Thread by @18airbornecorps

[1 of 18] DOG FACE SOLDIERS THROUGH THE YEARS. 103 YEARS IN XVIII TWEETS.

I wouldn’t give a bean...

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to be a fancy pants Marine.

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I’d rather be a...

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Dog Face Soldier like I am.

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I wouldn’t trade my old ODs...

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for all the Navy dungarees,

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for I’m the walking pride

of Uncle Sam.

[8 of 18] On all the posters that I read

it says, “Be all that you can,”

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...so they're tearing me down...

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to build me over again.

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I’m just a Dog Face Soldier...

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with a rifle on my shoulder,

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...and I eat raw meat...

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for breakfast e’v’ry day.

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So feed me ammunition...

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Keep me in the Third Division.

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Your Dog Face Soldier’s a-okay!

[FINAL]

All images in this thread are of 3rd ID Soldiers, as follows:

1: Camp Greene, NC, 1917
2: Camp Greene Library, 1918
3. France, WWI
4. 1919
5-7: WWII
8-9: Korean War
10-13: Cold War, Germany, 1958 to 1971
14: 2003 Invasion of Iraq
15: GWOT, Afghanistan
16-18: Current Day