To all that claim (THE TITLE US MARINE)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Well its a day early, but OORAH - Semper Fi my brothers! Happy birthday to my beloved Corps.
I am getting together with some Marine friends to night and celebrate in true Marine style.
Famous Marine Quotes
"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence." GEN. JOHNSON, U.S. ARMY
"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and those who have met them in battle. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion." Unknown
"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES."
CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR
"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!"
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
“If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.”
General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in Korea,
overheard and reported by Marine Staff Sergeant Bill Houghton, Weapons/2/5
“Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army.” Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!"
GEN. PERSHING, US.ARMY
"A ship without MARINES is like a garment without buttons." ADM. DAVID PORTER, USN
"The more Marines I have around, the better I like it."
General Clark, U.S. Army
"No one can say that the Marines have failed to do their work in handsome fashion."
Major General Hagood, U.S. Army
"There is no military body in our country of higher efficiency than the Marine Corps.
They take great pride in their profession. They never let things slack a bit."
Rear Admiral C.M. Wilslow, U.S. Navy
"They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time."
Chesty Puller, USMC, Chosin Reservoir, Korean War
Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed. Chesty Puller, USMC
"Marine Corps integrity is doing that thing which is right, when no one is looking"
Col. Colin Lampard, USMC
Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary
General A. M. Gray, USMC
Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. General James L. Jones Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps
"They (Marines) have given us our only real fight." Commanding Officer of the British, War 0f 1812
"The American Marines are terribly reckless fellows... they would make very good storm troopers." Unidentified German officer at Belleau Wood
The US Air Force Chief-of-Staff would never be called -- Airman
The Chief-of-Naval Operations would never be called -- Sailor
The Commanding General of The US Army would never be called -- Soldier
BUT the Commandant of the Marine Corps would be proud to be called a -- United States Marine
“Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights." Navy Times; November 1994
"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" Eleanor Roosevelt
"We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess." Gen. James L. Jones, USMC
"My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers... These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost." 2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard, Peleliu, World War II
"It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine... People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did. Besides, I am a U.S. Marine and I'll be one till I die." Ted Williams
“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference to the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” Ronald Reagan
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking!"
FERDINAND FOCH
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
"The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!"
GEN MARK CLARK, USA
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!"
LTGEN PATTON, USA 1945
"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
MAJ HOLDREDGE
"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!"
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency: we are winning!"
COL DAVID M. SHOUP, USMC
"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence."
GEN JOHNSON, US.ARMY
"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500 years."
JAMES FORRESTAL, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
"Come on, you sons of b*****! Do you want to live forever?"
GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC
"We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!"
GEN. OLIVER SMITH, USMC
"I have just returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"
GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, US.ARMY
"Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)"
GERMAN SOLDIERS, WW1 at BELLEAU WOOD
"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
"We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!"
GEN JOHN VESSEY, CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS
"Retreat hell! We just got here!"
CAPT LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC
"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of MARINES. LORD, how they could fight!"
MAJGEN FRANK LOWE, US.ARMY
"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES."
CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
LTGEN LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER, USMC
"The man who will go where his colors go without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle or a mountain range, and who will suffer and die; in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legends are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionnaire, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...today he is called United States Marine."
LTCOL FEHRENBACH, USA, in "This Kind of War"
"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."
UNKNOWN
"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth - and the amusing thing about it is that they are."
- Father Kevin Keaney, 1st MarDiv Chaplain, Korean War
“The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men."
- Robert Sherrod, 1943, regarding the battle at Tarawa
Roger that George, and even an Army guy like me has to admit that it is always best to have a Devil Dog unit on your flank in combat because that's one flank you don't have to worry about. Here's a true story: In 2003 when the Marines and the Army 3d Infantry Division had taken down Baghdad and had truck convoys scattered all the way into Kuwait, I was a plans officer at USCENTCOM when our intelligence intercepted an order from the Iraqi insurgency commander. It was a field order to all the insurgent unit commanders and it went something like this:
"Resistance Commanders, When attacking supply and truck units you must be aware that there are two different American "armies":
1. The US Army which wears tan desert uniforms like this (photo of a
Soldier wearing the old desert uniform); and.
