DLA News Archive

Nov. 16, 2022

The few, the proud, the Marines. Celebrating 247 years of the fighting spirit

RICHMOND, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Customer Operations Directorate’s United States Marine Corps Customer Facing Division held a cake cutting ceremony in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia Nov. 10 to celebrate the Corps’ 247th birthday.

Nov. 10, 2020

Marine Corps turns 245

RICHMOND, VA — On this day, in 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, passed a resolution establishing the Marine Corps to augment naval forces in the Revolutionary War. The recruiting headquarters was set up in the Tun Tavern on Water Street in Philadelphia, which is considered to be the birthplace of the Marines.