Semper Fidelis.

Born as an act of Congress on this date, 236 years ago, consecrated in sacrifice, steeped in tradition, and tested in battle. From the Barbary Coast to Belleau Wood to Tarawa and Iwo, to Beirut, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps has fought through adversity emerging victorious from the rills of blood, sweat and tears of those fallen brothers who gave all for God, country and Corps. Gen. Lejeune in his 1921 message to the Corps could not have said it better: 

"This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received from those who preceded us in the Corps. With it we also received from them the eternal spirit which has animated our Corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the men of our nation will regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as "Soldiers of the Sea" since the founding of the Corps."

Semper Fidelis to all Marines past, present and future.