Netflix on Tuesday released its four-episode documentary series on the U.S. Marine Corps.

Coinciding with the service’s 250th birthday, “Marines” follows the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit — one of just seven Marine expeditionary units and the only permanently forward-deployed Marine expeditionary unit — “as they conduct high-stakes combat exercises in the Pacific,” according to the streaming service’s synopsis.

“When I first joined on, I found I was nervous,” director Chelsea Yarnell told Military Times in a recent interview. “I was thinking, ‘I don’t know too much about the Marines. Am I the right person to tell this story?’

“I found, almost immediately upon filming, that [being an outsider] was almost like my superpower because the Marine Corps is very dense. It’s a very insular worl

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