Celebrating the 241st Birthdays of the
U.S. Navy & Marine Corps
W
e often - and unfortunately - take advantage
of our military branches, forgetting to thank
them, and becoming more and more unconscious to their needs for help. Long before most of us were out of
diapers, there were many service members hard at work on the
frontlines, risking their lives through the depressions, the foreign
threats, and the unforeseen involvements in worldly affairs.
Most of us don’t even know how certain branches of the military came about, as if they just “always were.” This is obviously
untrue, however, as everything has a starting point. Let’s look
back into the past, and discover the birth and history behind
two major branches: The Navy and the Marine Corps.
48 Fall 2016 Adventure Outdoors