Happy Birthday USMC

No new updates today. However, today is the 234th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, so I'm using that as a reason to post. I read an article today detailing the top 10 movies involving the Marines, and I couldn't help but feel an overwhelming sense of pride for those men and women currently serving and who have served in the Marines. The author served in the Army for 20+ years.



"The men and women who earn the right to wear eagle, globe and anchor of the United States Marine Corps are a special breed. To those outside the Corps, they talk funny. They look funny. They are extremely impressed with themselves – and they have every right to be.



My beloved United States Army is a blunt instrument, a magnificent club that has pummels our nation’s enemies into submission. But the Marines are America’s rapier, a razor sharp weapon of war that has never been bested and never will be. For over two centuries, the United States Marine Corps has been fighting our country’s battles in the air, on land and sea. They don’t give up. They don’t quit. There’s no word for retreat in a Marine’s vocabulary. And they are making history even today in the mountains of Afghanistan and elsewhere."

-Kurt Schlichter

The remainder of the article can be found at http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/10/big-hollywood-semper-films-marine-corps-movies/