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:''For the article dealing with the branch of the [[United States Military]], see [[United States Marine Corps]].''
''For the article dealing with the branch of the [[United States Military]], see [[United States Marine Corps]].''
'''Marine''' can refer to certain studies of sea and ocean, such as marine [[biology]], and others more generally dealing with water, such as marine [[research]] and [[oceanography]]. A marine scene is "a picture of a ship or a sea scene."<ref>[http://www.yourdictionary.com/marine Marine (yourdictionary.com)]</ref>
Most typically however, the word Marine is used to designate a certain division of [[military]] duty: anciently, those security forces or troops assigned to naval vessels of maritime nations; more recently in history (17th through 21st century) those military forces dedicated to both defense aboard ships and to amphibious combat operations abroad on land (for example, in the [[Pacific Theater]] of [[World War II]], and the Mekong Delta during the [[Vietnam War]]). A marine "corps" generally [[definition|denotes]] the [[infantry]] division of a nation's [[navy]], which includes both sea and air combat capabilities.
One who is a Marine is [[icon]]ically understood to be a military person who is [[ideal]]ly expected to be self-disciplined, [[Morality|moral]], physically trained and conditioned to endure hardship with [[purpose]], and who seeks to embody most [[Excellence|outstandingly]] the ideals of unswerving dedicated devotion to "[[duty]], [[honor]], [[courage]], [[Nation|country]]" (see [[Patriotism]]). A Marine is not properly either a "[[sailor]]", assigned to naval duty as a member of a ship's company or crew, nor a "[[soldier]]", assigned to duty as a member of a unit in an [[army]].
== Humorous quip ==
{{cquote|Marines depend on the navy for a lift, because the [[army]] doesn't walk on water, and the [[air force]] is busy elsewhere.<br>—anonymous}}
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[American Marine Painting]]
*[[American Marine Painting]]
== References ==
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