Re: B'n FMA (and a comment on Captains)

--- Thomas Barclay <kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca> wrote:

> Oh, and why Marines?
> A rapidly deployable force where all members 
> are fundamentally capable of operating as 
> infantry in a pinch and that is capable of being 
> inserted to take and hold ground while 
> conventional Army forces are being deployed 
> just seems to make sense. It takes a while to 
> get M1s to a battlefield. Having a range of 
> deployable options, including MEUs, just makes 
> sense. 

But the only reason we have them as a seperate branch
of service is as a hold-over from when they performed
real shipboard functions.

Realistically, anything the Marines can do, the
Airborne or conventional light infantry units can do.

John

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