US Marine Corps’ 240th anniversary

Cripes. Another one? Seems like only last year at this time they celebrated an anniversary.

Happy Birthday Devil Dogs.
I got you guys a little present.

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Thirteen years ago today, my wife and I were in a big hotel in Nevada that was full of Marines. Every one of those young Marines were polite and reflected credit upon the Marine Corps. Happy Birthday Devil Dogs.

Marines, the only grunts that show off about half as much as the friggin’ airborne !!!
Happy Birthday to the finest bunch of cutthroat killers in history !!!

The President of the United States wishes the United States Marine Corpse a happy anniversary and he’d like to remind each Marine that it’s raining in D.C.–so keep those umbrellas at the ready.

Happy Birthday, Marines. If I had to distill the essence of the word “Marine” into a few short paragraphs, I could do no better than these written by LtCol Michael Strobl, USMC (Ret). He wrote the report that eventually evolved into the movie “Taking Chance”, his story about escorting the remains of LCpl Chance Phelps to his final resting place. After the funeral and burial ceremony, a wake was held at the local VFW. The story goes on: “After a while we all gathered in the Chance Phelps room for the formal dedication. The Post commander told us of how Chance had been so looking forward to becoming a Life Member of the VFW. Now, in the Chance Phelps Room of the Dubois, Wyoming post, he would be an eternal member. We all raised our beers and the Chance Phelps room was christened. Later, as I was walking toward the pool tables, a Staff Sergeant from the Reserve unit in Salt Lake grabbed me and said, “Sir, you gotta hear this.” There were two other Marines with him and he told the younger one, a Lance Corporal, to tell me his story. The Staff Sergeant said the Lance Corporal was normally too shy and modest to tell it but now he’d had enough beer to overcome his usual tendencies. As the Lance Corporal started to talk, an older man joined our circle. He wore a baseball cap that indicated he had been with the 1st Marine Division in Korea. Earlier in the evening he had told me about one of his former commanding officers; a Colonel Puller. So, there I was, standing in a circle with three Marines recently returned from fighting with the 1st Marine Division in Iraq and one not so recently returned from fighting with the 1st Marine Division in Korea. I, who had fought with the 1st Marine Division in Kuwait, was about to gain a new insight into our Corps. The young Lance Corporal began to tell us his story. At that moment, in this circle of current and former Marines, the differences in our… Read more »

Happy Birthday to all Marines from a Navy Seabee brother who has served beside you and supported you. Thank you very much Marines saved our ass several times and I know we helped them a little bit. This is a true thank you and we Seabees share a true Bond in brother hood. Marines Rock!!!!!

So they start this new military unit, and the very first thing it gets to do is invade the Bahamas.

What does the Army get? Defense of a goofy cow pasture called Bunker Hill.

Mom always liked you better, jarheads…

Happy Birthday, Marines. But, oh, no, this just in:
http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/07/army-study-finds-marines-tun-tavern-was-actually-a-gay-bar/

Ooooooooorah!

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