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FIRST MARINE DIVISION ASSOCIATION
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To all Chapters. Below is a list of the chapters that have already sent in their 2017 financial reports. Please email June Cormier (june.oldbreed@fmda.us) your 2017 financial reports to headquarters.
1) Colorado River 2) Phoenix 3) Golden Gate
4) Redwood Empire 5) Silicon Valley 6) Rocky Mountain
7) Dallas 8) Oregon/Columbia River 9) Central Florida
10) Greater Boston 11) Alamo 12) Wisconsin
13) New York 14) Desert Cities Mitchell Paige MOH
15) Southern California
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2018 COLORADO SPRINGS REUNION
August 5 -12 2018
Hotel Elegante' (719) 576-5900
You must be current with your annual dues with the
Association to get the special Reunion room rate or you will be charged the current hotel non-discounted room rate.
If you are unsure of you status please contact June at headquarters.
Thank you,
Doc Lakernick, Reunion Chair
Contact June if you need to verify your membership status, or any other questions.
Phone (760)763-3267
The Hotel Elegante' is now accepting reservations for our August reunion.
To get the Reunion rate of $123.00 plus taxes please use our code: 1613342. You must book directly with the hotel to get the rate.
Our block of rooms is nearly sold out.
Book now so you don't miss out
on our group rate!
Hotel Elegante' (719) 576-5900
Click the links below:
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Ladies Luncheon, Entertainment & BINGO!!
Colorado Springs, CO Reunion
When: August 11, 2018 at 11am Price: $40 per person
Menu items:
*Option #1: Chicken Cordon Bleu - breaded chicken breast stuffed with tender ham & swiss, herbed mornay cream sauce, served with rice pilaf & baby snip top carrots with thyme & honey
*Option #2: Incline Pasta - roasted red peppers & broccoli on a bed of pasta, basil pesto, fresh parmesan
*Item Included: Caesar Salad, Assorted rolls - Dessert - White Chocolate & Raspberry Cheesecake with whipped cream. Drinks - freshly brewed coffee (also decaf), hot herbal tea & iced tea
The live entertainment by K.J will be singing for us during lunch.
After Lunch we will be playing 9 games of bingo. Three up paper cards will be for sale before lunch. The price per pack will be $12 or buy 3 packs for $30 which will include a free dauber. I will also have daubers for sale. There will be prizes for all winning bingo's and the last game will be a blackout game with a grand prize. BINGO PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO THE FMDA GENERAL FUND.
Wife of President Jerry Johs
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Tickets only $10 each (3 for 20)
Drawing will be conducted at the Reunion Banquet
August 11th, 2018
(Need not be present to win)
1st Prize:50% of Funds Raised from Ticket Sales
2nd Prize: Two night stay at the Marines' Memorial Club
in San Francisco
Plus a $50 dining certificate for the Leatherneck Steakhouse
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NAME_______________________________________________________
ADDRESS___________________________________________________
Phone_____________________________________________
1ST Prize: 50% of Funds Raised from ticket sales
2nd Prize: Two night stay at Marines' Memorial Club, San Francisco & $50 dining certificate at Leatherneck Steakhouse
Drawing August 11th at Reunion Banquet
$10 each (3 for $20)
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71st Annual Reunion 2018
1st Prize: 50% of Funds Raised from tkt sales
2nd Prize: Two night stay at Marines' Memorial Club, San Francisco & $50 dining certificate at Leatherneck Steakhouse
DRAWING TO TAKE PLACE AT REUNION BANQUET, AUGUST 11TH, 2018
Mail stub and check or call (760) 763-3267 to: 1st Marine Division Association: P.O. Box 9000, Box #902
Oceanside, CA 92051
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NAME_______________________________________________________
ADDRESS___________________________________________________
Phone_____________________________________________
1ST Prize: 50% of Funds Raised from ticket sales
2nd Prize: Two night stay at Marines' Memorial Club, San Francisco & $50 dining certificate at Leatherneck Steakhouse
Drawing August 11th at Reunion Banquet
$10 each (3 for $20)
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71st Annual Reunion 2018
1st Prize: 50% of Funds Raised from tkt sales
2nd Prize: Two night stay at Marines' Memorial Club, San Francisco & $50 dining certificate at Leatherneck Steakhouse
DRAWING TO TAKE PLACE AT REUNION BANQUET, AUGUST 11TH, 2018
Mail stub and check or call (760) 763-3267 to: 1st Marine Division Association: P.O. Box 9000, Box #902
Oceanside, CA 92051
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Click here to download printable Raffle Tickets
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GUADALCANAL TOUR
Colonel Joe Mueller, USMC(Ret) will lead us on the exciting tour of
Guadalcanal. He is an experience tour guide that know about the attack on Guadalcanal, know as Operation Watchtower to Marines and Navy personnel who participated in that event.
We will see the landing beach were Marines went ashore, Henderson Field which was the initial objective and the Tenaru River where the Japanese attack was repulsed by the Marines. We will also see Edson's Ridge were Sergeant John Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions there.
Contact us at the phone number listed below or at www.miltours
.com. You do not want to miss this tour.
