Read main thread: U.S. Marine Corps... why?
February 4th, 2005  
Whispering Death
Tribuni Angusticlavii
 
 
Gear

So the answer is because the U.S. military uses the Marines are a fast deployable force? But isn't the army working on a division that can deploy anywhere in the world within 96 hours?
 
 
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