US Marine Corps

General Order One says "I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved."

FM 22-5 Drill and Ceremonies, and AR 600-25 Salutes, Honors, and Visits of Courtesy.

FOULED ANCHOR--The foul anchor as a naval insignia got its start as the seal of the Lord Howard of Effingham. He was the Lord Admiral of England at the time of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. During this period the personal seal of a great officer of state was adopted as the seal of his office. The fouled anchor still remains the official seal of the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain. When this office became part of the present Board of Admiralty, the seal was retained--on buttons, official seals, and cap badges. The Navy's adoption of this symbol and many other customs can be directly attributed to the influence of British Naval tradition. The fouled anchor is among them. Website: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/navy/l/bluniformhist.htm

The Marine Corps reached a strength of around 760,000 men during the war. Of course, nowhere near all of these saw action. Many were in training commands in the states, in Marine detachments aboard capital warships, guarding embassies around the world, just like today.

Most Marines got rotated back to the states if they survived three campaigns. Many old hands were already back in the states before Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and many of the men in those campaigns were on their third operation.

By 1945 there were six divisions of Marines deployed, all infantry, all in the Pacific. The Marines maintained the Table of Organization strength of line companies at early levels, unlike the army, which had to reduce its company strength by over 20%. So Marine Divisions were a bit larger than Army divisions - around 18,000 and compared to just under 15,000. There were also at least one Marine Tank Battalion deployed and several Air Wings.

The WWII Army was more than ten times larger than the Marine Corps, and fielded 91 divisions, plus a couple of thousand independent battalions of various types - tank, tank destroyer, artillery of various calibers, engineers, signals, and other combat arms.

There were fifteen or so US Army divisions in the Pacific, in addition to the six divisions of Marines.

Here is a listing of major wars of the United States. American Revolution (1775–1783) Total servicemembers 217,000 Battle deaths 4,435 Non mortal woundings 6,188 War of 1812 (1812–1815) Total servicemembers 286,730 Battle deaths 2,260 Nonmortal woundings 4,505 Indian Wars (approx. 1817–1898) Total servicemembers 106,0001 Battle deaths 1,0001 Mexican War (1846–1848)   Total servicemembers 78,718 Battle deaths 1,733 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 11,550 Nonmortal woundings 4,152 Civil War (1861–1865)   Total servicemembers (Union) 2,213,363 Battle deaths (Union) 140,414 Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Union) 224,097 Nonmortal woundings (Union) 281,881 Total servicemembers (Conf.) 1,050,000 Battle deaths (Conf.) 74,524 Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Conf.) 59,297 Nonmortal woundings (Conf.) unknown Spanish-American War (1898–1902)  Total servicemembers 306,760 Battle deaths 385 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 2,061 Nonmortal woundings 1,662 World War I (1917–1918) Total servicemembers 4,734,991 Battle deaths 53,402 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 63,114 Nonmortal woundings 204,002 Living veterans fewer than 500 World War II (1940–1945) Total servicemembers 16,112,566 Battle deaths 291,557 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 113,842 Nonmortal woundings 671,846 Living veterans 4,762,000 Korean War (1950–1953) Total servicemembers 5,720,000 Serving in-theater 1,789,000 Battle deaths 33,741 Other deaths in service (theater) 2,827 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 17,730 Nonmortal woundings 103,284 Living veterans 3,734,000 Vietnam War (1964–1975) Total servicemembers 8,744,000 Serving in-theater 3,403,000 Battle deaths 47,410 Other deaths in service (theater) 10,789 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 32,000 Nonmortal woundings 153,303 Living veterans 8,295,000 Gulf War (1990–1991) Total servicemembers 2,225,000 Serving in-theater 665,476 Battle deaths 147 Other deaths in service (theater) 382 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 1,565 Nonmortal woundings 467 Living veterans 1,852,000 Operation Enduring Freedom (October, 2001- present) (Afghanistan/Pakistan) Battle Deaths--373 Wounded--1,096 Operation Iraqi Freedom (March 2003 - present) Total Deaths--3,391 KIA--2,761 Wounded--23,924 US civilian deaths-contractors--147 Non-hostile deaths--585

The current Commandant is General James F. Amos since 2010.

Honestly, just read number 9... There is no way around this... THERE IS NO WAY AROUND THIS... CIRCUMFERENCE IS TOO LARGE

Getting accepted into a Medical School is difficult. There are several factors that are considered that either work for or against you.

