TODAY IS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE MARINE CORPS!

[link to www.youtube.com]

To all Jarheads everywhere!

I salute you!

I cannot thank you enough for your acts of bravery on our behalf.

I think that I will go make a cake for my favorite Marine.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! and THANK YOU ALL! for your service and protecting our Country!
May God Bless YOU!

SEMPER FIDELIS!!!!! Teufelhundes.

"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!"
GEN PERSHING, USA
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking!"
FERDINAND FOCH
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!"
GEN MARK CLARK, USA
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!"
LTGEN PATTON, USA 1945
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
GEORGE ORWELL
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
MAJ HOLDREDGE
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"A ship without MARINES is like a garment without buttons."
ADM DAVID PORTER, USN
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!"
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency: we are winning!"
COL DAVID M. SHOUP, USMC
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence."
GEN JOHNSON, US.ARMY
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500 years."
JAMES FORRESTAL, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Come on, you sons of b*****! Do you want to live forever?"
GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!"
GEN. OLIVER SMITH, USMC
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"I have just returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"
GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, US.ARMY
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)"
GERMAN SOLDIERS, WW1 at BELLEAU WOOD
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!"
GEN JOHN VESSEY, CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Retreat hell! We just got here!"
CAPT LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of MARINES. LORD, how they could fight!"
MAJGEN FRANK LOWE, US.ARMY
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES."
CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
LTGEN LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER, USMC
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"The man who will go where his colors go without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle or a mountain range, and who will suffer and die; in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legends are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionnaire, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...today he is called United States Marine."
LTCOL FEHRENBACH, USA, in "This Kind of War"
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."
UNKNOWN
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth - and the amusing thing about it is that they are."
- Father Kevin Keaney, 1st MarDiv Chaplain, Korean War
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"The Marines fought almost solely on esprit decorps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men."
- Robert Sherrod, 1943, regarding the battle at Tarawa
-------------------------------------------------------------​-------------------
"You're making the wrong assumption that a Marine by himself is outnumbered." - Gen Peter Pace, 28 Jul 06

Today is a great day to think of Whitey and wish him well. From all of us at GLP..stay safe friend.

"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC

Watch some old films of those brave Marines storming the beach at Iwo Jima and Tarawa.

All you need to know bout the Marine corps!

By god.

They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake".
Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991

Oh and I didn't forget you Chawlee..thanks for serving friend.

HOORAH WHITEY!

I think of you every day friend!

I didn't know Marine...
Thank you! Hoorah Birthday to You!

Thank you,WJ.


The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
The love of a staunch true man,
The love of a baby, unafraid,
Have existed since time began.

But the greatest of loves, The quintessence of loves.
even greater than that of a mother,
Is the tender, passionate, infinite love,
of one drunken Marine for another.


"Semper Fidelis"

Last Edited by Mr.Maggoo on 11/10/2009 10:41 AM

Sept.4 1968.I had not been on the yellow footprints more than five minutes before a D.I. punched me in the gut.Knuckle pushups on the grinder,squat thrust until our assholes bled.Ahh...memories.

Thank you so much for your service, Chawlee, and all you other Marines!! Hoorah!!!!!

[link to www.youtube.com]

2009 United States Marines Birthday Message...

and their mascot.

my favorite dog...

The Doberman Pincher!

bark!! barkbark!!

I don't think anyone will forget the yellow footprints.

Happy B-day

Thanks to ALL that have served!!


Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.

oohrah...

Good I was beginning to think I was the only Marine in this mf place.

err yut and all that motivated shit.

Happy Birthday Marines!

Semper Fi

Semper Fi.Never forget those who never returned.We will always be Uncle Sams Misguided Children.

And a Happy Birthday to you motherfucker!

Semper fi from Service Number 1647626, radio-telegraph operator and forward air controller in the old Corps.

into the gaping jaws of certain death...

Semper Fi, To all of us.