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January 21, 2002
What is Semper Fi?
Semper Fi is short for Semper Fidalis (Latin for Always faithful). Semper Fi is the motto of the marine core. You see this on bumper stickers all across America. What are the Marines? (besides, the few, the brave the marines?) They are soldiers who work on naval vessels. I understand that they have to be self contained and ready to work for limited durations without any supply routes.
A discussion worth having will entail facts about how supply routes probably dictate how wars are won.
Side Note: General Montgomery once noted of WWII : "The war will be over when one side has run out of paper to print manuals on". Why is this relevant? The US Army apparently has a manual of several hundred pages detailing the selection of a head of broccoli.
Posted at January 21, 2002 06:22 PMI was in the Marine Corps & so was my son.
Posted by: Herbert Brubaker on August 6, 2003 07:42 PM