[ April 26, 2024 ]
Happy birthday, heroes! Thank you for your service.
November 10, 1775
Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps
Story continues below advertisementDuring the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. The resolution, drafted by future U.S. president John Adams and adopted in Philadelphia, created the Continental Marines and is now observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
Serving on land and at sea, the original U.S. Marines distinguished themselves in a number of important operations during the Revolutionary War. The first Marine landing on a hostile shore occurred when a force of Marines under Captain Samuel Nicholas captured New Province Island in the Bahamas from the British in March 1776. Nicholas was the first commissioned officer in the Continental Marines and is celebrated as the first Marine commandant. After American independence was achieved in 1783, the Continental Navy was demobilized and its Marines disbanded.
In the next decade, however, increasing conflict at sea with Revolutionary France led the U.S. Congress to establish formally the U.S. Navy in May 1798. Two months later, on July 11, President John Adams signed the bill establishing the U.S. Marine Corps as a permanent military force under the jurisdiction of the Department of Navy.
U.S. Marines saw action in the so-called Quasi-War with France and then fought against the Barbary [Islamic] pirates of North Africa during the first years of the 19th century. Since then, Marines have participated in all the wars of the United States and in most cases were the first soldiers to fight. In all, Marines have executed more than 300 landings on foreign shores.
Today, there are more than 200,000 active-duty and reserve Marines, divided into three divisions stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Camp Pendleton, California; and Okinawa, Japan. Each division has one or more expeditionary units, ready to launch major operations anywhere in the world on two weeks’ notice. Marines expeditionary units are self-sufficient, with their own tanks, artillery, and air forces. The motto of the service is Semper Fidelis, meaning “Always Faithful” in Latin.
Also worth noting on this day in history:
1942: Germans take Vichy France
2001: George W. Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Hopefully he sent lots of muslims to the promised land for that –
4 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
THE DEM-WIT PARTY SEEKS TO TAKE HIS BENEFITS AS WHITE PRIVILEGE IN ORDER TO GIVE THEM TO THOSE GROUPS WHO WILL RELIABLY VOTE FOR THEIR DEM-WIT PARTY SO THEY CAN GET MORE FREE STUFF FROM REPUBLICANS! OF COURSE IT WAS WHITE SOLDIERS IN THE UNION ARMY WHO ENFORCED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, ETC DURING THE U.S. CIVIL WAR SO WHAT DISCOUNT DO THEIR DESCENDANTS GET FOR REPARATIONS TAXES? IS WHAT IT IS!
4 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Well ilhan looks like you’re surrounded – time to bail and get your sorry ass back to the failed islamic shithole you crawled out of you sorry excuse for a human – stick that finger exactly where the sun does’nt shine – along with your head.
4 years ago
The Founding Fathers warned against nepotism for the future of our Republic.
Kentucky just elected the son of a recent Demonrat Governor by a narrow margin.
The United States will be suffering for generations under the vast failures of the son of a Republican President.
At least George Bush, Jr decided to paint hackneyed portraits of the soldiers who were wounded and disabled, but survived, the march of folly he ordered against Iraq to settle his father’s personal feud and hike his family’s defense stocks. I was one of one million who took to 2nd Avenue on a freezing cold day in Manhattan in 2003 trying in the only way we could to stop that fool from jumping off the cliff to end the suspense.
Thanks, Bush:
* 911
* Iraq
* Economic collapse
* “obama” succession.
We need our military for real, not imagined, threats.
4 years ago
Thank God we now have a president who knows how to make a decision.
Pray for Trump every day.
4 years ago
they were not “islamic” pirates….they were muslim pirates. and they tortured and murdered many of the US Navy sailors who surrendered to them. this has been going on for 220 years because the US has never done what needed to be done in the middle east, which is to invade it, wipe out islam, and colonize it with non-muslims
4 years ago
“To the shores of Tripoli ” fighting none other than – muslims –
