Comments by "Viktor\x27 vonthe Rhaefnhyrst, I" (@Viktor_vonthe_Rhaefnhyrst) on "Rape In War: Pro-Hamas Propaganda in Focus" video.
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@cobusvanderlinde6871
Marines and Soldiers are both infantrymen of the Corps and Army respectively. If you want an overarching term under which they both'd fall, it'd be "servicemen". Oz is right about the Marines falling under the purview of the Navy but, that's the Department of the Navy, not the branch.
The Marine Corps is its own distinct branch, always has been, probably always will be; to call a Marine a "seaman" is insulting because, while seamen are disciplined in their own right, they're more generally comparable to technicians whose technical roles act in the service of something requiring many seamen, like running a sub or an aircraft carrier.
A Marine however, though tasked with operating in conjunction with a fireteam, squad, platoon, company, and so on, is capable of inflicting death on his own. He is, with occasional exceptions, NOT an operator of machinery but a highly dangerous killer...one who's earned the title of Marine by enduring the hell of the Crucible, setting him apart from his brothers by his fanatical devotion and willingness to come as close to a warrior as anyone hailing from a consumerist Babylon of a Western nation can come...excepting the varying Special Forces both within and without the Corps. It'd be like comparing a police officer to an IT guy or a sword to a ball bearing in a propeller engine. Plus, there's the whole death-cult mentality no other branch possesses.
Seamen come together to make grand machines end the lives of our enemies, Marines can already end life on their own as distinct units but, just happen to be more effective when grouped together.
That's the fundamental difference and why conflating a Marine with a seaman is insulting and you're liable to get your lights knocked out if you ever do so to a Marine's face.
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