Ever notice nobody ever defines a specific group of Marines, but SEALs are a specific Navy group, and Rangers are a specific Army group. Marines win, because we're already in your head, having you think our logistics guys are in the same conversation with door kickers.
Honestly didn't realize the size of the USMC until I googled it. I would have guessed it was half of that number, or less.
Marine infantry is small. Every Marine is trained as a rifleman, even the pilots and the cooks. But the vast majority of the Marine Corps is non-infantry, and does everything every other branch does: tanks, artillery, planes, boats, helos, cooks, admin, logistics, EOD, intel... Marines are the country boys of the US military... we can skin a buck, we can run a trot line...
It's a joke for a couple years for me now since I met a guy wearing a SEAL hat but was never one. We had quite a conversation that about turned ugly.
So they had a program today at my son's school, and the guy speaking was talking about his dad in ww2 and that he was awarded a medal of truly righteous or something like it. Apparently only few people ever got it? I've never heard of this. Can any of you help me out?
