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FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER 2017
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Commandant: Timothy Daniel Editor: Lewis W. Rice III [email protected] [email protected] 919-631-6772 919-714-2517
Regular Members – 43
Associate Members – 1
Paid Life Members – 18
Active Duty Members – 0
P. O. BOX 82
Clayton, NC 27520-0082
Commandant – Timothy Daniel [email protected]
Sr. Vice Commandant – Ralph Hudson Jr.
Jr. Vice Commandant – Gregory Quinn Sr.
Adjutant/Paymaster – Ken Parker
Jr. Past Commandant – Devell Durham Jr.
Judge Advocate – Grant Croonquist
Sgt-at-Arms – Linwood Johnson
Chaplain – Jodie Hislop [email protected]
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Good of the League
(Right)
Newly Appointed North Carolina Pack “Worthy Seeing Eye Dog”.
Rick Thomason has accepted the appointed position of North Carolina Pack “Worthy Seeing
Eye Dog”. Rick joined the Marine Corps League in 2011 and is an active member of the Cpl. Suzi Sannes Detachment #1262 of Nash County and he joined the Military Order of the Devil Dogs in 2013 (Jesse O.
Price Pound #210) and received his Pedigree in 2016.
(Above) 10 JAN 2017 “The 2016 Detachment Marine of the Year” was awarded to Eagle Scout
Coordinator/Public Relations Officer Lewis W. Rice III (center) from Junior Past
Commandant Devell “Bull” Durham Jr. (left) and Adjutant/Paymaster Ken Parker Jr. (right)
who are both also Past Marine of the Year Recipients on behalf of the Johnston County
Marine Corps League Carry-On Detachment #1236.
February Birthdays
Percy R. Clark Sr. (2/07/1947) – 70 years young!
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06 JAN - Military Order of the Devil Dogs North Carolina Pack Winter Growl held in Salisbury, NC.
07 JAN - Marine Corps League Department of North Carolina 2017 Winter Quarterly Meeting at the Salisbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
14 JAN - Jesse O. Price Pound #210 Winter Growl. 21 JAN - CWO3 Edward J. Albus Pound #370 Winter Growl.
I will say Happy New Year again, since the year is starting out so well for the Nation. Let us all pray the trend continues. The nomination committee has been appointed, so step up and serve the Detachment in a manner of becoming a United States Marine! Yes, that goes for the Navy Corpsman too! Next month is our elections for Detachment Officers, do not forget! Your vote is important! Thank you to those Marines visiting the VA Hospital, servicing our Veteran community is most important! Let us continue that effort with our Good Business Award, on the 15th of this month in Benson. Patriotism should be observed and recognized! Let us work at renewing our current membership and securing new members. We will not survive without renewing and recruiting and that is an all hands effort. My days of being your Commandant is coming to an end, it has been an Honor serving as your Commandant, and I look forward to handing the gavel to the next Commandant. Thank you to all elected and appointed Officers that have worked with me. It “IS” a team effort, and it takes all of us to accomplish the Mission.
Commandant Timothy Daniel – Semper Fi!
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Public Relations Committee (Lewis W. Rice III - Chair)
The JoCo Marine Newsletter will now be posted to our Detachment’s Facebook page on a monthly basis as well
as being mailed out and emailed, please let Lewis know if you need an electronic copy of the Detachment Flyer.
◄ This is different from the Newsletter (to hand out to prospective new members).
Rosebuds Committee (Ken Parker - Chair)
Ken Parker reported we have some funds turned in from the Clock and Jewelry shop.
Good Business Award Committee (Lewis W. Rice III – Chair)
20 JAN 2017 – Good Business Award presented to Wal-
Mart of Clayton. Pictured left to right is Bruce Pierce
(A MCL member invited to our next monthly meeting to
join our Detachment). Assistant Manager George
Mattocks (Army Veteran). Ken Parker, Adjutant/Paymaster.
Assistant Manager Kerry A. Diggs Sr. Timothy Daniel, Commandant.
Department Manager Hassan Hinds (Army Veteran).
February’s Good Business Award Presentation will be at - Location: Pure Gas Station 100 S. Wall St., corner of W.
Main St., Benson, NC 27504 Wednesday, February 15, 2017 @ 1100 hrs.
Eagle Scout Good Citizenship Award Committee (Lewis W. Rice III – Chair)
15 JAN 2017 - Eagle Scout Recognized
An Eagle Scout Ceremony was held for Eagle Scout Joshua Tuttle from Boy Scout Troop #33 of Clayton, the event
took place at the Ignite Church on Hwy 70 in Smithfield.
