Languish: Soldiers or Lawyers?

[Ideologue]

Marines and soldiers are both equally inferior to the United Airmen.

[lustindarkness]

Marines and soldiers are both equally inferior to the United Airmen playing golf.

[Siege]

Majority of US Marines are pogs, they ain't  infantry.4

Correct. They are all riflemen first, but the USMC is an integrated all-arms outfit, not half of one like the USA and USAAF.

You realize the "rifleman first" is just an stupid morale thing, right?
Shooting twice a year for the 6-month qualification does not makes a rifleman.

[Siege]

I suspect calling a marine a "soldier" is one of those military solecisms that are drilled into people in the armed services, but are made all the time by people outside the services.

"This is mah rifle, this is mah gun; this one's for fightin' and this one's for fun!"

Yep.  Kinda like the barrister/solicitor distinction in the UK, or doctor versus surgeon.

MAH CLIP MAGAZINE

What's this?
Only civilians say clip instead of mag.
They learnt that shit watching movies.

Nothing new here.

[grumbler]

You realize the "rifleman first" is just an stupid morale thing, right?
Shooting twice a year for the 6-month qualification does not makes a rifleman.

It's an issue of mentality, not "qualification."  Even Marines who are not infantrymen understand that they can be, and have to be ready to be, drafted into the infantryman role.  It is a "morale thing" (like the infantry calling all non-infantry "POG" and the non-infantry calling infantry "grunts") but not a stupid one.

It may interest you to know that "POG" is what is known as a "backronym," as it's meaning was invented to fit earlier usage (from the Marines) of "pogue," a corruption of the Celtic (I think - maybe French) word for "asshole."

[CountDeMoney]

Siege qualifies for both roles as an agent for a foreign service, as he had to be an illegal settlement rifleman and still have to get wet dropping carcasses in Palestinian wells at the same time.