mobile infantry

A fictional military group from the Starship Troopers novel. It also appears in the Uchuu no Senshi anime adaptation from the 1980s.

The mobile infantry is a futuristic human military unit of space marines equipped with power armors and involved in an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnid alien species known as "the Bugs".

In Paul Verhoeven's 1997 movie adaptation, instead they're depicted as regular soldiers with futuristic body armor instead of power armor.

Examples

Cover art of the novel

1988 anime

1997 film

Notable members

• Johnny Rico
• Dizzy Flores

See also

• Marauder The power armor the Mobile Infantry use
• Morita assault rifle Service weapon of the MI (in the 1997 movie)
• Mobile suit