To control the creation, organization, maintenance, use and disposition of Marine Corps records.  Records include all books, papers, maps, photographs, machine readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, polices, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value of data in them.  In addition, electronic record means any information that is recorded in a form that only a computer can process and that satisfies the definition of a Federal record.