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233rd

R

Rasczak

Marine
Alright. I've been here for a while, and now I have earned the right to call you all brothers.
Nov. 22nd for my unit.

Semper Fidelis my brothers,
PFC. Ramirez

Soon it will be Lt. Ramirez.
 
Birdog8585

Birdog8585

Milk and Honey
pilot
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“There were Northwesterners with straw-colored hair … and delicately spoken chaps with the stamp of the Eastern universities on them. There were large-boned fellows from Pacific-coast lumber camps, and tall, lean Southerners who swore amazingly in gentle, drawling voices. There were husky farmers from the corn-belt, and youngsters who had sprung, as it were, to arms from the necktie counter. And there were also a number of diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and a bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. …

“They were the Leathernecks … the old breed of American regular, regarding the service as home and war as an occupation; and they transmitted their temper and character and view-point into the high-hearted volunteer mass which filled the ranks of the Marine Brigade.

“There is nothing particularly glorious about sweaty fellows, laden with killing tools, going along to fight. And yet—such a column represents a great deal more than 28,000 individuals mustered into a division. All that is behind those men is in that column, too: the old battles, long forgotten, that secured our nation … traditions of things endured and things accomplished, such as regiments hand down forever … and that abstract thing called patriotism, which I never heard combat soldiers mention—all this passes into the forward zone, to the point of contact, where war is girt with horrors. And common men endure these horrors and overcome them, along with the insistent yearnings of the belly and the reasonable promptings of fear; and in this, I think, is glory.”
—Capt John W. Thomason Jr.: “Fix Bayonets,” 1926, on Marines during WW I​

Happy Birthday Marines
 
Pat_Lucas

Pat_Lucas

Dumb New Guy
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Well it appears we were successful. The rock at the University of Tennessee is now celebrating the Marine Corps birthday as well:D. Sorry for the crappy resolution, it was taken on my palm.
 

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