i think the marine corps should be eliminated because in this day and age, amphibious landings...........?

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or a thing of the past. i think the last amphbious assault was done in korea decades ago. also, blending in the marine corps with the army will make our army roughly 3 divisions larger and the government will save billions of dollars. the marine corps did its job in the past but now its a relic that needs reorganization. the boot camp is entirely to long and to brutal. in other words, there is nothing the marines could do that the army havnt done. how many of u agree?

Answer 1

Yep, all they need is a regiment or two of infantry specialized with amphibious landings, heck they could even call em Marines, Like Ranger Regiments specialize with Airborne Operations. If you created an elite unit like Rangers, and kept the name Marines, you might sell it to some of the die hards who talk about the image and intimidation factor of US MARINES on foreign enemies.

Answer 2

Ah, an opinion that was voiced in the years following WWII... when some thought the new Air Force would eliminate the need for the Navy, the Marines, and the Army...

Perhaps there could / should be some reorganization within the DoD, but the Marines serve a very important niche of the military organizational and operational plans.

Briefly, to attack your question historically: The Marines made amphibious assaults in Vietnam and Grenada, Haiti, Somalia, and Iraq (2003). NOT to mention the Iraqi Republican Guard units that the USMC and Navy tied up during the Gulf War (a fake invastion led by Lt(jg) A. T. Shepherd in a dozen ships-boats and LCU's). The Brits made amphibious assaults in Suez (1956) and the Falklands Islands (1982). SO, Amphibious warfare is alive and needed.

NOW, to look at your question logically... how ELSE would we transport the sort of personnel, equipment, and supplies ?? A C-5 can only carry ONE tank ! An opposed parachute drop would be a massacre in this day and age ! Even vertical-envelopment is prohibitive in this date of worries over deaths... and God knows I never liked an Army helo crew operation off a Navy flight deck !!

USMC Boot camp is the justification for your disbanding the Marines ?? Wow... Your taxpayer justification failed because YOU merely move the Corps over to the Army.

My opinion is we take the LIGHT-INFANTRY divisions from the ARMY, fold THEM into the USMC, and bring back the Iowa-Class BB (with updated power-plants and VLS).

Answer 3

I have to believe you are just barely old enough to wipe your own @ss because you don't know diddly squat about the armed forces. If I didn't believe that, I would be totally pissed at your ridiculous comments.

It's true, the days of large scale amphibious landings are ancient history, although the Marines did land a few battalions in Vietnam. None were hostile landings, and it was done more for expediency than for effect.

For any imbecile to even begin to compare the Marine Corps with the politically correct army, deserves to get his butt kicked. An army whose girls and boys are doing the same job, fighting and dying together, makes a mockery out of very idea that the US has the best trained forces in the world.

That relic, as you call it, with it's extended boot training and it's discipline that you call brutal, are what make for the finest, most effective, combatants in the world. It's these guys who allow us to hold our heads high and acknowledge them as the finest force known to man.

Never do you compare the US Marine Corps with the co-educational army that had to drop it's standards for the men so the two genders could train together. What have they accomplished by doing this ? They have succeeded in building an army that couldn't fight it's way out of a canvas bag.

You talk about saving money ! The Marine Corps spends a fraction per person, for the cost of training a new recruit, compared to the big budget army. The end result for the Marines, is a much superior combatant who is trained to search and destroy his enemy; a combatant who runs towards the fight instead of away from it; a warrior who is in combat to destroy his enemy, not worry about college when he rotates back to the world !

Answer 4

particularly an particularly few Marines were in contact besides the undeniable fact that the Marine's were to blame for the Pacific section more often than not and had restricted responsibilities contained in the Atlantic/ecu theater of operations. The Marines were more suitable positive used and desirable contained in the island hopping campaign the position they remained lower than Marine Corps/military command.

Answer 5

uhhhh is this a question or your opinion?? a few months ago when all the stuff went down in Lebanon who was sent to get Americans out of there? MARINES. so i guess that counts as an amphibious mission that the army couldn't do because for the army to mobilized it has to be presented to congress and that takes time the president can mobilize Marines where ever he feels the need within 24 hours to get stuff done no body else does it this way. so this is why your question/opinion is stupid and senseless SEMPER FI and OOH-RAH!!!!

Answer 6

Starting in the summer of 2004 the Army tried to take and hold Fallujah. The fight lasted for months.. until the Marines bailed them out and accomlished the task in what, a couple days? That was NOT an amphibious assault... and absolutely critical to operations in that area.

'Nuff said...

Answer 7

Don't let the USMC know, that you said they could 'blend in with the Army'. Because the Marines are actually under the Department of the Navy.

By the way, they do more than "amphibious landings."

If you are interesting, in seeing what they have to offer today; look at the link below. It lists all the USMC units.

Answer 8

I think you should not make unqualified statements about a branch of service that you don't seem to know a lot of, in terms of history, use, and training.

Maybe read up a little on the Marine Corps and you'll find that there's more to the Corps than making amphibious landings.

Answer 9

I disagree. I think the last amphib landing was in Mogadishu, though I might be wrong.

Anyway, the capability to do an amphibious assualt is a powerful tool. The threat of an amphibious assault during the first gulf war greatly benefitted the land based forces by forcing the Iraqis to keep more assets along the shore.

Answer 10

YOU ARE STUPID. SOUNDS LIKE YOU READ A LOT ABOUT THE MARINES AND STILL HAVE NO IDEAL WHAT A MARINE CAN DO IN THIS DAY. FIRST THE PRESIDENT CAN SEND THE MARINE CORPS IN FIRST AND DOES NOT REQUIRE CONGRESS APPROVAL. IF HE SENT IN THE ARMY FIRST THEN HE HAS DECLARED WAR. MARINES ARE ALSO AIRBORNE QUALIFIED, IN SOME OF THEIR FIELDS, JUST AS ALL BRANCHES HAVE AIR BORNE SOLIDER. THERE BOOT CAMP IS HARD SO ONLY THE FEW WILL MAKE THE GRADE OF A MARINE. SIMPER FY IS IN THE HEARTS OF ALL MARINES, AND THEY ARE DAM PROUD OF IT. ALL BOOT CAMPS ARE NO PLEASURE TO GO THROUGH . THEY ARE DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU A SOLIDER NOT A CIVILIAN. SPECIAL TRAINING CAN BE EVEN ROUGHER THAN BOOT. JOIN THE MARINES FIRST AND THEN JUDGE THEM, IF YOU CAN NOT MAKE THE GRADE AS A MARINE THEN YOU ARE JEALOUS OF THE FEW AND PROUD THAT MADE IT.