1) Your GPA. There's no way around it. You have to have a good GPA. If it is low that really is not an excuse because every other person with a low GPA also has an excuse. Try to keep it above a 3.7. On the flip side though, a high GPA guarantees nothing. I know people with GPAs above 3.9 who are in Phi Beta Kappa and have not gotten into Medical Schools. There is more to being a competitive applicant than having a good GPA. There is no way around this.

2) Your MCAT score. Just like GPA, there is no way around it. You have to get a 30. That will make you competitive for most med schools. This is assuming you also have a high GPA. But again, a high GPA and a good MCAT score guarantees nothing. What I am saying is that the last two pieces of advice I gave mean nothing. There are people I know with both of these requirements who still have not gotten into Med Schools. There are people I know with neither of these requirements who are chiropractors... The rest couldn't get in, so they went to medical school.

3) Applying Early. If you have a high GPA and a good MCAT score, applying early is also critically important. If you have a low GPA and a low MCAT score, applying late is also critically important. You have to look at applying to Med School as a numbers thing. There are so many applicants and you are just a number. As qualified as you think you are, there are a lot of applicants just like you with the same numbers. In fact, I can't tell you apart from everyone else. Med Schools operate on a rolling admissions. This means once a med school has accepted a certain number of applicants who are "just like you," they have no need to except you because they already have you times ten. I mean, even if you only weigh 90 pounds, this clone they have of you weighs 900 pounds. Good luck fighting your apply early clone, he is huge, there is no way around this!

4) Regional Issues. Your best chance to get into med school is in your state of residency. There is no real way around this (Circumference is too large). Apply to every program in your state and at least have a safety school (Like Wash U). An important thing someone once told me about getting into med school is "you have to start with one." It's true.

5) Undergrad Issues. Some colleges get a lot more respect than others in the eyes of medical school admissions officers. I go to a college in Florida and when I went up to interviews in New York, the interviewers I had talked down about my school. It's a depressing thing to think all your work means nothing to these people, but you just have to accept that is the way people think.

6) Research. Research looks very good when applying to medical schools. If you can get your name on a paper or two before applying this is a major added bonus. Medical Schools are looking for people who are interested in academic medicine and research fits this priority. Also, research has the added bonus that getting your name on a paper carries over to applying for residencies and looks good there as well. Be aware though, that doing a lot of research without getting your name on a paper could mean nothing to a medical school. Lot of applicants do research. It does not matter if it is for 4 years or only 3 months. Admissions Committees see that you have done research and put a check mark next to your name. So it is important to get your name on a paper so that your contributions to a lab are shown. It is almost impossible to get your name on a paper if you only did research for three months. If you do research for four years though, you'll have a very good shot at having your name on a paper

7) Volunteering. The more you volunteer, the more you will seem like a real person in an interview. The more you have to talk about means that admissions officers will see you as someone who is genuinely interested in medicine.

8) Ethnicity. Just mentioning it here because it is a factor. Read "The Shape of the River" if you really want to understand it's role in admissions. It is not as much as you think and you should not be offended by it. But also, if you are black or Mexican, you automatically will get in.

9) There is no way around this, unless you have a 45 and 4.0 you are not safe, there is no way around this, even Wash U won't accept you, there is no way around this, no one with less than 3.7 has ever gotten in, there is no way around this, no one with less than a 30 has ever gotten in, there is no way around this. Even with a 45 and a 4.0 there is no way around this, you have to volunteer and shadow, there is no way around this, even if you volunteer and shadow, Wash U won't accept you, there is no way around this, even if you have a 4.0 and 45 and one thousand shadowing, volunteering, and paid clinical hours, there is no way around this... What I am saying is that honestly, this thing is so wide in circumference that it is really impossible to get around it, so there is no way around this, medical schools only take people with perfect scores... THERE IS NO WAY AROUND THIS

Medal of Honor? Distingushed Fyling Cross? Silver Star? Bronze Star? Purple Heart? What medal are you wanting to know about?

A 5 star general in the Marine Corps would be called an imposter because there is no such person. The generals in the USMC are Brigadier General ( 1 star ) Major General ( 2 star ) Lieutenant General ( 3 star ) and General ( 4 star ). There is no 5 star general in the USMC. The general who outranks a 4 star general is the Commandant of the Marine Corps but is himself a General ( 4 star ). He is outranked by the Secretary of the Navy and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

None - unless you want to be an officer, in which case a 4 years bachelor's degree from an accredited college/ university is a prerequisite.

