God bless the Marine Corps!
231 years ago, the Marine Corps was founded by a recruiting party who hit up a tavern and enlisted everyone not sober enough to get away.
In honor of their founding, the USMC engages in government-sponsored alcoholism annually on this date.
This would be about as meaningful as Camerone Day to me, normally, but here in Ramadi we fall under I MEF (Fwd) and hence are permitted to participate in the Marne Corps Birthday festivities.
Or, in concrete terms, I got to have two beers, and I got there early enough to get two Heinekens (that being the only non-US beer option).
Woot. Here's to the USMC, and may they, in their next 231 years, actually find a few good men.
In honor of their founding, the USMC engages in government-sponsored alcoholism annually on this date.
This would be about as meaningful as Camerone Day to me, normally, but here in Ramadi we fall under I MEF (Fwd) and hence are permitted to participate in the Marne Corps Birthday festivities.
Or, in concrete terms, I got to have two beers, and I got there early enough to get two Heinekens (that being the only non-US beer option).
Woot. Here's to the USMC, and may they, in their next 231 years, actually find a few good men.
posted by Just A Decurion at 11/10/2006 05:40:00 PM
3 Comments:
Have I mentioned that I'm so jealous about the beer thing?
:-P
Can I send this to my friend who is a former Marine Recon Scout Sniper?
Go ahead. :)
Post a Comment
<< Home