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Bret

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Happy Birthday Marines!

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Don't foget to tip a pint of your favorite poison? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thirsty.gif

Too the Corps! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif

Semper Fi! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/patriot.gif
Bret
USMC (77-81) HML-167

Forwarded;
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Title: Resolution Establishing the Continential Marines
Category: Congressional Act
Author/Presenter: Continential Congress

Date: 10 November 1775

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JOURNAL OF THE CONTINENTIAL CONGRESS
(Philadelphia) Friday, November 10, 1775

Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors, and other officers as usual in other regiments; and that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; 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; that they be enlisted and commissioned to serve for and during the present war between Great Britain and the colonies, unless dismissed by order of Congress: that they be distinguished by the names of the first and second battalions of American Marines, and that they be considered as part of the number which the continental Army before Boston is ordered to consist of.

Ordered, That a copy of the above be transmitted to the General.
 

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Geh, I never got the letter.

Happy Birthday.
 
Happy Birthday, Leathernecks! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/patriot.gif
 
Happy Birthday, guys. Semper Fi. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif

R.
 
Ya see? we Limeys inspired the formation of your Marine Corps! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

I'll raise a glass to those guys with pleasure. Happy Birthday, Marines!!!
 
Semper Fi, and thanks to everyone (Marines or otherwise) keeping us safe here at home and abroad! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/patriot.gif
 
Semper Fi, guys!
 
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From an almost jarhead... Semper Fi! Hoorah!

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They're sorta moving away from "Hoorah" these days and going instead with "Kill!" Kinda cool in a weird, non-cuddly kinda way. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

R.
 
Yup, I was almost a Marine in 1989 while they were still 'Hoorah'ing! A reconstructed shoulder, loss of 30% of my upper arm range of motion etc... made the MEPS Doctors look at me crosseyed and stamp PDQ all over my file. Two weeks before my ship date to basic. Have several friends that are Marines though no longer active duty.

A couple months later I bought my TR6. It's been downhill from there. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif To the Corps! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thirsty.gif


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Yes....Happy B-day.

Too bad we can't have a pint at Tuns Tavern......

The original site of Tuns Tavern is now a footing for one of Phillys highway bridges. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif

(I looked for the place last time I was there)
 
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Yup, I was almost a Marine in 1989 while they were still 'Hoorah'ing! A reconstructed shoulder, loss of 30% of my upper arm range of motion etc... made the MEPS Doctors look at me crosseyed and stamp PDQ all over my file. Two weeks before my ship date to basic. Have several friends that are Marines though no longer active duty.

A couple months later I bought my TR6. It's been downhill from there. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif

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Oorah! was still the chant from '92 to '96, the time I was in. Though, by that time, those that were still in but not pleased with their situations had taken 'Oorah!' into their own as a sort derogatory way of getting back at their 'oppressors'. When ever those guys would bark out a 'Oorah!' it would sound like a deranged Easter bunny was running down the hall. Amusing from time to time, but it didn't do much to boost morale. Thankfully, those guys all washed out during MOS training.

I'm somewhat surprised to hear that 'kill!' is the new chant. I know we're in a time of war, but I would have figured 'M.O.M.' (Mothers Of aMerica), as my Drill Instructors called them, wouldn't approve. Public out cry caused a lot of changes in Bootcamp; it wasn't nearly as bad as how "Full Metal Jacket" depicted it by the time I went through.

Either way, I'm taking time out to contact my buds that are still serving today /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/patriot.gif
 
You'll still hear Ooo-Rah! all over the place, but the trend is to using "kill!" as a sort of greeting.

My soft spot for the Marines comes from my 10 years in the Navy. Kin is kin, ya know?

On a more somber note, this was on CNN just an hour ago:

"(CNN) -- President Bush announced on Friday that the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, will be awarded posthumously to Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham.

In April 2004, Dunham was leading a patrol in an Iraqi town near the Syrian border when the patrol stopped a convoy of cars leaving the scene of an attack on a Marine convoy, according to military and media accounts of the action.

An occupant of one of the cars attacked Dunham and the two fought hand to hand. As they fought, Dunham yelled to fellow Marines, "No, no watch his hand." The attacker then dropped a grenade and Dunham hurled himself on top of it, using his helmet to try to blunt the force of the blast.

Still, Dunham was critically wounded in the explosion and died eight days later at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland."

Semper Fi, Corporal Dunham. God bless.
 
I just had a call from one of my sons, who is a SGT on his third hitch. He and some of the other NCO's in his unit are celebrating the birthday at Carl's
in Vista. (Near the Del Mar gate at Camp Pendleton). They've only been back in the US now for a couple of weeks so they have a lot to celebrate. If he survives Carl's he'll finally get some leave.
 
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