Their guns are equipped with a special device that emits laser beams each time a Marine pulls a trigger.

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Matt Robinson closed the gap just before half time, Leigh Henry tied the game up at three-all, before Lapham's header won it for Marine in injury time.

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Fortunately for Arthur, the leader of the Marine Band at the time was a pretty fair songwriter -- a young Marine sergeant major by the name of John Philip Sousa.

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But a study of marine life done at the time, uncovered recently by one of Ransom Myers' students at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, portrays a different picture.

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