How integrated are marines to their navies?
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I've been curious about this since no one considers the naval Air/aviation wing of a country a separate "branch" they use the same uniform, structure, installations, ranks, etc. Some countries do this with their marines like chile, where for example:
All Chile Marine officers go to the Naval Academy, wear the same uniforms, use the same ranks, an example of this is this rear admiral who, while being in command of the chilean marines, is still subordinated to 7 admirals who are not marines and on par with another 24 rear admirals. He is part of the Navies chain of command and is on par with the admiral in charge of the navies logistics department and the admiral in charge of navies education.
explaining this, is that a chilean marine is to the chilean navy what an air wing pilot would be to the navy.
Contrary to the USMC who has their own air wing, their own installations, schools (except Annapolis but they have other sources of commission) ranks, command structure and budget. A us marine would never say he is part of the US Navy or that he's a sailor, contrary to other naval infantrymen across the world.
The USMC would be the most independent, they are an own branch on it's own. Like the navies air wing separating and forming their own branch
How do other countries marine corps work regarding their dependency of the navy talking about the RMC, DRM, Spanish marines, ROK marines etc?
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