United States Marine Corps

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Max Boot, After the Sands Of Iwo Jima. Harry Truman wanted the Marines cut back to a Naval police force after 1945. The Corps proved as skillful and resolute in peace as in war. Wall Street Journal, Dec 19, 2012 (subtitles in print)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 85230593926380.html
(book review on Aaron B O'Connell, Underdogs; The making of the modern Marine Corps. Harvard University Press, 2012)

Quote:

"The fact that the Marines suffered higher casualties [than army] demonstrated, at least to their own satisfaction, that they were tougher and more deserving of admiration than the Army.

Note:
(a) The English surname Boot is "occupational name for a maker or seller of boots, from Middle English, Old French bote (of unknown origin)."
(b) The review says, "The Marines are the most celebrated but least understood of our four military services."

10 USC § 101(a)(4)--which stands for United States Codes, Title (similar to chapter) 10, Section 101--defines: "The term 'armed forces' means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard."

(c)
(i) Gomer Pyle, USMC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomer_Pyle,_U.S.M.C.
(an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from 1964 to 1969; stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in USMC)
(ii) Full Metal Jacket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket
(a 1987 American film)

(d) The review states corectly: "Prior to World War II * * * it [USMC] had just 50,000 men, and it was seen as an adjunct of the Navy."

* marine (military)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_(military)
(section 1 History; section 3 Roles)

(e) The review comments, "The Marines' combat correspondents, Mr O'Connell writes, 'left tactics and technology aside and focused almost exclusively on the wartime experience of the average private—"Joe Blow," they called him—both in and out of combat.'"

* For Jow Blow, see John Q Public
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Q._Public

(f) Marine Corps Base Quantico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Base_Quantico
(a major United States Marine Corps training base located [in Town of Quantico; "The word Quantico is a derivation of the name a [Native American tribe] Doeg village recorded by English colonists as Pamacocack"] near Triangle, Virginia; The FBI Academy and the principal training facility for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are also located on the base)