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Just a quick hello to the fellow brothers out there that know and understand what this means. I read this forum a lot and see there,s a lot of us out there... so you leathernecks.... this bootneck is just saying hi.
keep it real and sunny side up!
tally ho!
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I prefer "terra firma" - and the more 'firma', the less 'terra'...
I went through a typhoon somewhere off Manila aboard the USS Bristol County - an LST, amphibious assault support ship - for three days. It was a memorable experience.
Semper Fi to all jarheads out there, and raise your glasses at least once to the U.S. Navy, who get us where we need to go, and back.
Semper Fidelis was adopted about 1883 as the motto of the Corps. Before that, there had been three mottoes, all traditional rather than official. The first, antedating the War of 1812, was “Fortitudine” (“With Fortitude”). The second, “By Sea and by Land,” was obviously a translation of the Royal Marine’s “Per Mare, Per Terram.” Until 1848, the third motto was “To the Shores of Tripoli,” in commemoration of O’Bannon’s capture of Derna in 1805. In 1848, after the return to Washington of the Marine battalion that took part in the capture of Mexico City, this motto was revised to: “From the Halls of the Montezumas to the Shores of Tripoli" – a line now familiar to all Americans. This revision of the Corps motto in Mexico has encouraged speculation that the first stanza of “The Marines’ Hymn” was composed by members of the Marine battalion who stormed Chapultepec Castle.
It may be added that the Marine Corps shares its motto with England’s Devonshire Regiment, the 11th Foot, one of the senior infantry regiments of the British Army, whose sobriquet is “the Bloody Eleventh” and whose motto is also Semper Fidelis
Hayzi,
whether you be a brother Marine or "the bloody 11th", Semper Fi.
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FWIW, I think the OP is a former RMC (royal marine commando). I loved to work with these guys. Physical rusticity and high professionalism was the common attitude amongst them. Their only problem was their combat rations. I traded one of mine (french) for one of theirs. Happened once, I tell you that. If they'd lose a fight, it would be because of what they have to eat in the field.
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La mission est sacrée,
tu l'exécutes jusqu'au bout
et, si besoin,
au péril de ta vie
Semper fidelis.. Per mare per terram
