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John Basilone Detachment #190 Marine Corps League
Detachment Bi-Monthly Newsletter
From the Editor
Quite a few notices this time: The NJ state MCL convention is coming up in Atlantic City June 13, 14 & 15. If anyone wants to go but is hesitating because of the $99 per night room cost, I am looking for someone to share a room and split the cost with - my origi-nal room-sharing plans didn’t work out. If you need a registration form let me know and I will get one to you. Our next meeting is May 6 and will be held at the Menlo Park Veterans Home. The June meeting will be on June 3 in Milltown. Come on out if you can make it. Our state commandant sent out a notice recently stating that the May NJ Staff meeting (May 19 at 12 noon) will be held this one time at the VFW, Post 4703, 54 Magnolia Dr, Jackson, NJ 08527. Anyone who would like to join Ed Sphatt and other members at the New Brunswick/Highland Park Memorial Day Parade on May 27 are invited to do so. Streets in HP will be dedicated to 2 HP residents killed in Vietnam. This has been a project of Ed’s and all who are able to make it are encouraged to join us at 10:30 AM in New Brunswick. If you still need scholarship applications for children/grand children let me know and I will help you get them. The new membership application is included on pages 5 & 6. Go out and get some new members. Basilone Bowl info and flyer is on page 7. A lot of information (some of it noted above) comes from our state MCL officers and gets distributed by email to Basilone members who have email. If you have email and do not get this info (mostly from me) that means we don’t have your correct email address. If you don’t have email do you have someone who does who could receive email and pass the info on to you? Send me any email addresses, corrections or comments.
Semper Fi, Jim Velcheck
Volume 11 Issue 3 May 1, 2013 Mel Meszaros Commandant May/June 2013 Newsletter Jim Velcheck Editor
Detachment Web Site: www.johnbasilonedetachment.org Detachment E-Mail: [email protected]
NJ MCL Web Site: www.njmcl.org National MCL Web Site: www.mcleague.com
Editor Jim Velcheck: 732-752-6358; [email protected] 1722 W. 4th St, Piscataway, NJ 08854
MEETINGS ARE HELD THE FIRST (1ST) MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH AT THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 25, MILLTOWN, NEW JERSEY AT 1930 HRS
From the Membership Officer: There are quite a few of our members whose dues are due or overdue. Your NJ MCL plates could be in jeopardy.
Any corrections or questions please contact me: John Heacock, Membership Officer
Email [email protected] Phone 609/924-0074 Semper/Fi
Support Our Corporate Sponsors; see page 8. Thank them for their support when you use them
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Officers and Staff November 2012 - November 2013
Commandant:…………. Mel Meszaros 732-718-6460 Sr. Vice Com:……….... Rudy Persaud 908-783-7325 Jr. Vice Com:………..Vincent Schlesier 732-710-0418 Judge Advocate: ..........Jim Velcheck 732-752-6358 Adjutant:…………………... Fred Billand 848-218-6638 Paymaster:……………….John Heacock 609-924-0074 Chaplain:…………………. Stan Szumel 732-752-3846 Sgt. At Arms:………........... Gil Castro 732-248-1915 Food For The Needy: . Harriet Sosley 732-469-0005 Membership: ………….. John Heacock 609-924-0074 Honor Guard: ……….... Mel Meszaros 732-718-6460 VAS Officer: ……....... John Heacock 609-924-0074 Fund Drives: ………...... Stan Szumel 732-752-3846 Ed Sphatt 732-247-5792 Phone Squad:……. Vincent Schlesier 732-710-0418 Quartermaster:…... Norm Bloomfield 609-409-1110 Aide De Camp:……...… Ruth Lincoln Menlo Park Eagle Scouts…... Ray Skarzynski, PC 732-257-4582 Web Sergeants:………... Cliff Walling 732-613-0441 Doug Rattazzi 609-296-2345 Newsletter:……….….... Jim Velcheck 732-752-6358
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
If your birthday and/or anniversary does not appear here when it should it means we don’t have your info. Call or email it to me (732-752-6358 or [email protected]) or give it to me at a meeting.
