Marines vs Army
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Is that an old uniform?
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Summer dress whites from the 80s. I had a couple of these posters -- along with a few others. My son now has them.
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One has to admit, the Marine Corps has had some of the best ad campaigns since World War I.
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It very well might. Obviously this is beyond bantering and the original post, but the Marine Corps through marketing and action has it's own definitive and enduring culture. It's definitely it's own pedigree.
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From
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/marine-tradition?page=show
In the big war companies, 250 strong, you could find every sort of man, from every sort of calling. There were Northwesterners with straw-colored hair that looked white against their tanned skins, and delicately spoken chaps with the stamp of the Eastern universities on them. There were large-boned fellows from Pacific-coast lumber camps, and tall, lean Southerners who swore amazingly in gentle, drawling voices. There were husky farmers from the corn-belt, and youngsters who had sprung, as it were, to arms from the necktie counter. And there were also a number of diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and a bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words, and words culled from all the folk who live on the seas and the ports where our war-ships go. In easy hours their talk ran from the Tartar Wall beyond Pekin to the Southern Islands, down under Manila; from Portsmouth Navy Yard—New Hampshire and very cold—to obscure bushwhackings in the West Indies, where Cacao chiefs, whimsically sanguinary, barefoot generals with names like Charlemagne and Christophe, waged war according to the precepts of the French Revolution and the Cult of the Snake. They drank the eau de vie of Haute-Marne, and reminisced on saki, and vino, and Bacardi Rum—strange drinks in strange cantinas at the far ends of the earth; and they spoke fondly of Milwaukee beer. Rifles were high and holy things to them, and they knew five-inch broadside guns. They talked patronizingly of the war, and were concerned about rations. They were the Leathernecks, the Old Timers: collected from ship’s guards and shore stations all over the earth to form the 4th Brigade of Marines, the two rifle regiments, detached from the navy by order of the President for service with the American Expeditionary Forces. They were the old breed of American regulars, regarding the service as home and war as an occupation; and they transmitted their temper and character and view-point to the high-hearted volunteer mass which filled the ranks of the Marine Brigade.∗ © 1955
Charles Scribner’s Sons.
These excerpts were used in one of the greatest promo videos of the 80s and 90s. "Such as Regiments Hand Down Forever"
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/marine-tradition?page=show
In the big war companies, 250 strong, you could find every sort of man, from every sort of calling. There were Northwesterners with straw-colored hair that looked white against their tanned skins, and delicately spoken chaps with the stamp of the Eastern universities on them. There were large-boned fellows from Pacific-coast lumber camps, and tall, lean Southerners who swore amazingly in gentle, drawling voices. There were husky farmers from the corn-belt, and youngsters who had sprung, as it were, to arms from the necktie counter. And there were also a number of diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and a bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words, and words culled from all the folk who live on the seas and the ports where our war-ships go. In easy hours their talk ran from the Tartar Wall beyond Pekin to the Southern Islands, down under Manila; from Portsmouth Navy Yard—New Hampshire and very cold—to obscure bushwhackings in the West Indies, where Cacao chiefs, whimsically sanguinary, barefoot generals with names like Charlemagne and Christophe, waged war according to the precepts of the French Revolution and the Cult of the Snake. They drank the eau de vie of Haute-Marne, and reminisced on saki, and vino, and Bacardi Rum—strange drinks in strange cantinas at the far ends of the earth; and they spoke fondly of Milwaukee beer. Rifles were high and holy things to them, and they knew five-inch broadside guns. They talked patronizingly of the war, and were concerned about rations. They were the Leathernecks, the Old Timers: collected from ship’s guards and shore stations all over the earth to form the 4th Brigade of Marines, the two rifle regiments, detached from the navy by order of the President for service with the American Expeditionary Forces. They were the old breed of American regulars, regarding the service as home and war as an occupation; and they transmitted their temper and character and view-point to the high-hearted volunteer mass which filled the ranks of the Marine Brigade.∗ © 1955
Charles Scribner’s Sons.
These excerpts were used in one of the greatest promo videos of the 80s and 90s. "Such as Regiments Hand Down Forever"
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Fighting the lava monster was idiotic...
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Those aren't bad, but that whole "Army of One" campaign was awful!
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That's hysterical ^
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There's another one too, but that one stands out to me.
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To give this kid an actual answer...
The Marine Corps is small and relatively homogenous. The Army is big and is heterogenous.
For example, there aren't units in the Marine Corps that are really considered to be more prestigious than others. We only have three (active duty) divisions and air wings. While some units certainly consider themselves better than others or have slightly better/worse reputations, it's different from the Army and those reputations are at the battalion/squadron level. Theres no 82nd or 10th Mountain in the Marine Corps. The only reason a guy would be butthurt going to 7th Marines vs. 1st Marines is because he (rightfully) doesn't want to live in 29 Palms.
Also, the armored side of the Marines is much smaller: a couple tank battalions and a couple light armored reconnaissance battalions. Most infantry units are light.
Same thing on the air side. All pilots are commissioned and come up together through the same pipeline. If I thought about it, I could probably name someone I know in every helo squadron in the Marine Corps and most of the fixed wing units. And, similar to the ground side, every one type of squadron is relatively comparable to another. Every 53 squadron has roughly the same capabilities as any other 53 squadron, etc.
The Marine Corps is small and relatively homogenous. The Army is big and is heterogenous.
For example, there aren't units in the Marine Corps that are really considered to be more prestigious than others. We only have three (active duty) divisions and air wings. While some units certainly consider themselves better than others or have slightly better/worse reputations, it's different from the Army and those reputations are at the battalion/squadron level. Theres no 82nd or 10th Mountain in the Marine Corps. The only reason a guy would be butthurt going to 7th Marines vs. 1st Marines is because he (rightfully) doesn't want to live in 29 Palms.
Also, the armored side of the Marines is much smaller: a couple tank battalions and a couple light armored reconnaissance battalions. Most infantry units are light.
Same thing on the air side. All pilots are commissioned and come up together through the same pipeline. If I thought about it, I could probably name someone I know in every helo squadron in the Marine Corps and most of the fixed wing units. And, similar to the ground side, every one type of squadron is relatively comparable to another. Every 53 squadron has roughly the same capabilities as any other 53 squadron, etc.