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So, you think you miserable lot of baby-faced tropers want to make a trope about us? If you work hard enough you might be good enough to lick our boots. For we are the best in the world and you better know it. When you answer me, the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'sir'! Is that clear, troper?! Louder! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Yes, United States Marines are just better. They are a Proud Warrior Race all their own. Every Marine is a Blood Knight and they are held in check only by their Drill Instructor Nasties. They are commanded by Colonel Badasses and General Rippers, and they are the truest devotees of The Spartan Way. They are so committed to their job that they are almost a Church Militant. Do not mess with the Corps. Ooh-rah! That is the Marine myth. Like most successful myths, it has some basis in fact. The idea is recognizably similar in kind with the myths of several other elite military units, like the French Foreign Legion or the Gurkhas. What makes the Marine myth special is simply that many Americans take pleasure in it and therefore Hollywood does, creating wider mileage. That said, the "Marine myth" is a myth. Marines are as fallible and human as the rest of the species, and while they are invariably well-trained and dedicated, you find just as many Jerkasses among Marines as you do among every other group on the planet. While they don't always, however, they can occasionally view themselves as the epitome of the human race, even if they actually are not. If you want to make a Marine more badass, make him a member of USMC Force Reconnaissance ("Force Recon"). If you want to make him even more badass than that, make him a member of MARSOC (Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command), which is so new (2006) that nobody even knows how badass it is yet. A Marine of recent vintage will also be proficient in the Marine Corps' own badass martial art form — the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP)... aka "Semper Fu". Compare Space Marine and A Space Marine Is You, where most of their behaviors, practices and general worldview will remain totally unencumbered by the march of time. A subtrope of Elites Are More Glamorous. The literal trope versions of "Semper Fidelis" (Always Faithful) are My Master, Right or Wrong and My Country, Right or Wrong. Examples |
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Captain Metropolis from Watchmen is a former Marine lieutenant. | |
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DC's Commander Steel from All-Star Squadron was Hank Haywood, a US Marine who, after being injured during WWII, volunteered for special bionic upgrades that turned him into a Captain America Expy. | |
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In Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the hotheaded Det Elliot Stabler is a former marine. | |
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Dispatches by Michael Herr. Herr was a journalist who covered the Vietnam War, and often wrote about the Marines. In his experience, Marines were the sort of men who would walk across a firebase to find him a stretcher to sleep on, and shield him with their own bodies. The Marine Corps was an organisation that couldn't stop screwing up. | |
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Battle Cry (1955) follows a group of United States Marines from boot camp to combat as members of the Communications Platoon, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Division. | |
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The Rogue Warrior novels has real life Marine Steve Hartman as the only non Navy member of Marcinko's crew, and has allusions to the rivalry between the services (such as the army not wanting to mess with Hulk Hogan sized Marines when Marcinko and a friend stole the army mascot for the army/navy football.) | |
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The Battlefield series has a fondness for the Corps, as every single game from the very beginning has featured them as one of the American factions, often alongside the regular Army. In Battlefield 2 the Marines take over entirely as the sole American faction facing off against Chinese with Chopper Support and the Middle Eastern Coalition, and they return for Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 - the only games they don't appear in in some form are the first Battlefield: Bad Company, Hardline (quite reasonably since that's Cops And Robbers rather than real warfare), Battlefield 1, and Battlefield 2042. | |
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Flags of Our Fathers follows the Marines (and the Hospital Corpsman) who were believed at the time to have raised the second flag on Mt. Suribachi. | |
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: (Note: If you're thinking about joining the Marine Corps, do not use this series as a model for how a Marine sergeant will react to you being insubordinate or incompetent.) | |
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Barry: Barry is a Marine veteran of Afghanistan. This informs much of his character, as he came back with PTSD and didn't know what to do with himself. He became a hitman due to Fuches' influence, and the skills he'd been trained in made it quite easy for him. Over time however his PTSD came back, and he questions not only being a hitman but also his Marine service. He often flashes back to his experiences then and they serve as inspiration for acting too. | |
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CSI: NY has Mac Taylor, who served in Beirut and Afghanistan. He left the Corps around 1991 to join the NYPD but tells a gang leader in 2005, "I'm a Marine, you little punk. I've put men in the ground on foreign soil so you can sleep at night, but you wouldn't know anything about *that*, would ya, kid?" | |
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NYC 22: Jennifer Perry is a former Marine MP who served in Iraq, then as White House color guard (hence her In-Series Nickname "White House"). | |
