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John A. Lejeune, author of Marine Corps Order 47. Prior to 1921, Marines celebrated the recreation of the Corps on 11 July with little pomp or pageantry. [7] On 21 October 1921, Major Edwin North McClellan, in charge of the Corps's fledgling historical section, sent a memorandum to Commandant John A. Lejeune, suggesting the Marines' original birthday of 10 November be declared a Marine Corps ...
"Major General Merwin H. Silverthorn, Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, cuts the first piece of birthday cake at this Staff Non-Commissioned Officers Club." From the Marion Fischer Collection (COLL/858) at the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH: Date: November 1953 : Source
Local marines were treated like royalty this week, wolfing down cake, lobster and steak, in celebration of the fighting force’s 248th birthday. The U.S. Marine Corps, created as the nation ...
The most senior Marine Corps officer is the commandant (unless a Marine Corps officer is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs or vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs), responsible to the secretary of the Navy for organizing, recruiting, training, and equipping the Marine Corps so that its forces are ready for deployment under the operational command ...
Nov. 16—Only have a minute? Listen instead The 248th U.S. Marine Corps Birthday Ball will take place from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the Rio Event Center in Brownsville. The gala event is ...
Colonel Walter I. Jordan and members of the 24th Marines celebrate the Marine Corps Birthday in Maui, 1944. From the Austin Brunelli Collection (COLL/19) at the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH: Date: November 1944 : Source: Marine Corps Birthday Celebration, Maui, 1944: Author: USMC Archives from Quantico, USA
By KELSEY DRISCOLL On November 10, 1775, Philadelphia native Captain Samuel Nicholas formed the first two battalions of the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War after realizing ...
Terminal Lance is a comic strip and website created in 2010 by Maximilian Uriarte that satirizes United States Marine Corps life. Uriarte publishes the strip in the Marine Corps Times newspaper and on his own website, TerminalLance.com. The name is a slang term for a Marine who finishes an enlistment (i.e. terminates) as a lance corporal (E-3).