You know those guys the Armyalways waves around; the Rangers? Well we had a couple of those Army Rangers go through Marines' BASIC Infantry School and couldn't finish the humps (pack marches).
The Marines from 3rd LAR kicked Rangers ass at San D's MOUT Town; and they even brought more assholes and better equipment than we did.
An elite fighting organization falling under the Department of the Navy but grabbing it's own representative on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If a marine is confronted with this fact, they will merely shake their head and reluctantly admit it's true.
A Marine will be the first to tell you that the Corps is better than the Navy, Army, and Air Force.
(There is generally a lot of tension between the Army and Marines, but only because the Soldiers couldn't make it into this day's Corps)
Army, "You serve?"
Marine, "Yeah, Marines. You?"
Army, "Yeah, Army. I'm sorry."
Marine, "Don't worry about it, we've been fixing the Army's mistakes since 1775, we're used to it by now."
The baddest of the bad. These warriors have all the training and mentality necessary to be the most elite fighting force known to man. They follow their orders and get the job done right, no matter what the cost.
The advancing Marines, outnumbered and lacking strategic advantage, managed to push hundreds of enemy combatants out of the heavily fortified city.
A part of the US armed forces designed to operate on a very cost efficient basis, thus, operate outdated equipment and take more responsibility at a lower rank than other branches of the military in order to keep the pay of the Marines low; used mainly for initial attack and high risk operations rather than risking the loss of other branches which the government has spent more money in equipment and training on.
"The Marines did not takepart in the Battle of Normandy, or D-day."