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All incarnations of Jack Ryan depict him as having been a Marinenote whether a commissioned officer or a Marine option ROTC or Naval Academy cadet depends on the telling before a serious injury forced him to find another way to serve his country. Teeth of the Tiger introduces the Caruso brothers, one of whom is a Marine officer before being recruited by The Campus. | |
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Deputy: Cade is a Marine veteran who'd been a sniper. His skills come in handy as a deputy sheriff, with him being consistently shown to be among the best because of his background. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer manages to pass himself off as a Marine to a former Marine, and almost loses it when he says "Semper Fudge", prompting the guy to ask "Did you just say 'Semper Fudge'?" and Homer to respond "No, I said the right thing". Homer sees a US Marine guarding the American embassy in Australia and, apparently confusing him for a British Royal Guard, dances around in front of him to get him to crack a smile. The Marine just hauls off and punches him in the face. In "Boy Scoutz N the Hood", after Bart goes on a squishee bender, he wakes up with Hangover Sensitivity and discovers he had joined the Junior Campers. Lisa mocks him by parodying the Marine motto: "The few. The proud. The geeky." |
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The host of The Steve Wilkos Show is a former Marine, and it shows in his moments of Drill Sergeant Nasty in dealing with guests who have committed child abuse or some other criminal wrongdoing. And if said guest happens to also be a Marine, Wilkos' Reason You Suck Speeches will invariably include a mention of how said guest has disgraced the U.S. Marine Corps through his/her actions (see: Damian in the episode "Did My Boyfriend Download Child Porn?", who ultimately confessed to doing just that after feeding Wilkos a line of crap through his entire appearance). | |
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HUNTER: Det. Sgt. Rick Hunter served as a Marine in the Vietnam War. | |
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The Marine, of course, where kidnapping the wife/relative(s) of a Marine proves to be the worst idea a group of criminals ever had. | |
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In the Looney Tunes Wartime Cartoon Super-Rabbit, Bugs Bunny decides, after losing his super powers, that "this is a job for a real superman!" So he ducks into a phone booth and comes out as... a Marine. The Corps were so flattered that they inducted Bugs as a private. At the end of the war he was honorably discharged as a Master Sergeant. | |
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On Justice League, Green Lantern John Stewart is a former Marine. When the League got transported to WWII and his ring was running on fumes, his experience helped get him in with Sgt. Rock's Easy Company. | |
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The ever-loving blue-eyed Thing had one of the most prestigious military careers in comic book history, having served as a pilot for both the Air Force and the Marine Corps. | |
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Gung-Ho and Leatherneck of G.I. Joe. Beach Head and Sgt Slaughter too. Even Mainframe the resident computer geek is a marine. | |
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Major Dad: A straight-laced career USMC officer falls for and marries a left-wing peacenik journalist and gains an instant family with three step-daughters. Half family sit-com and half love letter to the USMC. | |
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Doonesbury demonstrates the relationship between the Army and the Marines: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/01/21 | |
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Highlander: Joe Dawson served as Marine in the Vietnam War. | |
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In the first Half-Life game, the main human antagonist force is a Marine unit named HECU (Hazardous Environment Combat Unit). Interesting enough, in the first game they referred in the original game only as "the military". In the Opposing Force expansion they are given their current name and stated to be Marines, which is somewhat of a Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole as they use many equipment, vehicles, uniforms and terminology that doesn't make any sense for a Marine unit to have. The most likely reason is that the HECU became a Marine unit to emphasize their Badass Army status. | |
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The primary American protagonist in Call of Duty 4 is a Force Recon Marine. This depiction, however, could be considered a subversion, as the main USMC troop is killed off, the player character's squad in particular precisely because of the "no one gets left behind" attitude, and the final missions are completed with you playing as an SAS member (albeit assisted by a few USMC troops). Of course, it could also be considered to be playing it straight, if you assume the game is saying that you need a nuke to beat the USMC. | |
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Moonraker: When the time comes to destroy Hugo Drax's space station, guess which service is sent to do it? And given that the ensuing fight demonstrates the principle "in space, there is no such thing as 'minor damage'", one suspects this is why the film-makers went with the USMC. | |
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The Pacific: Focuses on the First Marines led by Chesty Puller. | |
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Daffy Duck joins the Marine Corps in The Looney Tunes Show episode "Semper Lie". He later takes part in an armed assault on an Albanian prison in order to rescue Bugs. | |
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Jericho (2006): One episode has a group of "Marines" arriving in the town to provide aid and reconstruction. They're actually impostors from a refugee camp who stole their gear from the real Marines during a food riot, and use the disguise to con towns out of their supplies. The mayor, a former Army Ranger, realizes this when they use the Army greeting "hoo-ah" rather than the Marines' "oo-rah", and when they address an NCO as "sir". | |
