Shock troops. The idea is to get them past the frontline and clear out vulnerable or critical targets from behind. Often to clear a landing zone for dropships in the middle of hostile territory. One-man pods aren't particularly vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire and are very hard to detect when dropped from orbit. But you're…
It's the oh-so-typical mournful bagpipe music bit that got me. If you take the Starship Troopers movie and dress it up with some Battlestar Galactica TV style, you get this trailer. Neither is bad, but there wasn't anything here I haven't already seen many times over. Also, the 'tactic' of dropping soldiers from orbit…