Gunny G: USMC EMBLEM � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

Gunny G: USMC EMBLEM � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

"Gunny G: USMC EMBLEM

August 12, 2011 Gunny G

NO Marine should refer to our Emblem as an “EGA!” There is no such thing as an EGA. Just as there is neither a Marine Sergeant who is an E-5, nor a Marine Corporal who is an E-4!

No E-numeric ranks!

Hey, I don’t condone those silly “oohrahs,” either–Semper Fidelis was the motto of the Old Salts I followed into the Corps, and it still is for all Marines now!

-Dick Gaines, GySgt USMC (Ret.)1952-1972

I was inspired to write this short webpage by an article I discovered in a recent issue of Leatherneck magazine.

That profoundly significant article by Sergeant Major David W. Sommers, USMC (Ret), was on the topic of the non-existent EGA,

You may wish to read the full text of his article in the February 2001 issue of Leatherneck; it is in the Sound Off column, page 63, under the title, “SgtMaj Sommers: No Way To “EGA”

He states, in part:".......................
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