How to Absorb the Marine Corps into the Army and Navy

[rangerrebew]

How to Absorb the Marine Corps into the Army and Navy
 
28 Dec 2021
Proceedings | By Commander Norman R. Denny, U.S. Navy Reserve (Retired)

Commander Denny is a retired reserve naval intelligence officer with service beginning in Vietnam in 1972 as an aviation electrician’s mate and retiring in 2010 as a commander. In addition to his reserve service, he was a civilian electronics engineer for the Army Missile Command and an intelligence analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), with four deployments to Iraq. After retiring from DIA, he served as a senior intelligence analyst for U.S. Central Command with one additional Iraq tour.

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For decades, the U.S. Marine Corps has attempted to tweak its force structure to enhance performance within a constrained funding environment. Rather than continuing to make changes around the margins, we would be better off revisiting a debate started following World War II and prematurely truncated during the Korean War. Does the United States need a light infantry force specializing in amphibious operations as a separate service, or should the Marine Corps be resized to the small police force it was prior to World War I and the amphibious organization incorporated into the Army?

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[catfish1957]

 

This ought to get some airplay nationwide.

[Elderberry]

I can't see any of the Marine Corps being absorbed by the Army as the Marine Corps is a Department of the Navy.

[catfish1957]

I can't see any of the Marine Corps being absorbed by the Army as the Marine Corps is a Department of the Navy.

I think the more crust of the op-ed was what would be the reaction if basically 95% of the Corp was absorbed, leaving a tiny police force like the author discussed prior to World War 1. That's the part I think is what will get the jugular's bulging of some hard core jar heads....