>the Army wasn't okay with Forrest Gump being a dumbass>but the Marines were
>>216982655MacNamara's Morons were a real thing though.
It's kinda like how Gary Oldman is okay with playing a comical midget while Peter Dinklage isn't.
They don't call those boys crayon eaters because they're splitting the atom, my friend.
>>216984023This.
>Lt. Dan? Can you tell the fellas over at Mai Lai to stop making all that noise? Me and Bubba are trying to take a nap.
>>216982655What's the difference?
>>216984179Army are like Major WintersMarines are like Corporal 'Snafu' Shelton
>>216984179Marines have less budget and in theory are supposed to be like navy ground troops. the whole thing is muddled due to war mongers being faggots but the US isn't legally supposed to have a standing army, but marines are part of the navy so there aren't really any restrictions on marines, but they're really only supposed to be doing missions related to shit the navy would need to do, except they also do other things because reasons. It's like how the national guard isn't supposed to be deployed overseas so they came up with a workaround because the war mongers were seething about national guardsmen not invading canada in 1812 >>216982655The Army actually did operation moron and were trying to fix their image in 1994.
>>216984179Army soldiers have 80 IQ, Marines have 70.