A marine recruiter came up to me in a mall once to get me to join. We talked a bit, I was waiting for a bus and wanted to be polite, and offhandedly said that he was in the army (wasn't trying to rib him or anything, just didn't know), not the marines. You could see him die inside a little as he corrected me.
The rivalry between different branches of the military is the dumbest fake competition in the world. I think it gives people a meaningless illusion of choice within the military. Let's them pretend that you aren't just a part of one unified death machine.
They were originally and are according to the constitution. But during WW I it became obvious they had no reason for existing anymore, so they became a separate, somewhat more specialized army to justify their existence.
A marine recruiter came up to me in a mall once to get me to join. We talked a bit, I was waiting for a bus and wanted to be polite, and offhandedly said that he was in the army (wasn't trying to rib him or anything, just didn't know), not the marines. You could see him die inside a little as he corrected me.
The rivalry between different branches of the military is the dumbest fake competition in the world. I think it gives people a meaningless illusion of choice within the military. Let's them pretend that you aren't just a part of one unified death machine.
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I call them part of the navy. It pisses them off even more sometimes.
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They were originally and are according to the constitution. But during WW I it became obvious they had no reason for existing anymore, so they became a separate, somewhat more specialized army to justify their existence.
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