To the Marine Corps, then Lieutenant (j.g.) William Fullam was well known to be an enemy to the Corps's institution and organization, due to his announcement that he would see that the Marine Corps is to be destroyed. It was the professional opinion of a number of young naval officers led by Lieutenant Commander Seaton Schroeder who cordially approved and endorsed the views of Lieutenant Fullam that the day for shipboard duties for Marines had passed. The term "Fullamite" became a name that has long became registered in many military books denoted someone that refers to non-believers of the Marine Corps philosophy.