there are several other articles about this in both the gun media and the other guys. This is from one of the other guys. The only thing I would have done differently, make it a G 17 or G 34. 
"The United States Marine Corps announced today that they recently added a new pistol to its list of authorized individual weapons and it is neither a Colt 1911A1 nor a Beretta M9. It is the 9mm Glock 19 polymer-framed pistol made in Austria."
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