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No. In fact, the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor didn't come around until almost 90 years after the establishment of the Marine Corps.
Possibly it was muleskinner during the March on Chapultepec.
Just like "corp". It is often mistaken for corps (as in Marine Corps), which is pronounced "core". Both come from the Latin word, corpus, which means "body".
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The US Naval Academy is the academy some Marine officers graduate from. There are other ways to be come a Marine officer like ROTC or OCS. Do not confuse the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY as a Marine Academy although graduates can be commissioned in any of the armed services if they wish not to pursue a career sailing merchant vessels.
The term "Irish pennant" derives from the Royal Navy during the time of sailing ships. It was a loose or untidy end of a line. In Navy and Marine Corps parlance today, an Irish pennant is a loose thread on a uniform, for which you get gigged at inspection.
The United States Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775.
look on the websites for either Paris island recruiting depot of the san Diego site. and look for graduations and it should give you the dates.
This may come as a shock to you, but the US Navy SEALs are under the Navy and not the Marine Corps
Both WWII, Korea and Vietnam saw up to five percent of the Marine Corps strength coming from the draft. The threat of being drafted into the Army or the Marine Corps as cannon fodder has always kept long waiting lines at Air Force and Navy recruitment offices.