Capital "M" please..

I think I'm going to scream if I read one more instance of the word 'marine'. 'Marine' is always capitalized, and for a quite simple and logical reason that has nothing to do with ego: it is part of the name of our service, United States Marine Corps, which is capitalized.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, it seems the fashion now is to also capitalize 'soldier', 'sailor', and 'airman', but this is quite incorrect because there is no service called United States Soldiers, U.S. Sailor Corps, or Department of the Airmen. If there was, then these terms would be capitalized, but there's not, so let's not let our little inferiority complex or political correctness override proper usage, k?