Re: [OT] A variety of terminology/history questions

I stand corrected.  It's a point I'd had made by a Marine friend, maybe
he 
was just referring to "Before the Navy."

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

>From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: [OT] A variety of terminology/history questions
>Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 06:15:10 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>--- Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In response to the question about the marines:  For
> > one thing, Tradition.
> > Any Marine will point out that the Marine Corps was
> > the first branch of the
> > US Military officially commissioned by Congress.
> > They have a great
> > tradition and it would be sad to see it go.
>
>Really?
>
>Seeing as how the United States Army was established
>on June 14, 1775 and the On November 10, 1775 Congress
>authorized raising a Corp of Marines I don't see how
>you get this conclusion.  Furthermore, the US Army had
>been de facto in existence for some months prior to
>it's authorization, where the Marine Corps did not
>begin recruiting until late 1775.
>
>John
>
>
>
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