i was wondering, i never heard of any before but are there any Marines that are part of a ship's crew?........

Question

not as amphibious assault troops or security detail but as a part of a ship's crew, permanantly stationed aboard a ship

Answer 1

yes, occasionally.

Answer 2

The whole basis for having marines dates back to 1664 with the founding of the British Royal Marines.

The marines would be stationed between the naval Officers and the navy crew to stop mutinys by the sailors who to this day do not swear a oath of allegiance to the Crown.

Marines have through the years formed part of gun crews on ships, and the security detail for a ship supplementing the navy master at arms branch. Also provide shore parties and other tasks which a "Sea Soldier" would do. So in other words to answer your question if it british Royal Marines your asking about, then yes the marines are part of a ships crew but are not sailors, they are the Marine detachment of a ships crew. And Like I said half a ships gun crew in the past has been marines.

Answer 3

Absolutely!
Marines are an integral part of the US Navy - they mainly provide protection for many areas aboard most larger ships.
Nuclear situations are guarded by Marines as are high ranking officers.
During my Navy tour my best friend, assigned to my ship, was an active duty Marine.

Answer 4

kind of.

generally, they are serving as a security detail, however, my husband is a marine on an airstation, where they fly F-18s out of, and there are squadrons here that will deploy to aircraft carriers for short deployments.
it's not a permanent duty station, but they are there for a while working on the planes while the marine pilots do combat or training missions off the carriers.

so, in short...no, not permanent, but yes, for short deps.


hope that helps!

take care.

Answer 5

Not anymore, The last was the " red line brigs detail" That was attached to the ship under the CO's command in the late 70's and early 80's. I believe the last one was on the USS Midway (CV-41) which was a carrier. There was some talk about bringing them back.

Answer 6

On large deck amphibs they are normally the combat cargo crew, on carriers normally the security detail.

If they are on smaller ships, the ships most likely have nuclear weapons aboard.

Answer 7

Traditionally, on big gun battleships, one of the turrets was manned by jarheads. But we don't have big gun battleships any longer. In the days of wooden ships and iron men, there were typically several guns that were manned by the marine contingent.

Many navy a/c squadrons have marine exchange officers, and there are marine helo squadrons that are part of the complement of the ship.

Answer 8

i believe on aircraft carriers they use a marine detail for the CO and XO. i may be wrong but a friend ,a marine, was attached to the USS Saratoga out of mayport/jacksonville. late 80s'.

Answer 9

In big ships, they're part of the ships crew.

Answer 10

Negative