The U.S. Navy’s Improbable Rise to Power

Daily Beast ^ | April 2, 2016 | James A. Warren

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The United States Navy is paradoxically the most traditional and innovative of America’s armed services. It is also by far and away the most diverse in terms of missions and capabilities. In addition to its fleet of cutting-edge surface ships and submarines, the Navy possesses its own ground force—the Marines—and an air force, both land and carrier-based, which has greater strike capability than the air forces of most developed nations. The Navy’s supercarrier battle groups function as mobile military cities, extending American power and influence across the entire globe.

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Perhaps, but when I went through Boot Camp at PI, the DI’s, officers, and everyone else (of the cadre, that is) made it very clear that while the Corps was part of the Navy Department, it was not part of the Navy’ nevertheless, the Navy and Marine Corps were part of one team.