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Good of the League

2015 Pound Dog of the Year – DD Lewis Rice awarded 15 JAN 2016

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Percy R. Clark Sr. (02/07/1947) – 69 years young!



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Pound #210 Winter Growl in Cary – 09 JAN 2016

NC Pack Winter Growl in Salisbury – 15 JAN 2016

DoNC Quarterly Meeting in Salisbury – 16 JAN 2016



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(Left) Marine Brothers – John & Chester Whitley officially join our ranks at last month’s

meeting. (Right) Marines Linwood Johnson and Lewis Rice posting our colors.

(Left) Navy ship to be named after the last living Battle of Iwo JimaWWII Medal of Honor recipient Hershel “Woody” Williams. (Right)

Purple Heart ceremony set for Marine recruiter Sgt. DeMonteCheeley shot in Chattanooga attack. – Semper Fi Warriors!



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The new year has begun, and we are marching ahead full steam

doing what comes naturally to Marines! From continuing to visit

and value our Veterans at the VA Medical Center in Durham, to

Honoring Johnston County Businesses for showing their

Patriotism. Our concern for our environment and its appearance

with our Adopt-A-Highway program, our appreciation for the BSA

Eagle Scouts for their exceptional Leadership and Citizenship, not

to mention our support for Toys for Tots each fall. All I can ask isthat each of us continue to contribute to these programs as you are

able, with your time, talent, and active participation. Semper Fi!

Commandant ~ Timothy Daniel

Remember it's election time. If you wish to be nominated for a

position, please let the nominating committee know (Joe Womack,

Tracy Swan, or myself Willie). I will be presenting the Det.Marine of the Year policy to the detachment for approval.

Judge Advocate ~ James “Willie” Williams



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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 than the Newsletter (to hand out to prospective new members).

Belk Fundraiser Committee (Perry Champion - Chair)

(Perry Champion is working on getting some more information for our next

fundraiser, keeping Carry-On Detachment successful and in the public eye.)

Good Business Award Committee (Lewis W. Rice III – Chair)

January ’s “Good Business Award” (above) – Grifols Therapeutics Inc. in

Clayton, NC – awarded 15 JAN 2016.

February’s Good Business Award Presentation will be at:

Location:Johnston ounty Fleet Services

60 Shelter Way Friday, February 12, 2016 @ 1300 hrs.

Smithfield, NC 27577



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

Eagle Scout Cousins (left) Seth Delawder-Price and (right) Hunter Brian Price fromBoy Scout Troop #23 of Princeton – awarded 31 JAN 2016.

February’s Eagle Scout Good Citizenship Award Presentation will be at:

Location: Oakland Presbyterian hurch (Boy Scout Troop #33)

8927 Cleveland Rd. Saturday, February 13, 2016 @ 1700 hrs.

Clayton, NC 27520

March’s Eagle Scout Good Citizenship Award Presentation will be at:

Location:Selma Tabernacle hurch of God

(Boy Scout Troop #23)

206 E. Anderson St. Sunday, March 6, 2016 @ 1500 hrs.

Selma, NC 27576

Rosebuds Committee (Ken Parker - Chair)

Ken Parker reported we have some funds turned in from theClock and Jewelry shop.

VA Hospital Visit Committee (Ken Parker – Chair)

March 29, 2016 @ 1900 hrs Lot across from McDonald’s, Hwy 70 Clayton

Adopt-A-Highway Clean-up Committee (Ken Parker – Chair)

February 20, 2016 @ 0800 hrs Speedway Gas Station, Hwy 42 Clayton

Correspondence: Mid-Winter National Conference to be held in

Falls Church, VA. This will take place on 3rd, 4th, and 5th of March 2016.



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JoCo Marines

February 2016

Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat.

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7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Carry-On

Monthly

Meeting

Ash

Wednesday

American

Legion Post

71 Monthly

Meeting

GoodBusinessAward

Presentation

Lincoln’s

Birthday

Eagle Scout

Ceremony

Troop 33

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Valentine’s

Day!

JCVC

Meeting

President’s

Day

Adopt-A-

Highway

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Washington’s

Birthday

28 29



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1 February 1967: Operation Prairie II was begun in Quang Tri province by elements of the

3d Marine Division. During the 46-day search-and-destroy operation which terminated 18March, 93 Marines and 693 of the enemy 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 inthe Kwajalein Atoll.

6 February 1968: Two reduced Marine battalions, the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines with two

companies, and 2d 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: BGen John H. Russell was appointed U.S. High Commissioner and personal representative of the President to the government of Haiti. This nine-yearassignment placed this future Commandant in supreme command of both the occupying

American force and the Haitian Gendarmerie.

15 February 1998: One hundred years ago this date, 28 Marines and 232 seamen lost their

lives when the battleship MAINE was mysteriously sunk by an explosion in the harbor ofHavana, Cuba. Though no definitive evidence linked the Spanish with the sinking, the crywent 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 andHMM-363) accounted for 280 enemy killed.

23 February 1945: Four days after the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 1stLt Harold G. Schrierled 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 hadgiven Schrier. Within an hour, the patrol reached the rim of the crater. After a short fire-fightwith Japanese defenders emerging from several caves, the small American flag was attachedto an iron pipe and raised over the island.

24 February 1991: The I Marine Expeditionary Force and coalition forces began a groundassault 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 forcesattacked the Iraqi defenses in Iraq from behind. In 100 hours, U.S. and allied forces defeatedthe Iraqi Army.

28 February 1991: Operation Desert Storm ended when the cease- fire declared by PresidentGeorge Bush went into effect. I Marine Expeditionary Force has a strength of more than92,000 making Operation Desert Storm the largest Marine Corps operation in history. A totalof 24 Marines were killed in action during the Gulf War.



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Sick all

Please keep Cynthia Shaw in your thoughts and prayers as she is in and out of thehospital, and Marine Peavy’s wife is still having shortness of breath and sore neck.

He had emergency surgery on 26 December 2015 to remove his appendix.

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

Tom Barrie, John Bullock, George Gillespie, Robert Moore, Willard Pleasants, Gordon Young,

and Mark Wayne Williams.

Please keep the families of our Marine Brothers killed in the helicopter collision in Oahu, Hawaii

in your thoughts and prayers.

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