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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 | 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 adapted from present-day American military slang (http://www.tailhook.org/AVSLANG.htm#N), where it connotes status as "raw material" to be shaped by experience during the first tour.</ref> | ||
Upon successful completion of flight and weapons training, nuggets join the Fleet squadrons as a [[rook|rooks]]. | |||
== Nuggets in the post-Exodus Fleet== | |||
[[Image:Nuggets AoC.JPG|thumb|The first class of nuggets moments into their first day of training ([[Act of Contrition]]).]] | [[Image:Nuggets AoC.JPG|thumb|The first class of nuggets moments into their first day of training ([[Act of Contrition]]).]] | ||
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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]]). | 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]]). | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
Revision as of 07:56, 24 March 2008
The term "nugget" is Colonial military slang for a pilot trainee.[1]
Upon successful completion of flight and weapons training, nuggets join the Fleet squadrons as a rooks.
Nuggets in the post-Exodus Fleet
Kara Thrace is assigned the task of flight instructor to train a batch of potential Viper pilots after 13 (including Flat Top) are killed in a freak accident (Act of Contrition).
This first group of eight nuggets includes Louanne "Kat" Katraine", Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza, and ""Chuckles" Perry".
As Galactica lacks flight simulators, Starbuck trains the first nugget group in actual Viper Mark IIs.
Attrition of this group begins when Chuckles dies while attacking a Cylon tylium refinery (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.
When Pegasus joins the 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).
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).
Notes
- When the first class of nuggets begins training aboard Galactica, they wear 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.
- The Original Series analogue to this term is "first orbit cadet".
References
- ↑ Like many terms in the new Battlestar Galactica series, "nugget" is adapted from present-day American military slang (http://www.tailhook.org/AVSLANG.htm#N), where it connotes status as "raw material" to be shaped by experience during the first tour.