I recently had the honor to work a few volunteer shifts at The Wall That Heals (TWTF) when it stopped for a few days near my home. It is a traveling, three quarters scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial … Continue reading →
Note from webmaster: A recent long, newsy email from Arnie Reiner with updates about Cascille and himself as well as a couple more of our comrades got me thinking that there ought to be a way for us to share … Continue reading →
Roger Thomas Shea, III, (Tom) locked on and trained with HMM-265 for about a year at New River before we all boarded USS Boxer and set sail for Vietnam in April, 1966. Tom passed away a few years ago and … Continue reading →
Last year, 2018, I was diagnosed with MDS-RS-SLD, a fairly rare kind of bone marrow cancer that inhibits normal red blood cell development and presents as anemia in routine blood tests. It was confirmed following a bone marrow biopsy at … Continue reading →
If you have ever wondered what happened to your old aircraft, then here is a link that should tell you. See https://www.helis.com/database/model/Boeing-Vertol-CH-46A/cn for information about every CH-46 ever made. For example, https://www.helis.com/database/cn/1229/ tells the story of the CH-46 hanging in … Continue reading →
It seems that no one at DOD ever thought to keep an official, centralized record of Distinguished Flying Crosses as they were awarded. The Distinguished Flying Cross Society was formed to help fill that gap in our military history. If … Continue reading →
This is the header for the archive of past President’s Corner posts. The category has been removed from the main menu. Future President’s Corner posts will be placed initially under News and then moved to this Archive after they are … Continue reading →
We have received word that Steve Turner returned to base on Thursday, May 21, 2018. You may recall that Steve’s spouse, Helen, informed us last November that Steve was at end stage COPD. Semper Fi, Steve! … Continue reading →
Fellow Marines, I am passing on some information about Fred Allega that I just received from Bunni. Here is what she said, edited a little to leave out some family stuff. She and Fred both okayed my sending this, and … Continue reading →
During the 2015 reunion cruise the membership voted to raise and contribute $5,000 to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, the fund raising organization for the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The amount was raised almost immediately in contributions and … Continue reading →
