> Cp wrote --
>> So why is there a Marine on every Navy ship?
> Not every ship.
> Mine was a flagship with an admiral onboard and the Marine detachment
> were his body guards.

Honor guard, mostly, or did they really expect someone to disturb his  admiralship in an antisocial manner?

> The Marines are associated with the Navy, though a separate branch of the
> service.
> At one time the Navy was the Marine's taxi service, taking them where
> they needed to go.

Why not? Smne as the USAF flies army guys whee going, now & again, eh, if they  have a plane heading that way, although I understand they have to buckle in, in the cargo hold.

Taking a ship seems like a nice way to go -- relax for the time it takes,  longer than a glight. . . :) (greatfor those afraid to fly)

My parents met on a ship going overseas, as her dad & mine were being reposted  to France on a Canadian Air Force base for a time. (where I was born 2.5 years  later)

> I work with some cops who were Marines and the friendly rivalry
> continues.
> One calls me "squid" and I call him "jarhead".
> We were talking one day and he called us our taxi service and I replied
> how we softened up the beaches for then to wade ashore could stroll along the
> beach.  :)

Why not? Gotta have fun, eh? At least the navy guys are operating the ship,  while tyhe marinecools his heels, or does he get work assignments, too?

I'll continue my "A sheep would be too obvious" joke for now, though -- always  gets a chuckle, even from Marine sergeants!

>> How come there's no annual Navy-Marines football game?
> Because we would wallop them.  :)

& you can't be busting their morale so badly -- they might be needed, eh?

Are the SEALs actual Navy men, or a separate, related, branch like the Marines?

I knew a ladft who trains moainly SEALs in San Diego in stuff like withstanding torture, escaping POW status & reporting in with intel gathered(implication  there needs to be some)

Brutal tests they go through -- like that SEAL pre-qualifying test, where they  darn near get drowned, trying to force a few to quit before graduation  (something-"SUB"?)

I guess this is just for certauin members who are expected to end up behind  enemy lines as part o9f their trained-for-roles?

Was your training pretty prosaic, like not too dissimilar to what army boys go  through in boot, or do you share boot camp for training?

I thank you for your service -- I don't like how the big boys start & run wars, but unlike Jane Fonda, I don't put blameon the sincere men & women who only  want to protect those back home from the threas they are deployed to deal with.

>> Navy plays Army every year, no?
> Oh yeah, the biggest game of the year.

Do you play? Or did you?

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