Happy 71st birthday 3rd Battalion 1st Marines!

Sgt. Maj. Vincent Santiago, Battalion Landing Team 3/1 sergeant major, cuts a cake aboard USS New Orleans March 11 at a ceremony celebrating the 71st anniversary of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines. The Camp Pendleton, Calif.,-based battalion – reinforced by mechanized and motorized attachments, reconnaissance and combat engineers – is the ground combat element for the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The unit is deployed as part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, a U.S. Central Command theater reserve force. The group is providing support for maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet area of responsibility.

Its kinda awesome to see High and Tight Haircuts making a comeback.


All these combat 'staches were making me think that we were going Army.  Now if we can only get the Commandant to get out of that Fly Boy haircut and get a Grunt Cut all might be right with the world.