Honor Guard Report Our Honor Guard has performed ceremonies in Edi-son: a flag retirement at Menlo Park Veterans Home and honoring the 10 year dedication of the CCC monument and the Meszaros family at Roosevelt Park. The Honor Guard will be performing in the So. Amboy (May 25, 12:30 PM), Metuchen (May 27, 9:00 AM) and New Brunswick/Highland Park (May 27, 10:30 AM) Memorial Day Parades. Honor Guard: May 19 (Memorial Day) and June 9 (Flag Day) Middlesex County ceremonies at Roose-velt Park; 1:30 muster both days. Come on out. Ten members and spouses attended the luncheon at The Pines for Menlo Park Veterans Home. The Honor Guard posted colors. Anyone who needs flags and/or grave markers can contact me. I will be picking them up from Middlesex County on May 13 and 14. It has been my honor to lead the John Basilone Honor Guard. I have retired my post and Mel Meszaros has assumed command. Former H/C Guard Capt. Norm Bloomfield
The last chance to nominate your choice for Marine of the Year will be at the May meeting. This year’s recipi-ent of the award will then be announced. Come on out and nominate your choice! At the fundraiser on April 19 twelve members put in a total of 66 hours and collected $1200. Good job by Ed and Stan and all members who participated. Please mark your calendars and plan to come out for fundraisers at Shop Rites in Spotswood (May 18, Armed Forces Day, 9:00-5:00), Hamilton (June 7) and Sayreville (June 14). Call Ed or Stan for specific info. Help is always appreciated at Menlo Park bingo (May 9 & June 13) and sing alongs (May 20 & June 17). May 5 is the motorcycle run sponsored by the Edison Elks. Contact Mel for info. Our thanks to Norm Bloomfield for his excellent leader-ship of the John Basilone Honor Guard. I have as-sumed command upon Norm’s retirement from the post. Commandant's motivational message: "God gives each and every one of us a special "gift'....It is up to each and every one of us to find that 'gift' and use it to our fullest potential ". S/F, M. Meszaros
Commandant’s Report
Nyles Thorne May 4 John Zilinski May 5 Robert Hockenbury May 5 Gary Wistuba May 6 Ruth McArthur May 7 Ralph Lauro May 13 Kermit Levine May 18 Ray Quesnel May 23
Andrew Domanski May 24 Ski Makowski May 29 Ralph Meade May 30 John Donnelly June 8 Lou Zullo June 10 James Smith June 13 Wes Beers June 22 Robert Weiss June 28
Michael & Sue Gianetti May 1 Donald Murphy & Wife May 7 Charles & Eileen Behme May 18 Joe & Lucille Duh May 21 Joe & Rosanne Perrone May 24 Al & Elaine Cirelliy May 27 Gil & Narda Castro May 30 John & Irene Nemetz May 31 Robert & Lynn McCall June 1 Robert & Terry Gardiner June 14 Thomas & Michele Farrell June 16 Stan & Joy Szumel June 25 John & Mickey Pfeiffer June 26
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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For Spring Break the last few years we have been taking the 3 older grand kids on a trip to get them out of the house for a while. This year we went to Richmond, VA and stopped at the Marine Corps Museum for a couple hours on the way down. This is a picture of them entering the Hill 881 South mockup that you enter through this helicopter. It was an amazing experience to have my grand kids arrive on this Hill 881 South the same way I had arrived on the real Hill 881 South in 1968 in Vietnam. If you ever have the chance, take some young relatives to the museum and show them about your time in The Corps. (Photo by the Editor)
John Basilone Honor Guard Flag Retirement Ceremony conducted by the Elks at Menlo Park Veter-ans Home. Our Honor Guard also performed at a ceremony honoring the 10 year anniversary of the dedication of the Civilian Conservation Corps monument at Roosevelt Park. The monument had been erected by the efforts of Commandant Meszaros’ father. Check out videos of these events at http://www.edisonnj.org/edison_tv/latest_videos.php. (Photo by Marge Heacock)
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Dressed in their desert camouflage uniforms the six Marine four-star generals share coffee in the Home of the Commandants in Washington, D.C., April 19, 2013. From left to right:John F. Kelly, James N. Mattis, Joseph F. Dunford, James F. Amos, John R. Allen, and John M. Paxton Jr. (U.S. Marine Corps photo illus-tration by Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans)
The Marine Corps is the military service that keeps the smallest ratio of brass to troops. But for a brief moment —actually only until Wednesday—there are, for the first time, six four-star generals in the Corps. Earlier this month [April 19], the officers gathered at the Home of the Commandants at the Marine Barracks Washington, the only time six active-duty four star generals have gath-ered together, according to the service. Except for a handful of five-star admirals and gen-erals in American history, four-stars is the highest attainable rank in the military. And for the Marines it is unusual to have four or five, much less six. The Corps thinks of the gathering as historic. But for the generals, the April get-together was simply a reunion of a group of men who have worked with each other and off for four decades. The Marine Corps can count on having two four stars at any one time: the commandant, currently Gen. James Amos, and the assistant commandant, currently Gen. John Pax-ton. In addition, the Marines currently have four joint force billets: the current and former Afghanistan commanders, Gen. Joseph Dunford and Gen. John Allen, the head of South-ern Command, Gen.John Kelly, and the former head of Central Command, Gen. Mattis. With Gen. Mattis due to take off his uniform in June and Gen. Allen formally retiring this week, the time of six four stars won’t last long. And with the entire military poised to shrink with continuing budget cuts, it may not happen again for a long while.
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Plans for the first ever Basilone Bowl are progressing well. Articles have appeared in local papers ‐ see links below. The first link below is to a recording of a WCTC radio interview about the Basilone Bowl that was broadcast last week.
http://www.wctcam.com/BertPodcasts.aspx
Here are the links to newspaper articles about the bowl:
http://bridgewater.patch.com/articles/marine‐corps‐county‐holding‐first‐ever‐basilone‐bowl
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201304231924/NJNEWS/304230055
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