all ground battles will now be fought by starfleet smurfs

[Teaos]

I used to have nightmares about smurfs...

[Deepcrush]

I think my SF should just let me and my friends handle their ground battles for them. I have a strong feeling we're better armed.

[Sionnach Glic]

Anyone with an AK-47 is better armed than the Feds.

[Mark]

Even smurfs with AKs.

[Mikey]

*snickers at mental image of assault rifle recoil launching a smurf backwards*

[stitch626]

I thought of a Jawa with an AK-47, but same image.

[Bryan Moore]

Whats preventing orbital bombardments instead of land wars anyway? I'm guessing that's Starfleet's mantra.

[Mark]

Leprichauns.

[Captain Seafort]

Orbital bombardment is fine if you just want to wipe out the enemy. If the planet's got something you want, then you'd need to send down infantry to capture it, whereupon you need about a million and one other things to support said infantry.

[Mikey]

Many of Starfleet's involvements seemed to include disputed worlds or some other situation that included a native populace or colony world. Orbital bombardment could be bad in those cases, and in any event doesn't allow you to take and hold territory.