Our recruiters spend at least two hours every day in the high schools just as they did prior to the downturn in the economy. "The fact that there is a high unemployment rate does not change how we conduct our operations. Joseph DiGirolamo, marketing & public affairs, said that despite the poor economy the Marines are not taking anything for granted. To support the field recruiters, the Arsenal headquarters has as one of its 11 assigned Marines a school-trained public affairs noncommissioned officer to conduct marketing and advertising. "From our headquarters at the Watervliet Arsenal, we provide the command and control, training, and the resource management for Marine recruiting operations throughout our section of New York," Gates added. Given this expanse of terrain, or what some call the "tyranny of distance," trying to orchestrate recruiting operations is no small challenge. To put this into perspective, 30,000 square miles of terrain divided by 36 recruiters means there is one recruiter per 833 square miles. "To accomplish our mission, we have 68 Marines and two civilians that either work at the Arsenal Recruiting Station or at one of the sub-stations," Gates said.
Paul Gates, executive officer, the Arsenal Marine Corps Recruiting Station is responsible for 10 recruiting sub-stations that are dispersed from the Canadian border to Yonkers to Binghamton - more than 30,000 square miles of terrain. Not an easy task considering our nation has been at war for more than eight years.Īccording to Capt. They are Marine Corps recruiters who are responsible for finding and then motivating young men and women to step up to the challenge of serving their country. As expected, everything in the office complex was dress-right-dress, Marines rose from their chairs and stood when they talked, and history and tradition were proudly displayed on the walls.ĭespite seven of the Marines having recently served in combat, I would say that the mission they are on may be as foreign to them as duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. When one thinks about the power of first impressions, the Marines did not disappoint. Having spent a few years in the Army, it would take more than 16 or so steps to indoctrinate me. Painted on each step were leadership traits that Marines value, such as integrity and loyalty. Marines, 11 of them to be exact.Īs I crept up the steps to the second floor of Building 40, Marine Corps indoctrination began. In a continuing effort to educate the Watervliet Arsenal workforce about the world outside of their immediate workspace, I have traveled from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli in search of this story - figuratively speaking because the Arsenal command group wouldn't fund my TDY.Īs most folks know, the Watervliet Arsenal is an Army installation and so, I was a little surprised to find in one of the Arsenal buildings, U.S. Each step one takes reminds all about the leadership. Paul Gates stand at the entrance to the Albany USMC Recruiting Station at the Watervliet Arsenal. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Whitley is the commander of the Albany Recru. It may be added that the Marine Corps shares its motto with England’s Devonshire Regiment, the 11th Foot, one of the senior infantry regiments of the British Army, whose sobriquet is “the Bloody Eleventh” and whose motto is also Semper Fidelis.Providing the command and control over Marine recruiting operations in upstate New York, from left, Cpl. This revision of the Corps motto in Mexico has encouraged speculation that the first stanza of “The Marines’ Hymn” was composed by members of the Marine battalion who stormed Chapultepec Castle. In 1848, after the return to Washington of the Marine battalion that took part in the capture of Mexico City, this motto was revised to: “From the Halls of the Montezumas to the Shores of Tripoli" – a line now familiar to all Americans. The second, “By Sea and by Land,” was obviously a translation of the Royal Marine’s “Per Mare, Per Terram.” Until 1848, the third motto was “To the Shores of Tripoli,” in commemoration of O’Bannon’s capture of Derna in 1805. The first, antedating the War of 1812, was “Fortitudine” (“With Fortitude”). Before that, there had been three mottoes, all traditional rather than official.
Semper Fidelis was adopted about 1883 as the motto of the Corps. That Marines have lived up to this motto is proved by the fact that there has never been a mutiny, or even the thought of one, among U.S. “Semper Fidelis” (“Always Faithful”) is the motto of the Corps.
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