Department of North Carolina
Marine Corps League
Happy Birthday Marines from the Department of North Carolina Marine Corps League. On our 234th birthday of our beloved Marine Corps I want to take the opportunity to congratulate each and every one of you on a job well done. The Department of North Carolina Marine Corps League is a leading Department in the National Marine Corps League and we are upholding the mission and purposes of our League in all we do.
Your Commandant has been visiting many Detachments across this great State and every where I go I am impressed with the amount and level of service provided by our Detachments to our veterans, our active duty Marines and the citizens in our communities. We are so privileged to be Marines and we are living up to our motto of “Semper Fidelis”. Being a member of the Marine Corps League has given this Marine a sense of purpose in life and a mission to perform for God, Country and Corps, the League and the Marine Corps has been and still is a blessing to us all.
I know many of you will be celebrating our birthday in fine fashion and I wish I could be with all of you to participate. I plan on attending the Birthday Balls in Lenoir , the John E Ferguson Det 1208 on Friday 6 Nov; the Iredell County Det 1097 on Saturday 7 Nov at 1800hrs in Mooresville; the Capt Jeb Seagle Det 1265 on Saturday 7 Nov at 1930hrs; and the Table Rock Det 1197 on Saturday 14 Nov in Morganton at 1800hrs. Please feel free to join me if you don’t have a Ball to attend.
Marines as we move forward this year we have many exciting events on the horizon. The National Marine Corps League Convention will be hosted by the Greater Greensboro Detachment 260 in Greensboro in August; The Department of North Carolina Convention will be hosted by the Tar Heel Detachment 733 in Raleigh in June; and we have Quarterly meetings in January and April. All of these events give us an opportunity for fellowship, business and a chance to share our experiences as we go about our mission in the Detachment areas of operations. I look forward to seeing each of you at one or more of these functions.
Finally I want to thank all of you for allowing this Marine to serve as your Commandant; it is an honor and a privilege that I will be forever grateful. Semper Fidelis,
Dennis A Brockland
Commandant
Department of North Carolina
Marine Corps League