UNITED SYSTEMS COLONIAL MARINES
UNITED SYSTEMS COLONIAL MARINES

Motto: Semper Fidelis
Colors: Scarlet and Gold
HQ: The Pentagon, New York City Federal Sector, Earth (Sol)

Active Personnel: 1563743244 (2345 Census)

Enlisted: 1213344101, 77.59%
Officer: 350399143, 22.41%

Average Yearly Recruitment: 210342022 (2320-2344)
Recruitment 2344: 21034789, 0.10% Past Goal
Retirement/Discharge 2344: 180012027

USCM Racial Breakdown:
Human 100% (M- 89.89%) (F- 10.11%)


USCM Top Recruitment Worlds:

Earth (Sol) 26.5%
Mars (Sol) 22.5%
New Geneva (Alpha Centuari) 7.2%
Mennyei (Ankaa) 4.2%
Babylon (Diego) 3.3%

USCM Budget:

Fiscal Year 2344: $37.2 Trillion US Credits
35% Personnel Pay and Living Expenses
13% Fleet Maintainment (Includes Vechicles)
20% Installation Maintainment
12% Training Expenses
10% Classified (Includes SPECOPS)
5% Medical
4% Recruitment
1% Misc. Expenses

USCM Personnel Breakdown:

65.5% Infantry
8% Heavy Weapons
2% Fleet: Engineers, Mechanics, Aeronautic Techs, and Shiphands
4% Pilots
5% General Occupations
7% Logistical Occupations
5% Intelligence (Includes SPECOPs)
3% Medical Occupations
0.5% Religious Occupations

USCM Fleet Breakdown 2344: ( Type/ # of ships/ KIA/ MIA)

Motherships: 0/0/0
Super Carriers: 0/0/0
Carriers: 10/0/0
Battleships: 0/0/0
Cruisers: 50/2/0
Destroyers: 56/5/0
Frigates: 25/2/0
Bombers: 700/25/2
Fighters: 520/15/15

USCM Personnel KIA 2344: 220022
USCM Personnel MIA 2344: 1001

USCM Special Forces Units of Mention:

*) United Systems Colonial Marines Force Reconnaissance 1-98
Homebase: Camp Lejeune, Virginia Atlantic Sector, Earth (Sol)
Nickname: FORECON
Motto: Swift, Silent, Deadly.
Strength: 33000208
Note: Highly trained Marines whose role is deep penetration direct action and reconnaissance in enemy occupied worlds. Supreme intelligence gatherers who are spread across the known universe acting as the eyes and ears of the United Systems. Extreme survivors, capable of going months without resupply on most enviorments. Orbital drop certified.

*) The Two Percenters
Homebase: Camp Stryker, New Jersey Central Sector, Earth (Sol)
Nickname: The Butchers of Sol
Motto: Fit caedes omnibus locis
Strength: 85023482
Note: An army within the army. The Two Percenters is a very controversial collection of Marines with heavy combat experience and who possess the natural killer instinct that only 2% of humanity possesses. The core of the two perenters are made up of Third Human Civil War veterans who are known to have committed war crimes. The Two Percenters are the tip of the spear in an invasion and when unleashed in war are completely merciless. They were central in the rapid expansion of humanity and the extermination of sixteen alien races including the Huellok, Griantier, etc. A brutal occupation force.

*) Régiment Parachutiste d'Infanterie de Marine 1er-8er
Homebase: Camp D'honneur, Paris Sector, Earth (Sol)
Nickname: Frogmen
Motto: Qui Ose Gagne
Strength: 888128
Note: Paris, Earth (Sol) based elite Marines who specialize in orbital drop assaults and search and seizure operations.

*) Kampfschwimmer 1-24
Homebase: Camp Bavaria, Berlin Sector, Earth (Sol)
Nickname: Deutsche Marine
Motto: Klagt nicht, kämpft!
Strength: 200003
Note: Berlin, Earth (Sol) based elite Marines who specialize in waterbased combat and are masters of combat on ocean and swamp planets.

*) Unit Interventie Mariniers
Homebase: Camp Etterbeek, Brussels Sector, Earth (Sol)
Nickname: Wood Walkers
Motto: Semper Paratus pro Justitia
Strenght: 500
Note: Marines that specialize in boarding enemy ships on the ocean or space.

*) Royal Marines Band Service 1-4
Homebase: Camp HMS Nelson, Portsmouth Sector, Earth (Sol)
Nickname: The Royals, HM Jollies, Bootnecks, and The Royal Machines
Motto: Per Mare Per Terram
Strength: 1640
Note: The very best musicians within the USCM reside in this unit and are extremely popular throughout the universe. Serving as an effective means of diplomacy, entertainment, and spreading Human culture. A proud tradition of music since 1767.

*) United Systems Colonial Marines Silent Drill Platoon
Homebase: The Pentagon, New York City Sector Federal, Earth (Sol)
Nickname: The Marching Twenty-Four
Motto: N/A
Strength: 24
Note: 24-man rifle platoon which perform unique precision exhibition drill. The purpose of this highly disciplined platoon is to exemplify the professionalism associated with the United Systems Colonial Marines.

*) Colonial Marine Embassy Guards
Homebase: The Pentagon, New York City Federal Sector, Earth (Sol)
Nickname: Watch Standers
Motto: In Every Clime and Place.
Strength: 70855995
Note: The primary mission of the CMEGs is to provide security, particularly the protection of classified information at U.S. Diplomatic Posts throughout the universe.


USCM Mission Statement:


The mission of the United Systems Colonial Marines is to provide the people of the United Systems with a capable and effective offensive force. In which it will be possible to maintain the sovereignty and interests of the United Systems throughout the universe. The USCM will also serve and protect the outer lying systems from hostile alien incursions and from domestic insurrections.
The USCM will consist of only human beings from the inner worlds of the United Systems to provide humanity with an independent military option, as a safeguard for the human race.


USCM Creed:


This is my rifle. There are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. My rifle, without me is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than any enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will....

My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit...

My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weakness, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will...

Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but Peace.


USCM Song: Colonial Marines' Hymn

From the moons of Yoshodora
To the worlds of Centauri
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land and sea
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of United Systems Marine.

Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in every clime and place
Where we could take a gun.
In the snow of far-off Martian plains
And in sunny tropic Serene;
You will find us always on the job --
The United Systems Marines.

Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve.
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
By United Systems Marines.
United States Marines, precursor to the current USCM, rushing to engage Islamofacist forces in Fallajah, Iraq, Earth [Sol] during the First Democratic War. 07 NOV 2004.
There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.
Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army
You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are.
Father Kevin Keaney
1st Marine Division Chaplain
I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.
1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC
in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918
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Ancient US Marines raising the US flag over Iwo Jima during the Secong Human Civil War.
These are Marines. Men like them held Belleau Woods, took Iwo Jima, and reached Baghdad in a matter of days. Taking back New York City ain't shit.
Gen. Slider, USMC prior to invading occupied NYC, Third War

US Colonial Marines patrolling the ruins of a shattered Earth after the Third Human Civil .
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