2. The US Marine Corps which wears a different uniform like this (photo of a Marine wearing the newly issued USMC digital uniform).
When planning your attacks on supply lines and truck convoys ensure that you do NOT attack a US Marine unit. If you do, these supply-unit Marines will immediately act like Army infantry and they will attack you and hunt every one of your men down and kill them. The US Army truck and supply units will not pursue you. Attack them instead."
As deeply embarrassing as that was to the entire US Army, it was a long time coming. As an Infantryman, I know that in the past 25 years we trained the hell out of our active duty combat units but we let the rest
of the force waste away. The Army has a long ways to go, but we have rectified some of these problems in the past four years. It's just sad that we had to let the enemy tell us how screwed up we were.
VR,
John A. Keenan
Colonel, USMC (Ret)
There are about 1.5 million of us in the active forces that wear a uniform. If you add all the reserves and the National Guard, the total is somewhere close to 3 million. That is only 1% of our nation’s population. We are a military at war, not a nation at war. Unfortunately, many Americans just don’t get it. But you get it.
BGen Robert E. Milstead, Jr.,
Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.
RAdm. "Jay" R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995
Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.
Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, USA; 12 February 1918
AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE
A group of Americans, retired teachers, recently went to France on a tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.
"Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."
The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
"Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France!" The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '4 4 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any damn Frenchmen to show it to."
"And there we were, out in the countryside in Vietnam, living together, eating together and obviously going through all sorts of things. I think I came up with a very, very different perspective than most people that end up in senior management positions about what people who wear blue collars think about things and how they react to things, and what you should do to try to be fair to those folks. So in that regard it was an invaluable experience. And a great deal of what FedEx has been able to accomplish was built on those lessons I learned in the Marine Corps." Fred Smith, FED Ex founder
“I learned an awful lot in the Marine Corps -- particularly about, I think, how to treat people, lead people -- which has played a big role in FedEx. A big part of the employee relations systems and all that we have at our company came from my experience in the service. The Marine Corps is the best when it comes to teaching people how to lead other folks.” Fred Smith, FED Ex founder
I am getting together with some Marine friends to night and celebrate in true Marine style.
Famous Marine Quotes
"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence." GEN. JOHNSON, U.S. ARMY
"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and those who have met them in battle. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion." Unknown
"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES."
CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR
"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!"
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
“If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.”
General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in Korea,
overheard and reported by Marine Staff Sergeant Bill Houghton, Weapons/2/5
“Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army.” Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!"
GEN. PERSHING, US.ARMY
"A ship without MARINES is like a garment without buttons." ADM. DAVID PORTER, USN
"The more Marines I have around, the better I like it."
General Clark, U.S. Army
"No one can say that the Marines have failed to do their work in handsome fashion."
Major General Hagood, U.S. Army
"There is no military body in our country of higher efficiency than the Marine Corps.
They take great pride in their profession. They never let things slack a bit."
Rear Admiral C.M. Wilslow, U.S. Navy
"They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time."
Chesty Puller, USMC, Chosin Reservoir, Korean War
Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed. Chesty Puller, USMC
"Marine Corps integrity is doing that thing which is right, when no one is looking"
Col. Colin Lampard, USMC
Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary
General A. M. Gray, USMC
Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. General James L. Jones Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps
"They (Marines) have given us our only real fight." Commanding Officer of the British, War 0f 1812
"The American Marines are terribly reckless fellows... they would make very good storm troopers." Unidentified German officer at Belleau Wood
The US Air Force Chief-of-Staff would never be called -- Airman
The Chief-of-Naval Operations would never be called -- Sailor
The Commanding General of The US Army would never be called -- Soldier
BUT the Commandant of the Marine Corps would be proud to be called a -- United States Marine
“Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights." Navy Times; November 1994
"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" Eleanor Roosevelt
"We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess." Gen. James L. Jones, USMC
"My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers... These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost." 2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard, Peleliu, World War II
"It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine... People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did. Besides, I am a U.S. Marine and I'll be one till I die." Ted Williams
“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference to the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” Ronald Reagan
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking!"