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In Disturbing the Peace, Marshal Dillon is a former marine, as is gang member Jarhead. After Jarhead is abandoned by gang leader Diablo for objecting to Diablo's plan to blow up a church full of hostages, he is arrested by Dillon. While he is in the cells, Dillon is able to persuade him to undergo a Heel–Face Turn and join him in fighting Diablo by appealing to to their shared background as marines, and reminding him of the oath he once swore. | |
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Luke Cage (2016): Before he went into Seagate, Luke was a Force Recon Marine. | |
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Terminal Lance - "You can't spell "Disgruntled" without "Grunt". | |
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Blue Bloods: Three of the four surviving male Reagans served in the Marines. Henry saw combat in Korea, Frank in Vietnam, and Danny in Iraq during Gulf Two. | |
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The Godfather: Michael Corleone is a former Marine Captain, veteran of the Pacific War, was awarded the Navy Cross, and perhaps not coincidentally is one of the most ruthless characters in fiction. | |
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Jessica Jones (2015): Pryce Cheng, a new PI who becomes a bit of a rival to Jessica in season 2, is a former Marine Corps captain and still has the tattoos on his arms to show it. | |
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Sands of Iwo Jima follows a Marine rifle squad through the invasions of Tarawa and the titular island. | |
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Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault focuses on a squad of Marines going from Boot Camp all the way to Tarawa. | |
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The Vietnam War (2017) features commentary from a number of Marine veterans, including Karl Marlantes and Philip Caputo, who later became best-selling authors; Roger Harris, an African-American veteran who had to fight racism at home as well as Communists in Vietnam; William D. Ehrhart, whose early enthusiasm for the war completely vanished within months; and John Musgrave, a survivor of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder who now counsels other veterans who struggle with the same. | |
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M'chel Riss of Star Risk, Ltd. left the Alliance Marines after her CO decided her next posting should be to his bed. Also worth mentioning: Riss is named for author Chris Bunch's friend Michelle Rice, who is a US Marine. Meanwhile, another of the Star Risk principals, Chas Goodnight, was dishonorably discharged from the Marines for theft. | |
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In Resident Evil 0, protagonist Billy Coen is a former Marine who was framed for a civilian massacre. | |
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Deadshot's New 52 incarnation is a former Marine. As rotten as he is, he does save the world as a member of the Suicide Squad. | |
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Before becoming the demonic entity that he would eventually become, Spawn was a highly trained Force Recon Marine who was later promoted to a high level position within the CIA's black ops division. As a reward for saving the President's life. | |
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Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman: One of the men in "Venus Rising" is a marine vetran, and exemplifies the mindset when he leaps to certain death to deck a giant monster in the face in hopes of giving Wonder Woman enough time to rescue the remaining crew. | |
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Subverted in Broken Helix; the marines sent to Area 51 (except Burton) are the true villains, but they're very powerful and hard to beat. | |
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The Lost Fleet: The Space Marine forces attached to the titular fleet take inspiration from the USMC in the same way that its Space Navy draws on the US Navy, with the standard low-key Interservice Rivalry and (mostly good-natured) jokes about how Marines aren't smart enough to be sailors and sailors aren't tough enough to be Marines. They're treated pretty sympathetically given that the viewpoint character is himself a naval officer, because their strong espirit de corps has done a lot to keep their morale and discipline in better shape than his own sailors in the face of a decades-long war. There's probably some Reality Subtext in play here, as author John G Hemry is himself a US Navy veteran who saw service during Vietnam. | |
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In Worldwar: War of Equals, two battalions of US Marines land in Australia to help defend Melbourne. | |
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Pensacola: Wings of Gold follows a group of student naval aviators aka "nuggets" as they learn to become marine fighter attack pilots. | |
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In Den of Thieves, Merriman and his crew are all former Marines who have gone From Camouflage to Criminal. A big deal is made about how their military training discipline and training makes them far more organised and dangerous than your average gang of gangbangers. | |
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Subverted in The Punisher: Born. The story takes place in a base filled with Marines who are amoral washouts, depicted as either apathetic or cruel, run by incompetent commanding officers. As a Marine, Frank Castle was shown to be addicted to combat, willing to indirectly kill a General in order to keep his firebase (and therefore his war) going. Overall this depiction certainly doesn't sit well with the brave, heroic image the USMC typically has. | |
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Despite the name, the "Line Marines" in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium novels are not based on the USMC, they're the French Foreign Legion with a solid layer of British regimental officer-and-a-gentleman poured on top. | |
