MONTHLY MEETING -- 22 February 2025

 

We conducted our monthly meeting, continuing plans on routine detachment business as we push through 2025.


We bid fair winds and following seas to former Marine Corporal Eugene “Gene” Hackman (age 95) and his wife, Betsy Arakawa (age 62) who were recently found dead at home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

Gene left home at age 16, lied about his age to enlist in the United States Marine Corps, and served four and a half years as a field-radio operator. Hackman was stationed in China (Qingdao and later in Shanghai).

 

When Communist revolutionaries conquered the mainland in 1949, he was reassigned to Hawaii and Japan, then discharged in 1951.

 

He briefly came out of retirement to narrate two documentaries related to the United States Marine Corps: The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima (2016)and We, the Marines (2017).


Check out the images in the below photo album to see our latest meeting and activities with the community.  
 

Our next meeting is on 29 March. Same time, same location.  
 

Bring a friend and COME JOIN US!

Join the Marine Corps League

 

We count among our members, officers and enlisted.  We have pounded the ground, flown in the air, saved lives as corpsmen. 
 

We've served our nation not only at home but in conflicts in the Pacific, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.  Nevertheless, our common bond, that which unites us all, regardless of our current stations in life, is that We Are All Marines.

 

If you want to rekindle that "Esprit de Corps" that only Marines can share, swap old sea stories, catch up with old friends or make some new friends, we invite you to come to our meetings and see who we are and what we do.

 

You've already earned the title United States Marine so we'd like to welcome you aboard!

 

 

 

 

PROGRAMS WE SUPPORT:

 

-Open Arms, Open Hearts to assist military families in need, including the "Back-to-School" project to provide WalMart gift cards to children of active duty military & veterans.

 

-Wounded Warrior Program

-Toys For Tots

-Temecula Valley Young Marines

-6 High School Marine/Navy JROTCs

-Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund (semperfifund.org)

-4 Paws 4 Patriots (www.4paws4patriots.org)

-VFW Motorcycle Club - Empire Chapter

-Manzanita Ranch

-Veterans Supplemental Support Network (VSSN)

-The volunteers who collect & donate gowns to Marine Corps Ball attendees at Camp Pendleton 

We thank these special groups

for their enduring support:

Wildomar VFW Post 1508

Temecula Valley VFW Post 4089

Stone Church Brewery (Corona, Temecula & Riverside, CA)

Amber Waves of Grain Craft Beer Festival for Veterans

Veterans Supplemental Support Network (VSSN)