To those of you that serve/served, Happy Birthday!

Semper Fi!

Lew Tippie

Good night Chesty, where ever you are.

Semper Fidelis.

In the Marine Corps tradition, I got a healthy buzz on tonight! (I have to work tomorrow night.)

Thank you for your service. God bless you.

To the next 443 years, and beyond! [beer]
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Happy Birthday Marines, and Semper Fidelis

Happy Birtheday to the few, the proud, and the tightfisted.

The marines are my favorite service because they REALLY DO live up to the motto 'SEMPER FIDELIS'.

You guys may not think about this, but from a straight fiscal view, the USMC gives us one hell of a lot more fight for our buck than any of the other services.

One of the fastest ways a Marine Officer can get the boot is by wasting a dime of the taxpayers money. Don't believe me?

Ask your congressman which ONE of our many Federal agancies returns unused monies to congress. You got it, the Marines.

Semper Fi, guys.

( I used to be a dogface years ago, and I still call you guys jarheads, but I guess a rough tough young marine can let that slide from an old man. If not, we're both gonna look stupid, me for starting a fistfight and you for beating up on an old man!)[:)]

Thanks, guys!

PS Any service that claims R.Lee Ermey has GOT to be fine by me!

Thank God for the USMC!

and happy Veteran's Day

Semper Fi!
[marines]

Happy 227th brothers.

And now I give you Gen. Lejeune's Brithday Message to the Corps:

“On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of the Continental Congress. Since that date many thousands of men have borne that name Marine. In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the Birthday of our Corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.

The record of our Corps is one which bear comparison with that of the most famous military organizations in the world’s history. During 90 of the 146 years of its existence the Marine Corps has been in action against the Nation’s foes. From the Battle of Trenton to the Argome, Marines have won foremost honors in war and in the long era of tranquility at home generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres, and in every corner of the seven seas so that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

In every battle and skirmish since the Birth of the Corps, Marines have acquitted themselves with the greatest distinction, winning new honors on each occasion until the term “Marine” has come to signify all that is highest in military efficiency and soldierly virtue.

This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received from those who preceded us in the Corps. With it we also received from them the eternal spirit which has animated our Corps from generation and has long been the distinguishing mark of Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the me of our nation will regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as “Soldiers of the Sea” since the founding of the Corps.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES

And also Happy Veterans day to all fellow veterans


Navy '68-'72

I'll second that!

USMC
2531
81-84
1/7,2/7 Camp Pendleton

"Take courage then, seize the fortune that awaits you, repair to the Marine Rendezvous where, in a flowing bowl of punch, and three times three, you shall drink." Long live the United States, and success to the Marines.


"To our Comrads in Arms, the United States Navy Corpsmen."


"...In every 'clime and place..."

1776 Nassau
1776 Valcout
1777 Princeton
1777 Trenton
1778 Whitehaven
1779 Penobscot
1800 Puerto Plata
1800 Curacao
1803 Tripoli
1805 Derna, Tripoli
1813 Marguesas Islands
1814 Valparaiso, Chile
1814 Baltimore
1814 Bladensburg
1815 New Orleans
1824 Fajardo
1832 Falkland Islands
1832 Qualiah Battoo
1833 Boston
1835 Lima, Peru
1836 Fort Brooke
1840 Fiji Islands
1843 Cape Palmas
1846 Monterey
1847 La Mesa
1847 Vera Cruz
1848 San Jose
1848 Mexico City
1852 Buenos Aires
1853 Tokyo Bay
1855 Montevideo
1855 Paraguay
1856 Canton
1856 Puget Sound
1859 Harpers Ferry
1861 Bull Run
1862 Vicksburg
1863 New York
1864 Voile Bay
1865 Fort Fisher
1867 Formosa
1868 Montevideo
1871 Inchon
1874 Hawaii
1882 Alexandria
1891 Bering Sea
1895 Trinadad
1898 Guantanamo
1898 Novaleta
1898 Manila Bay
1899 Somoa
1900 Bejing
1900 Tientsin
1901 Panama
1901 Sohoton Cliffs
1903 Addis Ababa
1912 Nicaragua
1914 Vera Cruz
1915 Haiti
1916 Dominican Rep
1918 Argonne
1918 Belleau Wood
1918 Azores
1919 Vladivostok
1924 Honduras
1927 Nicaragua
1927 Shanghai
1934 Moscow
1941 Iceland
1941 Pearl Harbor
1941 Wake Island
1941 Corregidor
1942 Guadalcanal
1942 Makin Island
1943 Bougainville
1943 New Georgia
1943 New Britain
1943 Tarawa
1944 Saipan
1944 Guam
1944 Peleliu
1944 Leyte
1944 Kwajalein
1945 Iwo Jima
1945 Okinawa
1945 Tokyo Bay
1945 Tientsin
1946 Tsingtao
1948 Shanghai
1950 Puson
1950 Inchon
1950 Seoul
1950 Chosin Resevoir
1953 Ionian Islands
1956 Jerusalem
1958 Beirut
1960 Agadir
1962 Thailand
1965 Da Nang
1965 Dominican Rep
1968 Hue
1968 Khe Sanh
1974 Cyprus
1975 Saigon
1975 Koh Tang
1982 Beirut, Lebanon
1983 Grenada
1989 Panama
1990 Liberia
1990 Somolia
1991 Kuwait
1991 Iraq
1992 Somolia
1995 Bosnia
2002 Afganistan

[b]227 Years of tradition, unhampered by progress![/b]


Just kidding guys. Semper Fi.


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Happy Birthday Marines,Semper Fi

USMC 76~80

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Thanks Lew Tippie!

To all Marines where ever you are Semper fi do or die. Dad was a Korea Marine RIP, I was a doggie
But Happy Birthday and raise one for
SGT Francis Loud Since he can't.
Thanks for serving.

Must be getting old, I spent a lot of the day after church making a workbench for my wife out in the woodshop.

Now that I am done with that I will toast with a good beer.

As I get older Boot is slightly less bad than it was, and I remember overseas time off and shooting guns and landings with the ground side and tear-assing around with the (then) brand new hummers more, and scrubbing toilets (and worse being the corporal and having to watch toilets scrubbed) less.

Happy Birthday, and God Bless to those still in.