{"id":4113,"date":"2017-07-31T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:41:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T19:41:28","slug":"the-marine-corps-guidon-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/the-marine-corps-guidon-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marine Corps Guidon Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marines carry many flags.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, we carry the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/battle-toughr-nylon-american-flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>. And, of course, we carry the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/us-marine-corps-flag-official-seal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marine Corps Flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s one flag that likely stands out in the minds of every Marine who has come through one of the Marine Corps Recruit Depots: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/personalized-platoon-number-guidon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The guidon flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marines.mil\/Portals\/59\/Publications\/MCO%20P10520.3B.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USMC Flag Manual<\/a>, \u201cthe guidon flag is a unit flag carried by companies, batteries, and comparable units as a unit marker and for other purposes.\u201d The guidon flag is the official symbol of the fighting unit it represents.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/catalogsearch\/result\/?q=guidon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-4116 noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blog-platoon-flag-photo-300x221.png\" alt=\"Example of a company guidon from the Marine Corps Flag Manual.\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the details outlined in the Flag Manual:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made of red (scarlet) wool bunting<\/li>\n<li>Gold wool insignia, letters, and numbers are sewn on each side (front and back)<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s 1.83 feet on the hoist (the vertical side that runs parallel to a flag pole or guidon stick), and 2.33 feet on the fly (the horizontal side running parallel to the deck)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The specs go on and on; outlining the height of the numbers and letters, when to use \u201cUSMC\u201d and when to use \u201cFMF\u201d above the emblem, et cetera, et cetera.<\/p>\n<p>For Marine recruits, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/personalized-platoon-number-guidon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">platoon guidon<\/a> plays a similar role to a company guidon. There are two major differences, however. One difference is that a recruit guidon represents a platoon, which is smaller than a company. The \u201c\u2026and for other purposes\u201d description from the Flag Manual referred to the fact that recruit platoons carry guidons.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blog-post-marines-holding-guidon.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4114\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blog-post-marines-holding-guidon-300x200.png\" alt=\"blog post-marines holding guidon\" \/><\/a>The design of the recruit guidon is the other difference. It\u2019s still scarlet and gold, still carried on a guidon stick, and still carried by the most squared-away person in the platoon. But it doesn\u2019t have all the bells and whistles like the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/the-marine-corps-emblem-elements-and-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eagle, Globe, and Anchor<\/a>; it just has the platoon number sewn onto it.<\/p>\n<p>The platoon number carried on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/personalized-platoon-number-guidon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guidon flag<\/a>\u00a0becomes etched into the minds of that platoon\u2019s members. And it\u2019s especially mesmerizing to see drill instructors take the guidons back on graduation day; symbolizing the end of recruit training for those new Marines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blog-marines-holding-guidons.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4115\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blog-marines-holding-guidons-300x200.png\" alt=\"Drill instructors take guidons from graduating Marines.\" \/><\/a>Ask any Marine, whether they graduated from boot camp earlier this year or earned their title and shipped out to the jungles of Vietnam. They\u2019ll most likely be able to tell you their recruit platoon number and name off all their drill instructors.<\/p>\n<p>I know I can. My platoon number was 3029. Our guide\u2019s name was Travis. I was squad leader for 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Squad. Our DI\u2019s were all sergeants (a rank I would later achieve): Boydstun, Bender, and Martinez. I\u2019ll never forget these details, because the experiences they remind me of shaped me into the Marine and man I am today.<\/p>\n<p>And it all comes back to a number on a flag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blog-marines-holding-guidons-old.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4117\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blog-marines-holding-guidons-old-300x190.png\" alt=\"Platoon 3029; January 18, 2002. MCRD San Diego. (photo from author's recruit 'cruise book')\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Have questions about any of our Marine Corps Guidon Flags? Give us a call at\u00a0<a class=\"phone\" href=\"tel:+1-888-697-3524\">1-888-697-3524<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact us online<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marines carry many flags. Obviously, we carry the Stars and Stripes. And, of course, we carry the Marine Corps Flag. There\u2019s one flag that likely stands out in the minds of every Marine who has come through one of the Marine Corps Recruit Depots: The guidon flag. According to the official USMC Flag Manual, \u201cthe&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/the-marine-corps-guidon-flag\/\">continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[434,433,435],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flag-information","tag-guidon","tag-marine-corps-guidon","tag-military-guidon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Marine Corps Guidon Flag - Shop Guidon Flags Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shop Marine Corps Guidon Flags from Gettysburg Flag Works. 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