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Excerpt from In the Wake of the Second Marines
Thirty years ago, when the provisional brigade formed at Philadelphia under Col. L. W. T. Waller for duty at Guantanamo, Cuba, it included the Second Regiment. It consisted of 31 officers and 685 enlisted. Today the regiment has 60 officers with 1800 enlisted.
There were no permanent regiments in the Marine Corps until 1911 but the Sec ond was in the field and functioning more than a decade before that date.
In January, 1914, the Second Marines participated with the Advance Base Brigade, the old name for Fleet Marine Force, in a series of successful maneuvers. It shipped on the uss Prairie for the isle of Culebra and helped repel the whole Atlantic Fleet in a problem which brought naval commenda tion. The Marines simply did their job with the customary thoroughness. Then they went to Pensacola, Florida to recoup.
They didn't stay long, however; the Mex ican situation tightened. Down they wentto Vera Cruz, called commonly the City of the Dead because ir was infested with fever.
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