United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations[11] through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
"USMC" redirects here. For other uses, see USMC (disambiguation).United States Marine Corps
11 July 1798
(225 years, 9 months)
(in current form)
10 November 1775
(248 years, 5 months)
(as the Continental Marines)[1]
United States
"Jarheads", "Devil Dogs", "Teufel Hunden", "Leathernecks"
Semper fidelis ("Always faithful")
- American Revolutionary War
- Quasi-War
- First Barbary War
- War of 1812
- Second Barbary War
- West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations
- Seminole Wars
- African Anti-Slavery Operations
- Aegean Sea Anti-Piracy Operations
- First Sumatran expedition
- Second Sumatran expedition
- United States Exploring Expedition
- Capture of Monterey
- Mexican–American War
- Bombardment of Greytown
- Battle of Ty-ho Bay
- First Fiji Expedition
- Second Opium War
- Second Fiji Expedition
- Paraguay expedition
- Reform War
- John Brown's raid
- American Civil War
- Bombardment of Qui Nhon
- Shimonoseki Campaign
- Formosa Expedition
- United States expedition to Korea
- Egyptian Expedition (1882)
- Bering Sea Anti-Poaching Operations
- Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
- Second Samoan Civil War
- Banana Wars
- Philippine–American War
- Boxer Rebellion
- World War I
- Russian Civil War
- World War II
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- 1958 Lebanon Crisis
- Occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965)
- Iranian hostage rescue
- Multinational Force in Lebanon
- Operation Urgent Fury
- 1986 bombing of Libya
- Tanker War
- Operation Just Cause
- Persian Gulf War
- Somali Civil War
- Iraqi no-fly zones
- Bosnian War
- Kosovo War
- 1999 East Timorese crisis
- Operation Enduring Freedom
- Iraq War
- Pakistan-United States skirmishes
- Operation Odyssey Dawn
- 2014 intervention against ISIL
- Operation Inherent Resolve
- Resolute Support Mission
- Battle of Khasham
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The Marine Corps has been part of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 30 June 1834 with its sister service, the United States Navy.[12] The USMC operates installations on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world. Additionally, several of the Marines' tactical aviation squadrons, primarily Marine Fighter Attack squadrons, are also embedded in Navy carrier air wings and operate from the aircraft carriers.[13]
The history of the Marine Corps began when two battalions of Continental Marines were formed on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as a service branch of infantry troops capable of fighting both at sea and on shore.[14] In the Pacific theater of World War II, the Corps took the lead in a massive campaign of amphibious warfare, advancing from island to island.[15][16][17] As of 2022, the USMC has around 177,200 active duty members and some 32,400 personnel in reserve.[3]