Need Help with a question about the United States Marines. (Vanity)

need Infor ^ | July 18, 2012 | rem_mitchell

[rem_mitchell]

Can some of the Marines in the room please help me. My father passed away on Friday and I am writing his obituary and am having a bit of a conflict with my brother. My fatehr served in Korea. He was always very closed lipped about his service and only gave sparse information, usually while we poured over photographs and we came across one of him in Korea. He told me that he had volunteered for the Marines and went to Basic at Camp Pendleton. He became a medical corpsman, and I believe to do that he was sent to the navy for training, so he said he wore a Marine Uniform with Navy stripes. He always referred to himself as a Marine, but my brother is under the impression that we should state in his obituary that he was in the navy. I say he was a marine. Can the FR Marines help me?

[doorgunner69]

The guys here have set you straight on this. My dad was a Corpsman during WWII in the Pacific Campaign. Pharmacists Mate or something. He wore Marine utilities and I think (he is gone now) Marine dress uniforms with a different rank insignia.

They were very tight with their units, but they did not attend Marine boot camp, but navy training.

[USMCWife6869]

Sounds like a Corpsman. They can wear the USMC uni with the Navy devices. They are an honored part of every Marine unit, though, I assure you.