FMF CORPSMEN INFORMATION

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Throughout the History of the United States Marine Corps, Navy Hospital Corpsman have served side by side with Marines to answer their cry of
"Corpsman Up"

	Inland Empire Marines Detachment 696 FMF Corpsmen Members
NEWS FLASH Certain Navy FMF Corpsmen are now eligible for full membership in the Marine Corps League. This Bylaw Change #5 was passed at the 78th National Convention in Dearborn, MI. It modifies Article Six, Section 600 - REGULAR MEMBERSHIP as follows: (a) to include "...and Naval Medical Personnel who have trained with Marine FMF Units in excess of ninety (90) days and earned the Marine Corps Device (clasp) worn on Service Ribbon and those who earn the Warfare Device authorized for FMF Corpsmen shall be eligible for regular membership in the Marine Corps League." Brooks Corley, Jr., National Executive Director	FMF Corpsmen Creed "KEEP AS MANY MEN AT AS MANY GUNS FOR AS MANY DAYS AS POSSIBLE" "You guys are the Marine's doctors; There's no better in the business than a Navy Corpsman...." Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, U.S.M.C
	4,563 Purple Hearts were awarded to Corpsmen in Vietnam
President McKinley approved a bill on June 17, 1898 that established the Navy Hospital Corps.	RETURN TO INLAND EMPIRE MARINES
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