Reply #63: I am fascinated by the parallels here...

[14thColony]

...between these guys and the beginnings of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the right-wing para-military group that facilitated the NSDAP's rise to power in Germany in the 1930s. Not saying history must or even will repeat itself, but it's interesting to me that two different groups nearly a century apart are at least initially developing along very very similar lines.

I know it's too much to ask, but these guys might want to read up on what became of the SA once the Nazis obtained power -- it wasn't pretty.

Of course one big difference is that the SA stormtroopers were a lot younger and a lot more fit than this crowd, and were mostly really combat veterans instead of make-believe commandos!

Well with that I've fulfilled the demands of Godwin's Law, so now we can move on... :-)