Marines
Marines noun - Members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea.
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Synonyms for Marines
Scouts
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Jack-of-All-Trades: Scouts perform all sorts of battle support but they're not as flexible as Tactical marines, as good in close combat as Assault marines or as precise with heavy weapons as Devastators.
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Justified not only in that they're, well, scouts, but because they're at the very beginning of their careers as Space Marines, and they don't have all the implants or bioaugmentations that allow them to wear their iconic Power Armor.
Source: Highly Conspicuous Uniform -
Indeed, with the exceptions of Scouts and Terminators, all Space Marines wear awesome backpacks, often including such things as eagle's-head exhausts, trophy racks, and (in the case of Chaos Possessed) functioning batlike wings.
Source: Awesome Backpack
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