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Played with in From Bajor to the Black. The fic actually centers on a character who's joining the Bajoran Militia, but the author chose to use Marine Corps slang and ranks as a Translation Convention to draw a contrast between the pure-military Militia and the Federation Starfleet, a hybrid service of explorers and diplomats as well as soldiers, and which uses Navy metaphors in the canon show. | |
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The X-Files has John Doggett and Walter Skinner, both former Marines. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Daredevil (2015) and The Punisher (2017): The MCU version of Frank Castle is a former Marine. He single-handedly took out 37 Taliban fighters in an ambush that cost his commanding officer's right arm, while the photographs that Karen finds in Frank's house show he was a recipient of the Navy Cross Award. Frank also made friends out of fellow platoon members like Billy Russo and Curtis Hoyle. Luke Cage (2016): Before he went into Seagate, Luke was a Force Recon Marine. Jessica Jones (2015): Pryce Cheng, a new PI who becomes a bit of a rival to Jessica in season 2, is a former Marine Corps captain and still has the tattoos on his arms to show it. |
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Rising Storm features the US 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions, depicting their battles against the Japanese Army and Marines on Guadalcanal, Betio, Saipan, Otori Shima, and Iwo Jima. Two Marines are even featured on one of the game's posters. The Marines are once again a playable faction in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, engaging the NVA and VC in several urban and jungle maps. | |
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Fallout 2's Frank Horrigan is what happens when a Secret Service Agent is turned into a psychotic mutant and given drugs and Powered Armor. His last words are "Semper Fiiii". | |
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In Parasite Eve 2, the Marines arrive just in time to save you from a horde of laser-blade wielding, twelve-foot tall cyborgs. And they mop the floor with them, in what is one of the more epic cut scenes in the game. See here. | |
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Played straight with Sgt. Peterson's squad in Soldier of Fortune II. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Though most of the work is done by the Air Force, they do have a number of US Marines for combat support. Specifically, SG-3 (led for the first three-and-a-half seasons by Colonel Makepeace), -5, and -18 are drawn from the Marines. SG-25 is also primarily a combat support unit, but comes from the Army. It is quite common for General Hammond/O'Neill/Landry to order SG-1 to take a team of Marines for backup on dangerous missions. | |
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In [PROTOTYPE], the United States Marine Corps is presented as a Punch-Clock Villain (opposing Alex Mercer, an Anti-Hero at best), pretty much only doing their jobs in protecting the people and trying to contain the infection under the command of the Blackwatch, who are really using them as cannon fodder and as a scapegoat if things get bad. The Blackwatch are basically an army of overzealous psychopaths. In the end, the Marines are viewed as heroes by New York, so Blackwatch's plan of using them as fall guys failed and from what you can see in-game, the average Marine is a good person. The main character of [PROTOTYPE 2], James Heller, is a former Marine. He goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Mercer, who's gone all Knight Templar, ultimately killing him. | |
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The United Nations Space Command Marine Corps in Halo is unashamedly based off of the USMC (literally, in-universe, where this was specifically chosen and done by the founders). While Marines don't have Spartans, they do have the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, plus Sergeant Major Avery J. Johnson: | |
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In Resident Evil: Degeneration, a squad of Marines attempts to take down a G-Type at the Will Pharma headquarters. They don't fare all that well by virtue of their weapons simply not causing enough damage to the G-Type to bring it down before it brings them down. | |
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In The Dark Pictures Anthology House of Ashes, a Marine unit is involved in the raid that leads to several people being trapped in an ancient underground temple. Two of the Marines, Jason Kolchek and Nick Kay, are main characters and regularly reference and take pride in their status as members of the Marine Corps. | |
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Delta Green allows you to create Player Characters who are US Marines. Professions range from FORECON (Force Recon) operator, Maritime Special Purpose Force operator, Security Force Regiment security and even a Division of Public Affairs Combat Camera personnel. USSOCOM operators can also be Marine Raiders. | |
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In Mass Effect, the Marines and the Navy are effectively the same, and have the same non-commissioned officer and commissioned officer rank structure. The only difference is in the lower enlisted ranks. Shepard even calls him/herself a Marine during conversations with Ashley or Kaidan (who themselves are both Marines) and Captain Anderson started as a Marine. The Navy pilots and maintains the ship, while the Marines are troops on board ready to deploy to a combat zone. It's the Navy's job to get them and drop them off safe. It's pretty much how it is today, Navy pilots, maintains and supplies Corpsmen (Medics), the Marines are dropped off and fight. It's also worth noting that in the Mass Effect-verse humanity does not have an "Army", since all military operations depend on the fleet getting troops to where they're needed and securing orbit, and humanity doesn't, unlike the turians, maintain huge garrisons for planetary defense. The Systems Alliance military focuses on maneuver instead, and gets troops onto the battlefield by dropping them from Frigates, inside of Infantry Fighting Vehicles. The quarians are the only other race in the verse to have marines. In their case, it is the Migrant Fleet Marines. The geth technically count as well, since every mobile platform is a rifleman. Turians only have soldiers, asari have huntresses and commandos, krogan don't have any military organization besides their clans, hanar rely on automated defenses and drell assassins, volus just bankroll the turian military, while salarians only have spies and special forces. |
