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<div></div>Tw1tchhttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Nugget&diff=152477Nugget2008-03-23T01:38:22Z<p>Tw1tch: Present day explanation of the term "nugget"</p>
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<div>The term '''"nugget"''' is [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial military]] slang for a pilot trainee.<ref>Like many terms in the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' series, "nugget" is carried over from present day American military slang. It is a reference to the single gold bars that are the rank insignia of the most junior officers (Navy: Ensign, Army/Air Force/Marines: 2nd Lieutenant)</ref><br />
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[[Image:Nuggets AoC.JPG|thumb|The first class of nuggets moments into their first day of training ([[Act of Contrition]]).]]<br />
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[[Kara Thrace]] is assigned the task of flight instructor to train a batch of potential [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots after 13 (including [[Flat Top]]) are killed in a freak accident ([[Act of Contrition]]).<br />
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This first group of eight nuggets includes [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine"]], [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza]], and "[[Perry|"Chuckles" Perry]]".<br />
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As ''Galactica'' lacks [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Viper Flight Simulators|flight simulators]], Starbuck trains the first nugget group in actual [[Viper Mark II]]s.<br />
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Attrition of this group begins when Chuckles dies while attacking a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). Over a year later, Katraine dies from radiation poisoning ([[The Passage]]). Of this original nugget group, Costanza is among the few known survivors.<br />
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When ''Pegasus'' joins the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], flight simulators are available to train nuggets without risking damage or loss of fighters. [[Brent Baxton]] and [[Joseph Clark]] are two nuggets that complete their training this way ([[Scar]]).<br />
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Months after the flight from New Caprica, [[Racetrack]] jokingly remarks that she wants to have sex with a nugget, thus indicating that new pilots are still trained ([[The Woman King]]). The most recently inducted nuggets are newly-promoted Ensign [[Diana Seelix]] ([[Dirty Hands]]) and Fleet enlistee [[Samuel Anders]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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A nugget who passes flight their training becomes a [[rook]].<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*When the first class of nuggets begins training aboard ''Galactica'', they wear [[Military Ranks (RDM)|rank insignia]] of petty officer, 1st class. In "[[Scar]]" and "[[Dirty Hands]]", they wear those of lieutenants, junior grade, but are addressed as ensigns. So far no definitive ensign rank insignia has been shown. The lack of a distinct ensign's insignia is likely a costuming error or simple necessity, absent any clear decision by the executive production team.<br />
* The [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] analogue to this term is "[[first orbit cadet]]".<br />
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