Should Army and Marines (or components of) consolidate?

No!

No!

In the end it’s one team one fight.
In all the different branches, how many have the same MOS’s? Streamline the process...

As long as every soldier is able to meet standards i think we should do away with other branches and all troops must be Marines! Some will disagree. But thats ok!

Leave it the way it's.

Operationally, yes the Marine Corp could absorb the army, and do away with the army.....make them all Marines.

Personally, the Marines are a ground force of the Navy. If I remember correctly the commandant of the Marine corps answers to the secnav, making them a part of the Navy.....sorry jar heads

The missions they are geared for are totally different. If consolidated you lose cohesiveness.

HONESTLY!?!? We don’t NEED a marine corps at all. The navy needs you and the emabassies kinda need you, the president needs an umbrella once in awhile but the more necessary military members are THE US ARMY!! Btw I was a Marine, it’s not all that. I went to all the Army schools and the Marines said we were better than rangers and airborne infantry.... it was all hogwash!! I love that the smallest branch, even behind the coast guard, can think they are mighty. ITS JUST SOOOO CUTE!!!

I was first a sailor and then a Matine and now a Soldier, I can tell you logically and logisticly we are very different and with different missions. Is one better than the other, BY FAR, the ARMY is by far the better branch but the marines do more with far less. Is that a testament to the USMC, not really, just an inbreeding of will and brainwashing.

Let me explain, the Marines have a bleed over mission from Navy and shared mission with the ARMY. What that means is that they are owned by navy forces and share a super small piece of the battlefield with the ARMY. That being said, they have to always prove themselves to bigger brother (ARMY) all the time and show they can be just as lethal. When I w as in the marines I was told that marines were the equivalent of that of ARMY Rangers. I saw that was not at all the case in Airborne school when marines would fail constantly because of PT tests and being idiots(brainwashed to think they were superior). I had them seen in follow on schools the marines would have the highest wash out rate of all the branches except the Air Force(I really don’t need to explain that) but all I was taught....harder, faster, better and stronger?? Is it that physiology is the same for all Americans and we were just dooped?? Of course you simple minded amigos, marines aren’t tougher, we were fooled for the mission. We believed the hype to accomplish the mission without questioning orders.

My father always said there is no replacement for displacement. Meaning that the larger platform you start with will only get larger but if you start with a smaller block engine it can only get so big. Meaning that the army is larger than all other branches combined. So we can only get larger with modifications and improvements while other branches are getting 30 year old equipment to use everyday.

We would except the other branches but to say that they are superior and better(kinda like giants to small people, besides bible stories), is just far fetched and unrealistic. I appreciate my brethren but it like comparing apples to miniature cherries with a size complex.

Hell No!