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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Marine Corps emblem is the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor, sometimes abbreviated "EGA", adopted in 1868. [142] The Marine Corps seal includes the emblem, also is found on the flag of the United States Marine Corps, and establishes scarlet and gold as the official colors. [143]
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John A. Lejeune – 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Commanding General of the U.S. Army's 2nd Infantry Division, and author of the birthday message read aloud at every Marine Corps Birthday Ball ceremony
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Lejeune was born on January 10, 1867, at the Old Hickory Plantation near Lacour, Louisiana, in Pointe Coupee Parish. [3] He was the son of Confederate army captain Ovide Lejeune (1820–1889) [4] He attended the preparatory program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from September 1881 to April 1884, leaving to prepare for the entrance exam for the United States Naval Academy. [5]