Marine OCS applicants must have a bachelor's degree, or 90 credits towards completion of a degree.

Because on 10 November 1775 is when the Continental Congress managed to pass the legislation.

Iwo JimaAccording to the USMC and which has been hammered through every Marine's head since WWII, Tarawa is the bloodiest battle of the island hopping battles. Iwo Jima is commonly mistaken as the bloodiest as it had a much higher profile because of the famous "staged" photo.

Iwo had the most deaths, 26,800 total (20,000 Japanese, 6,800 US)but the battle took 35 days, 766 total deaths per day, (194 Marines per day).

Tarawa had 5,700 total deaths (4,700 Japanese, 1,000 US) in 3 days, 1,900 total deaths per day, (333 Marines per day).

I think it boils down to how you quantify "bloodiest".

The Marines must feel that 333 Marine deaths per day is bloodier than 194 per day. I would tend to agree.

Party identification, policy preferences, and candidate's valence.

Besides normal Marine infantry, artillery, and avaition assets, the Corps also had 3 tank battalions in Vietnam, the third being a reinforcement battalion. US Army units began replacing USMC units in I Corps in '69. During '69 onward, most of the USMC units were in the big places like Da Nang mostly operating the airfields with their liasion units. Or some cases driving trucks with their transportation units. USMC units in Northern I Corps places such as Con Thien (US Army called them firebases A4 and C2), Camp Carrol, Quang Tri, Dong Ha, and later Khe Sanh, Firebase Vandergrift, Firebase Lang Vei (actually an ex-Green Beret outpost), were all taken over by the US Army's 1st Brigade 5th Mechanized Infantry Division by '69. USMC truck drivers (in USMC marked trucks) were observed driving along highway 9 (QL9 or Route 9) during Operation Lam Son 719 in 1971. The opinion at that time was that only the Marines would drive that route during that operation, as US Army truck drivers had suffered massive casualties and many were refusing to continue to drive that route. Consequently, someone had to call in the Marines.

The book titled, "Vietnam Air Losses: US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in South East Asia 1961-1973", by Chris Hobson. Published in 2002. ISBN 1-85780-1156. Will list by name, rank, date of loss, area, type of aircraft, reason it was lost, and branch of service. More than 2,000 fixed wing aircraft were lost in the war. It will NOT cover covert operations, Air America, Ravens, etc. It will NOT cover helicopter losses nor operations.

Sizes vary with the structure and the structure varies depending on budget and the needs of the country. It could be up 10 regiments in a Division. The normal Table of Organization calls for three Infantry Regiments and one of them will be an artillery Regiment.

The Tank was actually introduced in the Battle of Somme in WWI, though it was not very useful because they were very slow and un-reliable. They improved for WWII, and also the weapons were very much advanced in the way that they were more accurate and powerful...

The song has an obscure origin-the words date from the 19th century, but no one knows the author. The music is from the Gendarmes' Duet from the opera Geneviève de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach, which had its début in Paris in 1859. The Marine Corps secured a copyright on the song on August 19, 1919, but it is now in the public domain.

Im not quite sure about Iraq but, in Afghanistan, roughly 1222 of our boys have passed. Mostly by IEDs. God Bless them.

You get discharged from the military.

A Gunnery Sergeant has multiple jobs. One is, if their base is under attack, to arm all the weapons for soldiers to use. He also trains soldiers at a camp and at the shooting ranges on accuracy, how to reload, etc.,

In the beginning of Halo 2, a Master Gunnery Sergeant is in an armory teaching the Master Chief (player) on how his shields work. Then, laster, you see him get killed by some Covenant Elites. Then, if you're low on ammo, you can re-stock on ammo to continue.

The Marine Corps Ball is the celebration of the Marine Corps Birthday. Though the actual Birthday date is November 5th, different units celebrate the Ball on different days through out the month of November. The Ball traditionally starts with a Cocktail Hour, followed by a ceremony of traditional toasting speeches and followed up by a guest speaker. After the ceremony, dinner is served and the bar is reopened. Along with music being played for people to dance, there is usually a photographer present as well. It is a once in a life time occasion. Never turn down an invitation to a Marine Corps Ball.

Red; 1st battalion. Gold; 2nd battalion. Blue; third battalion.