Semper Fidelis,
Ron Campbell, USMC(Ret)
Military Historical Tours, Inc.
13198 Centerpointe Way, Ste.202
Woodbridge, VA 22193-5285
www.miltours
.com
1 (703) 590-1295
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WMA 2018 Convention and Professional Development Symposium:
Click Link Below:
Please consider attending if you are able:
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Kilo Co. 3/26 is having a reunion in Minneapolis.
Oak Ridge Hotel and Conference Center
Chaska MN 855-516-1090
Located half hour from Minneapolis airport.
Special room rates under "kilo 3/26 reunion".
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USMC Fox 2/7 and H 2/1 (7/65-2/66), July 15 to July 20, 2018,
Hotel Elegante in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Contact Ron Gryn at (352) 638- 2872 or email at boatmanron@.com for reunion packet.
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1st Battalion 3rd Marines 1/3 Reunion
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ALL ERAs in Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 11-16, 2018
Contact: Don Bumgarner, dbumc13usmc@verizon.net, (562) 897-2437
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MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS, AWARDS, AND UNIT HISTORIES
(See the attached pdf file, or go to the URL at bottom here)
A New Congressional Research Service Publication on U.S. Military Service Records, Awards, and Unit Histories
The Congressional Research Service has just published a short reference document that might be of interest to many:
Military Service Records, Awards, and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources
by Mese F. DeBruyne and Barbara Salazar Torreon.
The guide provides information on locating military unit histories and individual service records of discharged, retired, and deceased military personnel. It also provides information on locating and replacing military awards and medals. Included is contact information for military history centers, websites for additional sources of research, and a bibliography of other publications, including related CRS reports.
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To all Life Member's,
We need your help with a one time gift of $50 to $100 donation to the General Fund for the financial needs of the Association. You can write off your donation on your taxes. It would be very much appreciated.
Thank you so much for all you do for the 1st Marine Division Association.
President Jerry Johs
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Member name Date joined Sponsor
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Cpl Michael R. Moffet
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06/06/18
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Capt Charles L. Wooley
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06/06/18
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Cpl Gabriel R. Varela
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06/06/18
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Cpl Zachary M. Redden
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06/08/18
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SgtMaj Marty Vasquez
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Mrs. Harriett Wenhold, Associate
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06/12/18
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Cpl Paul B. Bisbee
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Dave "Doc" Snider
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The Association partners with USAA to market their FMDA branded credit cards to our members. FMDA benefits from a commission. Last year USAA paid us $4,030.65. We earn a few cents every time a member uses their USAA - FMDA credit card.
Here is how to apply for a Visa or American Express card:
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Korean Consulate Recognizes 1st Marine Division
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| June 27, 2018 Camp Pendleton, California -
Leaders of the 1st Marine Division were recognized and thanked by the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles, Kim Wan-joong. Awarded plaques of recognition were MajGen Eric M. Smith, Col Christopher S. Dowling, and SgtMaj William T. Sowers. A Korean barbecue beef banquet was provided by longtime friend of the Division, Chester Yong Park, chairman of Marine House USA. The honorees and about a hundred of Division staff and guests enjoyed lunch at 1st Division HQ. MajGen (Ret) James McMonagle and MajGen (Ret) William C. Groeniger III were among honored guests.
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Col Christopher S. Dowling, MajGen (Ret) James McMonagle, MajGen (Ret) William C. Groeniger III,
SgtMaj William T. Sowers, chairman Chester Yoon Park, and MajGen Eric M. Smith outside Waltzing Matilda's at 1st Division Headquarters, Camp Pendleton, California.
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CHAPTER/MEMBER INFORMATION
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The Veterans Cemetery will move to Anaheim?
The Veteran Cemetery Committee decided to move the cemetery to the 288 acre site near the 91 freeway.
We are afraid
Orange County will not have a veteran cemetery if we continue working with Irvine's residents and City Council Members.
--Bill Sandlin (Life Member) <billsandlin@yahoo.com>
From the Orange County Register:
After Irvine voters rejected Veterans could the Cemetery move to Anaheim?
OC Register June 19, 2018 at 3:39 pm | UPDATED: June 19, 2018 at 3:39 pm
As Irvine officials try to decide where to build a long-promised veterans cemetery in their city,
a new location elsewhere is getting more serious consideration. On Tuesday, Orange County supervisors will hold a closed-door discussion on whether to explore using a 288-acre, county-owned parcel near the 91 freeway and 241 toll road interchange for an official military cemetery, Supervisor Todd Spitzer said.
The land was part of a gift of open space the Irvine Company made to the county in 2014. Spitzer said the terms of the donation would allow a cemetery.
Meanwhile, Irvine Councilman Jeff Lalloway said he plans to ask his colleagues to reaffirm at their at the July 10 City Council meeting the use of 125 acres of city-owned land on the northern edge of the Great Park as a veterans cemetery site. City officials originally designated the land for that use in 2014, but they agreed last year to trade Great Park developer FivePoint for an equal-sized parcel near the I-405/I-5 interchange that would be less costly to clean up.
