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Marines may ditch 'The Few, the Proud' slogan
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 30 September 2016 | Jeanette Steele

Posted on 10/03/2016 12:16:08 AM PDT by blueplum

The Marine Corps may replace its iconic slogan “The Few. The Proud. The Marines.”

The service is putting together a new advertising campaign that could include a tagline to succeed the current one, which has been used on and off since 1976.

Here’s the apparent problem with the longtime slogan: It doesn’t explain what the Marines actually do, which is fight.

“(We) examined the existing tagline and felt that it did an excellent job describing who we are, but it didn’t go further and state what it is that we do,” said Lt. Col. John Caldwell, spokesman for the Marine Corps Recruiting Command.

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KEYWORDS: marines; military; veterans; vfw
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should the slogan be changed?
1 posted on 10/03/2016 12:16:08 AM PDT by blueplum
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I’ll leave that decision to the Corps. It’s better than “We’re looking for a few good men”, which in this PC era is too homoerotic.


2 posted on 10/03/2016 12:18:23 AM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: blueplum

The Marines: We should have killed all the muslims at Tripoli and just kept going.


3 posted on 10/03/2016 12:20:42 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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“but it didn’t go further and state what it is that we do”

Break things and kill stuff?

Entirely too much social manipulation going on in the military these days. Gotta get these leftists out of office ASAP.


4 posted on 10/03/2016 12:23:41 AM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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regarding changing Marine slogan:

God, I hope not! You can only imagine how gay the new slogan would will be.


5 posted on 10/03/2016 12:25:14 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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Yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5Dfs7jqFI


6 posted on 10/03/2016 12:26:50 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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I fully expect to see a new ad with the Marines dressed in drag holding hands and kissing...final act of the Obozo administration.


7 posted on 10/03/2016 12:26:51 AM PDT by cgbg (Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
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To: blueplum

The height of eloquence is not saying what you don’t need to say. The marines fight. We all know it.


8 posted on 10/03/2016 12:32:39 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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In the transformed America The Few, The Proud, The Marines is just too elitist for the PC crowd.
Can’t have anyone feeling better about themselves, or their service branch, than anyone else.

The ultra PC types in the Pentagon are wee wee’d up because the Marines stick to their fine tradition of killing people and tearing stuff up.


9 posted on 10/03/2016 12:35:11 AM PDT by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: kaehurowing

Beat me to it


10 posted on 10/03/2016 12:43:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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Yeah, cause the guy is right. I didn’t know a Marine’s job was to kill!! /s

The Few. The Proud. The Marines.

Leave it the #### alone.


11 posted on 10/03/2016 12:43:32 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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In Obama’s tranny-formed America, we celebrate “Greek exceptionalism” over “American exceptionalism”.


12 posted on 10/03/2016 12:44:48 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Minutemen

yup, anything the gay politically correct Obamanation regime chooses now will be horrible..... leave the USMC the hell alone, Obama!!!


13 posted on 10/03/2016 12:58:04 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Secret Agent Man

>>The Marines: We should have killed all the muslims at Tripoli and just kept going.<<

Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

(Would never happen in Acimera where the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.)


14 posted on 10/03/2016 1:53:09 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: blueplum

I love how they make the armed services about “helping.”


15 posted on 10/03/2016 2:14:44 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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“In Obama’s tranny-formed America, we celebrate “Greek exceptionalism” over “American exceptionalism”.”

He did one heck of a job of tranny-forming the military.
In Obies world “butthurt has a whole nother meaning.

I guess this is what the Marines get for pushing back on his women in combat arms edict.

I will be so happy to see the Kenyan islamophile leave our capital for the last time.


16 posted on 10/03/2016 2:15:18 AM PDT by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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The Marines: "We Apologize For All Of Our Past Sins".

 photo Obama 01_zpsgucepuzz.jpg

17 posted on 10/03/2016 2:18:43 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: blueplum

Anyone who doesn’t already know what the Marines do is too stupid to be a Marine. The excuse they gave is no reason to change the slogan.


18 posted on 10/03/2016 2:49:43 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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‘should the slogan be changed?’

No. Their slogan has worked for decades, and there’s entirely too much abandonment of tradition nowadays as it is.


19 posted on 10/03/2016 3:08:37 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: blueplum

The few...the fabulous...

20 posted on 10/03/2016 3:29:09 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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