Join the conversation at: https://discord.gg/AyX5j8chNE Follow me on Twitter @ryanmcbeth The Marine Corps was founded in 1775 as a force to augment the Navy when performing boarding actions, repelling borders and performing raids. But since that time, the USMC has turned into an agile, and creative expeditionary force that is often the first to arrive at an intervention. Marine corps puppy killers https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/puppy-killers/ Marine Corps history: https://www.usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/Brief-Histories/Brief-History-of-the-United-States-Marine-Corps/ New DoD Adviser Has Made Controversial Proposal: Get Rid of the Marine Corps https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/12/new-dod-adviser-has-made-controversial-proposal-get-rid-of-marine-corps.html How to Absorb the Marine Corps into the Army and Navy https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/12/new-dod-adviser-has-made-controversial-proposal-get-rid-of-marine-corps.html Marine Amphibious Landing in Korea, 1871 https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/m/marine-amphibious-landing-korea-1871.html The Battle of Ganghwa, Korea, 1871 https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/directors-corner/h-grams/h-gram-063/h-063-5.html Close Air Support MCWP 3-23.1 What is the most important innovation ever adopted by the Marine Corps? November 2019 Proceedings https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/november/what-most-important-innovation-ever-adopted-marine-corps Goodbye, tanks: How the Marine Corps will change, and what it will lose, by ditching its armor https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/03/22/goodbye-tanks-how-the-marine-corps-will-change-and-what-it-will-lose-by-ditching-its-armor/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20have%20sufficient%20evidence%20to,the%20divestment%20of%20Marine%20tanks. Army soldiers Celebrate MArine Corps Birthday. https://www.army.mil/article/30358/marines_cut_cake_celebrate_234th_birthday Deception in the Desert Deceiving Iraq in Operation DESERT STORM https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Books/Browse-Books/iBooks-and-EPUBs/Deception-in-the-Desert/#:~:text=On%2024%20February%2C%20the%20first,first%20phase%20in%20Coalition%20amphibious Marines Over the Western Front https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2006/june/marines-over-western-front Rights: "Marines Landing at Inchon, Korea, 15 September 1950" by Archives Branch, USMC History Division is marked with CC BY 2.0. "The old Tun Tavern, Philadelphia. Drawing." by Marion Doss is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0. "'Higgins Boat' - D-Day Amphibious Landing Craft" by string_bass_dave is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0. "V-22 Osprey" by Tim Pohlhaus is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. "Boeing V-22 Osprey" by Loco Steve is marked with CC BY 2.0. "Monterrey falls during Mexican-American War" by MIRAR a FONDO is marked with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.