How to Use the Marine Corps in a Sentence
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Expect the Fleet as well as the Marine Corps and the Army to follow it with interest.
—Eric Tegler, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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Last year, only the Marine Corps and the Space Force met their recruiting goals.
—Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
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The couple — who met two years ago in the Marine Corps — decided to move up their wedding vows.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
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On his 18th birthday, Garcia joined the Marine Corps and trained with the Arizona state platoon.
—Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2023
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The corner of the chest pocket bears a slight tear, a testament to the Parker pen that her dad carried in his pocket while in the Marine Corps.
—Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
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Klein, who served in the Marine Corps for roughly nine years, was deployed to Iraq as a combat engineer in 2005.
—CBS News, 3 Nov. 2023
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The federal complaint places the blame squarely on the Marine Corps for failing to protect the woman from abuse.
—Emily Brindley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
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The vacancies include leaders for three of the five military branches — the Marine Corps, Navy and Army.
—Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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Even with this development in the armed forces, Black men in the Marine Corps were not trusted with being on the front lines or in active battle.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
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The jet crashed on Sunday after what the Marine Corps said was a malfunction that prompted the pilot to eject near the Charleston airport.
—Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
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The officer, who joined the department in March 2008, had played football in high school and remained active with the sport while serving in the Marine Corps.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
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Although far from the ocean, the base at Twentynine Palms offers about 1,200 square miles to train, more than all of the Marine Corps’ other training bases combined.
—John Ismay, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
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Mike was charged with manslaughter and was eventually given the option to join the Marine Corps.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
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Paul Whelan, the Marine Corps veteran has been detained in Russia since 2018.
—Caroline Guthrie, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
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The release indicated that the Marine Corps and Space Force met recruiting goals for fiscal year 2023.
—Cailey Gleeson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
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Julia noticed the Marine Corps sticker on his wheelchair.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
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Her husband served in the Marine Corps before putting in 20 years with the Army, according to service records, tenure that included a deployment to Iraq.
—Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2023
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Since the Marine Corps replaced a piece of equipment on the aircraft in February, there had been no crashes reported, according to the report.
—Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
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Thankfully, the authors give the Marine Corps recognition for being laggards to the drag-queen and rainbow-bullet parade.
—WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
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The official would not specify what point in the recovery and investigation process the Marine Corps is in but said the process is ongoing.
—Ellie Kaufman, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
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While the Marine Corps’ statement didn’t detail the other two mishaps, there were two aviation incidents that happened in August.
—Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
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As if more proof were needed, the commandant of the Marine Corps has been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack over the weekend.
—Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
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The couple, both sergeants in the Marine Corps serving as military police at Quantico, exchanged their vows and snapped a few photos before rushing to the shelter.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
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Donations can be made to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2023
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Donations may be made to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.
—Carmel Dagan, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
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Some of the 34 bills last year were not controversial, like the one that renamed Veterans Affairs clinics and one that minted a coin commemorating the anniversary of the Marine Corps.
—Joe Locascio, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
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As the other large military branches fall short of their goals despite offering signing bonuses and other incentives, the Marine Corps easily fills its ranks on swagger alone.
—Dave Philipps, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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People who got sick after being at Camp Lejeune have accused the Marine Corps of failing to protect the health of its personnel and criticized the federal government for being slow to investigate.
—Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 1 Feb. 2024
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Though there is no indication of any connection between the crashes, all of the incidents are classified as Class-A mishaps by the Marine Corps – defined as an incident that leads to a fatality or more than $2.5 million in property damage.
—Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
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At first, the Marine Corps redacted details of the financial arrangements, saying that disclosure would violate Mattis’s privacy.
—Nate Jones, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
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