Marines with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing wait to escort the cake during a cake-cutting ceremony aboard MCAS Miramar, Calif., Nov. 10. The cake cutting ceremony is one of many traditions the Marines use to celebrate the birth of the Marine Corps.

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