The phrase "armed marine" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a member of the military, specifically the Marine Corps, who is equipped with weapons.
Example: "The armed marine stood guard at the entrance, ensuring the safety of the facility."
Alternatives: "military personnel" or "armed forces member".
Photo: ON THE COVER: An Iraqi man captured by American forces during fighting in the Sunni enclave of Falluja sits bound and hooded near a heavily armed marine.
When forensic experts traveled there last year to interview family members of those killed, heavily armed Marine infantrymen had to guard them, and even then, insurgent fire forced the investigators to abandon the scene after an hour.
Whether that is true is hard for reporters to gauge, considering that the only approximately safe way to venture into the towns is with a heavily armed Marine foot patrol.
For two weeks its staff hunkered down in concrete bunkers, protected by 90 heavily armed marines.
Above, Navy attack helicopters prowled like hornets, and at least four picket boats with armed marines -- a precaution absent when the Cole arrived -- patrolled back and forth.
Minutes later the helicopter hovered over containers on the bow of the MS Taipan allowing a unit of heavily armed marines to abseil on to the deck, storm the vessel and retake it.
Rebel youths on bridges aimlessly firing a few mortars and grenade launchers would certainly have been no match for the heavily armed marines for whom the streets were lined with cheering, expectant citizens.
It took quite a while for the vehicles to show -- they were being driven by fully armed marines, who were not very familiar with Saigon streets -- and then some scuffles broke out, as the marines had been told to let only the press on board.
In a possible echo of the control the Aztecs once exerted, parts of Veracruz look like a police state: heavily armed marines in balaclavas patrol the area to stop drug violence.Back in 1519 the Aztecs' rivals, the local Totonac Indians, may have looked as threatening as today's drug lords.
In separate interviews with The New York Times, elderly Okinawans who also grew up in the village, said that after the United States won the battle, three armed marines would come to Katsuyama every weekend and force the village men to take them to their women, who were then carried off to the hills and raped.
They can carry up to 25 armed marines to shore, where they disembark, engage any forces present, and establish a first, tentative perimeter.
