The Independent . BILLY BLUE, UNITED STATES MARINE relief map of half ofthe globe. An eagle withoutspread wings sur-mounts the globe anda fouled anchor showsin the background. Totell a marine at aglance (whatever hisuniform or his rank)look on the front ofthe hat or the capfor that globe. It isthe distinguishing em-blem of a marinethe world over. GreatBritain is the onlyother power that has,in our sense of theword, a real marinecorps; and the cap de-vice of the British ma-rine also has a globe inthe center of the A SAMPLi: KITTheres forty pounds of indispensable luprpratre here: blank
The Independent . BILLY BLUE, UNITED STATES MARINE relief map of half ofthe globe. An eagle withoutspread wings sur-mounts the globe anda fouled anchor showsin the background. Totell a marine at aglance (whatever hisuniform or his rank)look on the front ofthe hat or the capfor that globe. It isthe distinguishing em-blem of a marinethe world over. GreatBritain is the onlyother power that has,in our sense of theword, a real marinecorps; and the cap de-vice of the British ma-rine also has a globe inthe center of the A SAMPLi: KITTheres forty pounds of indispensable luprpratre here: blanket, shelter tent, tent pegs,mess tins, wire cutter, bayonet, knife and fork, canteen, cup, shirts, socks, shoes,first aid box, poncho, belt, bacon tin, condiment can, and pick-mattock. Can you identify them? in a hundred and onelesser clashes with rev-olutionists in the blackrepublics will come tomind. The Marines arethe constables of thenew world; they are,in fact, a near approx-imation to the ideal ofa World Police distinguished ex-President once definedthe Corps as the load-ed end of his BigStick. How high ourMarines stand in inter-national esteem may bejudged by the remarksof a colonel in the Brit-ish Army, recentlyquoted in Girards col-umn in the Philadel-phia Public-Ledger: 371
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