Jack Posobrand is a commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran. He's also a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, and other media outlets. Today, he's celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, which was born right here in Philadelphia.
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00:02:40.900For 250 years, Marines have celebrated their birthday on November 10th.
00:02:48.480This day has always been a time to celebrate our history.
00:02:52.300But at every pivotal moment in our country's history, when our nation has needed the might of the Marine Corps, Marines have celebrated with a true fighting spirit.
00:03:07.460Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.
00:03:10.400Today's edition of Human Events Daily, live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
00:03:14.480I am here in Philadelphia, right where I grew up, on November 10th, 2025, Anno Domini.
00:03:24.980Because I'm not the only one from the Philadelphia area.
00:03:27.520Because today is the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, which was born right here in Philadelphia.
00:03:33.500Not very far from where I sit right now.
00:03:37.020Now, we're down here at Penn's Landing, and if you hear the cacophony around me, that's because I'm at a gathering of Marines who are Vietnam veterans that are here celebrating their, I believe it was their 41st reunion that they've come together.
00:03:51.760Their entire company has come out, and we're going to be on with some of the generals, actually, Marine generals that served in Vietnam that are here today.
00:04:00.500And I'm so gracious and honored to even be invited to cover an event like this.
00:04:04.680But let me tell you a little something about the story of the founding.
00:04:07.720So back in Philadelphia, remember, the Second Continental Congress is getting done.
00:04:11.400This is pre, even before the Declaration of Independence.
00:04:14.480The Marine Corps is actually older than the country itself.
00:04:18.360The resolution was approved on November 10th, 1775, dedicating a landing force to serve at sea and on shore.
00:04:28.160That resolution was approved November 10th, 1775, by the Second Continental Congress, which is, of course, right down the street from where we are at.
00:04:37.000And if you see right behind me, you can actually see the great battleship New Jersey, and that's the Delaware River across.
00:04:42.740You're looking into Camden, New Jersey, right there.
00:04:45.060First Commandant of the Marine Corps was Samuel Nichols.
00:04:48.220The resolution commissioned him, who was a prominent local innkeeper as the first Commandant and Captain of the newly formed Marine Corps.
00:04:56.640Now, this is the part where it gets really good.
00:04:59.640Right down here, just blocks away from where I'm sitting, at an alley near Penn's Landing on the corner of Water Street and Tunn Alley, there was an establishment called Tunn Tavern.
00:05:10.920And Tunn Tavern, which was owned by Nicholas's friend, Robert Mullen, he went in there and he walked in to this tavern that evening,
00:05:19.920which they saw as a natural gathering place for the colonists, for the Americans.
00:05:25.580And, of course, as the story goes, he walked in looking and went into that tavern on that night, November 10th, 1775,
00:05:32.980and said, we're looking for a few good men to serve in the Marine Corps of the United States of America.
00:05:41.540And, of course, hundreds of men, 300 men by March joined up for the United States Marine Corps,
00:05:48.400where the very first recruiting drive was held in a tavern just blocks away.
00:05:52.700And you can imagine the colonists sitting there, pounding their ales, saying, you know something, we're going to get in there.
00:05:58.440We're going to go and get in the fight.
00:07:50.300Today is the birthday of the United States Marine Corps, which was born in Burke.
00:07:54.480The first recruiting drive just blocks away.
00:07:56.340Ton Tavern right here at Penn's Landing where we're all sitting right now.
00:08:00.140I'm in a room surrounded by Marines, so I'm simultaneously in the safest place I've ever been and the most dangerous place I've ever been.
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00:09:28.220All right, now, since we're here on Human Events Daily, and we've always got a Navy veteran, believe it or not, there's been a Navy veteran on almost every single episode of Human Events Daily.
00:09:40.380However, today's all about the Marine Corps, which is a certain lesser-known department of the Navy.
00:09:52.660Dan Caldwell, he's a former senior advisor over at the Pentagon, the Department of War, and, of course, a proud United States Marine veteran.
