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Very simple a person joins the Army, Navy, and Air Force. A person becomes a Marine. Being a Marine is part of your identity, not just part of your history. Semper FI and happy Birthday.
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Sgt Cody Dumont
Jacob Hollander - I hope you have as much pride in your service as I have in mine. But I grew up near an Air Force base and my son wants to join the Air Force (which I have encouraged). But spend some time around Marines, we are different.
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LCpl Mark Napier
Thats what I was going to say, we become Marines didnt just join a branch wanted to become something greater than ourself I am a Marine!!
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PFC Pamala (Hall ) Foster
When I was in, several Marines called me MOM and it stuck (even though I was Army) with my unit, and the others. Still consider myself a VERY PROUD MOM of all the soldiers, Airmen, sailors and Marines I served with from 2007 to 2009 at Fort Bliss,Texas. Anyone that enlists and serves are my heroes.
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There's a reason why there is a fascination and why the hair on people's neck stand on end when they see a Marine walk in his dress blues proudly. If you walk on this earth without eating with a Marine, training with a Marine, fighting with a Marine- yes, even crossing paths with a Marine- be prepared for a complete culture shock. Marines are like their own religion, their own sect; a cult. No one can honestly say they can understand a Marine- unless you are a Marine. End of story.
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The Marine Corps is trained in it's own history, not just for the history lesson, but as part of what we, Marines, carry within us everyday after we graduate and receive the Eagle, Globe and Anchor. Most other services just use it's own history as a class and not much more. Marines have a long history and make history every day.
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CAPT Hiram Patterson
One of my late friends was a 19 year-old Marine at Iwo Jima and was half-way up Mount Suribachi when the flag was raised.
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The following will be read to the command on the 10th of November, 1921, and hereafter on the
10 November of every year. Should the order not be received by the 10th of November, 1921, it
will be read upon receipt.
(1) On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental
Congress. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name "Marine". In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.
(2) The record of our corps is one which will bear comparison with that of the most famous
military organizations in the world's history. During 90 of the 146 years of its existence the
Marine Corps has been in action against the Nation's foes. From the Battle of Trenton to the
Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home,
generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every
corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.
(3) In every battle and skirmish since the birth of our corps, Marines have acquitted themselves
with the greatest distinction, winning new honors on each occasion until the term "Marine" has come to signify all that is highest in military efficiency and soldierly virtue.
(4) This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received
from those who preceded us in the corps. With it we have also received from them the eternal spirit
which has animated our corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal
to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the men of our Nation will
regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as "Soldiers of
the Sea" since the founding of the Corps.
JOHN A. LEJEUNE,
Major General Commandant
10 November of every year. Should the order not be received by the 10th of November, 1921, it
will be read upon receipt.
(1) On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental
Congress. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name "Marine". In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.
(2) The record of our corps is one which will bear comparison with that of the most famous
military organizations in the world's history. During 90 of the 146 years of its existence the
Marine Corps has been in action against the Nation's foes. From the Battle of Trenton to the
Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home,
generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every
corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.
(3) In every battle and skirmish since the birth of our corps, Marines have acquitted themselves
with the greatest distinction, winning new honors on each occasion until the term "Marine" has come to signify all that is highest in military efficiency and soldierly virtue.
(4) This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received
from those who preceded us in the corps. With it we have also received from them the eternal spirit
which has animated our corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal
to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the men of our Nation will
regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as "Soldiers of
the Sea" since the founding of the Corps.
JOHN A. LEJEUNE,
Major General Commandant
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Graduating from Marine Corps bootcamp wasn't much of an excitement as it was to finally go home. The proudest moment in bootcamp was receiving my cammy with my name tag and the emblazon of U.S. Marines, on top of my left breast pocket. That's when I knew in my heart, I have "earned" the title Marines and I would be able to wear it proudly to exemplify to the new recruit that in a few months, they too, will be where I at; as I was where they were a few months ago.
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GySgt Moses Lozano
I remember on graduation morning the Drill Instructors had us hit the deck for push ups in our graduation uniforms! Then the senior Drill Instructor came out and saved us for the last time. By then, nobody cared because we knew that less than four hours later we would be going home on leave as Marines.
