Marine Corps Pipers

[dfmacliam]

I am understanding this matter has been officially submitted to the Headquarters Marine Corps for consideration. I have been reading many articles of Marine Pipers doing duty, especially in Iraq.. one article mentions a Marine playing the Marine Hymn over loudspeakers in the town of Ramadhi.. Marine Pipers are continueing their piping for Marine functions and eventually they will get the formal recognition..

[Chas]

I am understanding this matter has been officially submitted to the Headquarters Marine Corps for consideration. I have been reading many articles of Marine Pipers doing duty, especially in Iraq.. one article mentions a Marine playing the Marine Hymn over loudspeakers in the town of Ramadhi.. Marine Pipers are continueing their piping for Marine functions and eventually they will get the formal recognition..

And so they should - it will only benefit the Marine Corps as a whole.

Regards

Chas

[macwilkin]

Just a point of information, but the first USMC pipers mentioned in the article that took up the pipes while stationed in Londonderry during WWII did not wear Highland attire; the Company of Military Historians depicts the Marine Pipers and Drummers in the standard issue USMC sevice uniform.

The "Polar Bear" Marines stationed in Iceland in 1941-42 served with the Tyneside Scottish, and there are accounts of the pipers of the Geordie Scots playing for the Marines. My great-uncle Robert Williamson was a Naval Corpsman with the "Polar Bear Marines".

T.