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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RESERVES – 106 AND AGING, GRATEFULLY
With America’s impending involvement in World War I, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Naval Appropriations Act on August 29, 1916. In doing so, he created the Marine Corps Reserve to join in the fighting on land, sea and in the air. Reserves flew with the British to attack enemy supply lines. They fought in major […]