Having fun with names

So I'm reading a new-to-me SF series. Our hero is a captain in a space navy. And the enemy doesn't like him much at all because of the defeats he's handed them. Enough so that they are having agents try to kill him when he's not on his ship.

So he's assigned body guards for when is isn't on board.

First pair we encounter are named Browning and Lewis. Okay, no problem.

Then the next time he's off ship (on a different planet) he's assigned Thompson and Winchester. At which point (for me) the penny drops.

Sure enough, he's got yet another in the second book, named Remington.

I should have expected this as the author has dropped several other "interesting" character names. For example a Lt. Blutarsky. And the commander of a patrol boat was named MacMurray. Later we find out his first name is Fred.

Yup, the author is having fun.