Happy Birthday — US Marine Corps

HOOAH!!

The US Marine Corps is celebating 230 years today.

A comemorative stamp is being unveiled this week honoring the Marines. Honorees on the stamp are:

Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone
Basilone received the Medal of Honor during World War II for holding 3,000 Japanese soldiers at bay for 72 hours at Guadalcanal. He also destroyed a Japanese gun emplacement at Iwo Jima and was killed there during battle. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart.

Sgt. Maj. Daniel ‘Dan’ Joseph Daly
Daly received the Medal of Honor twice: in 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, and in 1915, when Marines were deployed to Haiti to protect American lives in the wake of an anti-government uprising.

Lt. Gen. John A. Lejeune
The first Marine general to command an Army division in combat during World War I, Lejeune is credited with saving the Marine Corps from budget cuts and consolidations after the war and establishing Marine Corps institutions and traditions.

Lt. Gen. Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller
Puller was a commander in World War II and Korea. He is the only Leatherneck to win the Navy Cross five times for heroism and gallantry. He received 14 personal decorations in combat, five Navy Crosses, one Army Distinguished Service Cross and several campaign medals, unit citation ribbons and other awards

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dayton Mitchell
MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY CAKE – U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Michael Losack, Disaster Assistance Center Chief of Staff, cuts the first piece of U.S. Marine Corps birthday cake at Chaklala Air Base, Pakistan, Nov. 10, 2005. Today marks the 230th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. This tradition includes passing the cake from the oldest Marine to the youngest, symbolizing wisdom being passed on to the younger generation.

Link: Happy Birthday, US Marines

Link: US Marine Headlines

Great post over at Michelle Malkin

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.