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Martin’s and all the companies and corporations that support them rely on young men and women to graduate from high school to take an interest, college to take an interest. They either go into industry―and I’ll be honest with you right now. I’m on a recruiting effort. It’s not that I don’t care about industry, but I want to bring them to the United States Marine Corps, and I want to make them wear this uniform, and I want to change their lives forever. But, regardless, that’s what this is all about―that and the men- toring of our young African-American men and women. “... You know, about
15-16 months ago, I was thinking about, and I had some reasons to think about, a group of Marines from years ago that also shared that indomitable spirit. They don’t have anything to do with science and engineering and technology and math, but they had everything to do about young African-American men that joined an organization in 1942 called the Marine Corps. You see, President Roosevelt, under the wise guidance of his wife, said, ‘We need to integrate the services, and we need to be about it,” and President Roosevelt signed his presidential directive. And the Marine
Corps went out and began to recruit, and between 1942 and 1949, we recruited 20,000 African-American men to join our service.
“... During that period of time,
these African-American men joined my Corps, and we put them in a segregated boot camp in North Carolina. Now, think about that. We put them there, and we said, ‘OK. We want you to be Marines, but we’re going to make it different for you.” They came, and with that indomitable spirit that resides in Americans, they overcame. They went to war. They did really, really well.”
The 35th commandant of the Marine Corps, General James F. Amos, and the 17th sergeant major of the Marine Corps, Sgt. Maj. Michael P. Barrett, receive a tour and film part of the Marine Corps’ birthday message during a visit to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug. 6, 2012.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans 12 USBE&IT I WINTER 2012
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