marines
Example Sentences
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“This is what we have the navy for. We have trained our marines for this,” he said in an interview at the time.
The US officials quoted by CBS suggested that America could mount an operation like one conducted last month when US Marines and special operation forces working with the US Coast Guard seized The Skipper, a large crude oil tanker flagged out of Guyana, after the vessel left port in Venezuela.
From BBC
That was followed by the largest military buildup the region has seen in decades, with an aircraft carrier, naval strike vessels, logistical ships and thousands of Marines amassing off the coast of Venezuela.
Marines rappelling from helicopters onto a civilian oil tanker.
From Salon
The 1992 courtroom drama, A Few Good Men, concerned the court martial of two marines for the death of a fellow soldier.
From BBC
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