Should Army and Marines (or components of) consolidate?

I may of been Army but the Marines have my respect. I believe the branches should remain how they are.

It would make more sense to merge the air force and army. Navy and marines are already the same department.

We have different branches for a reason. Air force can t do navy. Army can t do navy. Marines are devil dogs for a reason. Each branch specializes in something others can t do. Never will you hear a Air force pilot land on a aircraft carrier. You will never hear a navy seaman storm the beach. You won't hear of a army guy steaming a ship. Marines storm a beach. Army shells ground targets with howitzers. Navy bombs and shells beach for marines to storm that beach. Coast guard, well coast guard just stays home and busts drug dealers.

Would make more sense to combine Seabees with Marines. An all in one building and fighting component.

No way they have way different missions.

I can see the Airforce to combine with the Navy. The navy keeps the marines

Perhaps we could consolidate, but still have the 4 sections. We are somewhat doing that now with joint training and such. Maybe we just look at the redundancy and determine which branch is better and consolidate that element there. Gradual implementation, maybe some crossing over. Have a cut-in with recruitment. It would be a way of being a marine, airmen, soldier or sailor, but without too much redundancy. It would definately help us all work together when the mission comes up.

Tradition and pride aside i think it would be a smart and economical decision. Now pride and Traditions back in I think its a terrible idea. I'm currently serving as a school house instructor and the other day i asked a group of Marines to simply move some desks around. It was a simple task but it was done so well I was truly impressed. Now im not saying the USAF, US army, or the US navy could not have done it. Im just saying they couldnt of done it that well. The reason is because they were Marines and they took it seriously. The Marine Corps breeds people into war fighting Machines and that traslates into mission acomplishment. Whatever the mission you can count on the Marines to do their very best, becaus they are the very best. And it think if we consaoldated we would loose that fighting insticit as Marines we would loose our identity. I hope no other services are offended by this. Its just my opinion. If we were to ever consoldate it would have to be on the Marines terms and anyome who would want to join should have to go through boot camp. Maybe a shorter more intense one but some sort of "Marine" training would have to take place.

Huh

I completely agree with the staff seargent marines are marines let's just keep at that if your not a marine its hard to explain and they probably would not understand anyway.