A special USMC birthday

By Donald Sensing on November 10, 2005 2:42 PM | 7 Comments | 2 TrackBacks

Today is the 230th birthday of the US Marine Corps. I browsed to the USMC's main site to look for the commandant's message and paged through the photo gallery pages. It was an "ohmygosh!" moment to see this picture and caption on the third page or so:

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq � LCpl. Stephen Sensing, left, from Nashville, Tenn., and Sgt. Matthew Starr, Richmond, Minn., from 1st Platoon, 2nd Amphibious Assault Vehicle Company, 2nd Marine Division kick back prior to departing on an evening patrol Nov. 5. Photo by: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Craig J. Shell

Click here for a high-resolution version.

Man, this really made our day!

You can see other photos of Marines on the job beginning here.

cross-posted at DonaldSensing.com

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#1 from Russ | November 10, 2005 3:06 PM | Reply

Kick ass! I hope to be that kind of proud Dad, too...

#2 from PD Shaw | November 10, 2005 3:35 PM | Reply

Wow! How cool is that?

#3 from carl h | November 10, 2005 3:36 PM | Reply

How fine is that? Happy birthday USMC, thanks to all those who serve...and their families.

#4 from Jim Freemon | November 10, 2005 3:45 PM | Reply

From a Vietnam Vet to my young Marine brothers:

Happy 230th Birthday Marines!!!

SAEPE EXPERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATRES AETERNI
"Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever"

#5 from DaveK | November 10, 2005 4:50 PM | Reply

Your photo link is to a ".MIL" URL... There are lots of us who cannot connect to those websites, because of firewalls installed by the DOD.

I am a dependent of a DOD civilian employee, and there is a lot of information on .mil sites that would be VERY useful to me. Alas, only my sponsor can get to that info, through the work-computer!

#6 from USMC | November 10, 2005 10:25 PM | Reply

Let me extend my thanks and gratitude to all Marine's out there on this 230th birthday!

Semper Fi to all and best of luck where ever you are.

For those that have an interest General Pace appeared on the Jim Lehrer News Hour a few days ago. He gave an outstanding interview and handled himself with the utmost composure, tact, professionalism and pride that all Marines bring to the table. It is well worth listening to in my opinion.

General Peter Pace

About half way down the page there is a link to the video.

#7 from T. J. Madison | November 13, 2005 3:24 AM | Reply

>>He gave an outstanding interview and handled himself with the utmost composure, tact, professionalism and pride that all Marines bring to the table.

Did "all Marines" include Major General Smedley Butler?

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