GyG1345
01-09-03, 10:49 AM
What The Hell Is An EGA? (http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/usmcemblem.html)
The above webpage came about as the result of an article in Leatherneck a couple years ago regarding the observance by a former Marine Corps Sergeant Major that it was becoming common among new Marines to refer to our Marine Corps Emblem as an ega.
I must admit that up to that time I was myself beginning to use that term, at times, also.
The article by the SgtMaj made a lotta sense, and I decided to check myself and return to the correct term (Emblem), and I also went ahead and put up this humble website example on the subject.
Some of the URL/Links on that site may now be dead, as always happens sooner or later--I hate to use links on my pages anymore as this always happens--the only alternative I can see is to cut-n-paste the website rather than link it, but then owners of such pages generally don't mind your linking to them but are not altogether receptive to anything else.
Semper Fidelis,
DickG
The above webpage came about as the result of an article in Leatherneck a couple years ago regarding the observance by a former Marine Corps Sergeant Major that it was becoming common among new Marines to refer to our Marine Corps Emblem as an ega.
I must admit that up to that time I was myself beginning to use that term, at times, also.
The article by the SgtMaj made a lotta sense, and I decided to check myself and return to the correct term (Emblem), and I also went ahead and put up this humble website example on the subject.
Some of the URL/Links on that site may now be dead, as always happens sooner or later--I hate to use links on my pages anymore as this always happens--the only alternative I can see is to cut-n-paste the website rather than link it, but then owners of such pages generally don't mind your linking to them but are not altogether receptive to anything else.
Semper Fidelis,
DickG