Should Army and Marines (or components of) consolidate?

Hell no they shouldn’t combine the marines with any other branch

Nope

Marine are a different! period

Army and Marines have dogged each other for years but when a mission needs accomplished in tandem they have always prevailed. We are patriotic Americans first.

Well thought out and as objective as you can get. Now consider this, the changes you are suggesting to create an Army unit that mimics the Marine mission would in effect create a Marine Corps inside the Army. That new unit would have to work with the Navy so much that it's culture would like the Marines, diverge from the standard Army culture, much as SF does. Why recreate the wheel? I sincerely doubt the copy cat version will ever be as good as the original and having an infantry force that trains and operates differently than the Army is not a bad idea. The Marines independently develop methods and equipment that might not have been considered in the Army and vice versa, thus creating a competitive environment to test ideas. That's a good thing. Finally, there is such a thing as Esprit de Corps and the Marines have shown again and again that it is a tangible asset.

The Marine Corps is part of the Navy, even though they do share similarities with each other, Marines were born from the sea. Honestly, my opinion as the acronym for ARMY stands for...Arent Really Marines Yet ! They should stay the course and not consildate.

The only thing that is the same between the Army and the Marines is that they both use rifles. Marines are trained for a naval operations. They train for amphibious assaults and to provide security to sensitive areas of a ship. The easiest way to provide the proper training is to be under the control of the Navy.

I know both services would do so, grudgingly. Both services would loose their unique identities, but the writing has been on the wall for awhile. I’m not only a former medical officer; I was also an Infantry NCO, before I went to med school. 30 years ago, I would have said “Hell, no”, and not in so kind of words, but it’s only logical

Absolutely not. There is a mentality the Marine Corps has that the Army simply lacks. And, the Army is completely overloaded with unnecessary officer positions that make it harder to focus on combat effectiveness as officers become more politicians as they rise through the ranks.

If we want to win wars we will always need the Marines as a separate entity.

No other service should be consolidated into the Navy ,Marines this team is the tip of the spear it would be disastrous