marines
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Another photo showed a grinning Kim sitting with Ju Ae at a table in the ship's mess hall, surrounded by uniformed marines eating instant rice meals.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Soldiers, marines, and their support crews need food, water, ammo, and other supplies; a base of some sort would have to be set up.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
“This is what we have the navy for. We have trained our marines for this,” he said in an interview at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
The 1992 courtroom drama, A Few Good Men, concerned the court martial of two marines for the death of a fellow soldier.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025
He could not recollect his reason for being there—why he had enlisted to fight in the marines, what the point of it was.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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