Why was Congress trying to Disband the Marines? My dad tells me that the Marines on his ship "USS Saratoga", provided security for his ship and that if the NVA were ever to try and board his ship, the Marines would stop them and kill all of them. But why disband the Marines? Book three "StarFist: Steel Gauntlet" reminded me of Normandy because the Marines had to wait a while for the Army to Finally come down. Like  how the paratroopers had to wait for the main invasion force to land and take the beaches.

Are the Skinks modled after any enemy the U.S. has fought aganist? This is just me, but they remind me of the Japanese of WW2.