Cueil on 11 November 2008
| steven787 said: A little known fact is that the President is Commander in Chief of the whole military, and could do that with any branch. It's usually the marines because they are the most mobile ground force. He just has to let congress know after a certain amount of time and they will have to approve funding for longer engagements or to declare war. |
There are restrictions of movement of troops on the sister branches... time restrictions as well... US Marines don't have those kinds of restrictions. The fact that it cost less money to send Marines in helps the situation... Semper Gumbi ... we often would take money that was set asside for training if we went out to do some real world things. It's been a while since I've gotten out... and they joined that stupid joint combat operation after being threaten by the Secretery of Defense, but I doubt to much has changed.
