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The United States Navy and United States Marine Corps refers to it as mess night. Other names include regimental dinner, guest night, formal mess dinner, and band night. [1] The dining in is a formal event for all unit members, male and female; though some specialized mess nights can be officer- or enlisted-only.
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).
The culture of the United States Marine Corps is widely varied but unique amongst the branches of the United States Armed Forces. [1] Because members of the Marine Corps are drawn from across the United States (and resident aliens from other nations), [2] it is as varied as each individual Marine but tied together with core values and traditions passed from generation to generation of Marines.
The air campaign lasted four nights and would end with the following: (1) 100% sortie completion rate, (2) 44 combat night sorties, (3) 120.2 combat hours, (4) 74% of assigned targets destroyed, (5) 27 HARM fired, 53 LGBs dropped, the first combat deployment of the AGM-154 JSOW and (6) over 95,500 lb of ordnance loaded. In the four nights of ...
Sisters Helena and Barbara Stefaniak had their worlds turned upside down after the start of World War II. The sisters, who were living in Poland, were separated and put into work camps as teens ...
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He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on 6 April 1917 and served until his death in 1944. In 1917 Thomason married Leda Bass; they had one son, John "Jack" W Thomason III, born in 1920. [ 2 ] After serving as a Marine in World War II, Jack died in an airplane crash in Calcutta, India , in 1947.