The meaning of assault on military is "attack, such as one launched against a fortified area or place." or in short the cannon fodder. As i played this game, ive noticed that commando and assault fill similar roles, i know assault runs faster but they wont be faster than a bullet so ehp is decisive on combat.

Role Bonus: 5% reduction to reload speed of light/sidearm weapons
Caldari Commando Bonus: +2% damage to light hybrid GÇô railgun weapons.
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Assault [5% reduction to PG/CPU cost of light/sidearm weapons]
- Caldari Assault: +5% to reload speed of hybrid railgun light/sidearm weapons per level.

While both have the reload speed bonus (caldari only on rail weapons), 1 gets extra dmg and the other extra CPU/PG which wont make a big difference because this will be invested on shiels/armor most likely and still wont be as much as the ehp of the commando. As you can see, caldari commando is far superior to the caldari assault on being an offensive threat. There must be something wrong with the cal assault skill bonus.

on the other hand ......

Role Bonus: 5% reduction to reload speed of light/sidearm weapons
Minmatar Commando Bonus: +2% damage to light projectile and explosive weapons.
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Assault [5% reduction to PG/CPU cost of light/sidearm weapons]
- Minmatar Assault: +5% to projectile light/sidearm clip size per level. (it use to be +5% to projectile light/sidearm and + 1 explosive clip size per level.)

I dont understand why did the min assault lost its bonus to explosive bonus clip size, it did perfect sense with the min commando dmg bonus. Keeping it the way it was could have helped the min assault which is fast and fragile (more fragile without the 1 armor repair /sec) to become a more adaptable threat.

Note: Im not very experineced at posting topics yet, also it seems for me that amarr and gallente
commando-assault both excel on its own areas, the 2nd being very good at keeping a constant aggro with its
2 armor repair/sec.