Marines Urge Name Change

In past decades, the US Marine Corps has been faced with extiction as a needless expense in the Defense Budget, but times have certainly changed. From the Washington Post:

This month, a few Marine Corps veterans and advocates began an online petition effort to persuade Congress to rename the Department of the Navy. Since the Corps functions within the department but has its own military command structure (the commandant of the Corps is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), its bureaucratic home would become the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Interesting idea, and well deserved. You can view and sign the petition here.