What is the difference between the Army and the Marine Corps?

Question

What is the difference between the Army and the Marine Corps?

Answer 1

The marines go in first & come out last. Also , basic training is longer & more intense. There are a lot more differences - go down to the recruiter & pick up literature about both .Look up the basic information & compare - you'll see similarities & differences & then be able to make your choice, if interested in the military or just curious.

Answer 2

to try to make it easy...

In Iraq the marines went over there first and fought the enemy military, after they destroyed the Taliban, most of the marines left Iraq and came home.

The army is most of our forces over in Iraq now. the Army is "occupying" Iraq, training civilian police, and trying to keep peace.

So, in short it almost means that the marines fight, and the army occupies, and keeps peace, not saying the army doesnt fight though,

something to note is. the army depends on the army for medical needs, and such, when the marines depend on the navy for that sort of stuff.

Answer 3

the corps developed from the navy in days of ships parking next to each other and getting into hand-to-hand combat on board. the army developed from the Continental Army, whereas the Navy wasn't started until Adams took office.

Answer 4

Shock and Awe is the man once again! Nobody can debate those facts. Yet kids and I'm guessing the wannabe mafia have peanut gallery comments again. Like shock said, basic isn't everything. And Infantry basic for the army is not 9 weeks folks. Get over the myth. Medal criteria is the same for services across the board so drop that arguement. When did the marines single handedly defeat the taliban and go home? I've been deployed several times and seemed to have missed that part. Also the army does have boats. LCU's etc. We have more "boats" than the navy. The army does have extended long range marksmanship courses as well. Just like the marines do. Do some of you kids think that the marine and army brass don't talk? Lots of stuff for combat troops is streamlined. They are tasks all warriors need to know regardles of service.

Answer 5

The Marine Corps is a branch of the Navy.

Answer 6

The Corps knows what they are doing, for one.   If the US Army could be absorbed by the Marine Corps, like ATT absorbed Ameritech, taxpayers would save hundreds of million dollars ANNUALLY and the army troops would be far better trained.    

Answer 7

USMC is Amphibious, which means they are on land and sea, the Army is only land. The Marines have their own jets and aircraft. Army only has helo's. Marines have a 13 week boot camp. Army has a 9 week BCT. It is much harder to rank up in the Marines than the Army. Marines have a harder rifle qualification than the army. So a Marine is a better shot than a soldier. It is harder to get medals in the Marines than the Army. I'm not trying to bad mouth the army this is just the truth.  

Answer 8

about 2 months of boot camp

Answer 9

Not sure what you want to know.  The Corps is much smaller and has a different role although in extended combat marines tend to be used much like army infantry.   The army is much more diverse and has just about every job you would find in civilian world.

Answer 10

Okay, instead of giving you b.s. who goes first in (because in Afghanistan like Grenada and Panama, U.S. Army airborne/special ops were some of the majority on the ground and Iraq both times was a joint operation with all branches involved, but who cares) or has the hardest training because there is more to life than jut Basic and Boot Camps, so I'll give you the book answers:

Army:

The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities … in support of the National Security and Defense Strategies."

It is the largest, and oldest established branch of the armed forces of the United States, and is one of seven uniformed services. Like all armies, it has the primary responsibility for land-based military operations. The modern Army had its roots in the Continental Army which was formed on June 14, 1775, before the establishment of the United States, to meet the demands of the American Revolutionary War.

As of July 31, 2008, the Regular Army reported a strength of 538,128 soldiers. The Army National Guard (ARNG) as of 2008 is composed of 350,000 soldiers and the United States Army Reserve (USAR) has 189,000 soldiers, putting the approximate combined component strength total at 1,077,128 soldiers.

The United States Army is made up of three components: the active component, the Regular Army; and two reserve components, the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve. Both reserve components are primarily composed of part-time soldiers who train once a month, known as Battle Assembly or Unit Training Assemblies (UTAs), and conduct two to three weeks of annual training each year. Both the Regular Army and the Army Reserve are organized under Title 10 of the United States Code, while the National Guard is organized under Title 32. While the Army National Guard is organized, trained and equipped as a component of the U.S. Army, when it is not in federal service it is under the command of individual state's governors. However the National Guard can be federalized by presidential order and against the governor's wishes.

As part of the same transformation plan, the U.S. Army is currently undergoing a transition from being a division-based force to a brigade-based force. When finished, the active army will have increased its number of combat brigades from 33 to 42, and increases of a similar scale will have taken place in the National Guard and Reserve forces. Division lineage will be retained, but the divisional HQs will be able to command any brigades, not just brigades that carry their divisional lineage. The central part of this plan is that each brigade will be modular, i.e., all brigades of the same type will be exactly the same, and thus any brigade can be commanded by any division. There will be three major types of ground combat brigades:

Heavy brigades will have about 3,700 troops and be equivalent to a mechanized infantry or tank brigade.

Infantry brigades will have around 3,300 troops and be equivalent to a light infantry or airborne brigade.

Stryker brigades will have around 3,900 troops and be based around the Stryker family of vehicles.

In addition, there will be combat support and service support modular brigades. Combat support brigades include Aviation brigades, which will come in heavy and light varieties, and Fires (artillery) brigades. Combat service support brigades include Sustainment brigades and come in several varieties and serve the standard support role in an army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Army

USMC:

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States armed forces responsible for providing force projection from the sea, using the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. Originally organized as the Continental Marines on November 10, 1775 as naval infantry, the Marine Corps has evolved in its mission with changing military doctrine and American foreign policy. It is one of seven uniformed services of the U.S.. Administratively, the Marine Corps is a component of the Department of the Navy, but it acts operationally as a separate branch of the military, often working closely with US Naval forces for training, transportation, and logistic purposes.

The United States Marine Corps serves as an amphibious force-in-readiness. As outlined in 10 U.S.C. § 5063, and originally introduced under the National Security Act of 1947, it has three primary areas of responsibility:

"The seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and other land operations to support naval campaigns;

The development of tactics, technique, and equipment used by amphibious landing forces; and

Such other duties as the President may direct."

The United States Marine Corps, with 194,000 active duty and 40,000 reserve Marines, is the smallest of the United States' armed forces in the Department of Defense (the United States Coast Guard is smaller, about one fifth the size of the Marine Corps, but serves under Homeland Security). The Corps is nonetheless larger than the entire armed forces of many significant military powers; for example, it is larger than the active duty Israel Defense Forces or the whole of the British Army.

While the Marine Corps does not employ any unique combat arms, as a force it has the unique ability to rapidly deploy a combined-arms task force to almost anywhere in the world within days. The basic structure for all deployed units is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) that integrates a ground combat element, an aviation combat element, and a logistics combat element combat component under a common command element. While the creation of joint commands under the Goldwater-Nichols Act has improved inter-service coordination between the U.S. military services, the Corps' ability to permanently maintain integrated multi-element task forces under a single command provides a smoother implementation of combined-arms warfare principles.

The close integration of disparate Marine units stems from an organizational culture centered around the infantry. Every other Marine capability exists to support the infantry. Unlike some Western militaries, the Corps remained conservative against theories proclaiming the ability of new weapons to win wars independently. For example, Marine Aviation has always been focused on close air support and has remained largely uninfluenced by air power theories proclaiming that strategic bombing can single-handedly win wars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USMC