Relax. The “enemies of freedom” wanted to consolidate the Army and Marine Corps because maintaining two separate bureaucracies to fulfill the same basic mission costs us a ton of money.
Jimmy Doolittle was an enemy of freedom? Yeah, right.
The Marines were meant to be our quick response units from the very first ,with the Navy providing transport.
The Army for larger and prolonged wars.
Doolittle was an Army Air Corps man,the Air Force didn’t become a separate entity until post WW2.Naturally the Army man wanted the Marines absorbed. The urge to consolidate is strong,despite consolidation NOT being the correct solution to every problem.
The U.S. Army and U.S. Marines have different doctrines. How the Marine Corps has been used as an occupying force, which is standard for the U.S. Army, since the beginning of GWOT was the decision of our government, not by doctrine.
Hey Big Daddy, I was applying my comment primarily to the current enemies of freedom who are attempting to destroy our military thru reduction, political correctness and lack of funding. As for Jimmy Doolittle, perhaps if they’d done what he was seeking to do, all prior to the Korean War, would’ve the US Army at that time, have survived the onslaught, without the Marines help, particularly early in the Korean war? Just asking. I’m the son of a US Army Korean War vet, and my father often asked the question himself. There will always be the need for U.S. Marines, no matter what the cost. Based on all the Marine vets I’ve met over the past 50+ years, I haven’t changed my mind. IMHO.