The US should maintain strong and ready military forces.
In The News
Final day of Marine Week Chicago 2025 wraps up as US Marine Corps celebrates 250 years of service
Christian Piekos – ABC 7 Chicago
July 13, 2025
Reaching back into the last century may reveal the best of USMC history.
There are exceptions. President Reagan sent the Marines to Beirut, Lebanon back in 1983.
Was this operation meant to benefit the American way of life?
Were Marines defending the constitution in Lebanon?
Did this operation become a catastrophic military failure?
Temporarily Committed To Tradition
People who were familiar with the Marine Corps during the last century could say that the Marine Corps was a tradition-oriented organization.
In This Century
Somebody in Washington D.C. decided that the US Armed Forces should be dressing women to look like men. Marine Corps leadership followed along.
Today, the USMC and other branches have placed this policy into action.
Drill Instructors and Marines with November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion march towards the Peatross Parade Deck before their graduation ceremony Nov. 16, 2018 at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. (Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Yamil Casarreal)
“Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC —
A company of female Marines made history Friday after becoming the first group of new Marines to debut the Corps’ latest dress uniform.”
The Make Everyone Look The Same effort still leaves separate standards in place for male/female physical fitness, height and weight, and haircut/grooming/personal appearance.
Somebody in Washington D.C. decided that boot camp for male Marines should no longer be separate from Marine boot camp for female Marines. Marine Corps leadership followed along and did as they were told.
Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars.
Both major political parties are good with it.
Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.
From 2004
“Today, however, the Congress has relinquished its delegated powers, giving the President license to do whatever he and his office determine that they can get away with. Consequentially, the presidential and legislative oaths to the Constitution have just turned into a great photo op on inauguration day.”
“It is a sad and hard realization for a grunt who loves the Marine Corps to admit that the organization is not used in the preservation of liberty, and has not been used toward that end for a very long time.”
Source:
By Casey Khan
February 14, 2004
William J. Astore – Aug 6, 2025
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Something from the last century
Post-Vietnam guilt
The guilt doesn’t seem to work towards staying out of undeclared/unwon wars, maintaining the barracks or managing federal contracts related to TRICARE.
A giant flag ritual at the next ball game will make it all good.