Would this be an accurate metaphor?

>>33958971
Not least in the sense that Spartans like to fuck each other in the ass.

No, Marines were the retarded as shit Persians at Thermopylae, not the Spartans

Rome also kicked the shit out of the Greeks

>>33958971
Seeing as the Spartans ALSO had help from thousands of other Greeks at Thermopylae but took the credit, and the Marines did something similar in the Pacific (ignoring the US Army achievements), I can see it. Also, the size disparity is all fucked up but whatever.

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>>33959497
This 1000x

>>33958971
No because US is only 300yo.

Marines sure do love gay sex so of course they're like Spartans

>>33958971
How much do they pay you marine fags to shit post? cuz it aint enough,,,

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>>33960237
Army guy here actually

modern day spartans

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What would the Air Force be?

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Let's be real here. If the USMC evaporated tomorrow we would feel bad for about a year and then let the Army cover down and do their job.

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>>33960255
>Air Force
Concubines

and gay concubines

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>>33960255
You had one job, Marines...

>>33960318
I though mental checks were part of the recruitment process.

>>33960255
Who was in charge of the holiday parties in 600 B.C.? The wives? I guess the USAF would be the wives.

>>33958971
Why do marines like to stroke each other's cocks about being marines?

>>33959032
Underrated post

>>33958989
>implying that straight Marines don't do the gayest shit

>>33960318
>he says as he 69s with a fellow marine, congratulating himself on another successful shitpost

>>33958971
Are you sure you want to be compared to a force whose greatest claim to fame was getting themselves wiped out?

>>33960271
>navy doesn't count as marines

i mean i get it but what the fuck they're literally mariners

>>33958971
Spartans weren't light infantry

>>33958971
Not even remotely. Spartans were not even that well trained and has been hyped up by hollywood to make an exaggerated movie.

Sparta is the most overrated civ in existence. even more than the Vikangz.
The average Roman professional soldier was just as well trained.

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>>33959032
this. I would take 100 battle hardened professional Roman soldiers over 100 Spartans. Romans had better tactics and equipment.

>>33958971
Marines die after the first artillery barrage

bullet sponge Marine Corps

Sparta also got the shit kicked out of them so hard by Thebes they became a second rate nation.

>>33960329
Is the LAV/wheeled AFV stuck too?

>>33963722
Underrate pic

>>33958989
No, that makes the metaphor even more accurate, like, you don't even understand how much gay shit happens in one barracks, on one catwalk, or in one room, at a Camp Lejeune or a 29 Stumps.

Marines fucked their own legacy when they became a bloated second army filled with women and pogs instead of a small elite fighting force. Now their reputation just comes from bragging about how tough they are and how they have a harder PFT that army grunts could pass anyway

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>>33958971
>all this butthurt against Marines

I love these kinds of threads.

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>>33964835
>fucked their own legacy
No more shipboard Marines :(
>YWN beat native thieves and drunken sailors bloody with a truncheon in between fucking Caribbean whores.

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>when pog marines try to group themselves in with the infantry

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>It's a commercial where the marines compare themselves to knights or dragon slayers
https://youtu.be/62tnJtLBQzQ
https://youtu.be/LyYTK_hYeEo

>>33966175
This is some real fucking cringe.

>>33958971

No, it's hilariously bad.

>300 well trained light infantry spartans tasked with holding a checkpoint with no resupply
>With the aid of 7000+ other greeks.

The spartans didn't call for an airstrike at the first sign of danger.

>>33967404
Still much smaller than the man power available to the Roman Republic and later Empire.

The Battle of Cannae involved 40,000 Roman infantrymen and that number again in allied infantry.

Thermopylae was fought with the equivalent of 1 or 2 Roman Legions. Both the Pyrrhic Victories against Rome consumed a legion or two.

>>33967271
to fair, it was the 80's

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>Spartan hoplites
>light infantry

>>33967659
Makes sense to me

>>33960337
Nah, we had a full blown autist in my training flight. We caught him one night staring at the wall of the shower saying stuff In a demonic voice before doing circles around the stalls with a razor in his hand while wearing nothing but a wet towel.

>>33958971

Murrican soldiers are fucking pussies...

They are hopeless without air superiority.

>>33967738
>inb4 (you)s

>>33958971

That's a comparison, not a metaphor

>>33958971
>America has an army
>America also has a second, angrier and more arrogant army
>The second army is more competent than the first army, presumably because they actually care about the stuff they do
America can be really strange.

>>33967439
>Thermopylae was fought with the equivalent of 1 or 2 Roman Legions.

A maniple is 40, a century is 100, a cohort is 500, a legion is 5000.

The barebones garrison legion that defeated Boudicca was far more impressive than Thermopylae

>>33958971
I can never tell if the people who make and post stuff like this are just subtly shitting on the marines or if they are just mentally deficient with no knowledge of history.

>>33958989
but anon that would make it more accurate

>>33960255
Bird Droppings

>>33967954
>The barebones garrison legion that defeated Boudicca was far more impressive than Thermopylae
Which is kinda my point.

>A maniple is 40, a century is 100, a cohort is 500, a legion is 5000.

Depends when you're talking about, Anon. The numbers changed over time.

A Manipular Legion of the Mid-Republic was between 4200 to 6000 according to Polybius. 10 Maniples of 60 (Triarii) and 20 of 120 (10 each of the hastati and principes) making up the 3000 heavy infantry with the remainder being skirmishers (velites) and cavalry.

Iirc the lowest number that was considered a legion was 3200 but idr when it was off hand and cbf finding a source.

>>33968022

Merely exemplary numbers, the point is that Romans warfare was of a grossly larger scale than much of what came before or afterwards all the way to the industrial age, and that a legion was a small army on its own, while the Spartan force was merely a single phalanx formation, supported by an actual army.

>>33958971
Daily reminder ''los heroes de la concepcion'' in chile . Literally a bunch of chilean soldiers vs thousand of bolivians.

>>33961871
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>>33967980
>ITT: people with a poor grasp of english as she is spoke

>>33968241
>the point is that Romans warfare was of a grossly larger scale than much of what came before or afterwards all the way to the industrial age

Which was also my point. Idu why you're posting like you're disagreeing when we're saying the same thing.

>>33959497
Most accurate post in this thread.

>>33963604
>peloponnesian wars
k

>>33964835
They did eventually join the big boys table at SOCOM.

>>33958971
The Spartans lost the shit out of that battle in a single day... I don't get why it's romanticized.

Rome fell, as will the USA.