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How the Few Became the Proud
How the Few Became the Proud
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How the Few Became the Proud
How the Few Became the Proud
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My father often joked that he had been about to be drafted in the Army during the Vietnam War. That wasn't tough enough for him, he said, so he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps. Most Marines just assume that their historical predecessors had similar attitudes, that this kind of rhetoric has always characterized Marines. But for more than half of its existence, the Corps' Marines largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine either to themselves…
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My father often joked that he had been about to be drafted in the Army during the Vietnam War. That wasn't tough enough for him, he said, so he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps. Most Marines just assume that their historical predecessors had similar attitudes, that this kind of rhetoric has always characterized Marines. But for more than half of its existence, the Corps' Marines 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; indeed, to be a Marine officer after the Civil War actually had a negative connotation, implying that an officer only filled his position due to social connections. This is epitomized by the play on the Corps' acronym as useless sons made comfortable.

Despite some recent historiographical developments, there is yet to be a published work that explores how the Corps crafted such powerful myths. Most of the Corps' historians have focused more specifically on how the Corps pursued and developed new missions.

But the more important problem was the Corps' peculiar position that resulted in frequent existential crises. 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. A mission can be understood as the tasks and roles--the function, the raison d'etre--assigned to a particular institution that often constitute its justification for existence. Usually an institution's mission or missions reveal its functional purpose. Whereas armies and navies can each claim their own domains, marines tend to have more varied missions and ad hoc responsibilities.

This work argues that the Corps could and would not settle on a mission and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with its historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Corps eagerly sought out and received new missions and responsibilities, but it rarely ceded any duties once it had acquired them. It received an additional boost from its combat during the Spanish-American War and the prospect of exotic imperial service after it. Increasingly arguing that they could perform any mission, some Marine officers pointedly suggested the institution would undertake tasks other services either did not want to or could not complete successfully. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors.

The Corps' service in the Spanish-American War and subsequent imperial wars strengthened the institution's image and the identification of some Marines with their institution. By around 1907, these foundation myths coalesced into coherent narrative as the Corps began to think more creatively about recruiting. It institutionalized these ideas with the Recruiting Publicity Bureau's establishment in 1912, which created a vehicle for disseminating the Corps' image to every corner of the nation. The Corps acquired the means of flooding newspapers across the country with positive news of Marines and their accomplishments, with the Bureau aggressively working to end public ignorance and confusion. Rhetoric and reality clashed for Marines on the battlefields of France, but their sacrifices there helped to ensure it meant something to be a Marine at home.
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My father often joked that he had been about to be drafted in the Army during the Vietnam War. That wasn't tough enough for him, he said, so he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps. Most Marines just assume that their historical predecessors had similar attitudes, that this kind of rhetoric has always characterized Marines. But for more than half of its existence, the Corps' Marines 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; indeed, to be a Marine officer after the Civil War actually had a negative connotation, implying that an officer only filled his position due to social connections. This is epitomized by the play on the Corps' acronym as useless sons made comfortable.

Despite some recent historiographical developments, there is yet to be a published work that explores how the Corps crafted such powerful myths. Most of the Corps' historians have focused more specifically on how the Corps pursued and developed new missions.

But the more important problem was the Corps' peculiar position that resulted in frequent existential crises. 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. A mission can be understood as the tasks and roles--the function, the raison d'etre--assigned to a particular institution that often constitute its justification for existence. Usually an institution's mission or missions reveal its functional purpose. Whereas armies and navies can each claim their own domains, marines tend to have more varied missions and ad hoc responsibilities.

This work argues that the Corps could and would not settle on a mission and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with its historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Corps eagerly sought out and received new missions and responsibilities, but it rarely ceded any duties once it had acquired them. It received an additional boost from its combat during the Spanish-American War and the prospect of exotic imperial service after it. Increasingly arguing that they could perform any mission, some Marine officers pointedly suggested the institution would undertake tasks other services either did not want to or could not complete successfully. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors.

The Corps' service in the Spanish-American War and subsequent imperial wars strengthened the institution's image and the identification of some Marines with their institution. By around 1907, these foundation myths coalesced into coherent narrative as the Corps began to think more creatively about recruiting. It institutionalized these ideas with the Recruiting Publicity Bureau's establishment in 1912, which created a vehicle for disseminating the Corps' image to every corner of the nation. The Corps acquired the means of flooding newspapers across the country with positive news of Marines and their accomplishments, with the Bureau aggressively working to end public ignorance and confusion. Rhetoric and reality clashed for Marines on the battlefields of France, but their sacrifices there helped to ensure it meant something to be a Marine at home.

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