My grandfather served as a pilot with the Army Air Corps, and he was shot down over Normandy in August 1944.
I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.
Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.
I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.
Let`s not hesitate. This is where the press corps, the media should all stand together. And I hope that you have the same response that you had when it came time to defend Fox.
For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.
In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax.
Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?
Army Corps activities have a significant impact on the health, public safety, and overall quality of life for many Mississippians.
We're never going to satisfy the White House press corps and their desires for access. And I think there have been mistakes made in the past of trying to do that.
The importance of the Army Corps of Engineers to public safety and economic activity in Mississippi can't be understated.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.
One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.
After my time in the Marine Corps with 'don't ask, don't tell,' I didn't want to hide any more.
The time for me in the Peace Corps was easily the most formative experience I've had in my life.
I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.
We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.
My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.
I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.
I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.
For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.
Everything in my life I owe to God, my family, the Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps.
I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing
I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.
The Corps is in good hands, and it's been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it's time to go.
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.
I've always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it's difficult to do the sort of journalism that I would want to do.
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