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More - Marine Corps meaning of Code Red:

The Marine Corps uses a color-coded system to communicate with employees in cases of inclement weather. A good example of how the Marines use a code red to keep personnel safe is the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. When storms arise on the Marine Corps Base Quantico, the color-coded system is in place to alert who is expected to report to duty despite severe weather and possibly dangerous conditions. A four-tiered color-coded system communicates to both emergency and essential personnel. The color that relays the base operating status is sent out at 4 a.m. on a daily basis. Personnel check the official Marine Corps Base Quantico website, its Facebook page and a secure hotline. If it is elevated, it may also be sent out via radio and television signals.

True Red Definition

When a code red goes up, it relays to Marines that the base they are assigned to is under emergency. In that case, only emergency and essential personnel should take the necessary means to get to their assigned posts. Personnel should get in touch with the chain of command for specific directions under a code red.

"Red Line" Point of no return ... "

Origins

The origin of the phrase in English traces back to the "Red Line Agreement" in 1928 between largest oil companies of Britain, the USA and France at the time of the end of the Ottoman Empire. At the time of signature, the borders of the empire were not clear and to remedy the problem an Armenian businessman named Calouste Gulbenkian, took a red pencil to draw in an arbitrary manner the borders of the divided empire.

The expression remained significant to global diplomacy and was reused during the UN's founding after the WWII, especially in the Anglophone world. Uniquely, in France one would "cross the yellow line" (franchir la ligne jaune).[3] History of usage

Political cartoon "His red lines" by Ranan Lurie. Drawn soon after the 2013 Ghouta chemical attacks.

In Israel, the phrase was notably used as a political metaphor by Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, in 1975, when said that Washington "has managed to draw a red line which all the Arab countries know they must not cross - that America is not going to sacrifice Israel for the sake of Arab support."[2] Yitzhak Rabin later used the phrase to refer to the line past which the Syrian army should not be allowed to cross after the 1976 occupation of Lebanon. On September 27, 2012 at the 67th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York in a speech addressing Iran's nuclear program Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly added a red line to a prepared bomb cartoon.[4]

According to Ben Yagoda, a professor of English and journalism at the University of Delaware, in 1987, there are references to "red lines" in conflicts between Chad and Libya, and in a 1999 New York Times article, Muslim clerics in Iran are reported to draw a "'red line for the revolution' that no one should cross."[5] These references occurred earlier as well, appearing a Milwaukee Sentinel article of 26 January 1984 regarding French intervention in Chad and a "red line" held by French forces in southern Chad.[6]

The phrase has been used by U.S. diplomats going back to the 1990s. For example, U.S. officials, quoted by Reuters news agency in May 1994, used the term in reference to negotiations with North Korea over the withdrawal of reactor fuel; and Martin Walker in The Guardian used the same phrase in June, in reference to statements by United States officials.[7] Secretary of State Warren Christopher used the phrase in reference to NATO control over the peace-keeping mission in Bosnia on the CBS program Face the Nation on 22 October 1995.[8] Barack Obama used the phrase on August 20, 2012, during the Syrian civil war in relation to chemical weapons,[9] saying that "We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation."[2][10] In the US, the phrase then became a source of contention when political opponent John McCain said the red line was "apparently written in disappearing ink," due to the perception the red line had been crossed with no action.[2][5] On the one year anniversary of Obama's red line speech the Ghouta chemical attacks occurred. Obama then clarified "I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war," in reference to the Chemical Weapons Convention.[11]

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Ok, so when do we start killing commies?