#us marines

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US Marine Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallions secured on the ramp to RON at Flagstaff airport

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Two U.S. Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, take cover and prepare to return fire during the start of Operation Khanjar in July 2009 in Main Poshteh, Afghanistan.

(Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

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Bob Hope's USO shows Vietnam

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USMC recruiting poster for the Great War.

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U.S. Marines pose with their Lewis machine guns. Although the Marines were well trained with the Lewis in the U.S., they were taken away when they arrived in France and issued the inferior French Model 1915 Chauchat. The Lewis Gun was made by Savage Arms, of Utica, New York!

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MajGen Commandant George Barnett inspects the sights and action of a Lewis machine gun at the Marine Corps Rifle Range Winthrop, MD, in 1917. Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing Collection. Interesting to see a Lewis Gun here, the Army decided against using it, but obviously the Marines had their own ideas! Did you know the Lewis Gun was an American invention?

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