The US has the largest and most technically equipped corps of marines in the world,” military expert and retired Russian Aerospace Force Colonel Mikhail Khodarenok told RT....YOU DAMN RIGHT COMRADE!

via RT.

The recent ‘elephant walk’ of US Marine Corps helicopters and Osprey tilt-rotors is an impressive display of air power, but will likely intimidate only small countries without air defenses, a military expert tells RT.
In what the USMC called a “dynamic display of strength,” aircraft from the Marine Aircraft Group 16 in Miramar, California staged a mass take-off last week. Video of two dozen MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotors and 16 CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters shows them in “elephant walk” formation on the tarmac before they take to the skies.

The Super Stallion is the latest version of the heavy-lift helicopter designed by Sikorsky in the 1960s, and is used by the Marines to lift artillery pieces and light armored vehicles. The MV-22, on the other hand, was developed by Bell (now Bell-Boeing) as something unique: a tilt-rotor aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like an airplane.

“The US has the largest and most technically equipped corps of marines in the world,” military expert and retired Russian Aerospace Force Colonel Mikhail Khodarenok told RT.

Story here. 

The rest of the article is as expected.  The USMC isn't a threat to a technologically advanced nation and that whole display only intimidates small countries.

Still.

Dude called it straight and from a Retired Russian Aerospace Colonel its high praise...even better RT quoted him.

Just to repeat.  “The US has the largest and most technically equipped corps of marines in the world.”