What is the Marine Corps oath they swear by?
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nOath Of A U.S. Marine \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n  \n  Enlisted:  I (state your name) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. \n\n\n\n \n  \n\nOfficer: I (state your name) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
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Once a Marine ALWAYS A Marine. Ooooooooh Rahhhhhhhh\nSemper Fi. USMC 72 - 80
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Because of a famous roman general Chestius Pullius whose epic feats inspired the Marine Corps.  Therefore they used this generals native tongue latin and his motto.\nSemper Fidelis(Always Faithful) was the personal motto of Chestius Pullius\n\nNOTE:  i notice others have given you long cut and pasted wikipedia answers but i gave you the correct one.  ask any marine about Gen. Chestius Pullius and they will tell you.
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Christians... GET SOME MARINE!!
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Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw the other day:\n"NO LONGER LEAN, NO LONGER MEAN, BUT STILL A MARINE!"
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Nearly all doctors, upon graduation from medical school take the following oath (known as the Hypocratic Oath).  Notice that the oath stresses humility, honesty as well as a strong sense of obligation to one's community, fellow scientists and especially one's patients.\n\nI swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:\n\nI will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.\n\nI will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.\n\nI will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.\n\nI will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.\n\nI will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.\n\nI will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.\n\nI will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.\n\nI will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.\n\nIf I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.\n\n\nWritten in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University
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They use it as tradition, and the basis of truth, hell and damnation if you lie unde oath.
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I forgot the name for the act (posse commo tas? I think), but you can't use US troops to police the cities unless martial law is declared.  I am a Solider and I don't want to have to be the police or police our own cities.  We don't have an Army to protect us form ourselves.  My oath is to defend the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic and to the Constitution.  Not to police the streets.  We are trained to fight wars, not to be police.  You would not want the mentality of a warfighter to respond to a domestic disturbance, not a good combo.
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The following is what is said before a person gives testimony:\n\nDo you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God or under the pains and penalties of perjury?\n\nIt allows for those who do not want to swear (they can affirm), and ensures that the person swearing or affirming is aware of the penalties for lying.
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Oath-1. A solemn, formal declaration or promise to fulfill a pledge, often calling upon God or a god as witness. b. The words or formula of such a declaration or promise. c. Something that that is promised or declared. 2.An irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God or something held ssacred. 3 An imprecation. \n       There right out of the dictionary...
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Ask a Marine what's so special about the Marines and the answer would be "Esprit de Corps", an unhelpful French phrase that means exactly what it looks like - the spirit of the Corps, but what is that spirit, and where does it come from? \n\nThe Marine Corps is the only branch of the U.S. Armed Forces that recruits people specifically to fight. \n\nThe Army emphasizes personal development (an Army of One), the Navy promises fun (let the journey begin), the Air Force offers security (its a great way of life). \n\nMissing from all the advertisements is the hard fact that a soldier's lot is to suffer and perhaps to die for his people, and take lives at the risk of his/her own. Even the thematic music of the services reflects this evasion. \nThe Army's Caisson Song describes a pleasant country outing. Over hill and dale, lacking only a picnic basket. \n\nAnchors Aweigh, the Navy's celebration of the joys of sailing, could have been penned by Jimmy Buffet. \n\nThe Air Force song is a lyric poem of blue skies and engine thrust. All is joyful, invigorating, and safe. \n\nThere are no land mines in the dales nor snipers behind the hills, no submarines or cruise missiles threaten the ocean jaunt, no bandits are lurking in the wild blue yonder. \nThe Marines Hymn, by contrast, is all-combat. We fight our Country's battles, First to fight for right and freedom, we have fought in every clime and place where we could take a gun, in many a strife we have fought for life and never lost our nerve.\n\nThe choice is made clear. You may join the Army to go to adventure training, or join the Navy to go to Bangkok, or join the Air Force to go to computer school. You join the Marine Corps to go to War! \n\nBut the mere act of signing the enlistment contract confers no status in the Corps. \nThe Army recruit is told from his first minute in uniform that "you're in the Army now", soldier. The Navy and Air Force\nenlistees are sailors or airmen as soon as they get off the bus at the training center. \n\nThe new arrival at Marine Corps boot camp is called a recruit, or worse, but never a MARINE. Not yet, maybe never. He or she must earn the right to claim the title of UNITED STATES MARINE, and failure returns you to civilian life without hesitation or ceremony.\n\n************************************************************ \nMy Son proudly served with the 31st MEU Marines SOC 1996 /2000
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#1 Respect Mother Earth\n#2 Respect the Great Spirit\n#3 Respect your brothers & sisters\n#4 Respect individual freedom
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By Strength and Courage from Latin.\n\nthe McCullough Clan motto
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I don't specifically know about public office, but if it works the same as any oath, they simply raise their right hand.\n\nThe Court has held that an affirmation or promise does not require a religious oath.
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The Marine Corps' motto has never been "the few, the proud."  It has always been "Semper Fidelis" (always faithful - to God, Corps, and Country).  The Few, The Proud is a tag line from an advertising campaign that stuck many years back.  \n\nAs a matter of fact, the official Army motto is "This We'll Defend."  The Air Force has no official motto, and the Navy's motto is "Honor, Courage, Commitment." \n\nHad to look it up myself.  Hope this helps.
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To be true to there vow's..
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Not that familar any such insignia for the Marines. Try the guy at the Marine Corps Museum and Corps heritage sites.\nhttp://www.marineheritage.org/\nhttp://www.usmcmuseum.org/