Talk:United States Marine Corps

More Civil War info needed.

The article could benefit greatly from some more information on the Marines in the American Civil War, at least the Union Marines should receive a comparable treatment to the Confederate Marines which have their own article. Absolutely tons of books exist on the most marginal aspects of the Civil War, so there should be more material on the Union Marines than the current five lines, even if their role was fairly minor. So if any of you Marine buffs or Civil War buffs could provide it I'd be very glad. -- 77.187.41.231 (talk) 11:19, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

You must have missed the hatnote directing readers to History of the United States Marine Corps. The summary on this page is left intentionally brief for size constraints, but there is much more depth at that specific article. bahamut0013^words_deeds 11:34, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Semper Fidelis

Just to let he editors know, there is a newer and better audio file of the march Semper Fidelis available to use. I noticed in the info box in the article, there is a "play" button to listen to the march. So you may want to consider switching the files. They are below, both the 1909 and the 1989 versions as performed by the United States Marine Band.Yoganate79 (talk) 02:35, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Marine/marine-Soldier/soldier

What is the accepted practice on wiki for capitalization of marine and soldier? I can only speak as a soldier, but only in official Army correspondence do we use the capitalized Soldier. Is the Marine Corps the same way? If so, why would marine be capitalized and soldier not? Robbskey (talk) 21:44, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

I always capitalize the M in Marine. It is short for an official title and also separates the word from ocean-related stuff.--NortyNort (Holla) 23:24, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

USMC listed at FAR.

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Percentage games

I've got a more recent ref at 7.8% of the DoD budget. This does not mean that 6% of the defense budget is wrong, as that is the same sized slice from a slightly larger pie.

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So use this new number? Hcobb (talk) 02:10, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

I have been trying with no luck to find out who this man is...I have his Dog tag, I found...I am Canadian and I don't know who will read this.I'm hoping that someone will who this Marine is.{Rego Christian,USMC, S.V.,O27.72.1227 MALE

hELLO mY Name is Joshua Kindred...I live In Moncton Canada,I found a Dog tag in some army boots I got,,I have been having a real hard time finding out who this man is ,,This is the Info on the tag ..Name{Rego Christian}S.V. ,A NEG,027.72.1227 ,USMC,MALE...........iF ANYONE CAN HELP ME FIND OUT ABOUT THIS SOILDER I WOULD VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT.My Email is Joshua.Kindred@live.ca..Thank you....... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.252.8.224 (talk) 13:32, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Rank

Was more than slightly tempted to add content to the "Rank" section. Agree with 3 groupings for officer, enlisted, and others. Still think there is room for "contributors"... just a rank officer? Enlisted service member. Jambay (talk) 12:56, 12 October 2011 (UTC) sorry, had to login for account recognition.

What exactly is missing or incorrect in the current "Rank structure" section? Commissioned officers, Warrant officers, and Enlisted each have a subsection there now. -Fnlayson (talk) 15:10, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Nothing wrong, and "Rank" is always structured. Was leaning toward - we're all Marines. Still trying to figure that out but my intent is - "Once a Marine always a Marine" applies to anyone that cares to choose to serve. (more to follow). Jambay (talk) 03:07, 27 October 2011 (UTC) to comply with "not a chat forum" rules... http://www.uthynq.com/JBDoc/index.php?title=Marine_Corps reference for details. (not meant as personal link but only reference I have to clarify intent).

Odds and Ends

I thought it might put WWII in perspective to note that there were only 19,400 Marines in 1940. (As the article states, there were 485,052 Marines when WWII ended.) And I seem to recall that there were only about 3,000 Marines in 1900, it had always been a small, elite force. And the Marine Corps hymn was set to a popular tune from the opera "Genevieve de Brabant" by Jacques Offenbach, the guy who wrote "Gaite Parisienne" with its Can-Can dancers. --Apparently after General Scott whupped Santa Anna at the Battle of Chapultepec and Mexico City in 1847, some unknown Marine in Mexico thought up the words to the first stanza and it took off from there. 64.169.155.134 (talk) 08:49, 31 December 2011 (UTC)