I like the wholehearted professionalism of the Marines. It occurred to me that the services could be characterized by different breeds of dogs. It's big and heavy and sometimes seems a bit clumsy, but it's powerful and has lots of stamina. The Navy, God Bless us, is a Golden Retriever. They're good natured and great around the house.
Kids love em.
I see as two breeds, Rottweilers and Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean and skinny and mean. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat. That sounds like a Marine to me. From the day they were formed at Tun Tavern 221 years ago, Marines have distinguished themselves on battlefields around the world. From the fighting tops of the Bonhomme Richard, to the sands of the Barbary coast, from the swamps of New Orleans to the halls of Montezuma, from Belleau Wood, to the Argonne Forest to Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, and Okinawa and Inchon, and Chosin Reservoir and Hue City and Quang Tri and Dong Ha, and Beirut, and Grenada, and Panama, and Somalia and Bosnia and a thousand unnamed battlefields in godforsaken corners of the globe.