What can the Marines do that the Navy and Army combined can't?

>>33321640
Be commanded by the Navy for operations directly related to the Navy

your 100,000 ton displacing mom.

Take excessive casualties and think they are tough because of it

>>33321654

This.

>>33321640
Nothing. They only continue to exist because dissolving the corps would be more trouble than it's worth.

>>33321640

Win a war in the Pacific heyoooooooooooooooo

keep a budget

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>>33321757
sit in vehicles and don't actually foot patrol and think they are tough because of it.

>>33321979
>the branch that was 10x bigger was involved in a lot of areas

wow really made me think

>>33321640
>What can the Marines do that the Navy and Army combined can't?
rape girls in Oki? fuck lady boys in Thailand?

>>33322172
Navy fag here, we all fuck the ladyboys. When in Pattaya!

>>33321640
Waste our tax dollars buy being redundant.
>jk there is plenty of wasting going on in other branches but still.

>>33321640
By having higher standards.

>>33321640
Because whoever came up with MAGTAF was a goddamn genius.

>>33323543
/thread.

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>>33323543
>Lets take combined arms and put it on a ship

Only Marines would think this level of higher thinking qualifies as "genius".

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>>33321640
>Army and Navy
>cooperating

Literally a better bet to create a whole new branch of armed forces than trying to get that to work on a regular basis.

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>>33321654
>operations directly related to the Navy

Such as?

>>33321640

Combined operations employing maritime forces and ground troops have been a byword for chaos and propensity to go fubar for hundreds of years.

The Marine Corps addresses difficulties involved in combined operations in a variety of ways such as: placement of the relevant ground forces in a single, clear command structure, incorporation of supply chain, preexisting logistical protocols for combined operations, and readiness for combimed missions through specific training and repeated use.

Furthermore, the Marine Corps has several unique capacities due to their presence within the fleet, which include: execution of boarding actions, securing of anchorages and supplies, fast deployment, amphibious assault, establishing beachheads, and spearheading offensives launched from a forward-positioned squadron.

The Marine Corps does not serve the same function as the Army, nor is it an "Army within the Navy."

>>33323955
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis I guess

>>33324272
>this is what jarheads actually believe

there's simply no valid counter-argument to the assertion that the usmc isnt utterly and completely redundant

>>33321640
Having homosex on water AND on land.

>>33324272
> Furthermore, the Marine Corps has several unique capacities due to their presence within the fleet, which include: amphibious assault, establishing beachheads

Which because of anti-shipping missiles, will never happen again outside of minor policing operations that could be handled by an amphibious Army battalion.

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>>33324304
> Operation_Praying_Mantis

“The Marines boarded the platform, [after it had been shot up by destroyers and attack helos] and recovered a single wounded survivor (who was transported to Bahrain), some small arms, and intelligence. The Marines planted explosives, left the platform, and detonated them.

The other group, which included guided missile cruiser USSWainwright and frigates USSSimpson and USSBagley , attacked the Sirri oil platform. Navy SEALs were assigned to capture, occupy and destroy the Sirri platform but due to heavy pre-assault damage from naval gunfire, it was determined that an assault was not required.”

Don’t see why we need an entire Marine Corps for that.

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>>33324480
Marines can't even do that anymore because V-22's are too dangerous/shitty

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>>33321640

Hazing.

>>33321640
Actually fight the enemy.

The Army builds bases and then sits in them. Sends out armored convoys and uses indirect fire extensively.
The Navy launches missiles and serves as a FOB for airstrikes.
The Marines actually kill shit in force on force contact.

>itt: shitposting simulator 2017
What can the coast guard do that the Navy couldn't?
Why bother separating the army and the air Force into two?

Don't marines get cool swords other branches don't?

>>33324922
no one is proposing to combine the army and the navy friggin retard

Marines exist as a filter for those who aren't intelligent enough to dig trenches properly. Somebody has to move the sandbags. Sandbags are heavy. Plus when they die they make for a decent sandbag themselves. That's called logistical efficiency, it wins wars.

>>33321640
Honestly, Army and Navy don't get along, and I don't understand why. The JHSV was supposed to be a joint program, but Army ran out of funding, since them I've heard of no utilization at all by the Army of the now operational platforms, it's all Marines and Navy.

>>33321640
Murder recruits with a tumble dryer or shower bleach.

>>33324922
>What can the coast guard do that the Navy couldn't?
Law enforcement.

>>33325555
You mean kind of like how the mreens develop amphibious warfare TTPs that the army doesn't but technically could?