So I ran the Marine Corps Marathon today...

[Irish_Dem]

33. The Marines wanted to differentiate from the Army?

Marines always seemed like a tougher, more dedicated, maybe more professional than the army?
I know that doesn't sound right because the Army is professional and dedicated too.
They seemed more tightly wired, the Marines.

Edit to add, maybe more of the Army guys were drafted and not happy or gung ho.
And it showed?

I am just going by my childhood memories.
We lived on remote military spots in Southeast Asia during the Viet Nam war.
And the Air Force bases were crammed next to Navy, Marine, Army bases.
We were allowed to ride military buses to all the bases, so we saw the guys
and observed. We didn't talk to them. They didn't talk to us. But we had our eyes
wide open watching them all the time.

We liked to take the bus quite a distance from the Air Force base to watch the paratroopers
drop out of airplanes. The sky would be covered in guys jumping from the planes.
I guess that would be Army? Maybe Marines?