The United States Marine Corps

[HollywoodMarine]

They always bicker... about the Corps... Good rivalry.

Yet we Marines even bicker amongst ourselves. The biggest one being who has it worst... East or West Coast Marines? Being a Hollywood Marine (MCRD SD), we had hills to hump. My roommate went to Paradise Island (MCRD PI), and he had sand fleas to deal with. It will never end.

By the way, I served on both coasts, and both have their pros & cons.

[vor033]

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U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of an operation to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a re-supply route

[vor033]

More Photos of U.S. Marines Continue Suppression Of Insurgents
U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of an operation to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a re-supply route

[vor033]

More Photos of U.S. Marines Continue Suppression Of Insurgents
U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of an operation to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a re-supply route

[bd popeye]

A little history lesson..My dad was one of the first Black Marines during WWII. Until then the USMC was a whites only organization..I could not find his WWII photo But I did find these photos of African-American Marines serving in WWII.

These are the original captions. I shall not edit them. Most of the captions refer to the African Americans as Negros...Don't anyone be offended by that antiquated term..

Remember,... Marines come in only one color..GREEN!

"Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training 3 months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square-mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, NC. The first Negro to enlist was Howard P. Perry shown here." N.d. Roger Smith. 208-NP-10KK-1.

"Negro assault troops await orders D-day to attack enemy shortly after they had come ashore at Saipan in the Marianas." June 1944. T/Sgt. William Fitch. U.S. Coast Guard, 127-N-83928

"Carrying a Japanese prisoner from stockade to be evacuated and treated for malnutrition. Iwo Jima." February 23, 1945. Don Fox. 127-N-110622.

"Two Negro duck [DUKW] drivers turn riflemen after their vehicle is destroyed." February 19, 1945. Christian. 127-N-111123.

"Surrounded by a veteran crew of Marines who have spent 15 months in the Southwest and Central Pacific, this gun, named the 'Lena Horne' by its crew, points majestically skyward. The gun is manned by members of [the 51st] Defense Battalion, one of two such Negro units in the Corps." 1945. Nicholson. 127-N-12174.

"Aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport somewhere in the Pacific, these Negro Marines prepare to face the fire of Japanese gunners." Ca. February 1944. 26-G-321.

"Negro Marines, attached to the Third Ammunition Company, take time out from supplying ammunition to the front line on Saipan. Riding captured...bicycle is Pfc. Horace Boykin; and left to right, Cpl. Willis T. Anthony, Pfc. Emmitt Shackelford, and Pfc. Eugene Purdy." June 1944. 127-N-8600.

"Iwo Jima...Negro Marines on the beach at Iwo Jima are, from left to right, Pfcs. Willie J. Kanody, Elif Hill, and John Alexander." March 1945. C. Jones. 127-N-11383.

"Peleliu Island...Marines move through the trenches on the beach during the battle." September 15, 1944. Fitzgerald. 127-N-9527.

"Pfc. Luther Woodward..., a member of the Fourth Ammunition Company, admires the Bronze Star awarded to him for `his bravery, initiative and battle-cunning.' ..." The award was later upgraded to the Silver Star. April 17, 1945. Cpl. Irving Deutch. 127-N-119492

"The first Negro to be commissioned in the Marine Corps has his second lieutenant's bars pinned on by his wife. He is Frederick C. Branch of Charlotte, NC." November 1945. 127-N-500043.

"A platoon of Negro `boot recruits' listen to their drill instructor [Sgt. Gilbert Hubert Johnson] whose job is to turn them into finished Marines." Montford Point Camp, NC. Ca. April 1943. 208-NP-10FF-1.

"Judo instruction is one of the high spots in the life of the latest addition to the Leatherneck Marines here. An instructor shows a recruit how to make the enemy's bayonet useless. Cpl. Arvin Lou Ghazlo, USMC, giving judo instructions to Pvt. Ernest C. Jones, USMCR." Montford Point Camp, NC. April 1943. 127-N-5334.

"A trio of recruits in training to take their places as fighting Leathernecks in the U.S. Marine Corps, run the rugged obstacle course at Camp Lejeune, NC [Montford Point Camp]. The Marine recruits have shown such excellent results in their aptitudes and leadership capacities that an expanded Navy recruiting program is now underway." April 1943. Pat Terry. 127-N-5335

"Marines receiving instruction in the Demolition Course at Montford Point Camp [NC], during intensive combat training in preparation for action in the Pacific." February 1945. Sgt. L. A. Wilson. 127-N-9019.

[HollywoodMarine]

For those of you who don't really know about us, here you go. Enjoy!

List of Marine Corps acronyms and expressions

[vor033]

More Photos of U.S. Marines Continue Suppression Of Insurgents
U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co.during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of an operation to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a re-supply route

[vor033]

U.S. Marines Continue Suppression Of Insurgents

U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co.walk to their helicopter during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of an operation to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a re-supply route

[vor033]

U.S. Marines Continue Suppression Of Insurgents

U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co.walk to their helicopter during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of an operation to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a re-supply route

[vor033]

U.S. Marines Continue Suppression Of Insurgents

U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co.walk to their helicopter during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of an operation to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a re-supply route

[vor033]

U.S. Marines Continue Suppression Of Insurgents

U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co.walk to their helicopter during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of an operation to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a re-supply route

[santana]

Great pictures big daddy!!!

[vor033]

Thought i would post these 4 Photos really just because i like them

[Zarkus]

[vor033]

US Marines Hold Landing Exercise

US and South Korean marines conduct a joint landing operation to prepare for possible aggression by North Korea, which the South remains technically at war with since the end of the Korean War in 1953, on a seashore in Pohang South Korea