Civilian
Civilian noun - A nonmilitary citizen.
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Nearby Word: civil
Military personnel
Military personnel noun - Someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force.
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Civilian is an antonym for military personnel.
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- They aren't military personnel per se, as they retain their civilian IDs and have some civilian privileges.
- Star Trek uses this a lot, due primarily to the Law of Conservation of Detail: the protagonists and antagonists are chiefly military personnel so most of the civilian workings are off-screen.
Source: Skeleton Government -
Dead Space plays all elements of the trope but the key one - your character is not military personnel himself, just a simple civilian engineer who was assigned to a squad of proper space marines.
Source: A Space Marine Is You
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