• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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    11 days ago

    those are sailors, the caps are the clue, not soldiers

    it’s like calling an ape a monkey or a motorcycle a bike

    maybe it’s not a big deal but as a professional Navy sailor one time in my life, I was never a soldier

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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      11 days ago

      Easy, soldier! :p

      Real talk - my eye for uniforms is terrible, and while I considered putting it as ‘sailors’, I also didn’t want someone to come in and say “Actually, these are servicemen of the 115th Coastal Defence Brigade and they would never actually even be onboard a ship in their term” or something like that.

      I’ll change the title to something even more generic, though! XD