Why do Marines get such crappy equipment compared to the army?
The Marines should get better more modern equipment but they don’t. Even though they get deployed to do the same job as the Army you have to consider their original purpose to be the ones to secure a landing zone for the Army to come in. The Navy still recognizes this as their primary role in the armed services and budgets accordingly for that task. As a whole, the Marines only account for 6% of the Navies entire budget and the Marines in recent years have spent a lot of the money they do receive on the V-22 Osprey and are spending a lot of money now to develop a new vehicle to replace the AAV. Yes the Marines are a well trained highly, effective fighting force. But they are being held back from their full potential with older out-dated equipment due to their primary mission and ridiculously low budget.
