Department of North Carolina Marine Corps League



The Alleghany Leatherneck

The Walter Frank Osborne, Jr. Detachment 1298

Marine Corps League

PO Box 1298

Sparta, NC 28675

Newsletter

MGySgt John U. Irwin Jr., USMC (Ret) Editor

February 28, 2016

Coming Events:

Memorial Day Ceremony and Parade

Scholarship Presentation

Birthdays!!

March

John Irwin, March 3/10/49

April

Robert Overbay 4/1/43 Dan Buckle III 4/2/64

Community Service

Dec 27th to Jan 8th, Raised $1231 and obtained RV to transport and pay cost for Church Family to attend their son’s graduation at PISC. Mr. Church was disabled and could only travel reclined. RV donated for the trip and paid all expenses for the family 1 Marine x 18hrs = 18 hrs.

Jan 6th, visited WM Capt. Carol Pollack at Forsyth Hospital, Winston-Salem, NC

2 Marines x 3hrs. – 6hrs.

Jan 8th, participated in the funeral for veteran Billy Nilo 3 Marines x 2 hrs. = 6hrs

Jan8th, participated in the graduation of Pvt H.L. Church, PISC 1 Marine x 12 hrs. = 12 hrs.

Jan 13th, attended the funeral for former Commandant Lonnie Hollar, Table Rock Detachment 1197, 2 Marines x 6 hrs. = 12 hrs.

Jan 14th, attended the funeral for WWII veteran Leo Thompkins, 2 Marines x 2 hrs. = 4 hrs.

Jan 17th, drove Marine to bus station in Winston-Salem to catch bus to IRT, 1 Marine x 6 hrs. = 6hrs.

Jan 21st, participated in the funeral for WWII veteran Ray Vaughn Smith Jr. 5 Marines x 1 hr. = 5hrs.

Jan 23rd, shoveled snow from driveway of Marine Korean War Vet 1 Marine x 1hr = 1hr.

Jan 24th, cleared snow from disabled Marines driveway 1 Marine x 2hrs. = 2hrs.

Jan 24th, cleared snow from terminally ill Marines driveway and four others 1 Marine x 5 hrs. = 10 hrs.

Jan 28th, participated in viewing and flag presentation for LtCol. Stanley C. Stkrobialowski USMC (Ret) 5 Marines x 3 hrs. = 15hrs.

Jan 29th, attended the funeral Mass for LtCol. Stanley C. Stkrobialowski USMC (Ret) 2 Marines x 2 hrs. = 4hrs.

Feb 6th, attended the funeral for USAF retiree Jerry Farley funeral, 2 Marines x 1.5 hrs. – 3hrs.

Feb 10th, attended the funeral for WWII veteran Clay Crouse, 4 Marines x 1.5 hrs. = 6hrs.

Feb 13th, attended the funeral for WWII veteran, William F. Maines, 4 Marines x 1.5 hrs. = 6hrs.

Feb 13th, attended the funeral for Vietnam veteran, Roy Rector, 4 Marines x 1.5 hrs. = 6 hrs.

Total Hours 122

Total Funds: $1231

Selected February Dates of Marine Corps Historical Significance

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 18 March, 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 in the 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-year assignment 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 of Havana, Cuba. Though no definitive evidence linked the Spanish with the sinking, the cry went 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 1/4 and HMM-363) accounted for 280 enemy killed.

 

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

 

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

 

28 February 1991: Operation Desert Storm ended when the cease- fire declared by President George Bush went into effect. I Marine Expeditionary Force has a strength of more than 92,000 making Operation Desert Storm the largest Marine Corps operation in history .A total of 24 Marines were killed in action during the Gulf War.

Next Meeting will be March 10th!!!

 

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Minutes

With a quorum present (8) the Detachment 1298 monthly meeting was called to order at 1830 hours. Present for the meeting were:

Dan Buckle Jr, Suzanne Irwin, Carole Fisher, Brenda and John Irwin, Robert & Lois Overbay and Wes Brinegar.

Applications for Membership: None

Minutes of Previous Meeting: Approved unanimously

Correspondence: Thank you from Christ Episcopal Church, Church family, 1st Reindeer Division and Alleghany Educational Foundation.

Report of the Paymaster: John Irwin.

General Funds: See Attached Paymasters report

Report of Sick or Distressed: Bill Crosby, cancer is in good spirits.

Report of Officers: None

Report of Standing Committees:

Ball: John Irwin Chairman: No Report

Veterans Visitation: S. L. Walden Chairman, No Report

Float: Bryan Pugh, Chairman: No Report

Scholarship: John Irwin Chairman: No Report

Report of Special Committees:

Election Committee: No report

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: John Irwin reported that our Alleghany Cares Day will be the second Saturday in August.

Good of the League. Ms. Carole Fisher was presented a Certificate of Appreciation for her service as the Chairwoman of the Ball Committee for 2014 and 2015. Well deserved.

Commandant’s Corner:

We have had a very busy February with rendering of honors at eleven veteran’s funerals. Also, we unfortunately lost one of our own life members, Lieutenant Colonel Stanley C. Skrobialowski, Sr. on January 22, 2016 and we rendered honors to him at Ashlawn Memorial Chapel and St. Franicis of Assi Catholic Church. Lois and I represented our detachment in Hickory at the funeral of Lonnie Hollar, former Commandant of the Table Rock Detachment, and Senior Vice-Commandant MGySgt John U. Irwin, USMC (retired) and I represented our detachment at the funeral of Bob Efird’s wife Mary Louise Efird. Bob is a member of the High Country detachment and has been on several honor guard details with us. I would like to thank everyone who braved the miserably cold, blustery weather to render honors to all of those mentioned. Thank you all for being a member of Detachment 1298. Semper Fi!!! Robert W. Overbay

Officers:

Commandant: Present

Robert Overbay

336 372 4649

Senior Vice Commandant:

Present

John U. Irwin Jr.

336 372 7009

Junior Vice Commandant:

Absent

Joe Hornung

336 657 8711

Judge Advocate:

Absent

Wade “Bobby” Irwin

336 372 4401

Junior Past Commandant:

Present

John U. Irwin Jr.

336 372 7009

Senior Past Commandant:

Present

David W. Brinegar

Adjutant/Paymaster:

Present

John U. Irwin Jr.

336 372 7009

Chaplain: Absent

Joe Hornung

336 657 8711

Sergeant at Arms: Present

David W. Brinegar

336 372 8749

Renewal Notices:

March

John Wishon

April

Dan Buckle III Evans Ralston

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