You and Harmony Marines.

The Marines don't expect trouble.

All right, Marines, eyes front!

I want them to be Marines.

Friend of Sam's from the Marines.

We've got the Marines on our side.

750 marines, 12 bombers and 20 fighters.

In the Marines, yes. The 3rd Battalion.

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier.

I don't want my Marines handing out aid.

The Marines have word for everything, haven't they?

I never was here. Get yourself the marines.

Her father was a captain in the merchant marines.

The area is controlled by Marines. The gully is surrounded.

This is the history of the marines small wars, small arms.

This is where the Marines in the audience get kind of tense.

Aahhh. If I listened to him, I'd be calling out the marines.

Whenever you see a Major of the American Marines, you will present arms.

You shoot at these people the Marines are going to come over and kill you.

He served with the Marines, and I want to tell you a little, brief story.

Our Army and Marines are scheduled to begin landing on Midway the day after tomorrow.

Why he's the champion hoofer of the merchant marines. Tell her what I done in Jersey City.

And look at this they even teach their kids they train them in the same way the U.S. Marines train.

At the most, you'll have two hours before the army, navy, air force, marines move in and make you put it back.

U.S. Marines had clawed their way onto Guadalcanal... and American soldiers were settling in North Africa... before that ship was ready for sea late in 1943.

A day after American forces entered Baghdad, a company of Marines began rounding up bank robbers and were cheered on by the crowds a hopeful moment that was short lived.

The stationing of US Marines in northern Australia thus appears pointless these troops have no conceivable reason to be there. In addition, they have divided Australian public opinion unnecessarily on the vital issue of the country s security.

The US has argued that more troops are needed to dominate the terrain, lambasting EU governments for failing to step up their efforts as the US commits 3500 additional marines to the fray. European countries, meanwhile, criticize the current military strategy.

Aware that Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, has been used for over 60 years by the United States Marines to carry out military exercises, with negative consequences for the health of the population, the environment and the economic and social development of that Puerto Rican municipality,

In this environment, the Chinese perceived a routine decision to send US marines to train in Australia as another link in the chain meant to hold China down. Even the opening to Myanmar was briefed to the press as a move designed to counter Chinese influence in that resource rich country.

President Barack Obama s decision to rotate 2,500 US Marines through a base in northern Australia is an early sign of that pivot. In addition, the November Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, held in Obama s home state of Hawaii, promoted a new set of trade talks called the Trans Pacific Partnership.

It is difficult to see the stationing of 2,500 US Marines in Darwin, Australia a decision announced by US President Barack Obama on his recent tour of Asia as anything more than a symbolic gesture, a provocative reminder that the US is determined to stay in the region. America s purpose, however, remains unclear.

In 1995 it upheld the right to equality of opportunity of a woman who wanted to pursue an officer apos s career in the Marines against the refusal of the only school in the country offering the relevant training to allow her to take the courses on the ground that she was a woman.

And I would travel in a C 130 transport and go and visit warlords in mountain hideaways and negotiate with them about how we were going to eradicate Al Qaeda from Afghanistan, surrounded by my Special Forces escort, who, themselves, had to have an escort of a platoon of Royal Marines, because it was so dangerous.

Despite his confusing signals, Ozawa s stance is neither pro China nor anti American, given that he most recently emphasized Japan s sovereignty over the Senkaku islands as an integral part of its territory a position that China strongly disputes. Logically, Ozawa s approach involves a significant military buildup, but he remains silent about how to maintain effective deterrence once the US Marines leave Okinawa.

While commentators have charged that Britain capitulated to Iran and handed them a humiliating victory in obtaining the release of the 15 British Marines last week, it would appear that something more like the opposite is actually the case. But to understand why this is so, we have to look at the larger picture of internal Iranian politics against which the crisis played out.

This was recognized by the DPJ, which would like Japan to play a more independent role, as a more equal ally, rather than a mere protectorate, of the US, and thus be a more assertive political player in Asia. Hence, the first symbolic step was to get the US to move its marines from Okinawa, an island that has carried the burden of a US military presence for much too long.

Controversy over the deployment by the US Marines of 12 tilt rotor V 22 Osprey aircraft to the Futenma Air Base on Okinawa has contributed to the alliance s decay. The hybrid aircraft which combine a helicopter s ability to take off and land vertically with the range, loading capacity, fuel efficiency, and speed of a turboprop airplane are instrumental to deter possible Chinese or North Korean aggression in the area.

This is apparent from China s effective seizure last year of Scarborough Shoal, located well within the Philippines exclusive economic zone, and the controlling presence of Chinese vessels this year around the Second Thomas Shoal, part of the disputed Spratly Islands. China has not yet tried to evict the eight Filipino marines still living on the Second Thomas Shoal, but Zhang has included this shoal in the country s series of achievements in the South China Sea.

It is important to remember those who were responsible for taking the British Marines captive wanted an escalation of the confrontation, both to improve their domestic standing, and to punch back for sanctions that were beginning to bite. This suggests that what the Bush administration has been doing slowly ratcheting up the pressure through the use of diplomacy to create an international coalition that now includes the Russians is the proper course to be on.