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<blockquote data-quote="Tommy Ruyle" data-source="post: 297951" data-attributes="member: 1448"><p>To answer your original question, the Marines are different than the army in a number of ways. </p><p></p><p>The main difference is the training. Every Marine is a rifleman first! It doesn't matter if you're a computer operator, a cook, a clerk, an aircraft mechanic, <strong>you are a rifleman first</strong>, (and always will be). That is why every Marine will have a rifleman's badge on his uniform. Every Marine will qualify with his rifle every year. Other military organizations are not trained this way. </p><p></p><p>What this means is that if the "@&*%@# hits the fan" and your position is overran by the enemy, or as is the case in our world today, a terrorist attacks behind your lines, any Marine unit can, <strong>and will</strong>, operate as a combat unit and take the fight to the enemy. This is not the case with other military organizations, as we have seen in Iraq.</p><p></p><p>There are stories from Iraq telling of U. S. Army non-combat units being hit by the terrorist and they didn't have a clue how to take the fight to the enemy. I watched interviews on TV of U. S. Army soldiers state that they "didn't know how the operate weapons, that wasn't their job." This would never happen to a U. S. Marine, I don't care what his "job" is.</p><p></p><p>A good general history to the U. S. Marines can be found at: <a href="http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Historical/Customes_Traditions/Brief_History_USMC.htm" target="_blank">http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Histo ... y_USMC.htm</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tommy Ruyle, post: 297951, member: 1448"] To answer your original question, the Marines are different than the army in a number of ways. The main difference is the training. Every Marine is a rifleman first! It doesn’t matter if you’re a computer operator, a cook, a clerk, an aircraft mechanic, [b]you are a rifleman first[/b], (and always will be). That is why every Marine will have a rifleman’s badge on his uniform. Every Marine will qualify with his rifle every year. Other military organizations are not trained this way. What this means is that if the “@&*%@# hits the fan” and your position is overran by the enemy, or as is the case in our world today, a terrorist attacks behind your lines, any Marine unit can, [b]and will[/b], operate as a combat unit and take the fight to the enemy. This is not the case with other military organizations, as we have seen in Iraq. There are stories from Iraq telling of U. S. Army non-combat units being hit by the terrorist and they didn’t have a clue how to take the fight to the enemy. I watched interviews on TV of U. S. Army soldiers state that they “didn’t know how the operate weapons, that wasn’t their job.” This would never happen to a U. S. Marine, I don't care what his "job" is. A good general history to the U. S. Marines can be found at: [url=http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Historical/Customes_Traditions/Brief_History_USMC.htm]http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Histo ... y_USMC.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]
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