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Differences and benefits Of the United States Marines and United States Army?
What Are there Differences, What are there benefits?
What are the Special Units(Special ops) What Is the pay. Difficulty of Ranks? Does Joining Rotc help? And anymore Info Would really Help!
Big Boss,
You have just asked the supreme loaded question. It is much like the question "which is better, cars or trucks" Car owners will tell you cars and truck owners, well ...trucks. I am going to remain as unbiased as possible (been in the Marines 24 years, but have served with 6 Joint special operations commands).
The first question is what type of person are you? The reason this is important is it will help match you up against either the Army or the Marines. I am going to give you a very brief synopsis of each and you match yourself to the one you like best. Most important is almost everyone I have talked to about the military wants to be "A special operator" whether recon, ranger, seal, or whatever the tag, I never hear anyone say they are looking forward to being a combat camera person, or bulk fuel specialist. However more people are in those jobs than special ops.
Army First.
The army is an occupation force. There are almost a million people in the army. There are several types of special operations which you can read about on-line. They have more boats than the navy and if you want to fly as a warrant officer this is the only branch with pilots other than college grads. The army has the largest budget of all the branches and has the newest equipment. As has been said in another post, the pay is the same in all the branches based on rank (lookup military pay chart to get an idea) and the army is the quickest promoting of the two branches (depending on which job 'mos' you get into) so your chances for higher pay could be better.
Marines
The Marine Corps is a force in readiness. The smallest of all the armed services the Marine mission is to quell distubances and put a prepositioned force on the ground and hold terrain for up to 30 days. The mission of the Marines make the entire force a "special operations unit." The Marines have the smallest budget (but according to congress offer the biggest bang for the buck of any service) and promotions (depending on your MOS) can be slow. If money is your thing definately join the Army, if leadership and responsibility is what you are after both services have it in large quantities, just the Marines will develop you as a small unit leader at an earlier stage. For an example I was an E4 in charge of the same size team that an Army E7 was managing.
Well that is my short, almost unbiased opinion. Either branch you join will do wonders for you. Rotc will definately help as does any exposure to the changes you will experience when you join. The benefits are dependant on the first question I asked you. "What type of person are you?" Both branches have their success stories and their failures. You can be either. You will get out of the military the effort you put in to it. Maturity, education, travel, pay, leadership and job experience are some of the biggest benefits that people choose the military for. Me...I just wanted to get away from my KMart job at christmas 24 years ago. Now I am a MGySgt with a Bachelors degree and a family. Who knows what it will do for you?
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