Showing posts with label marine corps. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

marine corps birthday


marine corps birthday

"The few, the proud" says an old advertising slogan for the U. S. Marine Corps, and that's it. The Marines are the smallest branch of the American forces, but also the reputation of outmatches size. Today, the 235th Marines birthday is celebrated, before the country was born in 1775.

"The Marines I have seen around the world, the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of a group of animals I've ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" Eleanor Roosevelt once said.

The Marine Corps is less than 11 percent of the American army, but more than 23 percent of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the New York Daily News notes. Yet, one of the most powerful after the fiercely proud alumni groups and high-profile events like the Marine Corps. Marathon, now 35, year (see the gallery of the event here).

Throughout the world, Marines celebrate the day with a cake tradition: The guest of honor will be the first piece of birthday cake decorated with the symbol of U.S. Navy, the Marine will receive the second oldest, and then the Navy will become the third youngest, JT Adrian Rankine-Galloway, the captain of the Marine Corps. said in a telephone interview.

After the cake at a birthday message to John A. Lejeune, 13 master of the Marines, read. Lejeune called "Navy Navy", and went to the Corps. 1920-1929.

"As long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal to every emergency in the future than in the past, our nation and the people respect us a worthy successor to the long line of illustrious men, who served as Soldiers of the Sea" since the founding of the Corps. "read the message.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

marine corps birthday

marine corps birthday
The local group of Marine Corps League is the famous military wing's 234th Birthday with a ceremony by 10 clock today to mark the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport. There, members of the League of Floyd L. Baxter Red River Detachment and 875 Marines from Bravo Co., 1 Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, will conduct an appropriate ceremony marking the occasion. They will then cut a cake with a knife and the stake until all the cake gone.
The Corps’ strength has been consecrated in sacrifice and tested in battles over the years. Although always resilient in strength, the Marine Corps has continuously adapted and evolved, often through extraordinary innovation. Through it all, a renowned, revered legacy of excellence in battle and in all endeavors has amassed. Camp Lejeune shares in that legacy.
Although the center of the war and training for it has changed over the years, the fundamental nature of the war and the Marines to do it. In the 68 years since the base is a much changed, but the body and defining characteristics of the base of the commitment, the sacrifice of another, tirelessly excellence, courage and has remained timeless.
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