November 10, 1775 the US Marines were formed. You folks out there that have put that uniform on I salute you. And that comes from a bubble head.

Tim

We got posed this question yesterday: why are the Marines the second oldest service? I haven't found the answer yet.

Happy Birthday, Marine Corps!

The Navy was officially founded by the continental congress 4 weeks before the Marine Corps, October 13, 1775. The first Navy - Marine bar fight took place in a bar in Philadelphia on November 12, 1775.

Marines are always first in some way or another. We had six Marines in my Army flight school class. One of them was top student. Good guys. Too bad the Navy gives them old cast off aircraft.

Dale Moul wrote:The Navy was officially founded by the continental congress 4 weeks before the Marine Corps, October 13, 1775. The first Navy - Marine bar fight took place in a bar in Philadelphia on November 12, 1775.

I had seen the founding dates and even the ir respective reestablishment dates, both which point to the Navy being the older service. Not sure what the question was getting at.

The bar fight bit is some pretty cool trivia!

Too bad the Navy gives them old cast off aircraft.

The Marines procure their own aircraft. They could have bought brand new Super Hornets at any time over the past 15 years but they chose to wait for the F-35.

As for rotor wing, the Marine Corps and the Navy fly different platforms. The Corps is flying brand new V-22's, old Cobras, 53's, Hueys, a couple of 46 frogs, and maybe a couple others. The Navy is almost 100% 60's now with the exception of 1 or 2 53 squadrons.

Long story short, the Marine Corps doesn't fly old cast off aircraft from the Navy. The Corps flies old aircraft because they've invested every dime they've got into the F-35.

I wouldn't spent too much time trying to verify the date of that first navy - marine bar fight. Considering the source I got it from it may be just a good sea story. And the only difference between a sea story and a fairy tail is the first 4 words, after that they are the same thing.

Bender wrote:The Corps flies old aircraft because they've invested every dime they've got into the F-35.

http://youtu.be/4Ru8DMW-grY


Hopefully it does!

I was back in Vietnam, where they had to fly Sikorsky H-34 piston helicopters instead of UH-1 series turbine. All the Marines from my class were, like me, on orders to Vietnam. Unlike me, they were going to H-34 Squadrons. Radial engines take a licking and keep on ticking, but they couldn't carry much with a H-34, Marine grunts mostly walked or rode in Army helicopters.