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P. O. BOX 82 Clayton, NC 27520-0082

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MAY -STANDING SCHEDULES

Meeting Tuesday 12 MAY 2015 @ 1900-2000 All Hands are encouraged to attend!

04 APR: Flap-Jack Breakfast, Applebees on 42/40, Garner, NC was a

huge success with a profit of $1,200.00 Thanks to everyone for your support.

02 MAY: M.O.D.D. Pound #210 Growl, 11870 Lodge Rd, Middlesex, NC 0900-1600 hrs. 04 MAY: Good Business Award, C.E. Barnes Store in Archer Lodge @ 1100 hrs. 09 MAY: Adopt-A-Highway, Meet at the Hess Station on Hwy 42 @ 0730 hrs. 10 MAY: Mothers Day. 12 MAY: Detachment Meeting, 1900-2000 hrs. 16 MAY: Armed Forces Day. 25 MAY: Memorial Day Ceremony, Johnston County Courthouse @ 1100 hrs. 06 JUN: Joint Eagle Scout Ceremony, Troop #19 in Benson, NC 1700-1900 hrs. 30 JUN: VA Hospital Visit, Meet @ McDonalds parking lot on Hwy 70 @ 1800 hrs.

Good of the League: Junior Past Commandant Durham donated the Marine Corps Podium Flag to the Detachment. Marine Perry Champion has coupons for $5.00 to be used at Belks on May 2. This is a fundraiser for Rescues 4 Rescues, all interested see him. Cabelas in Garner is now open and they offer Veterans a 5% discount at any time. John Foust has been an inspector for area schools for robotic competitions, anyone interested in getting into this program get in touch with him.

MAY BIRTHDAYS

Lewis W. Rice III (5/14/1974) 41 years young!

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Commandants Notes: I want to thank all that attended the Officer Installation for the Carry-On Detachment. I look forward, once again; to leading the Detachment on its mission to promote the Spirit and Dedication of the Marine Corps. Many thanks go out to our Jr. Past Commandant Bull Durham for a job well done! His motivation and Espirit de Corps is in keeping with the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the Marine Corps League. As we go forward, I want to express my appreciation for the confidence youve shown in me and the other Marines you have elected to lead you in the coming year. I will strive to earn that confidence, as I know the other Officers will. Together, we can achieve anything we put our efforts into be it trash pick-up, hospital visits, or fund raisers. Let us continue to grow as a Detachment with new members, and grow as Marines and Sailors of the Marine Corps League. Semper Fi! Timothy Daniel Sr. Vice Commandants Notes: I hope that 2015 will truly be the best year for each of us and for the Marine Corps League! Ralph Hudson Jr. Jr. Vice Commandants Notes: Our flapjack breakfast was a huge success! Thanks to everyone for their hard work and support! Welcome to our new Officers, and thank you to those who are serving another year. I am looking forward to us all having a great year working to help Carry-On Detachment be the best it can be! Jodie Hislop Judge Advocates Notes: Nothing to report at this time. James Willie S. Williams Adjutant / Paymasters Notes: Ooh-Rah Marines! Please continue to support our Detachment. Ken Parker Sergeant-At-Arms Notes: Nothing to report at this time. Linwood Johnson Jr. Past Commandants Notes: Nothing to report at this time. Devell Bull Durham Jr. Chaplains Notes: Nothing to report at this time. Ron Doc Trowbridge

