re: The Marines are the only branch of the military that answers directly to the President.

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The Marines are the Presidents Honor gaurd and can be deployed at his will without authorization from Congress.

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POTUS can deploy various force packages at his will and without authorization from Congress.

The 82nd Airborne Division maintains one part of its force for a POTUS-ordered Rapid Deployment Mission. The USMC also keeps a force package at all times ready for a Rapid Deployment mission.

AND any Marines or NG under POTUS federal authority are operating under the Posse Comitatus Act constraints and allowances.

Grok has today confirmed that POTUS has not invoked the Insurrection Act in response to the L.A. riots, so all Posse Comitatus constraints apply to the NG and USMC personnel deployed in L.A. whose mission it is to protect the federal facilities in the L.A. area, such as the Veterans Administration Hospitals there.

When such time as POTUS invokes the Insurrection Act, this paradigm that I described is accurate.