Should Army and Marines (or components of) consolidate?

Itmakes no sense creating a larger bureaucracy within an already large bureaucracy. The marines have proved over time that pushing leadership down to a smaller unit level is more effective. Why in the world would DODnow turn around and try to push leadership up??

Really? It is quite obvious the First Class Petty Officer has nothing better to do than to stir the pot. Maybe keel hauling or carrying buckets of steam will return him to his senses.

Depends how they’d be integrated, at what level(ie training or fleet) and whose standards are going to be used

Absolutely fucking not! Because the Marines have won battles and created a reputation that no other branch can compete with. Hell the marines won battles with gear that the Army couldn’t operate. There is a reason the marines are the best branch of service. The coolest part was the marines were created by a couple of drunk guys at tun tavern that wanted to kill the enemy. And succeeded ever since!

Absolutely not. Unique elements, unique missions. They have separate histories and traditions. I believe that it would be a mistake to combine them.

I think the consolidation of services will vanish the identity of the services our neighbor to the North Canada have consolidated there branches of the military the difference between them are the emblems on their uniform

Who comes up with these ideas? And have they thought about it from a financial aspect or is it just an idea right now?
To me, one of the initial problems would be where to put which troops, and the emotional aspects that affect human beings. There would be some obvious integration, and that would set up various levels of hazing.
Not to mention, how would boot camp get handled? Will Marines still get produced, or will we all be Army doggies?
I feel like this could happen, but it would take a few years of planning before it would actually get done. And I really don’t see the point.

NOPE

As a marine, hell no. We got enough to deal with and coming from experience, we shouldn’t have to deal with the Air Force too!! We’re part of the navy and that’s hard enough for a young marine, keep it the way it is and move on.