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11/03/2026

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11/01/2026

Happy 251st Marines! For 251 years, Marines have stood ready to f...

11/01/2026

10/31/2026

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10/30/2026

For over 100 years, Marines had NO official motto.

The Corps was born on November 10, 1775, but it took until 1883 for two words to become official: SEMPER FIDELIS.

Before that, Marines used three unofficial mottoes. "Fortitudine" meant "With Fortitude." "By Sea and by Land" came from the Royal Marines. And "To the Shores of Tripoli" honored the 1805 capture of Derna — the line that lives on in the Marines' Hymn.

Then in 1883, Semper Fidelis — Latin for "Always Faithful" — was adopted as the Corps' motto. It means faithfulness to Corps and country, and to fellow Marines — even after service ends.

Today, every Marine shortens it to two words we all know: Semper Fi.

If you earned the title, drop a Semper Fi in the comments. 👇

Source: U.S. Marine Corps History Division

10/28/2026

A video of the US Marine Embassy Guard detachment in Dublin Ireland during the Marine corps ball.

The last few minutes, the detachment commander, a veteran of both World War II and Korea war, is interviewed about being an embassy Marine. He speaks about the job, the requirements and that they can be sent to Vietnam after their service on Embassy duty. 

Celebrations at The US Embassy Dublin to mark 191 years of The US M...

10/27/2026

The last two names on the Vietnam wall belong to two young Marines.

Cpl. Charles McMahon Jr., 21, of Woburn, Massachusetts, and Lance Cpl. Darwin Judge, 19, of Marshalltown, Iowa — an Eagle Scout — were Marine Security Guards at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.

On April 29, 1975, at 3:58 in the morning, a North Vietnamese rocket attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base killed them both. They were the last American servicemen killed in the Vietnam War.

That same day, Operation Frequent Wind began — the evacuation of Saigon. In two days, 1,373 Americans and 5,595 Vietnamese and third-country nationals were flown out by helicopter, the largest helicopter evacuation in history.

McMahon and Judge were left behind in a Saigon hospital morgue that day. They finally came home ten months later, in February 1976.

They stood their post until the very end. The last to fall — never forgotten.

Source: U.S. Department of War

10/27/2026

Sailors invented it as an insult. Marines loved it so much they kept it forever.

"Gyrene." Around 1900, U.S. Navy sailors started calling Marines by that name as a joking insult — a play on "GI," short for government issued, meant to imply Marines were just like any other troops.

Marines were not insulted. They embraced it, and by World War I, "Gyrene" was everywhere.

Like so many Marine nicknames, it began as someone else's joke and became a badge of pride — a name Marines chose to keep, because nobody else gets to define what a Marine is.

Source: We Are The Mighty