Marine Corps

[Jim & Meg Dickie]

Hi,

Went to the 226th Marine Corps birthday party last night. Again I laughed
for 6pm til 11:30. It was fun talking to some of these guys. The oldest
Marine there was 89 and the youngest 22. Smoked Decons Downfall in my
Savinelli 2000 and had a few sambucas.

Regards,

Jim

[Blake]

Happy Birthday and Semper Fi, Jim

Blake
Former Marine

[Mike Jacobs]

Semper Fi, all!

Mike Jacobs
Former Marine

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[Kendal Franceschi]

Another glorious year for the Marine Corps, where everyday's a holiday and
very meal's a feast. Two-hundred and twenty-six years of mud, blood, hell,
death and destruction! Gung ho, gung ho, gung ho! Whew, geez, I'm exhausted,
I gotta go take a nap. Semper Fideles brothers.
Frenchy
Parris Island '63 Platoon 399.
Chu Lai 66-67, Golf Company, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines.

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[KCorona]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:15:10 GMT, "Mike Jacobs" <m...@SPAMSUXpobox.com>
wrote:

>Semper Fi, all!
>
>Mike Jacobs
>Former Marine
>
>

Like my grandfather would say, there's no such thing as a former
Marine. "Once a Marine, Always a Marine."

--
Scott E.
http://www.nettally.com/edmo/tlhasc.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TallahASCee_Cigar_Group

[Raleigh C. Perry]

The Marine Corps celebrates a birthday which is, in fact, not the date of
their creation. The actual day of the founding of the Marine Corps is the
same date as the foundation of the Navy. Both were dissolved after the
Revolution and did not exist as a National force until after the
Constitution was written.

The Marine Corps and the Navy were established by Congress for the initial
cause of protecting US shipping in the Mediterranean - a force to help
merchant ships from the Barbary Pirates.

The Barbary Pirates started causing problems with US shipping as soon as the
British Ensign dropped and the new American flag was raised. That was
during the Articles of Confederation. Jefferson attempted to get a Navy
established, but that did not come to fruition until after the Constitution.
Its first use, however, was not against the Barbary Pirates, both Washington
and Adams were not equipped to fight a congress that was overloaded with
Federalist who argued against funding the ships. The first Naval action,
with Marines, in the post Constitution era was in what is called the Quasi
War with France which occurred during Adam's administration. When Jefferson
came to office, he set the ships to the Mediterranean to accompany and
protect merchants, but then they started busting some of it up, and the
Barbary Wars began in 1801 with the Declaration of War against the US by
Tripoli. That war lasted until 1805 when the British started hounding US
ships and impressing our seamen. The action in the Med stopped and the War
of 1812 started. After the end of the War of 1812, Stephen Decatur sailed
into Algiers, the country that had historically given us the most problems,
and forced a treaty with them, ending the reign of the Barbary Pirates which
had been an international problem for eons, gaining strength after the
Spanish Inquisition (Ferdinand and Isabella).

So, the first problem that the US had, beginning in about 1785 or
thereabouts, was with Islamic countries.

Is there nothing new under the sun?

For additional information on this material, I suggest that you find a set
of books called NAVAL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE US WAR WITH THE BARBARY
POWERS which includes in Volume 1, of 6 (or 7 if you find it with the
listing of officers - the first Naval Register. The letters of Jefferson to
Adams while Jefferson was in paris and Adams was in London as foreign
embassaries are included in that reference as well as copies of the acts of
congress founding the Navy and Marine Corps.

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