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The Librarian: At the end, the hero calls headquarters and requests that they send in the Marines to back him up. His rather old and bald Mentor (Bob Newhart) shows up alone. When questioned, the mentor shows him a fouled-anchor tattoo on his arm, to prove that he is a Marine. (Bob Newhart proves more than capable.) | |
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The Terran Confederation Marine Corps, from the Wing Commander novels, is apparently modeled on the USMC, though their "airtime" is somewhat limited, given the focus of the WC universe is on the Old School Dogfighting. | |
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Avatar: Protagonist Jake Sully was never explicitly described as a United States Marine, but he introduced himself to Mo'at as "...a marine. A warrior of the...uh...Jarhead clan" so it's implied. Played straight with Colonel Quaritch, who specifically mentions he did 3 tours in Nigeria as a member of Force Recon. |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "Ferb TV", the Marine recruitment ads are parodied with the Fireside Girls. Their motto: "The few. The relentless. The Fireside Girls." | |
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Battle: Los Angeles features US Marines as its protagonists, fighting against, appropriately enough, a species of alien invaders who appear to be aquatic in nature, and kicking their ass-analogues in hard. It might just as well be called "Semper Fi: The Movie". | |
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Traveller: The Imperial Marines which harken back to the Terran Confederation Marines which in turn harken back to certain famous Pre-starflight Terran military units. | |
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Sabaton's song "Devil Dogs" is about the US Marines in the First World War Battle of Bellau Wood. The battle is where the Marines earned the "devil dogs" nickname, as the German army described the Marines as like "hounds of Hell." | |
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Warehouse 13: Pete Lattimer is a former Marine. His ex-wife is a serving Marine, as is her new husband, and her entire bridal party. Oh, and the show establishes that US Marine Corps discipline is powerful enough to overcome ancient Egyptian magic mind-control devices, at least temporarily. About that last bit... In a later episode, a group of marines (in full dress) are mind controlled, and are the main adversaries for that episode. With how they move, they might as well have been from the Queen's Guard. |
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Full Metal Jacket, with a memorable Drill Sergeant Nasty played by R. Lee Ermey, who unleashes his full nastiness towards the characters. | |
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In fiction this trope probably dates back to 1926 and Tell It to the Marines, in which a Drill Sergeant Nasty takes a callow, lazy youth and finally succeeds in molding him into a brave Marine. | |
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The Right Stuff, both book and film, suggests ever so subtly that Maj. John Glenn, USMC, thinks he is better than his fellow Mercury astronauts from the Navy and Air Force. He's also the original Space Marine! | |
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The Cut and Run series and its spin-off has Ty Grady and his old Force Recon team, Sidewinder. They take great pride in having been Marines and are ten kinds of badass. | |
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NCIS: Gibbs is a former Marine sniper. | |
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Taking Woodstock has a bad-ass cross-dressing Marine: "Semper-fi you little prick". | |
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The Fort by Bernard Cornwell recounts a siege during the American Revolution. By far the most competent and professional of the American besiegers are the Continental Marines, who are the precursors of today's USMC. | |
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Medal of Honor: Rising Sun has the first half of the game, from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, focusing on the struggles of the US Marines in the early stages of the Pacific War. | |
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Spartan: Bobby, the main character, is an ex-Marine in Special Ops, and he uses his skills when trying to find Laura Newton after she's been kidnapped. It's also why he turns to Jackie Black, currently a Marine, when he has no one else he can trust. | |
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Kamen Rider Dragon Knight: Chris Ramirez, aka Kamen Rider Sting, comes from a long line of Marines and would've been one himself if he didn't get a medical discharge for asthma. He jumps at the chance to (he believes) protect US citizens as a Kamen Rider, and is the only one of those tricked into serving the bad guys to realize he was on the wrong side and defect to the good guys. It is also his final onscreen line as he dies… gets "vented." |
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All American soldiers in Men of Valor are marines. | |
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In Slipstream 5000, the driver calling himself "Slayed" was apparently in the Marines. These days, though, he looks more like a gang leader. How he went from one to the other isn't mentioned. | |
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Daredevil (2015) and The Punisher (2017): The MCU version of Frank Castle is a former Marine. He single-handedly took out 37 Taliban fighters in an ambush that cost his commanding officer's right arm, while the photographs that Karen finds in Frank's house show he was a recipient of the Navy Cross Award. Frank also made friends out of fellow platoon members like Billy Russo and Curtis Hoyle. | |
