NJ 206OFFICERS

2016 ~ 2017

William Freeman* Commandant

Thomas Miller*Senior Vice

Commandant

AnthonyFiorentino* Junior Vice

Commandant

Bob Stalzer* Judge Advocate

James Loizides Adjutant/Paymaster

Dan DanziChaplain

AnthonyOszmianski

Sergeant at Arms

Artie WilliamsQuartermaster

* = DetachmentTrustees

Welcome To Your OnLine Newsletter - Mar 2017 Volume #5 Issue 5

Links: Slattery Detachment 206 ~ Marines Care Foundation ~ Legacy of a Hero ~ Dept NJ MCL ~ MCL National This newsletter is interactive while online, highlighted links work & sometimes open a new screen. You can print each page separatelyor all, the page number is at top right of page. Officers & members wishing to post in the newsletter, please send info to Pete Gallo.

Feel free to forward this newsletter & web site. Editors: Don Patterson ~ Pete Gallo

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L/CPL Robert J. Slattery Marine Corps League, Detachment #206

Marines Care Foundation, Inc.,In Memory of L/CPL Chris Cosgrove, III

Whippany, New Jersey P.O. Box 566, West Caldwell, NJ 07007-0566 www.mclslatterydet.org

L/CPL Robert J. Slattery, Marine Corps League Det #206, NEWSLETTER, May 2017 - #1

2017 ScheduleDetachment monthly meetings 1st Wednesday of the month - starts 1930 ***UPSTAIRS HALL*** at Post#155 American Legion Home 13-23 Legion Place Whippany 07981 phone# 973- 884- 2494

May 3rd - meeting - 1930, Legion Home Whippany

May 13th - Marine Rose Event 0900-1400 at Lake Hopatcong Block Party

May 27th - 0730 - on, Flag placement veterans grave sites-at Gate of Heaven Cemetery: Meet at Post155 about 7:30AM for coffee and doughnuts, leave for the cemetery at 8:00 AM, hot dogs will be servedafter the placement.

May 29th - 7:00 - on, Monday Memorial Day Parade info: Breakfast at the Hanover Twp Rec Center 7:00to 8:15 AM. Ceremony at the Veterans Monument at the Town Campus at 8:30:AM. Parade forms up onEast Fairchild by the High School at 9:00:AM. It begins at 9:30 AM and ends at Post 155 for the service.After the service, hot dogs, ice cream, beer and soda will be served. uniform MCL Cover detachment redshirt black pants, black shoes

June 7th - meeting - 1930, Legion home Whippany

June 14th - at dusk - Flag retirement ceremony Legion Home (Flag day)

Jun 17th - 0800-1500, Marine Rose Event, Shoprite of West Caldwell

June 24th - 10 am-4 - Marine Rose Outing at Shop Rite Route 206, Chester.

June 24th - Detachment bimonthly coffee social at VA hospital community care center Lyons campus:Meet at Legion post 155 at 0900 to car pool to Lyons Campus leave Legion at 0930

July 5th - meeting - 1930, Legion home Whippany

July 27th - 11th annual LCPL Chris Cosgrove III Golf outing at Picatinny Arsenal

Aug 2nd - meeting - 1930, nomination of officers - Legion home Whippany

Sept 6th - meeting - 1930, election of officers - Legion home Whippany

Sept 10th - 0900-1500, Marine Rose event rain date is 17th at the Corvette Car Show - AnthonyFiorentino event Sgt.

Sept 24th - 0900-1500, Marine Rose event at the North Jersey Corvette Club car show (National Glass -Anthony Fiorentino event Sgt.

Oct 4th - installation of officers - 1900 Legion home Whippany yes at 1900 food served

Oct 28th - 10 am-4 - Marine Rose Outing at Shop Route 206, Chester.

