{"id":426,"date":"2007-06-14T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/14\/know-what-today-is\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T23:59:34","slug":"know-what-today-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Know what today is?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know it’s Flag Day, and Pamela does a great job at Atlas Shugs<\/a> celebrating that particular recognition, but that’s not all it is today.<\/p>\n

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After my kids’ birthdays and my anniversary, it’s probably the only date I have hammered into my head. It’s the Army’s Birthday<\/a> – 232-years old today. In fact, it was 32-years ago today, I performed my 10th jump, it was on Fort Benning’s Fryar Drop Zone for President Gerald Ford. Actually, we dropped the 13th for our parade for the President on the 14th – the 200th Birthday of the Army.<\/p>\n

Today, the US Embassy in Baghdad thanked the US Army<\/a> with this cake (photo courtesy of the US Army);<\/p>\n

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Sergeant Major of the Army Kenneth O. Preston and some less important guys cut the cake in Washington, DC (courtesy of the US Army, photo by SSG Christina O’Connell)<\/p>\n

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From the Center for Military History<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The June 14 date is when Congress adopted “the American continental army” after reaching a consensus position in The Committee of the Whole. This procedure and the desire for secrecy account for the sparseness of the official journal entries for the day. The record indicates only that Congress undertook to raise ten companies of riflemen, approved an enlistment form for them, and appointed a committee (including Washington and Schuyler) to draft rules and regulations for the government of the army. The delegates’ correspondence, diaries, and subsequent actions make it clear that they really did much more. They also accepted responsibility for the existing New England troops and forces requested for the defense of the various points in New York. The former were believed to total 10,000 men; the latter, both New Yorkers and Connecticut men, another 5,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, to all of my brothers-in-arms, all of those Dogfaced Soldiers<\/a>, past, present and future, I send out this ditty;<\/p>\n

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I Wouldn’t Give A Bean
\nTo Be A Fancy Pants Marine,
\nI’d rather Be A Dogface Soldier Like I Am.
\nI Wouldn’t Trade My Old O.D.’s
\nFor All The Navy’s Dungarees
\nFor I’m The Walking Pride Of Uncle Sam;
\nOn All The Posters That I Read It Says
\nThe Army Builds Men
\nSo They’re Tearing Me Down To Build Me Over Again
\nI’m Just A Dogface Soldier
\nWith A Rifle On My Shoulder
\nAnd I Eat Raw Meat For Breakfast Everyday.
\nSo Feed Me Ammunition,
\nKeep Me In The Third Division,
\nYour Dogfaced Soldier Boy’s Okay<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(edited to rectify grotesque politically correct language-alterations)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Please stand for the Army’s Song;<\/a><\/p>\n

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Intro:<\/span> March along, sing our song, with the Army of the free
\nCount the brave, count the true, who have fought to victory
\nWe’re the Army and proud of our name
\nWe’re the Army and proudly proclaim<\/p>\n

Verse: <\/span>First to fight for the right,
\nAnd to build the Nation’s might,
\nAnd The Army Goes Rolling Along
\nProud of all we have done,
\nFighting till the battle’s won,
\nAnd the Army Goes Rolling Along.<\/p>\n

Refrain: <\/span>Then it’s Hi! Hi! Hey!
\nThe Army’s on its way.
\nCount off the cadence loud and strong (TWO! THREE!)
\nFor where e’er we go,
\nYou will always know
\nThat The Army Goes Rolling Along.<\/p>\n

Verse: <\/span>Valley Forge, Custer’s ranks,
\nSan Juan Hill and Patton’s tanks,
\nAnd the Army went rolling along
\nMinute men, from the start,
\nAlways fighting from the heart,
\nAnd the Army keeps rolling along.
\n(refrain)<\/p>\n

Verse:<\/span> Men in rags, men who froze,
\nStill that Army met its foes,
\nAnd the Army went rolling along.
\nFaith in God, then we’re right,
\nAnd we’l fight with all our might,
\nAs the Army keeps rolling along.
\n(refrain)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unashamedly stolen from the Military Motivator<\/a> (h\/t Blackfive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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