Marine Corps of Palaven

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Marine Corps of Palaven
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Active:

16 May 341 BCE - 10 November 2215 CE

Organization:

Armed Forces of Palaven and its Colonies

Affiliation:

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Turian Hierarchy

Type:

Naval land force

Role:

Planetary assault warfare
Expeditionary warfare

Size:

28.8 million (regular)
90 billion (reserves)
110,000 aircraft

Part of:

Subcommune of the Marines

Headquarters:

Cipritine, Palaven

Nickname(s):

Turian marines
Hierarchy marines

Motto:

"The rock and the feather."

Colors:

Steel grey and dark blue

Anniversaries):

Unification of Palaven
Festival of Triumph
Festival of Posion
Rebellions Victory Day
Festival of the Legion
Ethosi Spiritus

Engagements:

Commanders:

ArchGen. Tertibus Corinthus (last)

 
"The rock and the feather."
— Marine Corps motto.

The Marine Corps of Palaven, also referred to as the Hierarchy Marine Corps, as well as simply the Turian Marine Corps and Turian Marines to aliens, was the naval infantry service branch of the Armed Forces of Palaven and its Colonies, and one of the six uniformed services of the Turian Hierarchy. The Marine Corps of Palaven was formed as the successor to the defunct Imperial Marine Corps in 341 BCE, with the branch benefitting from the same military reforms that Mameruns Posion had instituted in the final years of its predecessor, reforms that were then perfected by standardizing equipment, training and logistics across the Marine Corps to shape it into the naval infantry branch that the new Turian Armed Forces required. With lessons learnt from the Unification War, chief among them anti-insurrectionist and counter-insurgency tactics, the Marine Corps of Palaven was an extremely disciplined and organized force capable of maximizing its role as an expeditionary/planetary assault force through the use of combined arms, with everything from armor, infantry, artillery, aircraft and special operations units utilized as instruments of this ultimate goal. Being the second largest branch in the Turian Armed Forces in terms of overall personnel, the Marine Corps had a commanding presence on any battlefield it deployed on, capable of rapidly securing landing zones or swiftly unravelling enemy positions when needed, with combined arms being core to its effectiveness as a fighting force. When it came to the turian marines, very few military forces in the galaxy could measure up, only adding to the turian military's reputation as a seemingly unconquerable force of nature.

The Marine Corps of Palaven saw extensive action throughout its long history, with conflicts such as the Krogan Rebellions, Terminus Revolutions, Taetrian Civil War, Enael conflict, First Contact War, War on Taetrus, Reaper War and Post-Apocalyptic War being the most well known among them. With the dissolution of the Turian Hierarchy in 2215 CE following the Post-Apocalyptic War, the Marine Corps of Palaven was dissolved with it, although it would later be reborn as the New Imperial Marine Corps of Palaven in 2253 CE following the Dominion Civil War.

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