For poolees and recruits heading to Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island or San Diego, and anyone curious about the Corps. Covers Marine history, the 11 General Orders, leadership traits and principles, traditions and uniforms, and recruit training basics.
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How the Corps began in 1775 and what Marines did from the Revolution through the First World War: the battles, places and people a recruit is expected to know.
40 total questions
Card #1
The Marine Corps birthday
Card #2
Tun Tavern
Card #3
Samuel Nicholas
1. Which Marine earned his first Medal of Honor defending the foreign legations at Peking in 1900 and his second in Haiti in 1915?
2. Which Marine earned Medals of Honor for the landing at Veracruz in 1914 and the assault on Fort Riviere, Haiti, in 1915?
3. At Cuzco Well, Cuba, in 1898, American naval gunfire began landing on Marines. Which Marine stood exposed on a ridge signalling the ship to shift its fire, earning the Medal of Honor?
1. The resolution that founded the Continental Marines called for ___ battalions of Marines to be raised.
Hint: A small number, written as a word
2. In 1805, Lieutenant Presley ___ led Marines and hired soldiers across the desert from Egypt to capture Derna.
Hint: His name is on the line 'to the shores of Tripoli'
3. The French renamed Belleau Wood the 'Bois de la Brigade de ___' to honor the Marines.
Hint: The French word is the same as the English one
