Corps Voices Sergeant Major Huff: The First Black Sergeant Major

"I’m honored especially coming from a log cabin and corn fields of Alabama, short of everything including education.
If it hadn’t of been for the Marine corps, I would never have gotten a high school equivalent education which I finished my high school education equivalence in 1955 and now I have a GCT of 110 and reading vocabulary of 120 and I was only a laborer 30 years ago.
Today I am the senior sergeant major in the Marine Corps whether anyone feel or do not feel, I personally feel that I am ten feet tall. I feel that the Marine Corps has been good to me and I have been good to the Marine Corps and I do know without a shadow of a doubt if any black man or negro or whatever what the hell you want to call him can cut the mustard there is no limit to where he can go in the United States Marine Corps."
-SgtMajor Edgar Huff, USMC

[@adolphusjefferies1856]

❤❤❤Much love and RESPECT 🙏 ❤❤ to the Devil Dogs that paved the way for future generations !!! Thanks Sgt Major Huff for inspiring 🙏 the PLANET!!!

[@maureencora1]

Heaven is for Heroes, R.I.P. Semper-Fi. Sir.

[@JMD535]

Oorah! Semper Fidelis!! This is an honor to hear for the first time, the voice of the First Black Sergeant Major of Marines! What an honor! ..."the Corps has been good to me and I have been good to the Corps!"

[@gunchief0811]

One of the Original Montford point Marines.