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Originally Posted by Stan187
Indeed. Wouldn't it make sense to integrate all that into the Navy's job?
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No. Marine aviation is just enough to support the Marine Corps and nothing more. Naval aviaition is larger and designed to support the multitude of naval missions. Larding the USN with all of marine aviation would only reduce the effectiveness of the Marine Corps and add unnecessary burdens to the navy.
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I've always thought that the Marine Corps should not be so huge. Because a lot of the time they end up just doing the same thing that either the Army is doing, or in the case of Marine Aviation, that the Navy is doing.
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Three regular infantry divisions and three regular air wings is not overly large. Even the Marine reserve component is not large, just one infantry division and one air wing. Thankfully these numbers are set by an act of congress and are difficult to reduce. Otherwise, I think our Marine Corps would have been substantially reduced like the army was in the 1990s.