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The U.s. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps’ is thought to be one of the five free standing military departments, but in all actuality there is only three departments. The U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy are the only branches of the military that are correctly recognized as their own departments. There are two other Branches of the military that are under the U.S. Navy, one is the United States Marine Corps’. They were created to protect, but now they need protecting from budget cuts and disbanding. In order to protect the Corps’, they need to become their own U.S. Department, with their own funding and supplies.
The Marine Corps’ was created to protect the U.S. Navy’s cargo ships from the pirates who wished to overtake the ships. The United …show more content…

There is the Infantry that has been nicknamed the Grunts of the Marine Corps’. The Corps’ contains jobs from mechanics to recruiters, from Combat to desk top jobs, but unlike some Branches of the Military all of the Marines go through the same boot camps. The Marine Corps has a twelve week required boot camp. When the New Marines, also known as Pullies, first arrive to either Paris Island or Sand Francisco, they have one scripted phone call to allow their families to know that they made it safely. For the first two weeks the new Pullie, cannot have outside communications to family or friends. When those two weeks are up they are then aloud to send letters, but they have to earn the credits to purchase the stamps and such needed. At the end of the eleventh week the Pullies go through what is called Hell Week, where they are not allowed to sleep for two days and nights, and still much preform at maxim compasity. When they are finished with their boot camp training they are allowed to see their family for a short amount of time before they graduate. After their graduation they have a ten day leave before they have to eather be deployed or continue on to a Marine Occupations Specialty School, MOS school.
The Marine Corps’ budget for the MOSs comes from the Navy. Contrary to popular belief the Marine Corps’ does not have their own funding from the U.S. Navy (Odom). When the U.S. Navy’s budget gets cut they do not

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