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Location: SoCal | 229 years from November 10, 1775, Happy Birthday to all Marines and the Navy Corpsmen that have served with them.
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Location: SoCal | Sempre Fi! |
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | And heres to Tony Calman, the best RF-4B Phantom pilot the Marine Corps has ever had, an a real good friend also. :) |
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Location: Central Oregon | And once again the Marines are hard at work on their birthday cleaning the rats out of Falluja. When the dust settles in a few days I'm sure we will see a job well done.
Happy Birthday USMC!
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I just noticed this is my 1,000th post. What a bigmouth. |
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Location: Tennessee | My son gets to celebrate the birthday as a recruit ... he is currently in boot camp at MCRD in San Diego, with expectations that he will earn the right to be a Marine come January 8th. |
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Location: SoCal | Went through San Diego MCRD in 1968, OCS in Quantico nine months later...
Let him know we are proud of him...I have a nephew with 1st Cav in the thick of it. Can't forget the other services and their contributions. |
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Location: Tennessee | So true, Tony. Freedom doesn't come free. We are very supportive of the decision our son made after getting his A.S. degree. lady stonebobbo is currently spending a lot of time on the Sgt. Grit bulletin board.
We're also incredibly proud of our daughter, a 2nd Lt. in the US Army Medical Corps currently studying at Georgetown School of Medicine. She spent the summer at Ft. Sam Houston. |
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Location: Waurika OK | Tony,
Paul H. mentioned you were an F4 pilot. A fellow I went to school with has a huge collection of F4 slides. He has gone all over the USA ( I am not sure about other countries) taking these pictures. His goal is to have a picture of every existing plane, he even has some at Davis-Monthan in Arizona in various stages of demolition, anything with the serial number. He has spent years doing this and keeps his collection in metal trays out of the light.
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Location: SoCal | Phantom, so ugly it is beautiful |
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Location: Boise Idaho | A Marine Corps General once told his troops before they went into battle...
"Men... The enemy is in front of us... Behind us... Hell there're all around us!!!
They won't get away from us this time"...
Help me out here Tony... Was it Chesty Puller???
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES !!! OOH-RAA !!! |
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Location: SoCal | sounds like Chesty to me at the Chosin...
other quotes:
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"
When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process. An enemy division is 16,500+ men while a Marine division is 12,500 men.
General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
Lewis Burwell Puller
One of the greatest US Marines Legends and highest decorated Marine in History
Lived: 1898-1971
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Happy Birthday one and all. Muchairo Garchienens for all you do. |
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Location: Queens, NY | Best wishes today to all the service men and women abroad (especially in Iraq). |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Tony
Chesty Puller also said, and I will paraphrase as I don't have the exact quote at hand.
When a Marine Division wants to go somewhere there aren't enough Chinese in the world to stop them from going where they want.
My uncle was a Marine Major on Guadalcanal, and my cousin, who was a friend I grew up with, died at Chosin as a corporal in How Company 3/7, he died on Dec 2 after his company was the first to get hit by the Chinese on Nov 28 on hill 1403. I think he died on the cross country march to rescue Fox company and enable the escape from Yudam-ni. They recovered his body many years later.
I strongly reccommend the book "Breakout", by Martin Russ, to reveal what a great victory for the Marines that the recovery from Chosin was. I, as an Army vet, have to be very critical of the Army's activity, and especially General Almond's who blew the whole thing as did the 8th Army on the other side. Chosin has to be a Marine victory for all time. I went through basic training in 1953 with the remnants of those campaigns and they kicked our ass to try to make us a little tougher than what they had seen. For example, a platoon sgt who was a 19 year old Sfc that was all that was left of a Platoon.
Happy Birthday Marines
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Location: Freeport, IL | Happy Birthday to our Fighting Men and Women!
We know that freedom comes at a great price. The United States is blessed to have so many courageous young men and women willing to fight and die if necessary for this freedom - both here and abroad.
Semper Fi,
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