How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918 U.S. Publications Tunisia and Libya

Tunisia and Libya

Christos Kourtesis and Elias Sofras

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How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918 U.S. Publications Tunisia and LibyaOverview For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and