Portal:United States Marine Corps
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Culture · Geography · Health · History · Mathematics · Natural sciences · Philosophy · Religion · Society · Technology
American Civil War · American Revolutionary War · British Army · Cold War · Crusades · Iraq War · Italian Wars · Military history of Africa · Military history of France · Military history of the Ottoman Empire · Military of ancient Rome · Military of Australia · Military of Greece · Military of the United States · NATO · Royal Air Force · Royal Navy · Tank · United States Air Force · United States Army · United States Coast Guard · United States Marine Corps · United States Navy · War · Weapons of mass destruction · World War I · World War II
 The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military responsible for providing power projection from the sea, utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises. Alongside the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps operates under the United States Department of the Navy. Originally organized as the Continental Marines on November 10, 1775 as naval infantry, the Marine Corps would evolve its mission with changing military doctrine and American foreign policy. Owing to the availability of Marines at sea, the Marine Corps has served in every American armed conflict going back to the Revolutionary War. It attained prominence in the 20th century when its theories and practice of amphibious warfare proved prescient, and ultimately formed a cornerstone of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Its ability to rapidly respond to regional crises continues to make it an important body in the implementation and execution of American foreign policy. The Marine Corps, with 193,000 active duty and 40,000 reserve Marines as of April 2008, is the smallest of the United States' armed forces in the Department of Defense (the United States Coast Guard, about one fifth the size of the Marine Corps, is under the Department of Homeland Security). The Corps is nonetheless larger than the entire armed forces of many significant military powers; for example, it is larger than the Israeli Defense Forces.  Marines from 1/1 in Afghanistan as part of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
Read more about 1st Battalion 1st Marines. For previous articles, see Archive.
  "We recognize that we cannot know for certain what missions and threats we will face in the future, and that, as a result, we need to focus our efforts in such a way as to provide America with weapons platforms that are flexible and robust enough to allow her Marines to excel across the wide spectrum of tasks and environments that they may encounter."
 General James L. Jones, Jr. is a former Commandant of the Marine Corps and has been chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to be his National Security Advisor. Jones, the son of a decorated World War II U.S. Marine Corps officer, was raised in France. He returned to the U.S. for his college education at Georgetown University, where 6 foot 4 inch (1.93 m) tall Jones was a forward for the Hoyas' basketball team. He was commissioned an officer in the Marine Corps in 1967, deploying to Vietnam the same year. In 1979, then-Major (O-4) Jones was a Marine Corps liaison to the U.S. Senate, reporting to U.S. Navy Captain (O-6) John McCain. General Jones served as the 32nd Commandant from 1999 to 2003, followed by three years as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe for NATO. He retired from the Marine Corps in 2007.
More USMC-related news can be found at usmc.mil or Marine Corps Times.
Here are some things you can do to help expand our USMC content:
{{portal|United States Marine Corps|USMC_logo.svg}} - to add portal link
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
