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​What America means to me: Defending democracy
 * airforce
 * Advancements in weaponary

> -The Marine Corps adopted Semper Fidelis as its official saying in 1883. Translated from Latin, Semper Fidelis means "Always Faithful." U.S. Marines use an abbreviated verbal version, "Semper Fi," to voice loyalty and commitment to their Marine comrades-in-arms. Previous sayings of the Marine Corps were: > (1) "To the Shores of Tripoli," 1805. > (2) "Fortitude," 1812. > (3) "From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli," 1848. > (4) "By Sea and by Land," 1850's
 * United States Marine Corps[[image:2761036217_4cc71f2887.jpg width="285" height="278" align="left"]]**
 * The continental marines were founded November 10th 1775
 * American Revolution Period
 * Was called the colonel marines meant to proterct the 13 colonies
 * SEMPER FIDELIS:[[image:MarineUSFlag.jpg width="211" height="271" align="right"]]
 * The three constant Corps Values are honor, courage, and commitment
 * **Marine Mascot**
 * After WW1 the marines took on the mascot of a bulldog with a marine helmet on, also known as English Bulldogs, "Teufel-hunden", or "Devil Dogs"

The United States Marine Corps have carried on ship-to-ship fighting; provided security, discipline enforcement, and many more traditions. They've fought in nearly every conflict in United States history; changed foreign policies in the United States, and they're able to rapidly respond on short notice in an extreme crisis. By the 20th century, the United States Marine Corps became one of the most knowledgeable forces to take action in warfare and one of the most powerful.

**United States Air Force**

 * History[[image:http://www.nasm.si.edu/webimages/640/SI2003-35575_640.jpg width="212" height="136" align="right" caption="1903 Wright Flyer"]]**
 * The Wright Brothers and The Dream
 * August 1, 1969 - The Wright brothers flew the world's first powered airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
 * The Wight Brothers was two brothers with a dream to fly there names were Wilbur and Orville Wright.
 * However the Aeronautical Division was more interested in balloons and dirigibles (blimps) then heavier then air structures.
 * You want to fly a balloon in our war today?
 * These ballons were used to make Arieal Observations during the Civil and Spanish War.
 * 1909 - Airplane Delivery by the Wright brothers accepted by Capt. Benjamin D. Foulois. Army Airmen experimented with the invention.
 * December 1969 - 1st Aero Squadron. [[image:http://www.wwi-models.org/Photos/USA/DH4/DH4_11.jpg width="202" height="154" align="right"]]
 * Act of 1926 - Air Corps became known as the United States Air Force
 * WWI
 * The first war that America used aircraft was WWI.
 * Plane fights against the enemy were called, "Dog Fights."
 * WWI was also an introductions to rockets but America never used them.
 * WWII
 * In WWII our planes where capable of dropping atomic bombs like Little Boy and Fat Man.
 * Was also the first war to introduce "jets."


 * Today
 * Today we have jets made just for speed which are capable of breaking the sound barrier.
 * We also have jets made just for a pacific job like bombing, speed, rescue, or transporting.[[image:http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Sound/soupic/soubar1.jpg width="460" height="260"]]

Patriotism The airforce is a great example of patriotism. It started with 2 brothers and a dream to fly. Million of people have the dream to fly some had bigger plans like John F. Kennedy had a dream to fly up to the moon. Space begin to become a big competition between countries mostly The Soviet Union and The USA. The soviets managed to send the first satelite in the air but USA was the first to put a man like Neil Armstrong in space. To suceed is patriotism and without the airforce we wouldnt be like this today.


 * Questions and Answers**

Q: What was the Fat man and Little Boy? A: United States made two atomic bombs in WWII. "Little Boy" was the first atom bomb dropped. the plaine that dropped the bomb was the, "Enola Gay." It was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. A2: Fat Man was a bigger atomic bomb that was dropped three days later on Nagasaki, Japan by a Bomber Plain B-29, "Bockscar." Q: Why didn't USA decide to use rockets in WWI? A: Rockets were discovered late in WWI. The only country that really used rockets was Germany. There was many defects with rockets at this time. Sometimes they wouldn't work and actually kill there own troops. They wouldnt hit the exact points as they wanted. Rockets are very hard to cpmprehend we even have troubles with rckets today but this only Space Rockets. Rockets used the airforce to day can be very useful. We have heat seeking, we have machines that fire just rockets, Rockets fired from a cannon or Jet is simply know as, "missles" today. Today we have rockets that can travel to space.
 * See Derrick for more about the atomic bomb.

World War 2 weapon advancements
 * **Atom bomb-** On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to FDR about how the Germans were attempting to purify uranium-235 which could be used to make an atom bomb.[[image:http://z.about.com/d/inventors/1/G/W/9/nuke1.jpg align="right" caption="Atomic Bomb Explosion"]] the united states began work immediatly and on July 16, 1945 the first test began and 5:29 a.m.
 * The [|light of the explosion] then turned orange as the atomic fireball began shooting upwards at 360 feet per second, reddening and pulsing as it cooled. The characteristic mushroom cloud of radioactive vapor materialized at 30,000 feet. Beneath the cloud, all that remained of the soil at the blast site were fragments of jade green radioactive glass created by the heat of the reaction.
 * **radar**- it has been heard that Radar was what won the war for the allies. this is of course an overstatment but Radar did lay a signigicant role in helping the allies. helped deffend democracy by allowing America [[image:http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/imgs/bazooka.jpg width="183" height="164" align="right" caption="Picture of the Bazooka" link="http://www.militaryfactory.com/imageviewer/sa/pic-detail.asp?smallarms_id=69&sCurrentPic=bazooka.jpg&sCurrentDescriptor=An American anti-tank team ready their M1 Bazooka"]]
 * **machine gun**- during World War 2 the machine gun was one of the main infantry weapons used with every country though each country had there own version. machine guns could also be divided up in to 2 lasses. heavy which were used on a tripod, weighed more, and were mainly for defencive purposes for both land and air units. the other class being the light class. used for infantry units. the united states used the heavy machine gun called the Browning .50 inch.Not only was the Browning used as a machine gun by infantry, it was also used as a standard anti-aircraft gun. It weighed 82lbs and was 65 inches in length. It [[image:http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/imgs/browning-m1917.jpg width="140" link="http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=265"]]had a rate of fire of 450 rpm.
 * **submarines**-During the Second World War, submarines comprised less than 2 percent of the U.S. [[image:http://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/history/subsbeforenuc/ww2/images/balao_model.jpg width="309" height="68" align="right"]]Navy, but sank over 30 percent of Japan's navy, including eight aircraft carriers. More important, American submarines contributed to the virtual strangling of the Japanese economy by sinking almost five million tons of shipping—over 60 percent of the Japanese merchant marine. Victory at sea did not come cheaply. The Submarine Force lost 52 boats and 3,506 men. [[image:http://www.acepilots.com/planes/gi_hellcat.jpg width="248" height="200" align="right" caption="F6F Hellcat"]]
 * **Air Crafts-** In World War Two, airplanes of all types - fighters, bombers, transports, etc. - developed rapidly. Biplanes saw action in the early years; jet aircraft zoomed through the skies over Germany in 1945. The Americans produced the "mostest of the bestest," that is, the largest numbers of generally superior warplanes

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