Marine Rifle Platoon

"They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mouldthem, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Menace. They are the Defenders of Freedom. They are The Marines and they shall know no fear."

– George Washington

Semper Fi!

In Team Yankee

The Stats

The less mobile option for marine forces operating out of AAV7s instead of Huey helicopters. They also back more punch then anything the Army's M113s can pack. The options for the marines focus heavily on fire support weapons and can include M60 LMG teams, two SMAW teams and one 60mm Mortar team.

IRL

Marines have a bit of a reputation to be had and they often act like there a step between regular army soldiers and Special Forces. Given however that they are the primary tool used to perform Amphibious landings, which are often done in the face of enemy aggression, and expeditionary warfare which invovles fighting away from supply's base means fighting away from supply base, it is not hard to see why. Most assuredly the Germans who dubbed them the "Teufel Hunde" or "Devil Dogs" or the Japanese who had island after island clawed away from them, would not be one to dispute there attitude.