Should Army and Marines (or components of) consolidate?

What they should do is not consolidate with regards to eliminating to Corps but use the Marines like they did during WWI when they were part of the 2 Infantry. Some of greatest Fights for the Marines have come when they have worked in tandem with the Army. Did the same in the Pacific and in one of those cases a Marine general took charge of an army outfit.
When I was in Afghanistan I served with the Marines and it would have made it easier if certain elements were streamlined like forms, equipment, uniforms. Problem with Iraq and Afghanistan is that it has made people question the Marines ship to shore mission and the fact that they have also doing long term missions instead of lightening attacks.
There's been talks recently with the British Army of having their brigades fall under larger American divisions in any upcoming conflict that we may fight together. It makes senses, helps pool resources and gives a more unified command structure.

Constitutionally, there shouldn't even be a US Army (not standing). I believe it should be down sized to only a few elite active units and relegated mostly to the reserves and private millitias.

But there Naval (yes that means us too) service is authorized so...

I've some stupid idea in my day next to the trans gender (I view it was cross dressing) this is one of the stupidest. The Army and Marines have two totally different missions

For all the negative responses and bickering, I think the beaches should stay separated. The Marines are good at waking up at 0500 to PT, the army is good at waking up at 0600, the air force at 0900, and the Navy is good at stopping alcohol consumption at 0600 and going on watch at 0700.

Diversification is good. Even big corporations start little tiny fledgling companies because it gives them flexibility and freedom and lets them branch out. Integrating the Army and USMC is asking one branch to do too many missions, and all missions will suffer as a result. In fact, I would ask if we shouldn't break the cyber component out of the USAF. We should be looking for more division of labor, not less.

This makes no sense. The Marines are property of the Navy.

No offense to you SSgt Luck but I earned my Blue Cord and Cross Rifles!! Being a United States Army Infantryman is a title I carry with pride and not one I would want to share with a "Jar-Head" being that it's sacred to me. RAKKASAN!!!

Is this a duffle blog discussion?

Think about it this way. When you develope an aircraft that does everything (fighter/strike, etc) you usually end up with an aircraft with lots of compromises and isn't that great with any mission. We should let the Marines focus on its mission set and the Army focus on their mission. You would run the risk of just melding into the Army way of doing things.

You really wantto see some ruffled feathers? There are congressional representatives that think all teh services shoul be placced inot a Guard status and training scenario unless mobilized. Think on that one for a bit. Combining all the miklitary into one branch, culling the duplicate MOSs, and then dropping it all inot a Guard training scenario...and peopel wonder why I think we really REALLY need to rethink this trend we are taking as a country.