BST MARINE CORPS KNOWLEDGE

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BST MARINE CORPS KNOWLEDGE

1.THE YEAR THE USMC BECAME A REGULAR BRANCH OF OUR

COUN- TRY'S SERVICE.: NOVEMBER 10, 1775

2.THE MAN WHO ESTABLISHED THE USMC.: CAPTAIN SAMUEL NICHOLAS

3.THE USMC WAS ESTABLISHED HERE.: TUN TAVERN, PA

4.PROPRIETOR OF TUN TAVERN.: PEG MULLEN, ROBERT

MULLLEN'S WIFE.

5.FIRST MARINE CORPS RECRUITER.: ROBERT MULLEN

6.THE YEAR THE MARINE CORPS WAS FORMED.: JULY 11, 1798

7.SYMBOL OF THE USMC.: EAGLE, GLOBE, AND ANCHOR

8.RECOGNIZES OUR NATION.: THE EAGLE

9.RECOGNIZES OUR WORLD WIDE SERVICE.: THE GLOBE

10.RECOGNIZES OUR NAVAL TRADITIONS.: THE ANCHOR

11.THE YEAR THE USMC SYMBOL WAS ADOPTED.: 1868

12.MAN WHO ADOPTED THE USMC SYMBOL.: BRIG. GENERAL

JACOB ZEALIN

13.THE TERM LEATHERNECK CAME FROM WHERE?: THE MARINES

WHO WORE A LEATHER STRAP TO PROTECT THEIR NECK FROM

ENEMY SWORDS. 1 / 4

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14.USMC MOTTO.: SEMPER FIDELIS

15.USMC MOTTO BEFORE SEMPER FIDELIS.: BY LAND, BY SEA

16.YEAR THE USMC WAS CHANGED TO SEMPER FIDELIS.: 1880

17.WHERE MARINES GOT THE NICKNAME "DEVIL DOG" FROM.:

BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD IN JUNE 1918

18.THE FIRST USMC AVIATOR.: A. A. CUNNINGHAM, IN 1912

19.FIRST WOMAN MARINE.: OPHA M. JOHNSON, AUGUST 13, 1918

20.FIRST MARINE HELO PILOT TO RECEIVE THE MEDAL OF HONOR.:

MA- JOR STEPHEN PLESS

21.FIRST MARINE PILOT TO SHOOT DOWN AN ENEMY PLANE.: 1ST LT. E.

S. BREWER

22.MARINE WHO SERVED THE LONGEST TERM AS COMMANDANT.: -

ARCHIBALD HENDERSON

23.FIRST FEMALE MARINE WARRANT OFFICER.: CWO RUTH L. WOOD 2 / 4

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24.FIRST MARINE OFFICER TO DIE IN BATTLE.: CAPTAIN JOHN

FITZ- PATRICK

25.ARCHIBALD HENDERSON SERVED THIS MANY YEARS AS

COMMAN- DANT.: 38 YEARS

26.TIME YOU HAVE TO DAWN AND CLEAR THE GAS MASK.: 15 SECONDS

27.THIS COMMANDANT INSTALLED THE OFFICE OF SERGEANT

MAJOR OF THE MARINE CORPS.: 21ST COMMANDANT, GENEREL

PATE, IN 1957

28.ON FEBRUARY 20, 1962, ONE OF THE MARINE CORPS FINEST PI-

LOTS MANNED THE FIRST CAPSULE TO ORBIT THE EARTH.:

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN GLEEN

29.THE YEAR THE DRESS BLUE UNIFORM WAS ADOPTED.: AUGUST

24, 1797

30.THE MAN WHO ADOPTED THE DRESS BLUE UNIFORM.: SECRETARY

OF WAR JAMES MCHENRY

31.THE MAMELUKE SWORD WAS PRESENTED TO THIS MAN.: LT.

PRESLEY

N. O'BANNON

32.THE MAN WHO PRESENTED THE MAMELUKE SWORD TO LT.

PRESLEY O'BANNON.: PASHA OF TRIPOLI

33.THIS AMOUNT OF MARINES WERE KILLED ON THE ISLAND OF

IWO JIMA.: 5,931 MARINES

34.THIS AMOUNT OF MARINES DIED ON THE FIRST DAY AT IWO JIMA.: - 3 / 4

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2,500 MARINES

35.HOW MANY MARINES LEFT THE ISLAND ALIVE OF THE SIX

AMERICANS PICTURED RAISING THE FLAG OVER MT. SURIACHI?: THREE

36.THIS AMOUNT OF JAPANESE BECAME PRISONERS AT IWO JIMA.:

FEW- ER THAN 200.

37.THE MAN WHO COINED THE PHRASE "UNCOMMON VALOR WAS A

COM- MON VIRTUE".: FLEET ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ

38.THE MAN WHO SAID "THE RAISING OF THAT FLAG ON MT. SURIBACHI MEANS A MARINE CORPS FOR THE NEXT 500 YEARS" ON THE ISLAND

OF IWO JIMA.: SECRETARY OF THE NAVY JAMES V. FORRESTAL

39.THE MAN WHO TOOK THE PICTURE OF THE FLAG RAISING ON

MT. SURIBACHI.: JOE ROSENTHAL

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