Marine or marine?

[Eric Hood]

It shows a real political agenda, hard left wing, hate America, when written with a lower case. This is what the pink harlot(The New York Times) always does.
MARINE

[CHOPPER7199]

Well, Did One Ever Learn In English Class. The Name Of A Person, Place, Or Thing, Was To Have Been Capitlized? I Think We Cover Two Of Them,( 1) Being A Person (2) Being A Thing, The Meanest Fighting Machine. Just My Thoughts On It. Ooorah

[FoxtrotOscar]

Old thread about capitalizing that "M" in Marine...!!!

Still pertains to this day....

[USMC 2571]

Absolutely, Mike.

"He served as a Marine"
"The Marine Corps trains you well"
"He studied to be a marine biologist"
"The boat store sells marine equipment".
"A Marine unit from Camp Lejeune was sent into action".
"They scheduled a marine expedition to study sea life"

and so forth. Branch of the US military vs the ocean.

[USMC 2571]

Problems occur when saying "A Marine unit landed and studied marine life in the seas", but never mind about that example. LOL

[m14ed]

I've been a member now for, I'm guessing,
a little over five years now and this question
I am about to ask I don't really recall asking it
or if I saw this question and following answer before....bear with me.

I just finished reading a book about Marine Corps Scout/Snipers in Iraq
and the word* "marine" was always written with a lower case "m" unless the word "marine " was starting a sentence.

My question is,
when is it proper to capitalize the M in Marine?
I know that a lot of good natured ball busting gets directed
to those, especially,
poolies and newbies who do not
capitalize the word* Marine.

What's the scoop?
My guess is that as soon as the word
becomes "formal" as in United States Marine Corps
or at the beginning of a sentence,
eg., Marine, what the %$#@ are you doing?,
the M is upper case;
all other usages of the word* Marine
are begin with a lower case m.

Am I on the right track, Marines or marines?

Gary

This thread is almost old enough to shave ???

for as long as it has been running -
Marines know the TITLE - M capitolized
because Marine is a title

the book Gary read perhaps was written
by a US Marine-

but did you ever consider the PUBLISHERs
editor who proof read it before printing
was a doggie ?

m = word - M = TITLE

[FoxtrotOscar]

This thread is almost old enough to shave ???

for as long as it has been running -
Marines know the TITLE - M capitolized
because Marine is a title

the book Gary read perhaps was written
by a US Marine-

but did you ever consider the PUBLISHERs
editor who proof read it before printing
was a doggie ?

m = word - M = TITLE

OLD it may be Ed, but to this day I still see many that fail or are just to plain lazy to correctly CAPITALIZE that "M" in Marine...

[FistFu68]

A lower form of Marine Life !

[SGT7477]

A lower form of Marine Life !

That would be Squid as our DI's taught us,lol, Semper Fidelis.

[Kegler300]

Common nouns and proper nouns ... we be proper nouns!

[advanced]

Common nouns and proper nouns ... we be proper nouns!

Keg - it should be "we be's proper nouns."