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Billy Butcher from The Boys was in the Royal Marines. | |
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Jarhead, a film about a group of Marines in the Gulf War. The film portrays them as being much like any group of people: there's the one who doesn't believe in the cause of the war but is there because he signed up; there's the borderline psychotic dick; there's the withdrawn, nerdy guy; and the everyman protagonist and his friend—and, of course, there's their unit commander, a proud career Marine who loves the job. (For those wondering where the word comes from: it was originally a pejorative term for Marines bestowed because a Marine's very short haircut and tight hat make it look like the hat is screwed on to his head, like the lid of a jar. It has, to a certain extent, been adopted by the Corps itself. More poetical observers, both deriding and defending the Marines, note that it can also mean that the Marine's head is an empty jar until it is filled by training.) Then there's the old-school U.S. Navy's opinion; you can't be a Marine if you can't fit your head into a peanut butter jar. | |
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Steven Hiller from Independence Day is a Marine fighter pilot. General Grey is also a Marine, which was a decision made by Robert Loggia. | |
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What Price Glory: Discussed Trope in this film about Marines in World War I. Capt. Flagg explains to Charmaine how he has to go off into combat with the men, as the bugle calls, even though he's just been granted leave. | |
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In the Garrett, P.I. fantasy/detective series, Garrett is an ex-Marine, and definitely has a bit of the attitude, especially towards "mere" Army men. | |
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Ajin: Sato, the main antagonist of the series, is a very villainous yet very badass example. A former soldier in a black ops unit for the US Marines, he once picked a fight with a hundred North Vietnamese soldiers during a hostage rescue mission and managed to win, even if it did cost him a leg in the process. | |
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Ex-Heroes: Billie Carter and Ty O'Neill are both Marines and members of Cerberus's original escort detail, and help her fight thousands of zombies in a brave and fairly successful way in a flashback before The Cavalry arrives. In the present, they have a strong bond and are among the more brave and dependable Badass Normal fighters. | |
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In Heat, the central character on each side - Robbery Homicide Lieutenant Vincent Hanna and master thief Neil MacCauley - are both former Marines. | |
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The modern Green Lantern John Stewart is a veteran marine. | |
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The Starfist series of books by David Sherman and Dan Cragg basically runs on this trope. The Federation Marine Corps is better equipped, better trained, and just outright more badass than any force they come across. | |
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Subverted in The Rock. Ed Harris is a mega-badass who wants the US Government to own up to how badass his Marines were (or just pay their families for being super secret and thus not getting the moolah). Interestingly, when the Navy SEALs show up to kill his team (led by Michael Biehn, who didn't learn from The Abyss), the Marines kill them all, which is due to them being on higher ground with cover with better weapons. The subversion kicks in when the Marines go nuts and try to launch poison gas at San Francisco for the lulz. Explained in that their team had already turned its back on the government by falling in with Ed Harris' character, so they were going down either way. When they lost confidence in him by the government essentially calling his bluff and him folding, these "ex-Marines" decided to be out for themselves. | |
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On Northern Exposure, entrepreneur Maurice Minnifield was a Marine aviator, the fictional second Marine astronaut of the Mercury Seven. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Space Marines are a surprising Zig-Zagging of this trope. They are actually an army of Warrior Monks Religious Bruiser-ish Bio-Engineered (injected via a Super Serum coming from the genes of the children of a Physical God) Super Soldiers who are so detached from the rest of humanity that they are basically Human Weapons that exist only to fight, instead of the "traditional" Space Marine, which are US Marines IN SPAAAAAACE. However, there is a reason why they are named "Space Marines", it is meant to invoke the badassness from a traditional sci-fi Space Marine, which in turn are named as such to invoke the badassness of the US Marines. Various elite Imperial Guard formations referred to as Stormtroopers fit the bill; they're elite well-equipped rapid-response units with strong identities and a rocky relationship with the regular military. |
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John Philip Sousa wrote Semper Fidelis after President William McKinley mentioned he disliked Hail to the Chief, and named it in honor of "The President's Own" (and, not coincidentally, Sousa's own) U.S. Marine Corps Band. It may just be the second best march ever written, after The Stars and Stripes Forever. | |
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Space: Above and Beyond: This short-lived mid-'90's Fox SF series. In space, no-one can hear you scream... UNLESS IT'S A UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BATTLECRY! | |
