Marine history question...?

Question

I'm an old school Marine that's been to many USMC birthday parties yet that was many years ago. I've lost track so just exactly how old are the Marines now days. I'll throw in a trivia question to boot. Why did the Marines earn the name LEATHERNECK? First correct Jar head answer gets ten points.

Answer 1

november 10th 1775 is the birth of the marines. the uniform has a high leather  collar.

Answer 2

The Marine Corps should be 233 years this comming Nov. 10th.

If I remember it had to do with the battle of Chapultapec, where Marines wore leather collars to protect their necks from hand to hand sword fighting, but I could be wrong, I'm on old Marine too and my memory maybe doesn't serve me so well.

Answer 3

Thank you for defending our freedom, that so many take for granted...   with out men and woman like yourself we'd be france...

I salute you, Marine.  (I'd call you a sir If I had seen the insignia, however since I cant, I will assume that you work for a living)  

Answer 4

It depends upon what you mean by HOW OLD? The Congress called for its formation Nov 10, 1775 but the battalions were never raised .

From The Marine Corps Story, by Robert Moskin, 1992: "...The two battalions were never raised; but on November 28, (1775) the Congress commissioned thirty-two year old Capt. Samuel Nicholas, a Philadelphia Quaker, an innkeeper and a blacksmith's son, as the first Marine officer. A hundred volunteers, recruited in Rhode Island, arrived at Philadelphia by December 5...probably signed up in Robert Mullan's Tun Tavern."

Leatherneck is a military slang term for a member of the United States Marine Corps. The term refers to the high leather collar on the Marine Corps uniform designed to protect the neck from a sword blow during battle. The dress blue uniform still bears a high stock collar today.

Answer 5

USMC Birthdate: November 10th, 1775

Leatherneck: High leather collars worn on the uniform to protect the neck.

Jarhead: High and tight haircut looks like the lid on a jar :) It's one word, too, by the way.  

Answer 6

It was from the lether neck piece they wore in the early 1800's.

Answer 7

It is due to an older uniform worn by the Marines that had a high leather collar to protect the neck from swords. The Marine Corps is 232 years old!!

Answer 8

Your such a FAKE

Answer 9

NOV 10TH 1775--TUN TAVERN....LEATHERNECKS CAME FROM A LEATHER COLLAR MARINES WORE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM SWORD CUTS AIMED AT THEIR NECKS