FERDINAND FOCH
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
"The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!"
GEN MARK CLARK, USA
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!"
LTGEN PATTON, USA 1945
"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
MAJ HOLDREDGE
"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!"
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency: we are winning!"
COL DAVID M. SHOUP, USMC
"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence."
GEN JOHNSON, US.ARMY
"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500 years."
JAMES FORRESTAL, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
"Come on, you sons of b*****! Do you want to live forever?"
GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC
"We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!"
GEN. OLIVER SMITH, USMC
"I have just returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"
GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, US.ARMY
"Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)"
GERMAN SOLDIERS, WW1 at BELLEAU WOOD
"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
"We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!"
GEN JOHN VESSEY, CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS
"Retreat hell! We just got here!"
CAPT LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC
"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of MARINES. LORD, how they could fight!"
MAJGEN FRANK LOWE, US.ARMY
"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES."
CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
LTGEN LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER, USMC
"The man who will go where his colors go without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle or a mountain range, and who will suffer and die; in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legends are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionnaire, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...today he is called United States Marine."
LTCOL FEHRENBACH, USA, in "This Kind of War"
"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."
UNKNOWN
"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth - and the amusing thing about it is that they are."
- Father Kevin Keaney, 1st MarDiv Chaplain, Korean War
“The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men."
- Robert Sherrod, 1943, regarding the battle at Tarawa
Roger that George, and even an Army guy like me has to admit that it is always best to have a Devil Dog unit on your flank in combat because that's one flank you don't have to worry about. Here's a true story: In 2003 when the Marines and the Army 3d Infantry Division had taken down Baghdad and had truck convoys scattered all the way into Kuwait, I was a plans officer at USCENTCOM when our intelligence intercepted an order from the Iraqi insurgency commander. It was a field order to all the insurgent unit commanders and it went something like this:
"Resistance Commanders, When attacking supply and truck units you must be aware that there are two different American "armies":
1. The US Army which wears tan desert uniforms like this (photo of a
Soldier wearing the old desert uniform); and.
2. The US Marine Corps which wears a different uniform like this (photo of a Marine wearing the newly issued USMC digital uniform).
When planning your attacks on supply lines and truck convoys ensure that you do NOT attack a US Marine unit. If you do, these supply-unit Marines will immediately act like Army infantry and they will attack you and hunt every one of your men down and kill them. The US Army truck and supply units will not pursue you. Attack them instead."
As deeply embarrassing as that was to the entire US Army, it was a long time coming. As an Infantryman, I know that in the past 25 years we trained the hell out of our active duty combat units but we let the rest
of the force waste away. The Army has a long ways to go, but we have rectified some of these problems in the past four years. It's just sad that we had to let the enemy tell us how screwed up we were.
VR,
John A. Keenan
Colonel, USMC (Ret)
There are about 1.5 million of us in the active forces that wear a uniform. If you add all the reserves and the National Guard, the total is somewhere close to 3 million. That is only 1% of our nation’s population. We are a military at war, not a nation at war. Unfortunately, many Americans just don’t get it. But you get it.
BGen Robert E. Milstead, Jr.,
Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.
RAdm. "Jay" R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995
Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.
Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, USA; 12 February 1918
AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE
A group of Americans, retired teachers, recently went to France on a tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.
"Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."
The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
"Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France!" The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '4 4 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any damn Frenchmen to show it to."
