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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Really?

    I never knew that. Are you sure?


    Next thing you are going to be telling us is that the Seebee's are also part of the Navy.
    Oops, I meant Seabees

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    Of course the Seabees (stands for Construction Battalion) are Navy - always have been.

    I see a lot of Marine t-shirts, caps, etc., around the V.A. Hospital that I pass every day, but most of the wearers are quite obviously, from their weight, age and/or disability, not active duty Marines. Veterans are entitled to let themselves "go" a bit; sometimes nature, heredity and circumstances don't give you a lot of choice.

    My late father-in-law was a Marine in the Pacific in WWII. He very seldom talked about the war, but his recollections about the landing on Tarawa appeared in at least one book about the taking of that island. He walked with a limp from nearly losing a leg on Saipan.

    As a Navy man, the great majority of my personal and official run-ins were invariably with Air Force people. On any base where I was deployed or stationed where Navy, Marines and Air Force were all stationed, it was always the Navy and Marines on one side and the Air Force on the other. Navy and Marines share bonds that go far beyond the administrative.
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    Holy Horseradish. I would have thought you of all people would have known my comment re the Seabees was satire. Just as was my incredulous response that the Marines were also part of the Navy (we called them Sea Going Bell Hops and there was no love lost between the Jarheads and the Squids on my duty stations)

    I still hold fast to the belief that many who wear Marine gear, hats, tees, etc, were never in the Marines. Yes there are Marines who over time tend to look more like Santa Claus than Captain Marvel (the real Captain Marvel, not his sister) but many of those claiming to be Marines certainly haven't kept up the standards of pride true Marines would show.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Holy Horseradish. I would have thought you of all people would have known my comment re the Seabees was satire. Just as was my incredulous response that the Marines were also part of the Navy (we called them Sea Going Bell Hops and there was no love lost between the Jarheads and the Squids on my duty stations)

    I still hold fast to the belief that many who wear Marine gear, hats, tees, etc, were never in the Marines. Yes there are Marines who over time tend to look more like Santa Claus than Captain Marvel (the real Captain Marvel, not his sister) but many of those claiming to be Marines certainly haven't kept up the standards of pride true Marines would show.
    Fake Marines? You mean these guys aren't legit?





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    In a related article: Marines to restructure eliminating some MOSs.

    My understanding of current Marine MOS structure (military occupational specialty) is that they break jobs down much more than the Army does. It seems as if what the Army would call an 11B the Marines have basic infantryman, rifleman, infantry assault Marine. But I could be wrong. The only Marines that I worked with were Recon.

    The Marine Corps needs to shed some weight as it braces for a new kind of fight.That's how Commandant Gen. David Berger put it to reporters during a Wednesday roundtable at the Pentagon.



    "We are too heavy, too cumbersome," Berger said. "We are built for another Desert Storm. We have to go on a diet."


    The U.S. is facing serious threats from China and Russia, he said, and the service must have Marines in the right jobs to take them on. That could mean cutting some Marines' military occupational specialties and moving those troops into new roles.


    The commandant is now leading a 10-year effort that he said could phase out some Marines' jobs and shake up their career paths as the service reorganizes. In the planning guidance he released to the Marine Corps this summer, Berger called force design his No. 1 priority.
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