October 22, 2015
Greetings!

Thank you for joining us for this issue of Marine Parents News. If this is your first time receiving the newsletter, welcome aboard, we're excited for you to be here!

This Sunday will see the running of the 40th annual Marine Corps Marathon, so join us in wishing the members of Team Marine Parents who will be participating the best of luck this weekend in Washington! Learn more in our first article.

To see what else is new with the organization or to learn more about the Marine Corps, check out the rest of our articles. We hope you enjoy!

Thank you for joining us and especially for your continued support of our brave men and women in uniform.

Semper Fi Marine Families!
Team Marine Parents at the Marine Corps Marathon
The 40th annual Marine Corps Marathon is almost here! This Sunday, tens of thousands of runners, Marines, and supporters will come together in Washington, D.C., to participate in the running of "The People's Marathon" and its associated events from October 23-25, 2015.

This year, Team MarineParents (TMP) has 30 runners participating in the Marine Corps Marathon and together they have raised more than $15,700 for the outreach programs of MarineParents.com. Our largest fundraisers were Team ‪#‎RunwithMarineMoMs‬, who raised $1,800 for TMP. We would like to thank all of our TMP runners for participating and for supporting our troops!

A number of TMP runners will be gathering for dinner in Washington DC the night before the marathon.


To learn more about Team #RunWithMarineMoMs, or to donate to their campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Team Collins, or to donate to their campaign, please click here... .

To learn more about Team Creech, or to donate to their campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Gregory Dunn, or to donate to his campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Natalie Finley, or to donate to her campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Team Foxtrot Tango Whiskey, or to donate to their campaign, please click here...

To learn more about De Fringer, or to donate to her campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Duane Granger, or to donate to his campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Michael Holland, or to donate to his campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Marissa Hollowwa, or to donate to her campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Karl and Debbie Holub, or to donate to their campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Brendan Hughes, or to donate to his campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Dale Larson, or to donate to his campaign, please click here...

To learn more about Alan Lizotte, or to donate to his campaign, please click here...




Dr. Bridget Cantrell

Dr. Bridget Cantrell has been volunteering with MarineParents.com since 2006. She is an expert on Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) and the author of numerous books on the subject of PTS in relation to combat warriors.

Marine Parents is very fortunate to continue our work with Dr. Cantrell. Dr. Cantrell is a volunteer member of the Warrior Support Team and helps provide resources and information to warriors, their family members, and their caregivers.
*Image info: Dr. Bridgett Cantrell.
November 10 is the Marine Corps Birthday!

Each year, on November 10th, Marines around the world celebrate what they see as their "second" birthday, the day the United States Marine Corps was born.

The Marine Corps' birthday is a day of pride and respect, and its celebration is one of the most revered traditions in the Corps.

The tradition runs deep. For years, Marines have been telling each other "Happy Birthday" on November 10th and attending Marine Corps Birthday Balls in cities across the globe. Each year, the Commandant of the Corps reads his "Birthday Message" to all Marines, and they "...reflect upon the legacy of [the] Corps and upon the awesome responsibilities lying ahead." (Warrior Culture of the U.S. Marines by Marion F. Sturkey)

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This Week in Marine Corps History: Operation Maui Peak
 
Fifty-seven years ago this week, on October 19, 1968, Operation Maui peak ended nearly two weeks after it began 11 miles northwes of An Hoa, Vietnam. More than 300 enemy forces were killed in the 13-day operation.

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*Image info: Elements of the 5th Marine Regiment stand by at the An Hoa Base waiting to board Sea Knight helicopters of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 164 [HMM-164]. (USMC photo)
This Week in Marine Corps History: Beirut Bombing
 

October 23, marks the anniversary of the single deadliest day for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima in World War II. However, the chain of events that led up to this tragic event began more than a year prior, in June of 1982.

On June 6, 1982, the Israeli Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon in response to an assassination attempt on Israel’s ambassador to the UK by Palestinian terrorists, in an attempt to create a buffer zone between Israel and a joint Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Syrian force stationed in Lebanon. After two and a half months of fighting, a 2,000 member multinational peacekeeping force, including 800 Marines from the 32d Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU), was deployed to Beirut to oversee the withdrawal of PLO guerillas on August 25.

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*Image info: The Marine barracks building in Beirut, Lebanon, prior to the bombing. (Photo Courtesy of II MEF)
Marine Corps News: Parris Island Marks Centennial
 
Sunday, November 1, 2015, marks the 100th anniversary of the found of Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. 

To mark the occasion,  a flyover of approximately 600 new graduates of “Centennial” Charlie and Oscar companies was held last Friday, October 16, along with a speech by Commandant General Robert Neller.

Parris Island is Corps’ second oldest post and continually operating recruit training installation, and approximately 19,000 recruits arrive each year, totaling more than one million Marine recruits over the last 100 years.

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*Image info:  Photo By: USMC photo by Cpl. William Perkins (released).
Volunteer Spotlight: Veterans United Volunteers
 
For a number of years now, MarineParents.com, Inc. has been fortunate enough to team up with Veterans United Home Loans, one of the nation's leading providers of VA mortgages that happens to be based here in Columbia, Missouri, just like us.  

Since 2012, Veterans United has awarded us more than $10,000 in grant money through the company’s charitable arm, Veterans united Foundation, and dozens of their employees have volunteered hundreds of hours to our organization. 

Over the course of the last month, more than 50 employees from Veterans United have been generous enough to once again volunteer their time and energy on our behalf. During that time, the employees from Veteran's United put together folders, made buttons, built racks, packed informational kits to be sent to recruiting substations, hung shirts in the EGA shop, and packed 250 care packages to be sent to troops deployed to combat zones overseas. 

As is typically the case when we have volunteers in the building, a good time was had by all and the time flew by. We would like to extend a heartfelt "thank you" to Veterans United and their employees, and we look forward to continuing this partnership in the future!

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Are You From Tennessee?
For more than 12 years we've been supporting poolee, recruit, and Marine parents and family members. Now we've added Official MarineParents.com Groups on Facebook for parents and family members of Marines, recruits, and poolees. We invite you to come on in and join us in a Place to Connect and Share with other Marine Parents and family members.
 
Join this Official MarineParents.com Facebook group to connect with other Marine Families in Tennessee by  clicking here...

To see a full list of our Facebook state groups, please  click here..
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