congrats! The Army is the mother of Services.
The Army birthed the Navy during the Revolution. The Navy had to create a Revolutionary War history, so commandeered the deeds of Privateer/legal pirate J.P. Jones.
The Marine corps (shores of Tripoli and all that) was part of the Army until 11 July 1834. The young lieutenant who took Tripoli was a US Army officer.
Chuck Yeager was a fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps before he was a test pilot for the Air Force. The Air Force traces its history back to the Army Signal Corps. Army aviation traces its history back to the reconnassance balloons of Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War. The Air Force deploys to fight from foreign bases, but the first Army Aviation deployment was to Cuba in 1898.
Good luck, and look beyond the propaganda. I will buy you dinner if I ever meet you in uniform.
What propaganda?
Yeah but we kicked your mule during the Army/Navy game. GO NAVY
Cite, please, on where the Corps was part of the Army until 1834.
what a pantload of bogus hokum.
The MARINE CORPS was NEVER a part of the Army.
And Lt Pressley O'Bannon was a MARINE officer, not an Army officer.
November 10, 1775 is the celebrated birthday of the US Marines. After several attempts by the American colonies to work out some sort of reconciliation between the Crown and the American people, the Colonial Congress decided to take a sterner attitude. A committee of the Congress drafted a resolution to create a new military unit, called the Continental Marines.
Captain Samuel Nicholas This resolution was drafted in a popular Philadelphian inn called Tun Tavern, and was later approved by the entire legislative body. The owner of the tavern, Robert Mullan, was named a Marine Captain, and the owner of another tavern, Samuel Nicholas, was designated commandant of the Continental Marines.
Incorrect. The Corps has never been part of the Army and O'Bannon was a Marine. You continue trying to propagate this revisionist crapola and have been caught, again.