Show 11 je M ar er hf 1 lien A 0 N itow IT ow 14 11 av 10 cy esprit de corps and 4 ng training kg arr give power lo 10 the soldiers of the sea 4 ail W Z yv J k 7 1113 F RENCH tired from countless attacks were filtering to the rear the roads were choked with war material with roaring trucks and rushing cam ions everywhere the refugees were safety carrying with them their household effects dragging 71 Z their cows behind their loaded wagons sad yet tet smiling and striving to be brave the last great german drive was waa on pounding relentlessly forward toward paris but in contrast to this picture was vas another that of great trucks truck crammed with full cheated steel muscled men hastening to the front lien from the faraway far away were these new warriors of new vim and new ideas and new meth Ns is of fighting men who knew ger runny only is as a thing to be defeated who never had met inet fear who laughed ft at the horrors of the huns they were united states marines but the odds were agal against ast them the germans had started their rush the swift moving hordes must be halted and more than that gilted by a body of men who roust must make up for their inferiority in numbers by a superiority perio rity of fighting power the trucks churned on children standing by the roadway threw flowers to those marines and cheered them white hatred en rocking atop the refugees carts called a blessing to them but would they these bronzed giants from overseas be able to achieve the impossible more than one wondered and hesitated to think of the outcome A night in an open wheat field then the great clash and out of the great tangle of wars complex machinery came a message that was electrical in its results the weary french took on new life the british standing only a few months before with their backs to the wall fretted in a new anxiety to attack the whole great organization of civilization fighting there on the western front suddenly saw the dawn of a new day and the brightness of a new hope for those eliose united states marines had done the impossible fighting agal against odds of near nearly ten to one the marines had turned back the enemy and started the rearward ruch toward berlin that still Is con they had proved that they were the real su marines with as many as ten and eleven bullet holes in them still fought forward other outliers Ot liers ordered to the rear obeyed only to upturn without waiting to have their wounds dressed men mortally wound ed swept on until the machine gun nests of the enemy were captured hen died still others felled by the enemy forgot their own wounds that they might ask of the wounds of some comrade or insist on not being given aid until later there were comrades who must be cared for first why the marine Is fighter and why why should this body of men and remember the total authorized thorl theorized zed strength of the united states marine corps la Is only be able to accomplish so much why should they be the real su which germany believed it alone possessed until chateau thierry and belleau wood and Boure bouresches why should they be able to accomplish such deeds of ber heroism uNni that the grateful french nation ordered the name ot of belleau wood changed to dols bols de la brigade de marines the answer comes in two things a esprit de corps and the marine theres never an idle second in the life of a marine 14 firul training ning never ceases and more than that there never Is a time when the belief Is not constantly inculcated in the mind ot of a i marine that he must do superhuman things simply because lie he Is a marine an and that his own conscience will call hlin him a criminal against himself and his corps if he the first thing that a marine applicant gets when he reaches the eastern training camp at paris island S C or the western camp at hare blare island cala cal Is a heart to heart talk and its a talk a work of art a speech that tells of the history of the corps from the beginning of the continental marines in 1740 to the present presen t day the great things the marine corps has done and the great things it has bas stood tor for A talk that tells of honesty and straightforwardness and decency and cleanliness the creed of the marine and then when the time of probation Is over and the enlistment completed the marine learns this 1 I am a soldier though not an army soldier sold ler I 1 go to sea yet am not a sailor I 1 am older than ohp th solder of the army or the lie sailor pt the ali navil navi I 1 fight my count rys battles evry eiry where and anywhere in the i in france on ships at sea or in airplanes above its all the same 1 I raised the first american flag on foreign soil more than a century ago I 1 carried old glory into action in tripoli egypt west africa the FIJI islands sumatra hawaii mexico china uruguay paraguay alaska panama formosa korea nicaragua cuba santo domingo hayti and now im with general pershing in france I 1 carry a punch in either hand im a hard fisted three way fighting man im a soldier of the navy a U S marine the beginning the thing that sends the real hush flush of pride into the new marines heart and when lie he walks out upon the training ground and the physical director barks out an order to seize the horizontal bar and chin ten times that new marine does docs it I 1 he may never haie haic chinned himself before his muscles may ache and twitch and do strange things if tern ards but he raises and lowers himself those ten because hes a united states marine I 1 urged to better things theres something inside him urging in him on telling him that he must be better better better every hour every minute every second of his life and when the long hours ot of drilling start that marine Is not only willing to go the limit but eagerly eager 1 hes a marine hes simply got to know everything ery thing and be everything and do everything I 1 facing him everywhere are signs it if you dont know you get killed and the marine knows he trains with the naked bayonet ile he goes out upon the rifle range and it if he qualify as nn an expert a marksman or a sharpshooter he kicks himself all the way back to camp and sits up nights to dream out a way of making it up in some other way L exercises training work play they follow one rf after ter a another in rushing sequence men alen b box ox because the movements of boxing are similar to those hose of bayonet fighting they have Ji up exercises because that helps one to get in and out of trenches ches swimming and the men even march to the swimming hole because that develops every muscle of the body drill hour after hour while sergeants bark and the man who misses a step Is his own worst enemy lectures more drill more work more play more training in seven weeks the body and the mind of of the marine are tit at the edge of perfection and then while the band plays and the left cheer he embarks tor for france via quantico there to work again play again and drill again and not until the moment of the zero when the signal calls for fl demons to rush over the top Is that relaxed for a moment after that its not a question of training but the results of it and chateau thierry and belleau wood have told those to the world |