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Happy 236th Birthday Marines!

Happy 236th Birthday Marines!

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From Col Casey, President MCTA:

Fellow Tankers and Marines, we celebrate this 236th birthday of our beloved corps knowing that through the MCTA we are in association with the finest, the extended family of Marine Tankers. I wish you all well and a happy birthday and look forward to our next reunion. Nothing stops us. Neighter earthquake nor hurricane. We roll on and in the path of our tracks a new ..read more

2nd Tank BN Marine Corps Birthday Ball

Gentlemen,

On behalf of Lt Col Schaar, the Commanding Officer of 2d Tank Bn, we would like to extend this initial email invitation to join 2d Tank Bn in celebration of the Marine Corps birthday at our ball in Myrtle Beach on 12 November beginning at 1800.

Tickets are priced at $50.00 per person and can be purchased here at 2d Tank Bn (POC: 1stLt Gasper, email: andrew.gasper1@usmc.mil and at 910-451-6342 or cell 404-906-1022).  Lt Gasper will be able to ..read more

WWII & Korea Photos (Sgt Hazlett)

Photos submitted to the MCTA through John Bartusevics, Sr:

“Col.Casey,one of my friends sent me this e-mail of his father who passed away.He was a Marine Tanker in the Battle of Okinawa and later in Korea and has some pictures of those days.Sgt Hazlett is in them with his Marine friends.If you could make these available to the USMC Tankers Association,i’m sure someone will recognize him or someone in the pictures.SEMPER FI.”

Gerald “Jerry” Anderson passes

ANDERSON, GERALD E. “JERRY” Gerald E. “Jerry” Anderson 1st SGT USMCR (Ret) born in Minneapolis, Minn. February 3, 1933. He was a combat veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars and a retired L.T. of the SDPD. Jerry was actively involved in the Marine Corp. Tankers Assoc., the MCRD Museum Historical Society and the VFW Post #3788. In addition, he was also a member of the Elks Club #1812, El Cajon. Jerry was a devoted husband, father and grandfather. He passed away August ..read more

Kidney Donation from Deceased Marine Saves a Soldier’s Life

A year after Sgt. Jacob Chadwick, 23, was deployed to Iraq with Regimental Combat Team 1, he returned to his home in San Marcos, Calif., only to suffer blinding, week-long headaches: the first sign of his failing kidneys.

Last Sunday, Chadwick underwent a four-and-a-half hour kidney transplant that saved his life. His kidney donor was a fellow soldier, 24-year-old Lt. Patrick Wayland from Midland, Texas, who went into cardiac arrest on Aug. 1 at Pensacola Naval Air Station in ..read more

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