"And there we were, out in the countryside in Vietnam, living together, eating together and obviously going through all sorts of things. I think I came up with a very, very different perspective than most people that end up in senior management positions about what people who wear blue collars think about things and how they react to things, and what you should do to try to be fair to those folks. So in that regard it was an invaluable experience. And a great deal of what FedEx has been able to accomplish was built on those lessons I learned in the Marine Corps." Fred Smith, FED Ex founder
“I learned an awful lot in the Marine Corps -- particularly about, I think, how to treat people, lead people -- which has played a big role in FedEx. A big part of the employee relations systems and all that we have at our company came from my experience in the service. The Marine Corps is the best when it comes to teaching people how to lead other folks.” Fred Smith, FED Ex founder
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What's the real birthday of the Marines?
Nov 10, 1775 or July 11, 1798.
In '75 two battalions of Marines were raised for service as landing forces with the fleet but were disbanded in 1783.
Formal establishment of the Marine Corps as we know it today was on 11 July 1798.
Nov 10, 1775 or July 11, 1798.
In '75 two battalions of Marines were raised for service as landing forces with the fleet but were disbanded in 1783.
Formal establishment of the Marine Corps as we know it today was on 11 July 1798.
Man Feel Old...
May have to have a drink, raise a glass to all my Brothers Past & Present.
You know the Motto:
The Marine Corps was born in a Bar and it intends on staying there ...
Semper Fi !
May have to have a drink, raise a glass to all my Brothers Past & Present.
You know the Motto:
The Marine Corps was born in a Bar and it intends on staying there ...
Semper Fi !
Damn right Frank, no matter how old we get we will always be able to walk with our heads held high and chest out! I just picked up some Scotch and Stout's for tonight. I am looking forward to getting together with some other Marines and having a toast or three.
KraigWY the birthday is November 10 1775.
KraigWY the birthday is November 10 1775.
Happy (early) birthday brothers! Semper Fi
Happy Birthday. Remembering friends today.
Tun Tavern 11/10/1775. Have a new bottle of George Stagg and a Liga Privada to smoke for the holiday.
Back at you Brothers! May God bless us all, past and present.
Takes me back to Waikiki in 1985. We were celebrating our b-day downtown whilst sporting our blues. We happened into a bar/strip joint owned by a Marine who wore a Purple Heart in his lapel. We were asked not to attempt to pay for drinks. The girls got some heavy tips tho!
Takes me back to Waikiki in 1985. We were celebrating our b-day downtown whilst sporting our blues. We happened into a bar/strip joint owned by a Marine who wore a Purple Heart in his lapel. We were asked not to attempt to pay for drinks. The girls got some heavy tips tho!
Ha I thought today was the 10th,ok Happy early birthday semper fi
.....And on the 10th day God said......... "LET THERE BE MARINES!"
The Reaper Snapped to attention and all of Hell let out with a loud OOH RAH!!!!
Happy 238th Brothers! I'll be raising my glass tonight....thinking about all the wives, girlfriends, and side pieces Jody banged.
The Reaper Snapped to attention and all of Hell let out with a loud OOH RAH!!!!
Happy 238th Brothers! I'll be raising my glass tonight....thinking about all the wives, girlfriends, and side pieces Jody banged.
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Happy Birthday Brothers (and Sisters)!
S/F
S/F
Black coffee is the strongest drink I can have here, but a toast raised nonetheless. Semper Fidelis and Happy Birthday Brothers.
Happy Birthday to all!
Happy birthday studs!
S/F
S/F
Semper Fi brothers!
Semper Fi fellow Marines, and happy birthday. '91-'97.
I will keep it simple...
Happy Birthday Marines. 84-90 kilo co 3rd batt 9th marines. Some of the best years i had even though i did not realize it at the time.
does anyone know what is the best this about being USMC infantry. Talking about being in the USMC infantry.haha
does anyone know what is the best this about being USMC infantry. Talking about being in the USMC infantry.haha
Lt Samuel Nicholas was recruiting his first recruit for the Marine Corps in Tun's Tavern, Philadelphia, November 10, 1775.
