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.
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.
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In 1798, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps were created