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Not only was The Punisher a Marine in The Vietnam War, he was a Force Recon Marine and even attended the U.S. Army Airborne School, received US Navy Underwater Demolition Team training, and cross-trained with the Special Air Service. In other words he was Marine, Navy Seal, Army Special Forces and SAS all rolled into one. Subverted in The Punisher: Born. The story takes place in a base filled with Marines who are amoral washouts, depicted as either apathetic or cruel, run by incompetent commanding officers. As a Marine, Frank Castle was shown to be addicted to combat, willing to indirectly kill a General in order to keep his firebase (and therefore his war) going. Overall this depiction certainly doesn't sit well with the brave, heroic image the USMC typically has. General Nikolai Zakharov, a Punisher villain from the MAX continuity, uses this trope to get the message across to William Rawlins that he's not to be fucked with. The Valley Forge arc sees Frank hunted down by Delta Force soldiers in order to bring him to trial alive (they take him down, eventually, but only because neither was ready to use lethal force on the other). Their commanding officer Colonel Howe claims Castle's use of methods taught by the USAF to kill criminals are a stain on their legacy. That, and Frank unknowingly saved his life in Vietnam, and he proves that the generals who want him dead were behind a False Flag Operation on Moscow. |
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No Escape (1994): Robbins was in the US Marines, having killed his CO for ordering him to kill civilians. He shows his combat skills heavily throughout the film, along with tactical knowledge. | |
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Call of Duty: The primary American protagonist in Call of Duty 4 is a Force Recon Marine. This depiction, however, could be considered a subversion, as the main USMC troop is killed off, the player character's squad in particular precisely because of the "no one gets left behind" attitude, and the final missions are completed with you playing as an SAS member (albeit assisted by a few USMC troops). Of course, it could also be considered to be playing it straight, if you assume the game is saying that you need a nuke to beat the USMC. Call of Duty: World at War features the US marines in the Pacific Campaign of WWII. Call of Duty: Black Ops: Both Woods and Mason were Marines before being recruited into Operation 40. Mason was a Force Recon Captain, Woods a Master Sergeant. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: Jack Mitchell was US Marine who lost his left arm fighting in Seoul, he joins Atlas who provides him a new arm. |
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In the Legacy of the Aldenata, the armed forces of Earth are gathered into one giant military force for the Galactics. The USMC is specifically mentioned by "Mighty Mite" as the ideal for ACS troops, for their general policy of taking territory and holding it against all comers, as opposed to his native 82nd Airborne's general use as shock troops that don't stick around after their strike. Fleet Strike, the Federation's ground-forces branch, is explicitly said to be an amalgam of the Marines, special forces, and aerospace/aviation units. | |
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David Reid, a.k.a. Lance, of the Justice Society of America. was once a member of the Marines when he's recruited and served as a kind of liaison between the two groups. | |
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Crysis features a large deployment of US Marines to the North Korean-controlled Lingshan Islands; much ass-kicking ensues. Then the Ceph show up, and everyone's running for their lives. By Crysis 2 the world is on the receiving end of a gigantic Alien Invasion, and a detachment of US Marines is sent to rescue civilians in an alien-controlled, virus-infested New York after a PMC army fails to contain things. The protagonist is a Marine as well, but... special. |
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The Marksman: Jim is a Marine veteran who'd served in Vietnam as a scout sniper. He's shown as extremely skilled with guns due to his training even years later as an old man, taking on three hardened Mexican cartel members on all by himself near the beginning. | |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops: Both Woods and Mason were Marines before being recruited into Operation 40. Mason was a Force Recon Captain, Woods a Master Sergeant. | |
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CSI: Jim Brass is a former Marine who served in Vietnam. | |
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JAG and its spinoff NCIS: Both of these shows at times can seem like recruiting ads for the Navy and Marine Corps paid for by the Department of the Navy. Which, in a way, they are. Both were also created and produced by television king Donald P. Bellisario, who served as a Marine in the 1950s, and who tends to make many of his major characters Navy or Marine vets. | |
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In Survival of the Fittest, the oldest of Danya's Big Four is Steven Wilson, a former US Marine who has betrayed his country for unknown reasons and is implied to have had ties to Danya for a long time. | |
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In True Lies, USMC Harriers engage and destroy a pair of terrorist trucks transporting nuclear weapons along the Overseas Highway. After that, Harry borrows one to kill the rest. The dialog implies that he had experience with Harriers which in turn implies that he has had access to Harrier training, possibly as a Marine pilot. | |
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The quarians are the only other race in the verse to have marines. In their case, it is the Migrant Fleet Marines. The geth technically count as well, since every mobile platform is a rifleman. Turians only have soldiers, asari have huntresses and commandos, krogan don't have any military organization besides their clans, hanar rely on automated defenses and drell assassins, volus just bankroll the turian military, while salarians only have spies and special forces. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): In one of the final episodes, Starbuck uses the term, "Semper frakkin' Fi," in a scene where she's talking to Lee Adama. | |
