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!

The United States Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy along with "the" Navy and the Coast Guard, though in practice they are very much treated as there own separate branch of the military. The United States Marines Corps is one of the largest and only combined-arms marine forces in the world, possessing their own armor, artillery, recon, and air capabilities for performing amphibious and deep-strike missions far from naval bases. Whether you need to fight a campaign against a sprawling sea empire or send a well-equipped reconnaissance team deep behind enemy lines, accept no substitutes.

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 they're a step between regular army soldiers and Special Forces. Given however that they are the primary force used to perform Amphibious landings, which are often done in the face of enemy aggression, and expeditionary warfare which involves fighting away from supply's base, it is not hard to see where the marines' (in)famous esprit de corp comes from. 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 their right to have their attitude.