Team: Four individual Marines assigned to a specific team (Three team members, plus the team leader).
Squad: Three Teams are assigned to a specific squad.
Platoon: Three squads are usually assigned to a specific platoon.
Company (or Battery): Three platoons are assigned to a Company (sometimes called a battery). The Company/battery is the lowest level of command with a headquarters element (example, a Company Commander, or Company First Sergeant).
Battalion: Three companies/batteries are assigned to form a battery a battalion.
Regiment: Three battalions form a Regiment (Sometimes called a Brigade).
Division: Three Brigades are assigned to make up a Division.
Marine Corps: Three or more divisions and Aviation Wings plus such additonal forces as may be required make up the Marine Corps.
For a total of 25 Active Duty Regiments. The reserve component is the 4th Marine Division which includes the 14th Marine Regiment, 23rd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Regiment and the
25th Marine Regiment.
There are also 14 Marine Aircraft Groups and six Marine Aviation Training Support Groups.
There are 100 - 120 Marines in a Company. Jim Carson, USMC, Memphis, TN
For the US Army, during the Vietnam War, a battalion was about 600 men. The US Marine Corps will be similar in organization (during the Vietnam era).
The size of a company differs as its primary mission (Infantry, Armor, MP) as well as its branch of service (US Army or Marine). Some have only 3 platoons others may have 5 or more. A good average would be about 160 enlisted, and about 5 or 6 officers. A company is usually commanded by a captain.
Over 14,800 US Marines died in Vietnam, but some were tank crewmen or aviators.
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No college is required to enlist in the US Marine Corps, a High School diploma is all that is needed. To be a US Marine officer, a Bachelors degree is pretty much required.
There are about 200,000 US Marines on active duty.
As a former US Marine, yes.
The US Marine Corps Memorial located at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated to the men who fought and died in the Marine Corps. The Memorial depicts the flag raising on Iwo Jima which was a very costly battle of WW2.
In 1798, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps were created
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