Marine Wounded in Iraq Gets New Wheelchair-Accessible Home — for Free

Comrades helping out one of their own — it also happens beyond the battlefield. 

Members of the United States Army 1st Brigade 2nd Armored Division of Fort Bliss and United States Marine Corps students – who claim to be military branch rivals — joined forces to help build a new wheelchair-accessible home for disabled veteran Cpl. Daniel Gasca and his family.  read more

And So It Began

Scene: Tun Tavern, Philadelphia. Date: 1775 Time: Evening.

Lt. O'Bannon was sitting at a candle-lit table with a feather pen and an open ledger before him.
He was recruiting the world's first U. S. Marine Detachment. The first potential recruit, whose name has been lost in antiquity, walked up and said, “What's the deal?” O'Bannon said, “Just sign this book, and I'll give you $5, which is your first month's pay, a bottle of whiskey and you're in. Of course you have to have your own musket.” read more