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01-05-2007, 09:47 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: TX
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I had joined a while back but had regular problems logging in, so ended up lurking. Recently started trying again and so far so good. Like the ‘new’ look. I was Navy so kinda lean more in that direction but enjoy learning about all theaters.
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01-05-2007, 09:59 PM
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#2 | | He who does not skim
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Originally Posted by fjray  I was Navy... | Welcome, fellow beer guzzling idiot!  | |
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01-05-2007, 10:44 PM
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#3 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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01-06-2007, 05:19 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: TX
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Country: | SENSO in the Viking.
This just got me to thinking. I remember chuckling at ‘old’ S-2 guys stationed at Quonset point. So now I’m talking about an aircraft ready for the museum and stationed at a base, Cecil field, only in the history books.
“Where’s my walker at?”
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01-06-2007, 05:23 PM
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#5 | | Siggy Master
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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Welcome to the forum.
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01-06-2007, 06:23 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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01-06-2007, 06:42 PM
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#7 | | aka Dickcheese
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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Welcome.
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01-06-2007, 07:26 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, NC
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Country: | Welcome! I'm a Marine stationed here at NAS Corpus, going through the multi-engine syllabus. You Navy guys are a strange breed! 
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01-07-2007, 04:55 AM
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#9 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | In America are the marines considdered their own branch of the armed forces or are you technically part of the US Navy?
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01-07-2007, 09:13 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass In America are the marines considdered their own branch of the armed forces or are you technically part of the US Navy? | Good question. Civilians in America usually don't know the answer to that question!
In the executive branch of the gov't, you have the Dept of Defense, under which you have the services. The Dept of the Navy lies under DoD. Under the Dept of the Navy you have two completely separate services - the USN and the USMC.
So we're part of the political dept of the navy, but completely separate from the USN. There's some drives and talk every now and then of changing the Dept of the Navy to the Dept of the Navy and Marine Corps, or severing us politically and forming the Dept of the Marine Corps.
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01-07-2007, 09:19 AM
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#11 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | tough call then, hard to say either way! so do you at anypoint come under the command of the USN?
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01-07-2007, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass tough call then, hard to say either way! so do you at anypoint come under the command of the USN? | Official USMC chain of command passes from President, SecDef, SecNav, to Commandant of the Marine Corps. It does not pass through the USN at all. However, due to the close nature of our joint ops Marines fall under Naval officers command, and sailors fall under Marine command as well.
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01-07-2007, 09:54 AM
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#13 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | mmmm, over here you'd be classed as a separate arm of the armed forces........
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01-07-2007, 10:01 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass mmmm, over here you'd be classed as a separate arm of the armed forces........ | We are a separate branch over here as well  It's the whole political affiliation w/ the Dept of the Navy that confuses everyone to think we're part of the US Navy.
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01-07-2007, 10:08 AM
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#15 | | Master of Ewes
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Country: | over here the Marine Commando are part of the Navy, they have their own pilots but not their own aircraft, this allows them to work together much more easily although the Marines are a capable fighting force on their own.........
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