Happy Birthday you Jarheads!

[ex13F]

 

[Beartooth]

Yes, Happy Birthday!
What a fighting force.

 

[Shibadog]

Semper Fi!

 

[Tinyman]

 

[Captain O]

Semper FI, brothers and sisters! This old sailor remembers, (but loves you anyway).

USMC (Uncle Sam's Malevolent Creatures).

 

[Captain O]

The job description(s) of all US military branches are:

1. 1. Kill people.
2. 2. Destroy things.
3. 3. Support military members who kill people and destroy things.

End of description(s).

 

[Talyn]

“Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised … that particular care be taken, that no persons be appointed to office, or enlisted 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"

An excerpt from the resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress on this day in 1775 founding the Continental Marines, whose establishment the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates as its birthday.