Marines TV

UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, MIDDLE EAST - Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force, Crisis Response-Central Command reach out to their children and wish their fathers a happy Father's Day June 17, 2018. SPMAGTF-CR-CC is deployed to the Middle East and prepared to respond to any crisis or contingency operation in the region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Carlos Lopez)

Marines are technicians... illustrators... leaders... officers... but most of all, they are fathers. Happy Father's Day. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Brytani M. Wheeler)

Father's Day is a holiday celebrated worldwide to recognize the contribution that fathers and father figures make in the daily lives of the children they raise, care for, and love. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers and designated the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day to show appreciation for what they do. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Juan C. Bustos)

Marines across Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton take a moment to commemorate their fathers for Father’s Day on June 14, 2018. Father’s Day is a national holiday that is celebrated by honoring fathers around the world. Sonora Smart Dodd, a child raised by a widower, went to the YMCA, local churches, shopkeepers and government officials to support her idea on June 19, 1910 Washington became the first state to celebrate Father’s Day. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Betzabeth Y. Galvan)

Chesty Puller’s daughter, Martha Puller Downs, wishes her father a Happy Father’s Day — wherever he is. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Cpl. Tara Bray). For a descriptive transcript text document of this production, contact Kim Hardison at Kimberly.hardison@usmc.mil.