"Leatherlungs"

[Noel Christian Riddell]

Oh nice! I didn't know the current incarnation wore kilts. Most excellent.

I've seen a few images of kilted pipers in Iraq, but nothing formal like the Leatherneck Pipe Band. Looking (and sounding) sharp.

[macwilkin]

Oh nice! I didn't know the current incarnation wore kilts. Most excellent.

I've seen a few images of kilted pipers in Iraq, but nothing formal like the Leatherneck Pipe Band. Looking (and sounding) sharp.

The Company of Military Historians devoted a plate in their magazine to the original USMC Pipe Band many years ago:

http://www.military-historians.org/c...images/692.htm

The US Marines stationed in Iceland in 1941-42 also had some experience with the pipes, as they were "neighbors" to the Tyneside Scottish:

http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/inde...1b.htm#british

My great-uncle Robert was a "Polar Bear Marine" (actually a US Navy Corpsman).

T.