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Next Wa MMC meeting will be at the VFW on March 14. Correcting error on month, we will have the meeting on the second Sunday as planned, meeting at 12 noon vs 1pm to make sure we are not conflicting with the 82nd AB

Welcome to the Washington Chapter of the Marines Motorcycle Club

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The Washington Marines Motorcycle Club is a chapter in the National Marines Motorcycle Club.

The Marines Motorcycle Club is open to all honorably discharged Marines, Corpsmen (FMF Fleet attached to a Combat unit with MOS of 8404) and currently active duty USMC. We ride American made motorcycles.

The Marines MC is dedicated to preserving the oath of honor we have all pledged in becoming Marines, the welfare of our brother Marines and the memory of all Marines who have passed before us. We wear a three-piece patch to signify our commitment to each other and to the honor of being the few who can rightfully wear the Scarlet and Gold.

Our club supports several charities and participates in a variety of events across the country. Nationally we host an annual Lupus Run as well as several regional Lupus events. Our national office also provides security and manpower for Special Olympics events, MMA events and support for other motorcycle club events.

The Marines MC is not affiliated with the United States Marine Corps, however (as former Marines) we do have their permission to utilize the Eagle, Globe and Anchor on our patch. The Marines MC patch, all information on this site and any use or reference to the Marines MC is forbidden without written permission. Any unauthorized use of the Marines MC name or patch, will be dealt with swiftly and accurately by a former Marine Sniper. You can run but you will die tired.

This chapter is located in the Seattle, WA area. We have members all over the state and we are a very respected MC in the motorcycle community.

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This month in USMC History.

2 March 1867:
Jacob Zeilin, Colonel Commandant of the Marine Corps from 30 June 1864, was this date promoted to the rank of Brigadier General Commandant, the first time Congress authorized this rank for the Marine Corps. The statute, however, was repealed in June 1874 so that the rank of Commandant would again revert to colonel upon Zeilin's retirement.

8 March 1965:
The 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed at DaNang, Republic of Vietnam as the first U.S. ground combat troops to be committed to that conflict. The 3,500 men arrived both across the beach with Battalion Landing Team 3/9, and at DaNang Airfield with Battalion Landing Team 1/3.

11 March 1778:
Marines participated the action when the Continental Navy frigate BOSTON, enroute to France, sighted, engaged, and captured the British merchant ship MARTHA. As the drum of the BOSTON beat to arms, John Adams seized a musket and joined the Marines on deck until the frigate's captain, Samuel Tucker, sent him below for safety.

13 March 1943:
The first group of71 Women Marine officer candidates arrived at the U.S. Midshipmen School (Women's Reserve) at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The Navy's willingness to share training facilities enabled the Marine Corps to begin training Marine Corps Women's Reserve officers just one month after the creation of the MCWR was announced.

17 March 1967:
The first woman Marine to report to Vietnam for duty, Master Sergeant Barbara J. Dulinsky, began her 18-hour flight to Bien Hoa, 30 miles north of Saigon. MSgt Dulinsky and the other officer and enlisted Women Marines that followed were assigned to the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) based in Saigon. Most worked with the Marine Corps Personnel Section providing administrative support to Marines assigned as far north as the DMZ, but two Lieutenant Colonels, Ruth Reinholz and Ruth O'Holleran, served as historians with the Military History Branch, Secretary Joint Staff, MACV.

25 March 1945:
After 35 days of bitter fighting, the amphibious assault on the rocky fortress of Iwo Jima finally appeared over. On the night of 25 March, however, a 300-man Japanese force launched a vicious final counterattack in the vicinity of Airfield Number 2. Army pilots, Seabees and Marines of the 5th Pioneer Battalion and 28th Marines fought the fanatical Japanese force till morning but suffered heavy casualties --more than l00 killed and another 200 American wounded. Nearly all of the Japanese force was killed in the battle.

27 March 1953:
The 5th Marines, supported by the 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, in the first full day of fighting after the Chinese assault the previous evening of Outpost Vegas on Korea's western front, counterattacked to regain enemy-held positions. Companies E and F of 2/7 , down to only three platoons between them, managed to regain partial control of Outpost Vegas that day.

31 March 1801:
On this date, LtCol Commandant William W. Burrows rode with president Thomas Jefferson to look for "a proper place to fix the Marine Barracks on." President Jefferson was a personal friend of the Commandant, and deeply interested in the welfare of the Corps and accompanied Burrows on horseback on the morning of 31 March. They chose a square in Southeast Washington, bounded by 8th and 9th streets, and a & I streets, because it lay near the Navy Yard and was within easy marching distance of the Capitol.