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Marine Corps   /mərˈin kɔr/   Listen
Marine Corps

noun
1.
An amphibious division of the United States Navy.  Synonyms: United States Marine Corps, United States Marines, US Marine Corps, USMC.



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"Marine Corps" Quotes from Famous Books



... the candidates at large and the cadet for the District of Columbia. At the conclusion of the six years' course, two of which are spent at sea, the graduates are assigned in order of merit to the vacancies that may have occurred in the lower grades of the line of the navy and of the marine corps. Cadets who are not assigned to service after graduation are honorably discharged and are given $500, the amount they have received each year of their course ...
— Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition • J.A. James

... for the time under General Pershing as a part of the victorious American army, have written a story of valor and sacrifice that will live in the brightest annals of the war. With heroism that nothing could daunt, the Marine Corps played a vital role in stemming the German rush on Paris, and in later days aided in the beginning of the great offensive, the freeing of Rheims, and participated in the hard fighting in Champagne, which had as its object the throwing back of the Prussian armies ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

... East coast to West, swift scout planes, whose idling engines could roar into action at a moment's notice, stood waiting; battle planes hidden in hangars would roll forth at the word—the Navy was cooperating—and at San Diego there were strong naval units, Army units, and Marine Corps. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various



Words linked to "Marine Corps" :   devil dog, United States Navy, navy, United States Marines, MCIA, marine, USN, US Navy, leatherneck, Marines, shipboard soldier



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