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n. An infantry corps which is trained/assigned to fight on or after transport by navy ships.
Usage examples of "marine infantry".
He was a Marine captain, he had thought at least a dozen times that morning, but he really knew zero, zip, zilch about being a Marine Infantry company commander.
He was a Ma-rine captain, he had thought at least a dozen times that morning, but he really knew zero, zip, zilch about being a Marine Infantry company commander.
Unlike the helmet comms of Marine infantry--which were difficult to intercept because their weak signals wouldn't travel far--Recon's helmet comms used spread-spectrum burst transmissions in addition to weak signals.
Right now, despite the spartan and miserable living conditions in the shrapnel-holed hangar and the lousy rations, things were pretty good, considering the alternative, which was doing what they were supposed to be doing, fighting as a Marine infantry company on the line.
Most likely, all this peasant revolt will take is a company or two of Marine infantry.
Another battalion of Marine infantry, heavy weapons to match….
On one wall hung an artists rendition of the Battle of New Reading that had taken place in 2253, where an understrength Marine infantry division had succeeded in holding off an entire army trying to force a strategic pass in the Gondular Mountains.
It was standard issue in the heavy-weapons company of a Marine infantry battalion.
He'd heard about the clannishness of Marine infantry units, how they excluded outsiders.
He and his sailors and marine infantry would waste their substance and years pooping around the hinterlands until one day somebody discovered this Sten had died of old age and they could all go home.
She was one of the first women in the country to qualify as a Marine infantry officer and she's forgotten more about firepower than any paper-pushing SEC agent will ever learn.
Aided by his marvelous new eyesight, he was able to steer well clear of these bodies of marine infantry.