As any U.S. Army Infantryman – including this old paratrooper – will tell you, Marines suck.
That said, on the Corp’s 230th birthday, here is the resolution of the Continental Congress that established the Marine Corp, dated November 10, 1775. Punctuation, etc., all as original.
“Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors and other officers as usual in other regiments; and that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken, that no person appointed to office, or enlisted into said Battalions, but such are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea when required; that they be enlisted and commissioned to serve for and during the present war between Great Britain and the colonies, unless dismissed by an order if Congress; that they be distinguished by the names of the first and second battalions of American marines , and they be considered a part of the number which the continental Army before Boston is order to consist of.”
“This republic [the United States] was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.” Elmer Davis, 1954.
He must have been talking about the Marines. Semper Fidelis.
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