FMF Practice (All Solved)

Common Sayings correct answers First to Fight- forefront of every war, 300+ landings on foreign shores. Leatherneck- saber protection Deil Dog - 1918 belleau wood Espirit de Corps - devotion/loyalty to corps, epitiome of pride in unit..."uncommon valor was a common virtue" Nimitz on Iwo Jima. Semper Fidelis - Always faithful 1883 Significant Historical Events 1700s correct answers 1775 10 NOV - Tun Tavern 1776 - Providence Island 1798 - Congress est USMC as separate service Significant Historical Events 1800s correct answers 1805 - Tripoli - stormed Barbary Stronghold Derna...raised flag first time in Eastern Hemishpere 1847 - Halls Montezuma - Battle Chapultepec in Mex War 1859 - Harper's Ferry. Lee stormed John Brown rebellion 1861 - limited action in civil war - aging and undermanned 1868 - EGA adopted by Comm Zeilian from British 1898 - Spanish War - ops Pac and Cuba - est. bases. Significant Historical Events 1900s correct answers 1900 - Boxer Rebellion - defended American Legation in Peking China. 1901 to 1934 - Banana Wars to guard interests 1913 - Aviation est. Major Alfred Cunningham 1917 - WW1, 8 operations, 5th/6th Marines French Fourragere. 1933 - Reorganized to FMF, Quantico Est, new relationship w USN 1941 - WWII, island hoping campaign, 500k during war 1950 - Korean War, tested readiness, new role in Nuclear age. Quick assembly of 1st Brigade vs Pusan Perimeter, Chozin/Inchon 1958 - Reorganized go anywhere and sustain, landed Beirut to stabl 1965 - Vietnam, offensive ops, pacification, Dominican rep coup 1982 - Lebanon peacekeeping, 23OCT83 truck bomb 241 KIA 1983 - Grenada, Urgen Fury, secured overthrow attempt 1989 - Panama, just cause, overthrow Noriega, est. civ gov 1990 - Kuwait, Desert Shield, stop Iraq advance, shows MGTF 1991 - Kuwait, Desert Storm, ACE heavily used, then GCE swept in Significant Marines correct answers Presley O'Bannon - Barbary Stronghold DernaBarbary/Tripoli - raised flag first time old world, Mameluke Sward given to him 1805 Archibald Henderson - Comm 1820-59, Grand Old Man, Higher standards/training, Indian War, Mexico War, China Opening John Quick - Cuzco Well, G-Bay, MOH, seize advanced base-role def Daniel Daly - Boxer Rebellion, Caco War Haiti, 2 MOH, WWI - Beleau Wood "Come on SOB, do you want to live forever?"