The nation’s third-oldest branch of the military is celebrating its 249th birthday this Sunday, Nov. 10. Older than the United States itself, the service’s founding is dated to a 1775 resolution ...
Marines with the Quantico Ceremonial Platoon celebrated the Corps’ 250th birthday early with 101-year-old World War II veteran and Purple Heart recipient Marine Corps Pfc. John Grimes. Jacques, Grimes ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marine Corps is celebrating its 250th birthday on Monday, Nov. 10, marking the anniversary of the founding of a military branch older than the United States itself. On Nov. 10, ...
The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle celebrated the corps' semiquincentennial – also the museum's 19th birthday – during a cake-cutting ceremony Monday marking 250 years since the elite ...
Every Nov. 10, Marines worldwide gather to cut birthday cakes with Mameluke swords, listen to the reading of a nearly century-old order, and watch the oldest Marine hand a piece of cake to the ...