Marines celebrate birthday with a 246-mile fun run
By Sarah Sicard
Nov 10, 08:45 AM
It’s officially the 246th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. How is the service celebrating it, you might ask?
While scores of Marines will surely be launching into an intoxication-fueled re-creation of the branch’s Revolutionary War-era founding in Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern, the Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic out of Virginia Beach, Virginia, has taken a page from those bizarre individuals who choose to honor or celebrate a person or moment in time by waking up at the crack of dawn and ... running.
That’s right. They’re running. But because these are Marines we’re talking about, this is no low-key fun run you could do with your grandparents like a Thanksgiving Day turkey trot. These personnel are running one mile every 10 minutes for 41 hours. That’s a total of 246 miles — see what they did there? — for those non-math enthusiasts.
https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2021/11/10/marines-celebrate-birthday-with-a-246-mile-fun-run/
