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I was watching Episode II the other day...


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...I noticed a clone trooper say to Mace Windu, "Sir. I have five special commando units awaiting your orders, sir."

 

If I'm not mistaken, clone commando squads have four members in a squad, not five. Was this an inconsistency error or is there a commando squad that has five members?

 

By the way, if this thread is in the wrong place, please tell me and I'll move it.

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He may have been referring to five squads' date=' with each squad being a unit. [/quote']

 

Typically, 'Unit' is usually referring to a squad or a platoon.

 

It's likely referring to a number of squads.

 

That's the interpretation I'd take from it too. In a military context I would always take 'unit' to mean, as CQ points out, a group of individuals in a particular regiment or team, rather than the individual him/herself.

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Later in the movie if you look closely during the battle at the place where the gunships are deploying clones you can see Mace Windu leading a group of five clones that look like regular clone troopers. Or maybe some clone commandos chose to where clone trooper armor. Also maybe some clone commando squads had five members.

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I always thought of a unit as a single soldier. I guess I was wrong all this time.

 

I can understandwhy you thought that, though. Most Video Games{Galactic Battlegrounds, sometimes Empire at War} refer singular men as units, as do most RTS video games. It can definately lead to confusion, but...well, now you know the origin so to say:) Hope I've been of help:D

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