What military branch is usually on the frontline in war?

Some of my friends are in the U.S. army Infantry and they were not on the frontline. So i am wondering which branch is on the frontline?|||Reagan and Jake are both wrong on here. I just love how idiots get the idea that the Marines are the "first to fight" and that they are the only ones that do an invasion.





A couple of the answer were partly correct when they are saying there is no real frontline. Right now, we are not fighting a conventional war. We are in the occupational stage of a war. There is no line. We have control of the whole place.





Now, when it comes to the conventional part of war and the invasion, that is where you have the "line". Both the Army and the Marines are used as an invasion force. The Marines didn't invade Iraq by themselves, nor did invade any other country during an act of war alone.





As for your friends that are in the infantry with the Army, they might not have been in during the invasion of Iraq. Or if they were serving during that time, they might have been assigned to a unit that didn't take part in the invasion.





So the answer to your question of who is on the "frontline", it would be the Army AND the Marines. Anyone that says that it is only Marines or only Army is WRONG.





EDIT: You got a point, Roken, on my "idiot" remark. Instead of calling those people idiots, I will just call their remarks idiotic. Whether they are idiots or not, the remarks they made and how the presented them was idiotic and anyone actually educated can tell that. As for your answer, that is a lot of good information about the Marines history and thier past numbers. But all that information basically had nothing to do with the actual answer to the question itself. You put all that out there, and all you could say in reference to the question was "As far as who goes first, DEPENDS!". When does it "depend" on who is on the front lines? Only time that can depend on is when asked about who is on the frontlines of specific battles. The Marines invaded specific areas at the same time that the Army was invading specific areas simultaneously during each of our wars. But I will say this. You did provide a lot of good information about the size of the Marine Corps in the past. That was something that I was wanting to know....lol|||Marines. They are the first to fight.|||Frontlines in the traditional sense don't really exist anymore. Especially in the Middle East. It's mostly patrolling, security, and raids.|||THERE ARE NO SUCH THING AS "FRONTLINES"


EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE READY TOO FIGHT


MARINES GO IN FIRST USUALLY SO FROM EXPERENCE ID SAY MARINES


OORAH





BUT IN THE MIDDLE EAST.. EVERYONE IS THE IN THE FRONT LINES, THE FRONT LINES NOW TURNS INTO A URBAN WARFARE COMBAT ZONE|||For the most part I agree with deftoneh except for the "idiot remark".





The first thing to remember is that the Marines are not an army, but a corps. By January 1944 the US Marine Corps had grown to a total of 405,169 personnel, comprising 28,193 officers, 10,723 officer candidates, and 366,353 enlisted men. The Fleet Marine Force now had two amphibious corps, four divisions, a separate infantry regiment, 19 defense battalions, and numerous support and service units.





Today's Marine Corps is 4 Active and 2 Inactive %26lt;reserve%26gt; divisions, plus Aircraft Wings and Logistics Groups.





Their first two mottos signified mobility, "Per Mare, Per Terram" "by sea, by land" and "To the Shores of Tripoli". "Semper fidelis" "Corps and Country" is the current motto! The mobility signifies the Navy and are so attached! Also, the Marines rely on speed of attack and hard hitting tactics. The Army has whenever possible, depended upon overwhelming firepower!





As far as who goes first, DEPENDS!