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In Ghostbusters (IDW Comics), as a Mythology Gag to the original script, Winston is a former Marine who at one point has to deal with the ghost of his drill instructor. | |
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In the Rise of Nations Expansion Pack Thrones and Patriots, starting in the Enlightenment Age the Americans get access to various incarnations of the USMC as unique basic infantry units, from Continental Marines up to Assault Marines in the Information Age. | |
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Act of War has Marines as the basic infantry unit for the US Army faction....which is rather odd considering that the Army ought to have their own infantrymen rather than relying on the Marine Corps for their basic grunts. It is specified in the game/instruction manual that the "US Army" faction actually refers to the combined forces of the United States Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy (not to mention a bit of support from the CIA and other organizations). Why the developers didn't simply call the faction "US Military" is up for debate, though. | |
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Madam Secretary has Dr. Henry McCord, a retired USMC captain who entered the service via an ROTC scholarship. In an unusual version of the trope, he was a naval aviator who flew ground-attack jets in Desert Storm, rather than the more typical infantryman or Force Recon. | |
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On Millennium (1996), Lara Means is shown the body of a Mercy Kill victim and Detective Giebelhouse tells her he was an ex-Marine. "There's no such thing," she replies. This is a probable Actor Allusion to Kristen Cloke having starred on Space: Above and Beyond. | |
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Moon Knight himself is a marine veteran. Which is just one of the many badass professions that he was once apart of before he became a costumed superhero. | |
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In The Maiden Heist, George is a former Marine who takes his military past a little too seriously. | |
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A few appearances the ARMA series: In ARMA: Armed Assault, the USMC first appears as The Cavalry, saving the allied US Army and Royal Army Corps of Sahrani troops. The Army soldiers express embarrassment at having to be rescued by USMC air power. The expansion Queen's Gambit added the "Rahmadi Conflict" campaign, where the Marines are the main playable forces. The default ARMA II campaign stars a Force Reconnaissance team, and therefore the USMC are the default "BLUFOR" for the game - hence Marine Corps weapons, Marine Corps vehicles. |
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In Scarecrow Slayer, Gavin and his frat boys refer to themselves as 'The Marines'. Other characters are at pains to point out that they are not actually Marines. It seems they are members of the ROTC. | |
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On Family Guy, Lois says that the Army is weak and the Marines are the men you want to fuck. | |
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: Jack Mitchell was US Marine who lost his left arm fighting in Seoul, he joins Atlas who provides him a new arm. | |
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Call of Duty: World at War features the US marines in the Pacific Campaign of WWII. | |
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A Few Good Men gives us the memorable quote, "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" when trying to explain the idea that Marines do what only they can, and that no one could possibly understand the difficult decisions that need to be made to keep America safe. | |
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Breaking Bad: According to Word of God, Mike Ehrmantraut is a Marine veteran. This didn't come as a surprise; his skill with a sniper rifle in this series and even more so in Better Call Saul is more than you'd expect from a Dirty Cop from Philly. | |
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Burn Notice: In one episode, Michael poses as a retired Marine in order to gain the trust of an actual retired Marine. | |
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Jormungand: The Marines show up a number of times throughout the series. Most notably when they are sent to rescue CIA operative Bookman from a local Islamic extremist group. And proceed to not only complete their mission without fail, but also completely eviscerate the aforementioned extremist group. | |
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Revolution: Both Miles and Bass were Marines prior to the blackout, as shown in "Pilot" and "No Quarter". | |
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Medal of Honor: Medal of Honor: Rising Sun has the first half of the game, from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, focusing on the struggles of the US Marines in the early stages of the Pacific War. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault focuses on a squad of Marines going from Boot Camp all the way to Tarawa. |
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Marine Corps Yumi is a web-released manga about a Japanese girl enlisting with the Marine Corps and going through the basic training. It contains a surprising amount of Truth in Television, thanks to its former Marine adviser. | |
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Subverted in Old Man's War by John Scalzi, a science fiction novel in which all the characters are new recruits in an interstellar military. The Drill Sergeant Nasty says that people who have already served in the military on Earth make bad recruits, because they have a lot to unlearn, and makes a point of mentioning that ex-Marines are the worst of all, because their attitude gets in the way. Even he gives the Marines credit, though, for the Rifle Creed. | |
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Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers was directly inspired by the USMC (with a heavy dose of US Army Airborne for good measure), with the fight against the Bugs patterned after WWII 'island-hopping' in the Pacific. | |
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