{"id":50811,"date":"2024-06-14T13:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T13:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/06\/14\/army-celebrates-its-249th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:22:24","slug":"army-celebrates-its-249th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2024\/06\/14\/army-celebrates-its-249th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Army celebrates its 249th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today marks the 249th birthday of the U.S. Army, the first military branch established by a nation already at war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the force cake-cuttings, birthday balls and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/1775\/\" target=\"_blank\">various celebrations<\/a> marking the occasion have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/8469675\/us-army-249-birthday\" target=\"_blank\">already begun<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur motto is \u2018this we\u2019ll defend.\u2019 Those words make clear what we owe the American people we will continue to keep that commitment as our Army has done for the past 249 years,\u201d said Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in a birthday video message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The senior enlisted soldier shared his remarks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/927480\/army-birthday-video-with-senior-leaders\" target=\"_blank\">same video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince 1775 U.S. Army soldiers have answered the call to service standing alongside one another to support and defend our Constitution, country and the American people,\u201d said Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer. \u201cThis we\u2019ll defend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historians mark the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/history.army.mil\/html\/faq\/birth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Revolutionary War<\/a> on April 19, 1775, when British troops and Massachusetts militiamen traded musket fire at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. The battle drew in fellow colonial soldiers from New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a series of other skirmishes and battles erupted, the Continental Congress met on June 14, 1775, and established the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cResolved, that six companies of expert riflemen, be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia\u2026 [and] as soon as completed, shall march and join the army near Boston, to be there employed as light infantry, under the command of the chief Officer in that army,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/history.army.mil\/html\/faq\/birth.html\" target=\"_blank\">reads the resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The delegates also wrote an oath of enlistment for soldiers volunteering for the new Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have, this day, voluntarily enlisted myself, as a soldier, in the American continental army, for one year, unless sooner discharged: And I do bind myself to conform, in all instances, to such rules and regulations, as are, or shall be, established for the government of the said. 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