Marine Corp Birthday

[Major Lord]

Happy Birthday Marine Corp!

Major Lord

[Cecil DP]

234 years and counting!!

[Stonewall]

BTW, it's Marine Corps...there's an "s" at the end.

I already sent text messages and emails to all my family and friends who are Marines, to include CAP Major George Otto, my mentor when I joined CAP in 1987.

[Chappie]

Happy 234th Birthday to all Marines who have served or are serving -- Semper Fi !!

And to all those who have served or currently serving in our Nation's military -- God bless you and as we observe Veteran's Day tomorrow know that we are thankful for your commitment, dedication and service.

[Strick]

Happy B-Day DEVIL DOGS................. :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[ColonelJack]

Semper Fi to all my friends in the Corps!

Jack

[Airrace]

Happy Birthday!

[AlphaSigOU]

Semper Fi, do or die, hold 'em high at Eighth and Eye, gung ho, gung ho, gung ho!*

Happy birthday to der Teufelhunden wherever they may be! My late father was a Marine.

I'll be taking part in the Kwajalein Veteran's Day ceremonies this morning (it's already Veteran's Day here on Kwaj.)

* Eighth and Eye - Location of the Marine Barracks in Washington D.C (8th and I ('Eye') Streets SE); Gung ho - Chinese for 'strive for harmony'; motto of the Marine Raiders that stormed onto Makin Island (about 700 miles south of Kwaj in what is now Kiribati). Four Raiders were captured and later executed by the Japanese near Flagpole Hill in Kwajalein. Gung ho is now synonymous with the Marine fighting spirit.

[Major Lord]

BTW, it's Marine Corps...there's an "s" at the end.

I already sent text messages and emails to all my family and friends who are Marines, to include CAP Major George Otto, my mentor when I joined CAP in 1987.

You know, I have always wondered about that. Is there more than one Corp within the Corps? If Corps is collective plural, (like its preceding word, "Corpus", meaning the "entire body")  then we should refer to the Corps as plural, i.e," the Corps are" rather than" the Corps is". The USMC website refers to the organizational name BOTH ways, but I can't understand from context what the difference is. I have E-mailed my Marine contacts for clarification!

Major Lord

[Rodriguez]

Happy Birthday!

Hoping to become a Marine in the near future...

[Stonewall]

BTW, it's Marine Corps...there's an "s" at the end.

I already sent text messages and emails to all my family and friends who are Marines, to include CAP Major George Otto, my mentor when I joined CAP in 1987.

You know, I have always wondered about that. Is there more than one Corp within the Corps? If Corps is collective plural, (like its preceding word, "Corpus", meaning the "entire body")  then we should refer to the Corps as plural, i.e," the Corps are" rather than" the Corps is". The USMC website refers to the organizational name BOTH ways, but I can't understand from context what the difference is. I have E-mailed my Marine contacts for clarification!

Major Lord

Official seal says "Corps".  As does the Marines.mil website.

[MIKE]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corps

[Gunner C]

Thank you.  Corp is short for corporation.

[CPT Anderson]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEVIL DOGS!!!!

Rest in Peace to my USMC brother who died on April 14, 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 

SEMPER FI !!!

(Picture of his headstone at Arlington Cemetary, VA)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=30632713&id=1555647028

[Airrace]

They were even reconnized on the David letterman show on Wednesday night. He did the top ten with ten Marines.