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Happy Birthday, Marines!
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Get some cake, Marine Corps, it’s your 249th birthday
“America will always need Marines willing to fix bayonets and charge the enemy.”
Blow out the candles, Marines, you’re a year older. The Marine Corps officially is 249 years old today. But you’re Marines, you already knew that. So happy birthday.
It’s been a long, strange journey since the Marine Corps was first established. The Continental Congress ordered two battalions of Marines to be established way back on Nov. 10, 1775. Technically the Marines started with that resolution, but they really started thanks to bar patrons. The order given, Capt. Samuel Nicholas alongside Tun Tavern owner Robert Mullan quickly turned to the patrons, recruiting new troops in or just outside the establishment.
Like the Army and Navy, the Marine Corps technically predates the modern United States, forming years before the American Constitution became the foundation of the government. After disbanding after the American Revolution, the United States Marine Corps was officially reformed on July 11, 1798. Marines might have started in a bar, but the last 249 years have taken them around the world, often as the advanced presence of American foreign policy. That is something Gen. Eric Smith, the Marine Corps Commandant, alluded to in his birthday message to the Marine Corps.
“Our history bears witness to Marines of all stripes picking up their rifles and fighting for Corps and Country when the call came. From Wake Island to the Chosin Reservoir to Khe Sanh to Camp Bastion, every Marine fought,” Smith wrote in his birthday message to the Corps. “Our future battles will be no different. Our rear areas will be as vulnerable as our front lines and every Marine from our infantry battalions to our aviation squadrons to our headquarters and support elements will have to stand-to when called.”
Get some cake, Marine Corps, it's your 249th birthday
Nearly two and a half centuries since its founding, the Marine Corps remains essential and ready for the future, its commandant says.
taskandpurpose.com
“America will always need Marines willing to fix bayonets and charge the enemy.”
Blow out the candles, Marines, you’re a year older. The Marine Corps officially is 249 years old today. But you’re Marines, you already knew that. So happy birthday.
It’s been a long, strange journey since the Marine Corps was first established. The Continental Congress ordered two battalions of Marines to be established way back on Nov. 10, 1775. Technically the Marines started with that resolution, but they really started thanks to bar patrons. The order given, Capt. Samuel Nicholas alongside Tun Tavern owner Robert Mullan quickly turned to the patrons, recruiting new troops in or just outside the establishment.
Like the Army and Navy, the Marine Corps technically predates the modern United States, forming years before the American Constitution became the foundation of the government. After disbanding after the American Revolution, the United States Marine Corps was officially reformed on July 11, 1798. Marines might have started in a bar, but the last 249 years have taken them around the world, often as the advanced presence of American foreign policy. That is something Gen. Eric Smith, the Marine Corps Commandant, alluded to in his birthday message to the Marine Corps.
“Our history bears witness to Marines of all stripes picking up their rifles and fighting for Corps and Country when the call came. From Wake Island to the Chosin Reservoir to Khe Sanh to Camp Bastion, every Marine fought,” Smith wrote in his birthday message to the Corps. “Our future battles will be no different. Our rear areas will be as vulnerable as our front lines and every Marine from our infantry battalions to our aviation squadrons to our headquarters and support elements will have to stand-to when called.”
