marines
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For Royal Navy or Royal Marines non-officer veterans it is six years after discharge or at age 55, but this will increase to 18 years after discharge to "align" with the two services.
From Barron's
It also posted a video showing Marines and sailors boarding the tanker.
From BBC
Marines and sailors apprehended the Tanker Veronica without incident in a pre-dawn raid, the military command responsible for Central, South America and the Caribbean said on social media, with a video showing soldiers rappelling onto a vessel's deck.
From Barron's
Guest: Jonathan M. Katz, journalist and the author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire and author of theracket.news newsletter.
From Slate
“This is what we have the navy for. We have trained our marines for this,” he said in an interview at the time.
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