[Greybird]

The Second Continental Congress raised the first battalions of Marines on 10 November 1775, and this is what the current Corps observes as its own founding date. The Navy and the Army also thus similarly observe and honor their having been instituted to wage battles for the Revolution.

Marines predated the Constitution of 1787, and were a part of the Navy, even if the present structure was not yet formed under the new Constitution.

Your whole argument is just a bit too slick and convenient.

Well, that rejoinder is both the politest in form and the emptiest in substance that I've seen around here in a long time! I thank you for the former, and shake my head in amusement (which is all it deserves) at the latter.

[WhiskeyPapa]

"...shake my head in amusement (which is all it deserves) at the latter.

And ignore #28, #29 and #30.

Walt

[WhiskeyPapa]

The Second Continental Congress raised the first battalions of Marines on 10 November 1775, and this is what the current Corps observes as its own founding date.

Yeah, I heard that.

Walt