00:10:04.300And, Jack, you set it up, so I just got to go for it.
00:10:06.920When you say we're part of the Department of the Navy, you're correct.
00:10:09.560We're the men's Department of the Navy.
00:10:11.060Now, Dan, I just wanted to let you know that when you're in the green room here at Human Events Daily, I know you might get a little bit hungry, so I've let out a couple of packs of Crayola crayons for you to gnaw on if, you know, if you get your appetite up a little bit.
00:10:34.160We keep running out of the greens, and now I think I know why.
00:10:36.440But, Dan, we're here with, you know, we're here with the Vietnam veterans.
00:10:42.440We're here with my company, and one of the things that this memorial earlier today that really struck with me was the intensity of the Vietnam conflict and how intense it was for the Marines.
00:10:55.820Seven pages, single spaced of KIAs that they read through a single bell rung after each one, and it took quite some time to get through the entire list because they read the names out.
00:11:06.440And you realize that, wait a minute, that's just one company.
00:11:09.420So walk through, for me, the intensity of Vietnam for the Marine Corps and part of the Marine Corps history, and also just the understanding that it gives those who have served when it comes to those discussions of perhaps sending Marines into the fire all around the world yet again.
00:11:31.200And first of all, I enjoyed watching part of the ceremony that you posted today.
00:11:36.840I just want to say, you know, when I was going through basic training in the Marine Corps, I was always told that we walk in the shadows of giants.
00:11:44.660And the Vietnam Marines were definitely those giants for us, junior Marines.
00:11:51.480And, you know, we were well-educated on our history in Vietnam, and you cannot overstate the intensity of the Marine experience in Vietnam.
00:11:59.360So first and foremost, it's important to know that most of the Marines of Vietnam served in I Corps, which is the military unit that controlled all the U.S. military assets in the northern part of South Vietnam.
00:12:12.680So they were right on the border with North Vietnam, the DMZ, and then they also controlled areas all the way out to the border with Laos.
00:12:20.420So that's where you had places like Khe Sanh, where there was a famous battle fought, where the Marines really distinguished themselves, basically held out in a siege for several months.
00:12:28.340And then out more towards the sea, you had Hue City, where the Marines fought the famous battle in 1968, the Battle of Hue City.
00:12:35.240So this is where you had the North Vietnamese, the V.C., they were closest to their safe havens, they were closest to their supply lines.
00:12:42.540So that is where you saw some of the most intense combat of the war.
00:12:46.540And so that is why you had very high Marine casualties.
00:12:53.400And you had a tremendous amount of terrorism from Marines that served throughout that war.
00:12:57.940And so it's unfortunate that I don't think a lot of the Marine history in Vietnam has really been highlighted.
00:13:04.900You've had great books like Fields of Fire, The Nightingale Song, I've talked through that.
00:13:09.540But it really, it's nothing compared to what I went through in Iraq.
00:13:13.920And it's nothing compared to, again, there's a lot of brutal fighting and heroism in Afghanistan, but it's really nothing compared to that.
00:13:20.580It was significantly worse by every measure.
00:13:22.980And so, Dan, I could see that from, you know, it connected with me today because as they read the names, so many of, they also read the dates.
00:13:36.540They read the dates of their sacrifice.
00:13:39.920And so many of the men, you know, the dates would line up.
00:13:43.440It was the same day that they were all killed.
00:13:45.180And so you realize these battles that were coming back day after day after day were just so intense.
00:13:52.240And this was totally different from what we even saw.
00:13:55.460And obviously, I remember the Iraq-Afghanistan era as well.
00:14:03.400Dan, you know, you and I talk about this all the time.
00:14:06.220But, you know, obviously, the United States Marine Corps is willing to go wherever Uncle Sam sends them.
00:14:11.820But isn't this also, on the flip side, why we need to be very, very careful and honor their service and willingness to do that if we are to then call them into, say, you know, Iran or Venezuela or one of these places?
