Should the saying "every Marine a rifleman" be changed?

I agree with you. Granted I was infantry when I started in the army. I changed jobs and heard someone say everyone is infantry first! Nope training is different

I'm an Army veteran and we were taught you are infantry first and whatever your MOS is secondary

Not a Marine so I might be wrong but this is what defines the Marines from the rest.

Tell that to the aircraft maintenance Marines of VMA-211 who put some holes in hearts and minds of Taliban asshats in Camp Bastion.

Go bite a d***! I was an 1100/Utilities, yet still earned a Commedation Medal w/V & a Combat Action Ribbon.

I think you are a pretentious jerk.

No. As a former US Army Soldier,I have nothing but respect for Marines. Too many Traditions are being done away with in order to stay "Relevant and or Current". Please! The Corps is indeed the Tip of the Spear, and it is because of their Culture.

The key word is basic.

As someone who served in the Army, I will not even pretend to understand how the Marines do thing, even though my father served for 14 years before dying as a result of Agent Orange. I wasn’t an Infantryman, I served in a supportive roll as a cook. I was trained with my weapon and always told that just because I was a cook didn’t mean that one day I would have to use it, and while deployed during Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan during my time, I willing to bet that my battle buddies didn’t care about what a persons job was when sh_t hit the fan, they just wanted to know would they squeeze the trigger and do what needed to be done

Well I don’t know about today but in 1981 I had a retired Marine as an avionics technician who spent most of his military career as a radar repairman. Got levied to Vietnam as an Infantry Platoon Sgt. but spent most of the time as a platoon leader. All he said to me was “Every Marine a rifleman.”