His first recruit came up to him. "Here , sign your name or make your mark. Here's $10 pay for your first month. Did you bring your rifle?"
The first Marine Recruit signed his name, took the money and said, "Yes, Sir, I have my rifle."
"Lt Nicholas said, "Outstanding! Go sit down in the room in the back!"
The second Marine recruit shows up. Lt Nicholas says, "Here, sign your name or make your mark! Here's $10 for your first month's pay! Did
you bring your rifle?"
The second recruit signs his name, takes his pay and says, "No, Sir, I dont have a rifle just yet!"
Lt Nicholas says, "That's okay, we'll get you one! Now, Go in the back room and sit down with the other Marine recruit!"
The second recruit steps in the back room, sees the first recruit and sits at the table with him.
The first recruit asks him, "Hey, Did you bring your rifle?" The second recruit says, "No, he said he'd get me one soon though."
The first recruit said, "You know, in the OLD CORPS, we had to bring our OWN rifles!"
His first recruit came up to him. "Here , sign your name or make your mark. Here's $10 pay for your first month. Did you bring your rifle?"
The first Marine Recruit signed his name, took the money and said, "Yes, Sir, I have my rifle."
"Lt Nicholas said, "Outstanding! Go sit down in the room in the back!"
The second Marine recruit shows up. Lt Nicholas says, "Here, sign your name or make your mark! Here's $10 for your first month's pay! Did
you bring your rifle?"
The second recruit signs his name, takes his pay and says, "No, Sir, I dont have a rifle just yet!"
Lt Nicholas says, "That's okay, we'll get you one! Now, Go in the back room and sit down with the other Marine recruit!"
The second recruit steps in the back room, sees the first recruit and sits at the table with him.
The first recruit asks him, "Hey, Did you bring your rifle?" The second recruit says, "No, he said he'd get me one soon though."
The first recruit said, "You know, in the OLD CORPS, we had to bring our OWN rifles!"
Happy Birthday to you one and all.
When it absolutely positively has to be destroyed overnight, send in the United States Marine Corps.
When it absolutely positively has to be destroyed overnight, send in the United States Marine Corps.
Semper Superbia, and Semper Fi!
Always Proud, and Always Faithful
Tonight as I pour a drink for myself, I shall also pour a toast to the ground for 12 good Marines who can only be memorialized by the 13th. Semper Fi my Brothers, you will live forever!
Always Proud, and Always Faithful
Tonight as I pour a drink for myself, I shall also pour a toast to the ground for 12 good Marines who can only be memorialized by the 13th. Semper Fi my Brothers, you will live forever!
Written this morning by my beautiful 10 year old daughter.:
"Happy birthday Marine Daddy,
Happy birthday Marine Daddy,
Happy birthday Marine Daddy'
Happy birthday to you!"
Let her words speak to all my brothers and sisters. Especially those with children.
Semper Fi,
HRF
"Happy birthday Marine Daddy,
Happy birthday Marine Daddy,
Happy birthday Marine Daddy'
Happy birthday to you!"
Let her words speak to all my brothers and sisters. Especially those with children.
Semper Fi,
HRF
While I've never had the honor myself, I would like to offer my sincere gratitude to all who hold the title and those to come. You guys truely represent the best our nation has to offer and share a unique bond like non other on earth. Growing up with a father from the Corps has shaped me in ways other people can never understand unless they experienced it themselves. I think I knew what the 10th was before I even knew my own birthday and I certainly understood what Semper Fidelis meant before I understood too much else about life. Tonight I will drink one for those that are. Happy birthday Marine and thank you for your service.
To all brothers on the hide..Happy Birthday!!!....Semper Fi
haha back in the old corps huh
Kill!