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Cpl Tou Lee Yang
LOL, talking about graduation push up? One of my drill instructor woke me up before reveille. I thought I was dreaming because everyone was still asleep. He was being nice to me, helping me with my Service Alpha. Next thing I knew I was on the quarter deck doing push up and I couldn't cheat (he turned around and played with his smokey cover) because I was in my graduation uniform.. I was amazed that I didn't started sweating until I got to around 350 push up and finally stopped at 500.
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Capt Walter Miller
GySgt Moses Lozano - I don't recall seeing the DI's at all on graduation morning. We got back from chow, got in our greens and just smoked and joked until time to fall in the graduation at 0900. It was bitter cold, about 20 degrees. No overcoats or gloves though.
I remember the battalion commander on the loudspeakers saying, 'your [fill in the blank] has not been referred to as a Marine before now."
A big day.
Walt
I remember the battalion commander on the loudspeakers saying, 'your [fill in the blank] has not been referred to as a Marine before now."
A big day.
Walt
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LCpl Dan McTiernan
I a not certain who was prouder at graduation, we becoming anointed as Marines, or our drill instructors for a job very well done.
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We are bonded by a fellowship that few understand and will never understand. We are all brothers and sisters. No matter if you're a WW2 Marine or a 2015 boot camp graduate, we are all a big family.
Our birthday is tomorrow. 240 years of celebration. Marines from all around the world will seek out one another and wish each other a happy birthday. Strangers bonded together because we earned the EGA.
I am proud to say I have been apart of the Marine Corps history and traditions for over 23 years.
Semper Fi
Our birthday is tomorrow. 240 years of celebration. Marines from all around the world will seek out one another and wish each other a happy birthday. Strangers bonded together because we earned the EGA.
I am proud to say I have been apart of the Marine Corps history and traditions for over 23 years.
Semper Fi
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Capt Walter Miller
When I was in the Nashville Marine unit, we got a call from the I&I. This was back in the ‘80’s. Some World War Two Marines were down at the Charlotte Ave. fire hall doing Toys for Tots. Could we go by and just say hello? It was me and another Marine, I forget who. So we got in our Winter Service Alphas and went down there.
Those WWII Marines were just BEAMING at us. They were so glad to see us. It was kinda freaky. I thought, “We didn’t do the shit, You did the shit.” But definitely a bond, that is for sure.
There was a former Marine there in Nashville who was just in the Corps basically for the Korean War. He wasn’t retired from the Corps. Every time I was at the reserve center, seems like he was there. Mr. Murphy. Always really nice. No one ever said, “Well, we are working, we have things to do.” He was always welcome. He just liked being around Marines. Any way one day we were in Captain Chase’s office. Mr. Murphy’s unit had been in a real desperate fight with the Chinese; I want to say he was in 2/5. He told me that they threw rocks at the Chinese because they were out of grenades. And I thought, “No wonder no ever asks you to leave.”
Walt
Those WWII Marines were just BEAMING at us. They were so glad to see us. It was kinda freaky. I thought, “We didn’t do the shit, You did the shit.” But definitely a bond, that is for sure.
There was a former Marine there in Nashville who was just in the Corps basically for the Korean War. He wasn’t retired from the Corps. Every time I was at the reserve center, seems like he was there. Mr. Murphy. Always really nice. No one ever said, “Well, we are working, we have things to do.” He was always welcome. He just liked being around Marines. Any way one day we were in Captain Chase’s office. Mr. Murphy’s unit had been in a real desperate fight with the Chinese; I want to say he was in 2/5. He told me that they threw rocks at the Chinese because they were out of grenades. And I thought, “No wonder no ever asks you to leave.”
Walt
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SgtMaj Robert Williams
SgtMaj, Robert E. Williams
Happy 240TH. fellow Marines. On the 26th of this month I will have been retired for 30 years after serving 26 years and 4 days Honorably and very proud of my time served and retired. Living in Beaufort , S. C. and seems like yesterday. As us old Dogs were taught, Semper-Fi, Do or Die, OOHRAH.
Happy 240TH. fellow Marines. On the 26th of this month I will have been retired for 30 years after serving 26 years and 4 days Honorably and very proud of my time served and retired. Living in Beaufort , S. C. and seems like yesterday. As us old Dogs were taught, Semper-Fi, Do or Die, OOHRAH.
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"The Marines have a way of making you afraid — not of dying, but of not doing your job. ~1LT Little, Tarawa, 1943”
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