00:14:26.120You know, just because you have a highly trained, well-equipped, lethal United States Marine Corps does not mean that you should send it around the world to fight in every conflict or solve every problem.
00:14:42.140Military force should always be the last resort.
00:14:45.240And too often, especially in the post-Cold War era, our policymakers have deployed, not just Marines, but soldiers, sailors, airmen, to conflicts that are not of our national interest.
00:14:57.720And the Marines and all other service members distinguish themselves well in those conflicts.
00:15:03.460But let's just, you know, Jack, let's just quickly talk about what's going on today at the White House.
00:15:07.740At the White House today, there is a former leader of al-Qaeda meeting with President Trump.
00:15:13.400Al-Shara, also known as Jelani, is now the president of Syria.
00:15:18.440I think, to be clear, it's very good that President Trump is engaging with this guy.
00:15:22.180He clearly wants to do business with us.
00:15:24.540Instead of starting another civil war in Syria, we should engage him, and I applaud the Trump administration for doing that.
00:15:29.700But let's think of the symbolism of that for a second.
00:15:32.000This guy fought United States Marines in Iraq.
00:16:18.380You know, when you have a fighting force that's willing to do that, that's willing to go into harm's way.
00:16:23.280And by the way, and I'm just going to say it, that, you know, even though the Vietnam War, and there's obviously a lot of questions about the Vietnam War, many which I hold.
00:16:32.340But people need to remember as well, the Vietnam War was about fighting communism.
00:16:48.240And so you don't hear that from, you know, many of the sort of anti-Vietnam War stories that are told.
00:16:55.260Now, that being said, it also stands to reason that we asked the question, did it make sense?
00:17:01.400And, you know, for the conduct of war, et cetera, et cetera.
00:17:04.160And so when you look at all these things together, it really begs the question, right?
00:17:10.840It always begs the question of, did we get into something for the right reasons, or are we going in and creating more problems because of our interventions?
00:17:20.340And you just mentioned Syria, for example, something where the United States did intervene.
00:17:24.920Now, obviously, we were not directly involved in the civil war, but we certainly were indirectly.
00:17:29.960And that was a civil war that led to this al-Qaeda, you know, quote, unquote, former al-Qaeda leader now becoming a head of state over there.
00:17:37.580And there are serious questions about what's going on on the ground of the Christians underneath al-Jelani.
00:17:44.240And I'm going to continue to call him al-Jelani, by the way, because that's his name.
00:17:47.660And questions that, unfortunately, you know, we're having a lot of trouble getting answers for.
00:17:53.120I want to go back to something you said about Vietnam.
00:17:56.600I think it was Senator Jim Webb, former Secretary of the Navy, wrote Fields of Fire.
00:18:01.340He said that he could make a better argument for intervening in Vietnam in the context of the global Cold War than he could in Iraq.
00:18:09.060Regardless of how bad Vietnam became, how detached from, you know, core objectives in terms of containing communism it became, I believe that.
00:18:19.420You can make a better argument for Vietnam in the Cold War context than Iraq in 2003.
00:18:27.400If you think about people who protested that war or avoided service in that war,
00:18:32.300a lot of them became leaders in the national security space after the Cold War and, like, the Clinton administration and the Bush administration.
00:18:40.880And it was that generation, the anti-war protesters were the ones who really drove a lot of our bad foreign policy,
00:18:48.180whether it was, like, the humanitarian interventionism or people like John Bolton,
00:18:51.840who proudly dodged the draft in Vietnam, pushing the Iraq war, because they never absorbed those lessons,
00:19:49.860The tavern had burned down in the 1700s, but there is actually a plan afoot to kind of restore it and rebuild it.
00:19:57.480And, of course, we'll be checking back in on that as soon as it's up.
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00:21:09.420I want to go back on with former Pentagon senior official Dan Caldwell, a United States Marine veteran himself.
00:21:15.200And, Dan, we were talking about the Vietnam War, putting it into context.
