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U.S. Marine Corps and Why does the Navy’s army need its own air force?

The Marine Corps is the United States' expeditionary force. As such, it must work in close concert with the Navy, which provides logistics and seaborne support for expeditionary activities - but it is explicitly its own branch of the armed services. It has a mission different from that of the US Army, which is mostly concerned with large-scale combined-arms ...


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U.S. Marine Corps and Why does the Navy’s army need its own air force?

There are too many questions mixed together here; I'm going to try to separate them out. First, there is the error I addressed in my comments; the Marine Corps existed before the United States did. They are the oldest military service in the US military. For a brief history of the US Marine Corp, see Marine Corps. I'm a REMF, and a Navy REMF at that, so I'm ...



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