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  1. 11-22-06, 11:17 PM #1
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    A bigger Marine Corps?

    Check out this article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11497276/
    The article talks about how The Marine Corps may need to grow to sustain commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan and remain ready for other crises.
    Let me know what you guys think. Its an interesting read.

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  2. 11-22-06, 11:57 PM #2
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    We need to do something. Almost all senior leadership is getting out because all they do is go to Iraq or Afghanistan. We need to go on floats and stuff like that or nobody will want to stay in. All the damn POGs get to go on floats and the grunts are stuck with all the ****.



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  3. 11-23-06, 12:06 AM #3
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    In time's gone by people got out because they got sick of doing the float thing. Its nothing new, just the same thing framed another way. A larger Corps wouldn't be bad, but I don't like the implication that the Marine Corps can't fulfill its mission with the number of Marines we have. Some people may leave because of the high op tempo, but it may be what keeps others in the Corps.

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    Will the Army quota be likewise increased proportionally to the same scale that the Marine Corps is being exploited to?

    Another words, will the Marine Corps be making up for the lack of recruitment of the other branches during this wartime or are they just focused on the Marines because they see no need for them to remain the small elite branch they've always been.

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    We will always be small and elite. Don't worry about that.



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    don't forget...

    we have done so much, for so long...with so little.

    we can do anything...with nothing!!!

    SSgt. John WAYNE, "A" 1/8, WPNS PLT SGT

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  7. 11-23-06, 09:20 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigdog43701
    don't forget...

    we have done so much, for so long...with so little.

    we can do anything...with nothing!!!

    SSgt. John WAYNE, "A" 1/8, WPNS PLT SGT
    We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

    Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff
    during the assault on Grenada, 1983

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