Some residents didn't like the switch and sought to undo it at the ballot box earlier this month. Their win technically doesn't block a cemetery from being built on FivePoint's land, now used as strawberry fields, but without the land swap the project is not likely to proceed. FivePoint CEO Emile Haddad said though he won't immediately develop the strawberry fields because he has other projects in the works, "We will be moving on."
The Veteran Cemetery Committee decided to move the cemetery to the 288 acre site near the 91 freeway. We are afraid Orange County will not have a veteran cemetery if we continue working with Irvine's residence and City Council Members.
So Lalloway wants to shift attention to the original, northern parcel, honoring the voters' mandate.
"I'm afraid that going back to the original site would just kill the cemetery completely," Councilwoman Melissa Fox said. The cost to clean up and build the first phase at the original northern site would be higher - about $77 million, compared with an estimated $38 million at the strawberry fields site.
Because the election likely set back the cemetery project, some veterans are already looking beyond Irvine for a solution. "I personally have no desire to be buried in the city of Irvine," Bill Cook, a Vietnam vet who heads the Orange County Veterans Memorial Park Foundation, said about the outcome of the recent ballot measure.The land just north of the Great Park was "leftover junk" that was only chosen originally because officials needed to name a site to move along state legislation that would establish the cemetery, Cook said.
The county land Spitzer is pitching is attractive in part because it's bigger than either Irvine parcel, Cook said, adding, "It would be very prominent and very respectable and very nice."
The Veterans Alliance of Orange County on Monday sent Spitzer a letter asking supervisors to study the county property as a cemetery location.
Spitzer said the land isn't pristine - it was previously used as a gravel pit - but cleanup and other issues were analyzed in an environmental report completed when the Irvine Company planned to build homes there.
Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, who wrote state legislation to designate a cemetery site in Irvine, said the bill would have to be changed to name a new site.
Quirk-Silva said she's wary of trying to switch back to the original Irvine site because of some residents' objections to having a cemetery near their homes, but added, "I would do anything I can within my power to move forward an Orange County veterans cemetery."
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Alamo Chapter June 2018 Meeting
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Reunion and Remembrance Ceremony for BLT 2/26
Friday, September 14 through Sunday, September 16, 2018
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Are you a Marine or Navy corpsman who was with Battalion Landing Team 2/26 in the DMZ in Vietnam in September and October 1968?
Were you on LZ Margo?
Are you a friend or family member of such a Marine or corpsman? Or a family member of one of our brothers who we lost in the DMZ?
If you are, please join us in Detroit on the weekend of September 16, 2018-Friday, September, 14 through Sunday, September 16-50 years after the Battle of LZ Margo.
We will reconnect, reflect and remember a month that changed all of us forever, a month when we fought bravely against a determined enemy in dangerous conditions.
And it was also a month when we lost too many brothers, who are to us always the young men they were when they fell.
And, having endured much, having seen true patriots give their lives for our country, and having risked our own lives in the DMZ and in many other hard places, we came home to a nation that too often and for too long disrespected our service.
But we know what we did.
Please join us in Detroit. Together we will remember those days and pay our respects to the families of our fallen.
For more information about BLT 2/26 and our reunion and remembrance ceremony, visit our website @ <
https://www.dmzrats.com/
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Semper Fi,
Alan Green, 81s
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From:
Erin <eem1919@gmail.com>
Sent:
Saturday, June 2, 2018 5:25 PM
To:
June Cormier; Dennis; geronamo0122@gmail.com
Subject:
1st Marine MIAs
To the officers of the 1st Marine Division:
My name is Erin Miller, and I am a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the last three years, I have been working on a book on Wisconsin's MIAs from the Vietnam War. The book features each of the 37 MIAs, their lives, their military service, and the circumstances that led to their disappearance, and is reliant on interviews with family, friends, and fellow servicemen.
Four of the men featured in the book served in the 1st Marine Division: Private Duwayne Soulier, Gunnery Sergeant Richard Fischer, Private Thomas Blackman, and Lance Corporal Raymond Heyne.
I worked with Heidi Lamb in 2015. She helped me locate individuals who knew some of these men for their respective chapters in the book.
The book,
Wisconsin's 37: The Lives of Those Missing in Action in the Vietnam War, will be released early June. All royalties from the book will be donated to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and the Highground Memorial in Neillsville, WI.
I was wondering if it would be possible to put a notice about the book and these Marines in an upcoming newsletter or to forward this message to others in your association. I can supply a press release. If so, I would greatly appreciate your help.
Thank you for your time.
Erin Miller
608-438-8178
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DOD
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Sgt Duane H. Newton, Jr.
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03/26/2018
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Sgt Billy F. Snapp
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06/08/18
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SgtMaj George F. Meyer
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06/11/18
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SSgt Clarence H Vittitoe
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Anne Erwin,
wife of late LtCol Jack Erwin
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06/16/18
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President Jerry Johs
First Marine Division Association
Office (760) 763-3268 President Jerry Johs (503)-784-7697
President Jerry Johs Email: geronamo0122@gmail.com
Please visit our website: 1stmarinedivisionassociation.org
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P.O. Box 9000, Box # 902
Oceanside, CA 92051
(760) 763-3268
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