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Just want to say Happy Birthday to all the Marines out there and To all Veterans tomorrow. As a Navy Vet. I would like to say Thank You to all that have served.


Pappy, USN Aviation ,1972-1984

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PAPPY ch-46 phrog,endangerd species 40 years and still flying

Best wishes to all Marines past and present!


Tony Coulter

Nephew of John Clauser USMC 1918-1934 Nicaragua campaigner.

Happy Birthday to all of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children (USMC)

Here are a few pictures from my wife's great grandad, Col Donald T. Winder (USMC).











Shay
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Semper Fidelis

my son graduated usmc boot camp 9/18 /09 he's probably having a ball today!! get this!!! he all ready has his next duty post..... pearl harbor hawaii!! talk about a charmed military career!! he will be working on ch -53 choppers which the brunt of them is at pearl. the kid is so girlfriend whipped ( i'm being politically correct) that he doesn't want to go their!! i think he'll come around once he get's their!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

There is a lot of Suzy Rottencrotch to be had at Pearl!

On behalf of my fellow (former) Marines, Leathernecks, Devil-Dogs, Jarheads, WMs, and BAMs, I accept these birthday felicitations, and I will presently go off to hoist a few in honor of the Corps.

Here's health to you and to our Corps,
Which we are proud to serve.
In many a fight we've fought for life,
And never lost our nerve.
If the Army and the Navy ...

Ah hell, never mind about that, you Army and Navy folk. Come and hoist one with us!

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IndyJen

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*hides behind a rock and throws peanuts to the monkeys*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINE CORPS!

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

When I went into the military, after basic, I was sent to Rantoul, Illinois which is a pretty grey and depressing place in the winter time.

Had I been in Hawaii, there are things I would have missed still, but I bet I would have had a somewhat more positive attitude toward the military.

My friend John Reynolds, ex U S Navy, flew for the FAA after the Korean War. He was stationed in Hawaii and his job was to fly an FAA DC-3 around to the different airports and runways in order for the technical people onboard to check the instrument approach facilities.

He thought that was a pretty nice position.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

And just in case you have not seen this years 234th Happy Birthday Tribute from Bob Parsons at GoDaddy.com.

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/holiday/usmc2009

Thanks Bob, and thanks to all those that answer the call to serve.

Semper Fi

cadet77

Gee Tom, thanks for getting back with me.
Congradulations, and Happy birthday to the Corp.
Makes me wanna watch Full Metal Jacket again

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Kind Regards,
Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.

looking good at 234!



VMF-225 on CVE-112 USS Siboney 1947, with my dad in there somewhere

An enlisted buddy of mine, now retired Lt. Col. John Wehner USMC ret. was a senior when I started college. I went to his graduation where he got to pin on his "butter bars " He also found out his first duty station was going to be Hawaii. He got married after graduation and was pretty stoked. I repeated the scuttlebutt that"Hawaii is a bad place for junior enlisteds and officers because the living expenses are so high they say you will always be broke."
He looked at me and said "darn jarhead, can you think of a better place on the planet to live if you are broke!!"
The closest I ever got to being a Marine officer is when we would take the pull tabs off of those old style beer cans and fold them over my PFC insignia. Thus looking like a shiny new first lieutenant. I would then walk into the barracks when the guys were sitting around in their skivvies on a typical boring weekend. I would pull my cammy cover down to the bridge of my nose and standing very stiff and officer-like come walking into the squad bay yelling "OFFICER ON DECK!"
Bodies would go flying everywhere as people jumped to attention. I would briskly exit and with a booming voice shout "Carry On." On about the third or fourth time pulling this stunt someone recognized me and they all clobbered me!
Semper Fi!

Capt Don Owen VMF-121/112 WWII MIA
PFC John Clark !st MARDIV Korean MIA
Sgt George Zurlinden Jr 1st MARDIV Korea
1Lt T. O. Bong HMM-362/162 Viet Nam
Capt Adam Richard VMM-263 Afganistan

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Don't touch my junk!!