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2 May 1946: Marines from Treasure Island Marine Barracks, under the command of Warrant Officer Charles L. Buckner, aided in suppressing the three-day prison riot at Alcatraz Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. WO Buckner, a Veteran of the Bougainville and Guam campaigns, ably led his force of Marines without suffering a single casualty. 5 May 1983: In Beirut, Lebanon, a UH-1N helicopter carrying the Commander of the American peace-keeping force, Colonel James Mead, was hit by machine gun fire. The six Marines aboard escaped injury. Colonel Mead and his crew had taken off in the helicopter to investigate artillery and rocket duels between rival Syrian-backed Druze Moslem militiamen and Christian Phalangists that endangered French members of the multinational force. 8 May 1995: In the wake of the most devastating storm to hit the New Orleans area in more than 200 years, a group of Marines and sailors from Marine Forces Reserve demonstrated the quick response synonymous with the Navy/Marine Corps team. Within hours of being called, Marines assisted 2,500 civilians, and Navy corpsmen treated scores of flood victims. 10 May 1945: The 22d Marines, 6th Marine Division, executed a pre-dawn attack south across the Asa River Estuary and seized a bridgehead from which to continue the attack toward Naha, the capital of Okinawa. 15 May 1862: Corporal John Mackie, the first Marine to earn the Medal of Honor, was commended for service in the USS GALENA during action against Confederate shore batteries at Drewry's Bluff which blocked the James River approaches to Richmond. 16 May 1945: The 22nd and 29th Marines continued the attack against Half Moon Hill, a day characterized by the 6th Marine Division as the "bitterest" of the Okinawa campaign. By the 18th, the famed "Shuri line" had been broached. 22 May 1912: First Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine Officer to be assigned to "duty in connection with aviation" by General Commandant William P. Biddle, reported for aviation training at the Naval Aviation Camp at Annapolis, Maryland, and Marine aviation had its official beginning. 23 May 1988: The V-22 Osprey, the world's first production tilt-rotor aircraft, made its debut during rollout ceremonies at Bell Helicopter Textron's Arlington, Texas, facility. More than 1,000 representatives from the military, industry, and media, gathered to hear various speakers, including Gen Alfred Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps, praise the versatile rotor craft designed to meet the needs of 21st Century battlefields. 26 May 1969: Operation Pipestone Canyon began when the 1st Battalion, 26th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines began sweeps in the Dodge City/Go Noi areas southwest of Da Nang. It terminated at the end of June with 610 enemies killed in action at a cost of 34 Marines killed. 29 May 1991: Elements of a joint task force that included the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade departed the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Bangladesh after nearly two weeks of disaster relief operations following a devastating cyclone. Joint task force delivered tons of relief supplies using helicopters, C-130s, and landing in Operation Sea Angel.

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Public Relations Committee (Lewis W. Rice III - Chair) The JoCo Marine newsletter will now be posted to our Detachments Facebook

page on a monthly basis as well as being mailed out and emailed, and if anyone needs an electronic copy of the Detachment Flyer, please let Lewis Rice know.

Flap Jack Fundraiser Committee (Lewis Rice, III - Chair)

04 Apr: Flap-Jack Breakfast, Applebees on 42/40, Garner, NC was a huge success with a profit of $1,200.00 Thanks to everyone for your support. (Looking for a chair person to take over this committee for the next event, submit your name at the next meeting for nomination, or to Ken Parker via email.)

Education Committee (Lewis W. Rice III - Chair) (Looking for a chair person to take over this committee and submit information to

the masses on educating our Detachment, or we can drop this committee and use the newsletter as educational purposes. Submit your name at the next meeting for nomination, or any ideas to Ken Parker via email so it can be voted on at our next Detachment meeting.)

Good Business Award Committee (Lewis W. Rice III - Chair) Next Recipient: 04 May @ 1100 hrs. C.E. Barnes Store in Archer Lodge.

Eagle Scout Good Citizenship Award Committee (Lewis W. Rice III Chair)

Joint Eagle Scout Ceremony scheduled with Troop #19 of Benson on 06 June. Rosebuds Committee (Bradley Hamilton - Chair)

We have received $23.00 from our cans at the Clock and Jewelry shops. VA Hospital Visit Committee (Ken Parker Chair)

Next scheduled VA Hospital visit is 30 June, meet-up time is 1800 hrs. Adopt-A-Highway Clean-up Committee (Ken Parker Chair)

09 May for 2nd quarter, will meet at the Hess station on Hwy. 42 East at 0730 hrs. Raffle Committee (Willie Williams Chair)

Raffle Chairman Willie Williams has secured a Savage 30/06 rifle with scope for the raffle. Raffle tickets are now available to the membership and the drawing will be held at the Harvest Festival in Clayton this September.

All members please continue to recruit new members to join our brotherhood.

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Sick Call

Grant Croonquists aunt has been diagnosed with two types of cancer and his wife is

waiting the results of a biopsy. Willie Williams brother has stopped treatments and told to get his affairs in order. Johnnie Carpenters sister in law passed. Alfred Peavys wife is

still having headaches and his sister has had shoulder surgery, while her husband, his brother in law; has had triple by-pass surgery. Devell Durham has lost an aunt and an

uncle. He also asked for prayers to go out to Doc Trowbridge and Carl Naus.

IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN MARINE BROTHERS AND SISTERS, FMF CORPSMEN AND CHAPLAINS

Tom Barrie, John Bullock, George Gillespie, Robert Moore, Willard Pleasants, and

Gordon Young.

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