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BST MARINE CORPS KNOWLEDGE
1.THE YEAR THE USMC BECAME A REGULAR BRANCH OF OUR
COUN- TRY'S SERVICE.: NOVEMBER 10, 1775
2.THE MAN WHO ESTABLISHED THE USMC.: CAPTAIN SAMUEL NICHOLAS
3.THE USMC WAS ESTABLISHED HERE.: TUN TAVERN, PA
4.PROPRIETOR OF TUN TAVERN.: PEG MULLEN, ROBERT
MULLLEN'S WIFE.
5.FIRST MARINE CORPS RECRUITER.: ROBERT MULLEN
6.THE YEAR THE MARINE CORPS WAS FORMED.: JULY 11, 1798
7.SYMBOL OF THE USMC.: EAGLE, GLOBE, AND ANCHOR
8.RECOGNIZES OUR NATION.: THE EAGLE
9.RECOGNIZES OUR WORLD WIDE SERVICE.: THE GLOBE
10.RECOGNIZES OUR NAVAL TRADITIONS.: THE ANCHOR
11.THE YEAR THE USMC SYMBOL WAS ADOPTED.: 1868
12.MAN WHO ADOPTED THE USMC SYMBOL.: BRIG. GENERAL
JACOB ZEALIN
13.THE TERM LEATHERNECK CAME FROM WHERE?: THE MARINES
WHO WORE A LEATHER STRAP TO PROTECT THEIR NECK FROM
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14.USMC MOTTO.: SEMPER FIDELIS
15.USMC MOTTO BEFORE SEMPER FIDELIS.: BY LAND, BY SEA
16.YEAR THE USMC WAS CHANGED TO SEMPER FIDELIS.: 1880
17.WHERE MARINES GOT THE NICKNAME "DEVIL DOG" FROM.:
BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD IN JUNE 1918
18.THE FIRST USMC AVIATOR.: A. A. CUNNINGHAM, IN 1912
19.FIRST WOMAN MARINE.: OPHA M. JOHNSON, AUGUST 13, 1918
20.FIRST MARINE HELO PILOT TO RECEIVE THE MEDAL OF HONOR.:
MA- JOR STEPHEN PLESS
21.FIRST MARINE PILOT TO SHOOT DOWN AN ENEMY PLANE.: 1ST LT. E.
S. BREWER
22.MARINE WHO SERVED THE LONGEST TERM AS COMMANDANT.: -
ARCHIBALD HENDERSON
23.FIRST FEMALE MARINE WARRANT OFFICER.: CWO RUTH L. WOOD 2 / 4
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24.FIRST MARINE OFFICER TO DIE IN BATTLE.: CAPTAIN JOHN
FITZ- PATRICK
25.ARCHIBALD HENDERSON SERVED THIS MANY YEARS AS
COMMAN- DANT.: 38 YEARS
26.TIME YOU HAVE TO DAWN AND CLEAR THE GAS MASK.: 15 SECONDS
27.THIS COMMANDANT INSTALLED THE OFFICE OF SERGEANT
MAJOR OF THE MARINE CORPS.: 21ST COMMANDANT, GENEREL
PATE, IN 1957
28.ON FEBRUARY 20, 1962, ONE OF THE MARINE CORPS FINEST PI-
LOTS MANNED THE FIRST CAPSULE TO ORBIT THE EARTH.:
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN GLEEN
29.THE YEAR THE DRESS BLUE UNIFORM WAS ADOPTED.: AUGUST
24, 1797
30.THE MAN WHO ADOPTED THE DRESS BLUE UNIFORM.: SECRETARY
OF WAR JAMES MCHENRY
31.THE MAMELUKE SWORD WAS PRESENTED TO THIS MAN.: LT.
PRESLEY
N. O'BANNON
32.THE MAN WHO PRESENTED THE MAMELUKE SWORD TO LT.
PRESLEY O'BANNON.: PASHA OF TRIPOLI
33.THIS AMOUNT OF MARINES WERE KILLED ON THE ISLAND OF
IWO JIMA.: 5,931 MARINES
34.THIS AMOUNT OF MARINES DIED ON THE FIRST DAY AT IWO JIMA.: - 3 / 4
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2,500 MARINES
35.HOW MANY MARINES LEFT THE ISLAND ALIVE OF THE SIX
AMERICANS PICTURED RAISING THE FLAG OVER MT. SURIACHI?: THREE
36.THIS AMOUNT OF JAPANESE BECAME PRISONERS AT IWO JIMA.:
FEW- ER THAN 200.
37.THE MAN WHO COINED THE PHRASE "UNCOMMON VALOR WAS A
COM- MON VIRTUE".: FLEET ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ
38.THE MAN WHO SAID "THE RAISING OF THAT FLAG ON MT. SURIBACHI MEANS A MARINE CORPS FOR THE NEXT 500 YEARS" ON THE ISLAND
OF IWO JIMA.: SECRETARY OF THE NAVY JAMES V. FORRESTAL
39.THE MAN WHO TOOK THE PICTURE OF THE FLAG RAISING ON
MT. SURIBACHI.: JOE ROSENTHAL
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