U.S. marines

[Zodiac]

Originally Posted by {BOHICA}Navaron

Marines>All

[Navaron]

The Marines are a seperate entity from the Navy, but under the Navy. You are not in the navy if you are a marine.

[Kaltagesta]

Aaah, ok, gotcha, thanks for clearing it up.

[Onizuka-GTO]

Originally Posted by Call-The-Gestap

Winston fucking pwns. How many other world leaders do you know who would say this:

Lady Somethingorother [some poncy, rich, 'Lady' to a Lord]: You, Sir, are completely Drunk!
Churchill: Well you, madam, are ugly! At least in the morning i will be sober!


And no, Onizuka-GTO, the Royal marines and USMC's are really quite different. The BRM are more like a kind of special force of the Navy, though not as secretive as the Special Boat Service. However, the USMC's are more like, as someone once put it, 'an elite amphibious army'. And you can only become a marine if you join the Navy, i believe, not the army, so they are not 'the best of the army', as far as i'm aware.

Please, correct me if i'm wrong.

EDIT: And oni again, that was U-571. And in real life, it was a British Sub. And no rock bands, though that would have meant it would have jsut kicked more ass.

Thanks for the explaination, makes the world much more clearer....
Oh and so do you have to join the navy to be a BRM, like the USMC?
I suppose the Navy Seal is the equivilant to the SBS?
Whats the British equivilant of the Green Beret and Delta Force?
SAS?

p.s: And im glad at leased some people don't take Hollywood films for historical facts.

[Zodiac]

Originally Posted by 1024

then you can go take the place of all those marines in Iraq if you seem to think they such so much. please do the world a favor and die.

What the fuck was that about?

[Onizuka-GTO]

He was abused when he was a child?

who knows.... maybe he's just angry at the mounting casulties.
I know i'am.

[Gigabein]

some info on the U.S. military...

The U.S. military has 4 separate and equal branches: air force, army, navy, and marines. However, there are only 3 bureaucratic military departments in the federal government: dept of the air force, dept of the army, and department of the navy. The navy and marines both fall under the same department. The navy transports marines, and controls the water. The marines are used to punch their way into an area if necessary and establish a safe area. The air force transports the army and then bases are set up. The air force dominates the air and bombs strategic targets, and the army is used to take ground and occupy.

[Navaron]

You forgot the Coast gaurd

[Indecisive]

Mom's friend is in the coast guard, got shipped out to Iraq, got a kid in grade school

[Gigabein]

Originally Posted by {BOHICA}Navaron

You forgot the Coast gaurd

Department of Transportation... or Homeland Security, i forget which it is now.

[Navaron]

DHS now

[EarlyDawn]

As far as I've observed, Army makes for better "Nonconventional" forces like Green Berets, Delta, Rangers, but the Marines fight harder in straight combat.

[Navaron]

Originally Posted by EarlyDawn

As far as I've observed, Army makes for better "Nonconventional" forces like Green Berets, Delta, Rangers, but the Marines fight harder in straight combat.

Better than what? The Marines don't have anything to compare it to. The Marine Corps job is to march out and kill the enemy. The Army occupies and therefor needs the surgical capabilities of teams like delta, or to train the locals like the Green Berets.

[SkunkPunk]

Spetsnaz would own marines...

[Sputty]

Originally Posted by SkunkPunk

Spetsnaz would own marines...

Giggle
Sure they would