"...two Battalions of Marines..."

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“Resolved...That two Battalions of Marines be raised...consisting of one Colonel,
two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors, and Officers as usual in other
regiments, that they consist of an equal number of privates with other
battalions; that particular care be taken that no person 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..."

In the Continental Congress assembled,
Philadelphia
November , 1775






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Trenton...Lake Erie...New Orleans...Tampico...Vera Cruz...Harper's
Ferry...Panama...Guantanamo...Manila Bay...Boxer Rebellion...Samar...
Chateau-Thierry...Belleau Wood...Guadalcanal...Tarawa...Bouganville...
Peleliu...Iwo Jima...Okinawa...Inchon...Chosin Reservoir...
Khe Sanh...Hue...A Shau Valley...Da Nang...Kuwait City...Kabul...
Kandahar...Fallujah...Baghdad...


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"Nonsense! Their riflemen cannot possibly hit us at this di-"

-British Executive Officer aboard a man-of-war engaged in battle with Serapis, 1779


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"We torched every political and military building in the city of
Washington...except the Marine Barracks...which we spared...
out of respect."

-British officer, War of 1812


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"My regiment is destroyed. We raked them with fire, but they just kept coming...
with their bayonets...screaming like hounds from hell...like devil dogs!"

-German soldier, 1918


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"My men are deathly afraid of the American Marines..."

-Japanese officer, 1945



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"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."

-Adm Chester W. Nimitz, 1945



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"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."

-Ronald Reagan, 1985



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"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle."

Gen John J. Pershing, 1918


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"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the American Marines."

-Captured North Korean Major, 1951


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"The raising of that flag (on Suribachi) means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years."

-James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, 23 February 1945


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“The safest place in Korea was directly behind a platoon of Marines. LORD, can they fight!”

-Maj Gen Frank Lowe, U.S. Army


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It is with great pride that I dedicate this post to all Marines and Marine veterans everywhere on this occasion of the two hundred and thirty-second anniversary of the birth of the United States Marines.

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