November 10th is the holiest of holy days in the Marine Corps religion. It is the day, in 1775, that the U. S. Marine Corps was founded, in accordance with the Second Continental Congress resolution: "that two battalions of marines be raised.". Legend has it that the cadre that met to oversee the initial organization of this band of sea soldiers met at Peg Mullan's Beef Steak House located on the corner of King Street and Tun Alley. What probably happened, after exhaustive hours of organizing and drinking, two of them staggered out into the alley to relieve themselves of the beer that was liberally supplied by Peg. In the darkness behind the tavern one of them got a bit disoriented and asked of the other, "Where the hell are we?" Whereupon the other replied indignantly, "why you boot, back in the Old Corps everyone could navigate night or day. We're on Tun Alley." Thus forever, generations of Marines will come to know that their beloved Marine Corps received its first baptism at or near or behind Tun Tavern.

Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 in Vietnam

Semper Fi,
Namibiahunter

Happy Birthday to all my brothers and sister!

USMC 69-73

Happy Birthday, gentlemen (and I use this term loosely!)!

Semper Fi, play or fry!