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That makes a lot more sense than what I visualized. I've always thought of a Marine chapter as a self-contained army that included not the just the "tip of the spear" but the entire shaft as well right down to the little kids doing little kid things meant to prepare them for life as a Space...

I was thinking that rear support should outnumber the front line by at least 10:1 because, if it wasn't for the ones in the rear, the ones using the spear wouldn't have a spear.

So, roughly 10 Space Marines per squad and they're kept in separate units from their support? That seems way too divided up into specialties and without enough vital rear echelon support.

One question I've got. How large is a Company of Space Marines? That's something I've never been clear about.

Things will be even more of a clusterfuck than they already are because there won't be enough officers to keep track of what's going on. US Army platoons top out at around 50 people for a reason and historically the good militaries kept small units lead by a junior officer to about half that size.