PHOTOS

UPDATE -- 29 APRIL 2023

 

SEE IMAGES FROM LAST WEEKEND'S MEETING!

UPDATE --- 31 March 2024.  See images from the last few months.

PHOTO ALBUM FROM

MEETINGS DURING

JAN, FEB & MAR 2023

26 MARCH 2022

 

NATIONAL VIETNAM VETERANS DAY

HOSTED BY THE TOWN OF MURRIETA
 

By Larock Benford

 

Every year on 29 March, our country observes National Vietnam War Veterans Day.  Yesterday, we commemorated the 50th anniversary. 

 

Special thanks to John Z. Hernandez of the VFW & MilVet's Raven Leigh Hilden & others for putting on this event along side the cities of Murrieta & Temecula.

 

Photos courtesy of MCL Det 1057's Rita Nastri.

UPDATE:  29 January 2022 

MONTHLY MEETING

 

We recognized Ed and Sandra Wiggs for their many years of volunteering in support of fundraising for our Detachment.    

 

AND -- We finally added pics of our last Toys For Tots (T4T) drive from December 2021.  

 
Congrats to Ed, Sandra, and Jim, along with our Detachment Leaders and Officers!

On 13 January 2022, the 11th Marine Regiment hosted the Saint Barbara's Day Celebration at the Camp Pulgas gun park.   

 

 

 

See below for our latest activities at monthly meetings, celebrating the 246th Marine Corps Birthday, Veterans Day Parade and welcoming our newest members. 

SEE SGTMAJ (USMC, RET.) LAROCK BENFORD.

MCL Detachment 1057 joins Temecula VFW for Annual "DI Call," 4-5 June 2021. 

 

MCL Det. 1057 member and Retired Marine Corps Sergeant Major Larock Benford competes in a cadence call event at the Temecula Valley VFW Post 4089.  

 

This event also hosted a historical display of a World War Two-era Willy's Jeep, along with a number of fundraising activities supported by a team golf competition, along with auctions and raffles of special Marine Corps-themed items.  

 

MCL Detachment 1057 joins Temecula VFW for Annual "DI Call," 4-5 June 2021.

 

Former Marine Corps Drill Instructors, members of MCL Det 1057 and VFW Post 4089, stand together in a group photo, marking the end of the annual event.

 

This event served as a reunion amongst former drill instructors who now reside in Riverside and San Diego Counties.  

 

DETACHMENT OF THE YEAR

 

at 2015 Department of California MCL

 

On June 27, 2015, Detachment meeting we celebrated our award with a cake cutting!

 

31 May 2014

 

MajGen Lawrence D.Nicholson,

 

Commanding General,

 

1st Marine Division,

 

visited Detachment 1057.

 

 

 

 

 

 

31 March 2012, Visit from

 

Major General Ronald L. Bailey,

 

Commanding General, 1st Marine Division