[1] Due to the cheap labor available, China Marines lived a relatively comfortable lifestyle, with each squad able to hire Chinese men to do their cleaning and run their errands.

This, plus the inexpensive goods available on the local market, made an assignment to the China Marines highly coveted.

However, Imperial Japan attacked the United States on December 7, and the Marine Embassy guards, plus a fourteen-man Naval medical detachment, a total of 203 men, were captured and held as slave labor until the war's end in August 1945.

1 in Exile as a post comprised in the main of retired military special operators who can be hired for assorted purposes.

Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon contains descriptions of the exploits of the China Marines in World War II.