Marine Corps "A Few Good Men"

80's recruiting commercial for the United States Marine Corps.

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[warner300]

MARINES will never get old man

[CPFCMCJROTC]

Marine Corps 234 years and still tough as nails. To all my fellow future Marines commrnting I just have to say OOHRAH!!

[welhungjohnson]

this commercial makes me want to eat a big mac so bad for some reason

[PeoplesWar]

Wow... when you see the AV-8A/C Harrier is this video and the Marines wielding in the M16A1, you get a sense for how old this commercial is!

Yet... it also looks so contemporary.

[ANAHEIM8]

the music is awesome

[semperfisemperceler]

"Marine Corps for teh next 500 years", and maybe a couple more zeros added to the end of that number :)

[StonewallJackson26]

@Faxe90Swe Well yeah the dynamics of island fighting are way different. Each island was like a separate war unto itself. Pelelui was so bad because it only one Marine Division hit the island. Navy Intelligence had no idea that the island had closed to 11,000 defenders who were dug into coral caves with almost impregnable fortifications that could not be dealt with by arty are strafe bombing.

[Faxe90Swe]

@StonewallJackson26

Ok, I retract my 600,000 completely, I stand corrected. I was hasty and arrogant.

Speaking of Peleliu, again we have something considered so bloody when the casualties actually were quite small for ww2 standards. But again we have the fact that, as you say, 6,500 out of 10,000 make it proportinately bloodier than most engagements of ww2. This issue kind of relates to our other discussion, that's why I brought it up.

[StonewallJackson26]

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[StonewallJackson26]

@Faxe90Swe No! The 1st Marine Division was for instance 17,500 strong at its largest. Maybe 9-10,000 of those men actually saw front link combat. The other 7-8,000 dealt with wounded, logistics, medical, burial, orderlies, artillery, mortars. The Navy Corps stayed on the ships and sprayed the islands with hellfire. That is why Pelelui is considered to be so horrible. Maybe 10,000 saw front line duty, and 6500 of them were killed or wounded.

[Faxe90Swe]

@StonewallJackson26

Perhaps those 600,000 include all those that are not worthy of attention to you, like those who performed the completely useless task of supplies and logistics. You do know that America had the highest proportion of supply units in the war? And these supply units weren't in a branch of their own, they were part of the corps they supported. Other than that i can only again refer to that quote from WP. 

[StonewallJackson26]

@Faxe90Swe I know what you mean. I UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT. Like I said even after replenishment and rotations, 600,000 men did not serve in the Marines in WW2. Are you even reading my posts.

The operating strength at one time in the Marine Corps during WW2 was six divisions, totaling 100,000.

My question to you: Are you telling me that the Marines replenished 600% of the strength? They replenished their entire force 6 times?