00:21:21.740It was certainly done with the context of containing communism.
00:21:26.320And that is the argument that was done for it.
00:21:28.480When we wrote our anti-communist history book last year, myself and Joshua Lysak, that's exactly the way that we framed it.
00:21:36.240And we sort of left the other debate, you know, sort of for another time.
00:21:39.880But it really does speak, I think, to the conduct not only of how the United States gets into wars and also how the United States conducts those wars once we get into them.
00:21:52.140Because, Dan, when you really look at it, you know, when the United States got, quote, unquote, got into Vietnam, did it really achieve the result that we were looking for?
00:22:46.000And there's an alignment, and I think it's a good thing, emerging between Vietnam and the United States on some key issues.
00:22:52.580I also think it's one of the important lessons of Vietnam, though, that a lot of people forget is that in 1975, if you go back to that time, a lot of people thought that global communism is now on the march.
00:23:07.360You know, you saw a lot of communist victories in Africa to Latin America and places like Nicaragua, obviously at Angola and Africa.
00:23:15.940And in 1979, then you had the Soviets move in Afghanistan.
00:23:21.240What happened 10 years later, the Cold War ended.
00:23:23.800And so I think the lesson from—one lesson from Vietnam is that one military defeat does not mean the end of American military—or the end of American power.
00:23:39.760And that it—you know, like people were talking about Afghanistan, the fall of Afghanistan, you know, being this absolute disaster for American power.
00:23:59.740But at the end of the day, it didn't really impact our ability to do things in Europe or to do things that we need to do in the Pacific.
00:24:07.500That was our own policymakers' bad decisions.
00:24:10.640Luckily, after Vietnam, with Ronald Reagan and others, guided by a lot of Vietnam vets, I'd noted, the United States military rebuilt, retooled, and by the end of the Cold War had recovered from Vietnam and became a very powerful force that was able to deter the Soviet Union and ultimately help secure a victory in the Cold War.
00:24:36.400And so we look at the history of these things, and it should give us pause.
00:24:42.580I just always think that if you understand the history of warfare in the United States, especially in the post-World War II era, it should always give us pause when we question about whether or not we should get involved in yet another armed conflict, and especially putting boots on the ground.
00:24:59.140Because you look at the history of Korea, look at the history of Vietnam, and now the history of Iraq and Afghanistan, and you have to wonder, okay, did this make sense?
00:25:12.280Was it worth it for all those seven single-spaced pages of KIAs in Vietnam to hand the Soviets a support base there in Southeast Asia?
00:25:22.360I'm not sure, and you talked to a lot of the guys who came out, and they said, well, we could have won this thing, but we were told to pull back, and we were asked about rules of engagement.
00:25:31.120And it has nothing to do with the valor and the bravery and the courage of the men who fought.
00:25:36.400It has to do with the political decisions made both before, during, and after the conflicts.
00:25:42.540And that is always where the problem seems to be.
00:25:45.020But I'll tell you what, Dan, when I go and I meet with the veterans or even the current service members, I don't think the problem is with the United States Marines.
00:25:52.800No, absolutely not, and it is still a fantastic group of war fighters, and they carry the spirit of the Marines you're with right now in Vietnam.
00:26:05.900That same spirit that motivated Marines in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam is still within every Marine currently serving in the United States Marine Corps.
00:26:17.140You know, there's a lot of this talk about, oh, the Marines of today are softer, and, you know, that stuff's been going on since the founding of the Marine Corps.
00:26:25.920You know, the Marines that were fighting in, you know, World War II, they're probably their salt dog.
00:26:34.220World War I veterans are probably saying the same thing.
00:26:37.880But let me tell you, you have an incredible Marine Corps that's able to do incredible things, and their training is superb, and they're motivated.
00:26:47.380And on top of that, they're innovative.
00:26:49.060That's an important part of the Marine Corps history is that this is the branch of innovation.
00:26:52.540That's key. Dan, we're out of time because I got to cut you off because the general is coming up next.
