M.A.R.I.N.E.S - U.S.A

ABOUT

• The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection.

• The Marine Corps has been a component of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 30 June 1834 to  rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces on land, at sea, and in the air.

• By the mid-20th century, the U.S. Marine Corps had become a major theorist of and the world's dominant practitioner of amphibious warfare.Its ability to rapidly respond on short notice to expeditionary crises gives it a strong role in the implementation and execution of American foreign policy

STRENGTH 

• As of 2016, the USMC has around 182,000 active duty members and some 38,900 reserve Marines. It is the smallest of the U.S. Armed Forces within the U.S. DoD

PURPOSE

• This focus on the infantry is matched with the doctrine of "Every Marine a rifleman",

• a focus of Commandant Alfred M. Gray, Jr., emphasizing the infantry combat abilities of every Marine. All Marines, regardless of military specialization, receive training as a rifleman; and all officers receive additional training as infantry platoon commanders

• For example, at Wake Island, when all of the Marine aircraft were shot down, pilots

continued the fight as ground officers

• The United States Army maintains light infantry units capable of rapid worldwide deployment,

• but those units do not match the combined-arms integration of an MAGTF and lack the logistics that the Navy provides.

• Therefore, the Marine Corps is often assigned to non-combat missions such as the evacuation of Americans from unstable countries and providing humanitarian relief during natural disasters.

• In larger conflicts, Marines act as a stopgap, to get into and hold an area until larger units can be mobilized.

THANKS, TO CAPT. SAMUEL NICHOLAS - ORIGIN

• The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed by Captain Samuel Nicholas by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on 10 November 1775, to raise two battalions of Marines. That date is regarded and celebrated as the date of the Marine Corps' birthday.

MORE RESPONSIBILITY

• Following the attacks on 11 September 2001, President George W. Bush announced the Global War on Terrorism. 

• The stated objective of the Global War on Terror is "the defeat of Al-Qaeda, other terrorist groups and any nation that supports or harbors terrorists. Since then, the Marine Corps, alongside other military and federal agencies, has engaged in global operations around the world in support of that mission.

 MAJOR OPERATION - AFGHANISTAN

• Marines and other American forces began    staging in Pakistan and Uzbekistan on the  border of Afghanistan as early as October  2001 in preparation for Operation Enduring Freedom.

• in December, the Marines seized Kandahar  International Airport.

• Since then, Marine battalions and squadrons have been rotating through, engaging Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces

MAKING OF MARINES

• The Marine Corps accounts for around six percent of the military budget of the United States. The cost per Marine is $20,000 less than the cost of a serviceman from the other services, and the entire force can be used for both hybrid and major combat operations

• Every year, over 2,000 new Marine officers are commissioned, and 38,000 recruits accepted and trained. All new Marines, enlisted or officer, are recruited by the Marine Corps Recruiting Command

• Enlisted Marines attend recruit training, known as boot camp,

• All recruits must pass a fitness test to start training; those who fail to receive individualized attention and training until the minimum standards are reached. Marine recruit training is the longest among the American military services it is 12 weeks long

ADVANCED TRAINING

• Then the selected ones attend School of Infantry training at Camp Geiger or Camp Pendleton.

• Infantry Marines begin their combat training, which varies in length, immediately with the Infantry Training Battalion (ITB). 

• Marines in all other MOSs other than infantry train for 29 days in Marine Combat Training (MCT), learning common infantry skills, before continuing on to their MOS schools which vary in length

MARTIAL ARTS

• placing Marines in even closer contact with unarmed civilians, MCMAP was implemented to provide Marines with a larger and more versatile set of less-than-lethal options for controlling hostile, but unarmed individuals.

It is a stated aim of the program to install and maintain the "Warrior Ethos" within Marines

WEAPONRY

The basic infantry weapon of the Marine Corps are:-

RIFLES

• M16 assault rifle
• The M4 carbine  
• Colt 9mm SMG 
• M9A1 pistol. 
• The Colt M1911A1
• M249 SAW 

GRENADES

• M203 grenade launcher 
• and the M32 grenade launcher fireteams, 
• M224 60 mm mortar in companies, and 
• M252 81 mm mortar in battalions. 

MACHINE GUNS

• The M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun and 
• MK19 automatic grenade launcher (40 mm) 
• M40 series, 
• and the Barrett M107
• M240 machine guns, 

ROCKETS AND MISSILE

• The Marine Corps utilizes a variety of direct-fire rockets and missiles to provide infantry with an offensive and defensive anti-armor capability. 

• The SMAW and AT4 are unguided rockets that can destroy armor and fixed defenses (e.g., bunkers) at ranges up to 500 meters. 

• The smaller and lighter M72 LAW can destroy targets at ranges up to 200 meters.

• The Predator SRAW, FGM-148Javelin, and BGM-71 TOW are anti-tank guided missiles.

EXPLANATION

• This is just a brief of MARINES, their is lot of things like their operations, other battle gears, ranks, achievements, current deployments. But we have tried to collect all the major things you need to know about MARINES, in future we will write a separate post for each topic in detail. 

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