MARINE CORPS HISTORY

· Marine Corps Birthday – 10 November 1775

· Marine Corps Motto – Semper Fidelis – Always Faithful: Faithful to yourself, your comrades, your Corps, and your country

· Marine Corps Colors – Scarlet and Gold

· Marine Corps Emblem – Eagle, Globe and Anchor

          Eagle – Symbol of our country

Globe – Shows Marines serve around the world

             Fouled anchor – Shows our Naval ties

· First Commandant of the Marine Corps – Captain Samuel Nicholas

· First Amphibious Landing by Marines – Providence Island in the Bahamas

· Type of sword worn by Marine Officers – Mameluke Sword

· The “Grand Old Man of the Marine Corps” – General Archibald Henderson

· Red stripe worn on dress blue trousers – “Blood Stripe”

· Most famous Marine. Awarded 5 Navy Crosses – “Chesty” Puller

· Marine Mascot – English bulldog named “Chesty”

· Marine nicknames

 “Leathernecks” for collar worn on uniforms years ago.

 “Devil Dogs” for bravery; against the Germans in World War I

· Famous Battles –

-Mexican War (1848) - Veracruz and Mexico City (Montezuma and Chapultepec)

-World War I (1914 – 1918) – Belleau Wood in France

-World War II (1941 – 1945) – Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Saipan, Tarawa

-Korean War (1950 – 1953) – Chosin Reservoir

-Vietnam (1965 – 1972) – Hue City Khe Sahn

-Grenada (1983)

-Beirut (1982-1984)

-Kuwait (1991)

-Afghanistan (2001)

-Iraq (2003)