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00:29:29.880In my first tour, I was an advisor with the Vietnamese Marine Corps, was wounded after about four months and evacuated, so this was my second tour.
00:29:41.180How did you see, oh, okay, I see it here.
00:29:42.680So 65 was your first tour, and then 60, and I'm reading this, by the way, you were wounded while attacking an NVA machine gun in a rice paddy outside of Saigon.
00:29:52.860The Vietnamese unit I was with was the 3rd Battalion.
00:29:57.040They were going after a base camp of the Viet Cong south of Saigon, and I was with the lead element.
00:30:04.500And as I was calling in Army helicopters to try to take this out, it got shot in the stomach at that time.
00:30:12.420Now, when you got hit with that, did they take you, did we have, in 65, did we have those mass units, did we have a U.S. military there, or was it the Vietnamese you had to go into?
00:30:21.680No, there was a very brave couple of Army-worn helicopter pilots, they took that, it was a Huey with guns on the side, they brought it right around, set it down, they took some rounds through the cockpit, they picked it up and turned their tail back towards where the enemy was, I crawled over and got in and they took off, took me straight into the
00:30:42.420Army's 3rd Army Field Hospital, so I was probably in the operating room within about 30, 45 minutes after I was wounded.
00:30:51.140Well, that's an incredible turnaround to be able to get in, get out, from a hot battle zone to be able to get to the hospital unit so quickly, and it really speaks, I think, to the competency of the men that were there on the ground.
00:31:06.080I read a manual about the First World War and said stomach shots were always fatal, so it was good to be a little further along in time.
00:31:15.740You were breaking the mold on that one, breaking the odds on that, but that really also became sort of the story of Vietnam, is that there was so much medical innovation that came out of these intense conflicts, these intense situations.
00:31:31.760We called it the golden hour, if you could stabilize a Marine and get them out to a medical facility within the golden hour, the odds of surviving were much higher.
00:31:42.540Yeah, so that was about one hour, so then you get wounded, you come back, what was it like getting, you know, being on the mend and then coming back three years later as a commanding officer?
00:31:53.180Well, coming back to the States wasn't pleasant, because that's when the anti-war elements were pretty high.
00:32:00.680My parents, for example, there was a picture of me in a local paper, they got those papers with obscenities written over sent to them and things like that, so it wasn't pleasant coming back into the States.
00:32:13.100But going back out as a company commander was almost a dream come true.
00:32:18.680I'd always wanted to, I'd commanded a platoon, I always wanted to command a rifle company, so to have that opportunity, I valued it.
00:32:26.140And just for, until we get it out, what was your age, 1965? How old were you?
00:32:30.840I was 29 years old. I'd been in the Marine Corps since I was 18. I'd been enlisted for a couple of years, so I had a good bit of experience and felt pretty confident.
00:32:42.300That's incredible. And I want to ask you about that. So you get wounded. You take a wound in a conflict that you didn't start yourself, but you'd been ordered to go to, and your parents were getting obscenities about you even coming home after being wounded in combat.
00:33:01.300What did your parents say when they got that?
00:33:03.180I think they were upset, and to give an indication of what it was like, when I came home from the second door with my company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, my wife had to change her phone number to an unlisted number because she got harassing calls.
00:33:21.320It was just things that shouldn't have been done.
00:33:24.380No, it's absolutely things that shouldn't have been done. And you look at the history of it, and I was really, you know, I mentioned before that I was really moved that, you know, when we were going through the booklet here, and they read the names, it's seven pages, single spaced, name after name after name of the Marines that didn't make it back.
00:33:45.820And realizing the intensity, and that's just this company.
00:33:49.620It is. A lot of casualties. Now, in terms of commanding that company, I often tell folks, if it wasn't for the separation from my family, and if it wasn't for the casualties, that would be my groundhog day.
00:34:03.320I would lead that company for my entire life. Some fantastic Marines and Navy Corpsmen, they're living on the edge.
