<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Do we have any Marines on the list?</div><div><br></div><div>Did any of you earn your "Quad Fingers" in the Corps? (I'm assuming that there were Marine Quad VTR's in service somewhere on land or sea.)</div><div><br></div></div>Wikipedia notes that "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Marines" title="Continental Marines" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Continental Marines</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">American Revolutionary War</a>, formed by Captain<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Nicholas" title="Samuel Nicholas" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Samuel Nicholas</a> by a resolution of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Second Continental Congress</a> on 10 November 1775, to raise 2 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battalion" title="Battalion" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">battalions</a> of Marines. That date is regarded and celebrated as the date of the Marine Corps' "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_birthday_ball" title="United States Marine Corps birthday ball" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">birthday</a>". At the end of the American Revolution, both the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Continental Navy</a> and Continental Marines were disbanded in April 1783. The institution itself would not be resurrected until July 11, 1798. At that time, in preparation for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War" title="Quasi-War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Quasi-War</a> with<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_French_Republic" title="First French Republic" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">France</a>, Congress created the United States Marine Corps.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; "><span>[</span>35<span>]</span></a></sup> Marines had been enlisted by the War Department as early as August 1797<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; "><span>[</span>36<span>]</span></a></sup> for service in the new-build <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">frigates</a> authorized by the Congressional "Act to provide a Naval Armament" of March 18, 1794,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; "><span>[</span>37<span>]</span></a></sup> which specified the numbers of Marines to be recruited for each frigate.<br>The Marines' most famous action of this period occurred during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War" title="First Barbary War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">First Barbary War</a> (1801–1805) against the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirate" title="Barbary pirate" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Barbary pirates</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; "><span>[</span>38<span>]</span></a></sup> when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eaton_(soldier)" title="William Eaton (soldier)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">William Eaton</a> and First Lieutenant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presley_O%27Bannon" title="Presley O'Bannon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Presley O'Bannon</a> led eight Marines and 500 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary" title="Mercenary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">mercenaries</a> in an effort to capture <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli" title="Tripoli" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Tripoli</a>. Though they only reached <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Derne" title="Battle of Derne" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Derna</a>, the action at Tripoli has been immortalized in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines%27_hymn" title="Marines' hymn" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Marines' hymn</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mameluke_Sword" title="Mameluke Sword" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Mameluke Sword</a> carried by Marine officers.<sup id="cite_ref-Simmons_38-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps#cite_note-Simmons-38" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; "><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></a></sup> </span>"<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps</a></div><div><br></div><div>According to Wikipedia—the Marines do more with less. Why do I get a parallel picture of Broadcast Engineers?</div><div><br></div><div>A Salute to both!</div><div><br></div><div>If you have Quad-related service stories, feel free to post them tomorrow on Veterans Day. </div><div><br></div><div>
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