If you had done a second of research, you’d know that the Marines were in fact the only branch involved. Black Mesa was monitored by the HECU Marines (Hazardous Environment Combat Unit Marines) and were meant to be called in to suppress alien attacks and escapes.
This is what the Valve Wiki says
The Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, also known as the HECU, was a fictional secret special forces detachment within the United States military. Although comprised of soldiers from many different parts of the Army, the bulk of the HECU is made up of U.S. Marines. Their equipment was of a high standard, consisting of Powered Combat Vests and durable firearms, including the M-4/M-203 assault rifle, MP5 Navy submachine gun and M-249 SAW.
We have to kill U.S Marines? 
The german version had robots.
Have you never played Half-life? Of course you have to kill soldiers. They’ve been sent in to murder you and your defenseless scientist chums. :hmph:
Yes, yes we do. :awesome:
This is how the BM HEV looks like (unless they change it):
You guys DO know that the LAV can carry troops, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jTIXBlpUT0
Around 1:16 in this video, it shows it.
You DO realize this is a game and not reality, right?
there was a part in FAF where troops came out of the Bradley, so…
awesome, amirite
Actually, in a way I’m a little envious of the DEVs… Don’t get me wrong, they deserve EVERYTHING they get because they did all this work. But I would love to have all the recognition and resume material on my solders. I mean many of these DEVs are probably like early post-collage students I’m guessing right? How awesome of a start is it in their game development careers to be able to say “I was on the Black Mesa mod development team” I mean we all know this mod is going to make it big… heck it already HAS.
Actually, most of the devs are over 50 and very cynical because their career is going nowhere.
This mod is like their last straw, and they’re grasping at it vigorously.
I’m still stomped as to why they won’t change the LAV to offload troops.
I mean hell, if you can’t fit the actual troops inside, then spawn them out the same was as Combine Soldiers do for Dropships.
Oh is that why they’re cynical? I always thought it was just from the stress of noobs and mod making. Anyway if that’s true then I feel better. ^^
I love you too
Love isn’t cynical. :hmph:
ha, that’s like having this:
in the movie id4
Half-Life takes place in 200-x. The vehicles we saw in the original don’t make sense for their time period or deployment. Why would a black-ops task force use a fighter jet for close air support? Why are they using an outdated APC?
Why are they using WW2 era grenades?
Valve has shown that they don’t really research weapons. See MP7.
they research weapons for awesomeness, which is enough for half-life
I think Valve just goes “Yeah I like the way this one looks lets use it.” without looking up any info on it. Like how in L4D2 they made the SCAR a burst fire rifle and the M16A2 an automatic rifle.