00:34:10.880There's a certain excitement to it, and just some great people around you, both in terms of their professional skills and their courage.
00:34:19.980So the casualties are obviously something that's just a tragic, a tragic part of being in the military.
00:34:28.220Well, that's exactly right. And I appreciate so much that you and the men and the families are still here, even today, all these years later, that are commemorating, that are standing.
00:34:38.740And it is about honor, but it's also an act of duty, isn't it?
00:34:43.620It is. What most folks don't think about, they think about camaraderie in the military, but it's actually a love, a love for each other.
00:34:52.940And what we find in the reunions is the first time someone comes, they're a little leery the first afternoon or evening.
00:34:59.860The second day, they get into discussions, look at photos that were taken there, begin to talk to whatever squad or platoon they were in.
00:35:09.220By the Sunday morning, when they get ready to leave, everybody's in tears. It's just a real emotional event.
00:35:16.340But there's no way to really explain it unless you've lived it and have that feeling.
00:35:22.940But it doesn't matter what your walk of life is, anything about your ethnic or religious background, none of that matters.
00:35:29.560You are a United States Marine and you've been in combat together. That's what counts.
00:35:34.940And you've been United States Marine, once a Marine, always a Marine.
00:35:38.360And I would have loved, I know that the tavern, they're working on getting it back together.
00:35:42.740It would be just about a couple of blocks from where we are.
00:35:45.240We are in the city where the Marine Corps was born in 1775.
00:35:49.820John Adams had a maritime commission that they were studying whether we needed a Marine Corps.
00:35:57.740They informed the Second Continental Congress and there was a resolution that established two battalions of American Marines.
00:36:05.320And Samuel Nichols was the first commissioned officer and he began to recruit Marines, sent drummers and fifers throughout the town and got the first Marine.
00:36:18.060So this is, Philadelphia is the home of the Marine Corps.
00:36:21.560What does it mean to you that, do you think that the Marine Corps, the first recruiting drive, was in a tavern?
00:36:28.340Well, that's appropriate. That's where it should have been. No doubt about it.
00:36:31.960Now, do you think if we went into Philadelphia taverns today, we'd find some ready and willing and able Marines?
00:36:40.280Well, what the Marine Corps always tells these young men, you're not good enough.
00:36:43.900And then they've got to prove themselves.
00:36:46.500One of my favorite stories is of a recruiter that, recruiters from all the services go into high school.
00:36:52.680And each of the other services talk about the benefits, the training, what you're going to get out of it.
00:36:59.900And the Marine recruiter walks up there and looks out over the student body and says, I don't think any of you are good enough to be Marines.
00:37:07.600But if you think you are, I'll be in the back. Come back and see me.
00:37:10.880And that's how we get the kind of folks we want.
00:37:13.320And that's the kind of folks you want.
00:37:14.840And then the pull-up bar comes out and the push-up competitions begin and all the rest of it.
00:41:20.780But it was just an honor to command a company like Mike and to be a part of, you know, to make history.
00:41:31.960Oh, they're asking me if you can hold the mic just a little bit that way, better audio.
00:41:36.900So when you're with the veterans, when you speak to Marines today, you know, people who are thinking about getting into the Marine Corps or maybe, you know, your E1s,
00:41:50.560what advice do you have to them as someone who's seen it all?
00:46:57.380What does it mean that America is turning its face towards the Marine Corps today on the 250th birthday?
00:47:03.620I think that the first thing should be the gratitude for having a corps of Marines that is most ready when the nation is least ready.
00:47:17.600And in these days where we can't predict the future, we just have to be absolutely ready for the next step.
00:47:24.940And that means staying prepared, staying trained, staying in shape, modernizing equipment, and so forth.
00:47:30.940But all of that depends on one commodity, and that's the Marine who is holding that weapon, operating that drone, whatever the case may be.
00:47:41.380And that's where our confidence must be.
00:47:45.280And it's our duty to make sure that our nation always has that confidence in us.