{"id":445,"date":"2008-11-10T23:15:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2008-11-10T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T05:22:06","slug":"happy-birthday-dear-chesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, dear Chesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmcpress.com\/heritage\/marine_corps_birthday.htm\">and all of the other Marines<\/a>. I was &#8220;George&#8221; at the Marine Corps Birthday Ball in Dunoon, Scotland &#8211; 1976, if memory serves. Not surprisingly, I was &#8220;George&#8221; in my submarine&#8217;s wardroom, as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation.  We make Marines, and we win battles.  [Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC (CMC); 5 May 1997]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I knew (very slightly) Gen. Krulak when he was a Captain. He was one of the Company Officers at the Naval Academy when I attended. Not <em>my<\/em> Company Officer, but we had, let us say, occasional &#8230; dealings. Mostly when he was OOD and I had the watch. I&#8217;m pretty certain he wouldn&#8217;t remember me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and all of the other Marines. I was &#8220;George&#8221; at the Marine Corps Birthday Ball in Dunoon, Scotland &#8211; 1976, if memory serves. Not surprisingly, I was &#8220;George&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}