I wasn't a member of the Marines. Happy birthday anyway!
Alpha Batt., 1st Bn, 10th Marines...
7242, 1977-1981, Parris Island, 29 Palms, Cherry Point, Kaneohe Bay
Uss Pensacola, USS Lamoure County, USS Okinawa, USS Belleau Wood
Semper Fi
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER 805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Establishment of the Marine Corps, 10 November 1775 This resolution of the Continental Congress marked the establishment of what is now the United States Marine Corps.
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"Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors, and other officers as usual in other regiments; and that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken, that no persons be appointed to office, or inlisted into said Battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea when required: that they be inlisted and commissioned to serve for and during the present war between Great Britain and the colonies, unless dismissed by order of Congress: that they be distinguished by the names of the first and second battalions of American Marines, and that they be considered part of the number which the continental Army before Boston is ordered to consist of."
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Source: Journal of the Continental Congress, 10 November 1775, in William Bell Clark, editor, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol. 2, p. 972 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1966).
23 November 1999
I'm no good at posting pictures but I can post a link to some good one. USMC
Semper Fi
Semper Fi, fellas, and many happy returns.
Parris Island, class of '89.
Happy Birthday Chesty and all Marines, Past, Present, Future
SERE_DOC USMC 1976 -1980 FMF Corpsman 1980 - 1996
Bat.....66-68 included one extra day for leap year.
A special thanks to my brother who spent 27 years in the Corps and now is ill with terminal cancer. He was in WW II, China, Korea, Lebanon, Viet Nam, and Santo Domingo being shot at and surviving.
While serving in Los Angeles, he was one of the founders of Toys for Tots. He was a Master Gunnery Sergeant at retirement We are proud of him and all he did to keep America free and help make poor kids happy.
