The few and the brave stuck out city’s first full day of snow to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps Monday morning.

“Snow is just another layer of camouflage,” joked Kevin Barszcz, a U.S. Navy veteran and director of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Office of Veterans Affairs, to some laughs from the group of about a dozen gathered.

It was the kickoff to a day of celebrations by current and former Marines celebrating the birthday of their military branch.

James Quinn — a former sergeant who served in Okinawa, Japan, as well as North Carolina as an aircraft firefighter — said he was most looking forward to the night’s festivities, which included a ceremonial cutting of a cake with an NCO saber by either the oldest or youngest Marine in the given group.

That means the honor is

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