United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing force projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly.
The civilian leadership of the USMC is part of the Department of the Navy, but has a military leadership structure that often works closely with, but is separate to the U.S. Navy.
| “ | Semper Fidelis | ” |
—Motto of the USMC | ||
Fiction
Generation 1
"Sparkplug" Witwicky serves in the Marines during the Korean War. The Last Stand
Live-action Transformers movies
Transformers (2007) film
Colonel Sharp, United States Marine Corps commander of the SOCCENT Forward Operations Base in Qatar, was faced with an unusual situation when a rogue MH-53 Pave Low helicopter that was reportedly shot down months ago encroached upon his command's airspace and refused to identify itself or comply with his warnings to leave the area. When it touched down on the base, instead of disembarking a crew as would be expected, the helicopter changed form, becoming a giant robot that laid waste to anythign that opposed it before attacking the operations command center. Though Sharp personally stopped the machine from downloading all the information from the base's main server, he was presumably killed when the base was subsequently destroyed. Transformers (2007)
Trivia
- Voice actor Peter Cullen's elder brother Larry was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. According to many of Cullen's interviews, he based Optimus Prime's voice and mannerisms upon Larry's calm, controlled and authorative approach to serious situations.[1]
