Posted by "dave newcombe" <davebo@seaside.net> on Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:44:03 -0800
There are also Marine Units in Korea, Holland, France, Russia. They were
also used to give the Navies a security branch at sea to keep the seamen at
their guns, and to project Naval power, land assault, beyond the
capabilities of ship‘s landing parties. It was supposed to be a marine
sharpshooter, that felled Nelson at Trafalger.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Edwards"
To:
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: what the **** is the diff between marines and infantry?
> T.F. Mills is a natural to jump in on this, but in case he is busy:
> The Royal Marines had for many decades components of Artillery, and
> resembled the USMC in every way and one could just as easily argue that
> the USMC resembled the RM. There was also a Royal Marine Light Infantry
> regimentand everything else. To make other postings quite clear, the
> Marines both nations, all nations are not just Infantry. Infantry
> cannot/does not fight by itself at least not for very long without the
> other combat arms and services.
>
> As I posted a couple of years ago: the USMC and the RM once fought
> against each other, just before the Brits burned the White House down
> it wasn‘t "white" before the burning. A matter of opinion who won the
> skirmish, evidence seems to support the Brits.
>
> The RM and the USMC once fought together. At the Chosin Reservoir in
> Korea. Both groups got their asses whipped by the Reds.
>
> ghallman wrote:
> >
> > As far as my understanding goes Marine is a term used to describe a
naval
> > based land combat unit. Since the US Marines contain fighter pilots and
> > clerks its not really right to all group them in as naval infantry. As
far
> > as the Royal Marine Commandos go, I‘m almost sure that all Royal Marines
> > are trained as infantryman before they chose a military occupation.
Most
> > Marines will go into one of the Commando units while some will become
> > members of a support unit and will recieve further trainning after their
> > commando course.
> >
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