History and Mission
The first name of the group which eventually became the US Marine Corps.
What is the Continental Marines?
The pronunciation of Corps
What is (CORE)?
The year the Marine Corps was established.
What is 1798?
According to the Marine Hymn, the Marines fight their battles in these three places.
Where are in the air, on land and sea?
The United States has this number of military branches.
What is six?
The group who drafted the resolution Nov. 10, 1775, to form the first Marines, the Continental Marines.
Who or what is the Second Continental Congress?
The language of the Marine Corps motto
What is Latin?
The year the Second Continental Congress formed the Continental Marines.
What is 1775?
These Japanese country was the site of a famous World War II bombing.
What is Iwo Jima?
The month in which the United States honors its veterans each year with a special holiday.
What is November?
During the Revolutionary War, the Marines helped fight battles as well as this group of brigands.
Who were pirates?
The Marine Corps Motto meaning "always faithful."
What is Semper Fidelis?
The date of the Marine Corps birthday.
What is November 10?
What is Tun Tavern?
Marines are trained to provide power projection, or force, from this location.
What is the sea?
in the very early 1800s the Marines joined the US Navy to respond to raids on these vessels.
What are merchant ships?
A journey that people take with a purpose or goal
What is an expedition?
The year the Marines invaded Japan during WWII.
What is 1945?
These halls and shores are mentioned in the Marines' Hymn.
What are the halls of Montezuma and the shores of Tripoli?
These are the core values, or principles, that Marines live by.
What are honor, courage and commitment?
The explanation of the what the Marine Corps is, meaning that the Marines are trained in and work at responding quickly in a crisis.
What is the United States" expeditionary force in readiness?
The term that means a military unit can assault a land target from the water.
What is amphibious?
The year of the first amphibious landing in the Bahamas.
What is 1776?
The mountain where the Marines raised a flag in the famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal, which has become a famous symbol of World War II.
What is Mount Suribachi?
The six branches of the United States military.
What are the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force and the Marines?