During the ceremony, Joshua Tuttle (center) was also presented the Eagle Scout Good Citizenship Award from Junior Past Commandant Devell “Bull” Durham Jr. (right)
and Eagle Scout Coordinator Lewis W. Rice III (left) on behalf of the Johnston County Marine Corps League.
Next Ceremony – 19 FEB 2017 @ 1400 hrs.
8927 Cleveland Rd. Clayton, NC 27520
Adopt-A-Highway Clean-Up Committee (Ken Parker – Chair)
28 JAN 2017 – Thanks to Timothy Daniel, Ken Parker, and Lewis Rice for showing up and getting the Quarterly Adopt-
A-Highway clean up completed regardless if no one else showed up, your dedication does not go unnoticed.
VA Hospital Visit Committee (Ken Parker – Chair)
31 JAN 2017 - VA Hospital Visit in Durham, North Carolina.
Pictured left to right are Johnston County Marine Corps League Carry-On Detachment #1236 members Junior Vice Commandant Gregory Quinn Sr., Adjutant/Paymaster Ken Parker, Commandant Timothy Daniel, and Junior Past Commandant Devell "Bull" Durham Jr. where they visited with the Veterans and hosted a bingo game, showed them love and camaraderie to remind them that they are not forgotten.
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1 February 1967: Operation Prairie II began in Quang Tri province by elements of the 3rd Marine Division. During the 46-day search-and-destroy operation, which terminated 18 March - 93 Marines and 693 enemies were killed. 2 February 1944: The 4th Marine Division, as part of the first assault on islands controlled by the Japanese before the start of World War II, captured Namur and eight other islands in the Kwajalein Atoll. 6 February 1968: Two reduced Marine Battalions, the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines with two companies, and 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines with three, recaptured Hue's hospital, jail, and provincial headquarters. It would take three more weeks of intense house-to-house fighting, and nearly a thousand Marines killed and wounded, before the imperial city was secured. 11 February 1922: B.Gen. John H. Russell was appointed U.S. High Commissioner and personal representative of the President to the government of Haiti. This nine-year assignment placed this future Commandant in supreme command of both the occupying American force and the Haitian Gendarmerie. 15 February 1998: One hundred years ago on this date, 28 Marines and 232 seamen lost their lives when an explosion in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, mysteriously sank the battleship MAINE. Though no definitive evidence linked the Spanish with the sinking, the cry went up, "Remember the Maine!", and by late April the U.S. and Spain were at war. 17 February 1967: The first full day of Operation DECKHOUSE VI, which lasted until 3 March, was conducted near Quang Ngai city. The Special Landing Force (BLT Y4 and HMM-363) accounted for 280 enemy killed. 23 February 1945: Four days after the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 1stLt Harold G. Schrier led 40 men from Company E, 2d Battalion, 28th Marines, up Mt. Suribachi to secure the crest and raise the small American flag that battalion commander LtCol Chandler Johnson had given Schrier. Within an hour, the patrol reached the rim of the crater. After a short firefight with Japanese defenders emerging from several caves, the small American flag was attached to an iron pipe and raised over the island. 24 February 1991: The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and coalition forces began a ground assault on Iraqi defenses in the final chapter of Operation Desert Storm. The 1st and 2d Marine Divisions stormed into the teeth of Iraqi defenses while heavily armored allied forces attacked the Iraqi defenses in Iraq from behind. In 100 hours, U.S. and allied forces defeated the Iraqi Army. 28 February 1991: Operation Desert Storm ended when the cease-fire declared by President George Bush went into effect. 1st Marine Expeditionary Force has a strength of more than 92,000 making Operation Desert Storm the largest Marine Corps operation in history. A total of 24 Marines were killed in action during the Gulf War.
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Sick Call
Jodie Hislop’s boyfriend is having heart surgery on Thursday the 12th. George Hartley has been in hospital with pneumonia but is home now and doing better. Linwood Johnson is having prostate troubles and is scheduled to go back to doctor on Friday the 13th.
IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN MARINE BROTHERS AND SISTERS, FMF
CORPSMEN AND CHAPLAINS
Tom Barrie, John Bullock, George Gillespie, Robert Moore, Willard Pleasants, Gordon
Young, and Mark Wayne Williams.
Honors to the former Commandant of the NC Marine Corps League and Jacksonville Mayor's Veterans
Liaison, and the 50th Past Chief Devil Dog of the North Carolina Pack, George M. Barrows, Sr. The retired Staff
Sergeant died Friday at his home and was buried (Wednesday, 18 JAN 2017) with full military honors. The
procession included members of the Marine Corps League, motorcyclists and other mourners. They
preceded his casket being drawn by a horse past City Hall and the Freedom Fountain to the Coastal Carolina
State Veterans Cemetery.
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