My point was that, at least as far as US services go , the Corps is the only one that has that mentality that each and every person wearing the uniform is, first and foremost, a combat infantryman and a specialist in their field second. Other services in the US add in infantry training as a small part of overall training while the Marine Corps sees it as the base of all other training. Years ago I had a book that listed all elite forces in the world and all known terrorist groups in the world...late 1980s I think. The Corps was listed as a whole, Force Recon wasn't singled out, SRIG wasn't singled out... it was the USMC that was listed as an elite unit. Gung ho, by the was is a phrase that entered the USMC lexicon during the battle for Guadalcanal during WWII. One of the Marine commanders (Carlson of the 2nd Raider Battalion) had served time with the chinese rebels before being transferred to the Solomons and carried the phrase with him. It means something along the lines of working together.