Foot Cavalry said:On Marines: Shouldn't there be something to differentiate the US Marines from more traditional naval infantry? This isn't a vanity thing: In WW2 it is appropriate to give them the handicaps on land warfare but by the 50's they were better than the US Army as dismounted infantry, and by the 80's they were definitely a fully fledged Mechanized force. Same for the ROKs too. If anything the option, for balance, should decrease morale/org for regular army units as the Marines have always been (except in '68) all volunteer, and therefore take the best away from the Army's ranks.
Uh... the Marines haven't always been all volunteer. When the Army had a draft, the Marines were part of it, along with the Air Force and Navy. Besides, they already get org/morale bonuses like paratroopers and mountain divisions do.
And it's very debatable that the Marines are any better than the Army at anything other than shore attacks. The Army and Marines have two different missions, and they both perform their respective duties very well.