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Happy Birthday, United States Marine Corps!


November 10th is the anniversary of the founding of the United States Marine Corps

Evelyn Anton presenting the Marine Corps birthday cake. See the Marine Corps Orders No. 47 (Series 1921) Cake Cutting Script

One the eve of our War of Independence, on November, 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines. After the war ended in 1783, the Continental Navy and its Continental Marines were disestablished.

The Marine Corps was re-established on July 11, 1798 by an act signed by President John Adams.

The Marine Corps birthday was the unofficially observed on July 11th until October 21, 1921 when Major Edwin North sent a memorandum to Commandant John A. Jejeune suggesting that the original birthday of November 10th be declared a Marine Corps holiday.

  • John Anton, Wes Eastman & Ray Mansour (L-R) celebrating the birthday of the USMC
  • Ray Mansour, John Anton & Wes Eastman (L-R) celebrating the birthday of the USMC

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Strictly Scuttlebutt: From Ivy Halls to Duty Calls

Weston D. Eastman’s upcoming posthumous memoir Strictly Scuttlebutt: From Ivy Halls to Duty Calls is a unique account of a young man’s journey toward war as a Marine.

Please enjoy the first chapter.

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