It was an odd debate. Romney hugged him on some issues and slapped him around on others. The comment about submarines going under water was hilarious. Who knew we had that capability!
And how about those aircraft carriers? Did you know we’ve got airplanes that land on them? Wow, let’s just get rid of everything else! We could just get by with 50 subs and 11 carriers. /s/
Obama was wrong (surprise, surprise) about the bayonets. Our entire marine corp is still trained on the use of bayonets. The whole standing army in 1900 was 100,000. Marine Corps was somewhere around 11,000. Currently there are just over 240,000 active and reserve Marines.