Nov 1st - meeting - 1930, Nominations for Detachment Marine of the Year - Legion home Whippany

Nov 11th - Veterans day ceremony - 1100 meet at Legion Home Whippany at 1030

Dec 6th - meeting - 1930, Legion home Whippany

Dec 7th - 2000 Pearl Harbor day ceremony, Legion Home Whippany

Get 2017 Golf Flyer here: www.mclslatterydet.org/pdffiles/2017golf.pdf

L/CPL Robert J. Slattery, Marine Corps League Det #206, NEWSLETTER, May 2017 - #2

Veterans Job Fair

(L-R) GySgt. Mario Monaco (Ret), Marines Care Foundation President and Slattery Detachment Member,Robert Fraraccio, BAE Systems ES HR Talent Specialist, Juan Alvarez, BAE Systems ES HR Manager,Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, Christopher Vergano, Mayor of Wayne Township, Frank Ciminiello,BAE Systems ECS Engineering Director, Julie Pisano, BAE Systems ES HR Business Partner, RogerJohnson, BAE Systems ECS Engineering Director, Sgt. Dominick Monaco, Marines Care FoundationDirector and Slattery Detachment Member.

Thank you to the staff of US Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen and the over 35 participating membersfor a great and very helpful veterans job fair. We (Gunny Mario Monaco & Sgt Dominick Monaco)gave outthank you certs to all participating members

I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to attend this past Saturday’s Veterans Job Fair in PassaicCounty. I was proud to see the support of so many organizations like ours dedicated to hiring Veterans. Iam thankful for the opportunity to meet and speak with NJ Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen whoseguidance and commitment to our states Veterans sparked this great event and offered employment andhope to so many Veterans.

Thanks also to the men from the Marine Corps League. The Veterans I met were exactly the type ofcandidates we look for at Equinox - driven, motivated and passionate, and I look forward to speaking withthem and hopefully having them join our team.

Joe Keenan, Equinox Personal Training Recruiter, joseph.keenan@equinox.com

Wounded Marine with one Leg climbs Mt Everest. An Equinox trained Marine with multiple wounds fromAfghanistan and missing one leg climbed Mt Everest. Inspiring story and tribute to the skill andaccomplishments of Equinox trainers - the real deal and tops in the world! www.equinox.com/theheroesproject

Homeless Marine Veteran Provided with a place to live

The Community of Hope and Slattery Detachment combine resources to provide assistance to a homelessMarine veteran who had no place to live. Thankfully the Community of Hope was able to provide him witha place to live, but he would have to wait for it. He was staying at the Red Roof Inn on Route 46 inParsippany and he had no money to pay for the hotel room where he could stay while waiting for theplace to live:

After Commandant Freeman was notified about the Marine's need., he contacted other detachmentmembers and they then contacted a POC at the Community of Hope to verify. the Marine's need. Aftermuch deliberation a decision was made for the detachment to pay for the hotel room until the Marinemoved into the place provided by the Community of hope. A check for $750 was was paid directly to thehotel. Hopefully this assistance for the homeless Marine will get him back on his feet.

L/CPL Robert J. Slattery, Marine Corps League Det #206, NEWSLETTER, May 2017 - #3

ATTENTION ON DECK Attention Marines who served at Camp Lejeune, Important V A Information! Ref: Water!

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) finalized a new rule on 13 January 2017 to consider eight diseases aspresumptive for service connection. This presumptive service connection provides VA disability benefits forveterans who have one of eight diseases and have served for 30 days or longer (consecutive ornonconsecutive) on permanent or temporary duty at Camp Lejeune, NC between 1 August 1953 and 31December 1987. The eight diseases covered under the new rule are: adult leukemia; aplastic anemia andother myelodysplastic syndromes; bladder cancer; kidney cancer; liver cancer; multiple myeloma; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; and Parkinson's disease.

This Month in USMC History

MAY 2 May 1946: Marines from Treasure Island Marine Barracks, under the command of Warrant OfficerCharles L. Buckner, aided in suppressing the three-day prison riot at Alcatraz Penitentiary in SanFrancisco Bay. WO Buckner, a veteran of the Bougainville and Guam campaigns, ably led his force ofMarines without suffering a single casualty. 5 May 1983: In Beirut, Lebanon, a UH-1N helicopter carrying the commander of the American peace-keeping force, Colonel James Mead, was hit by machine gun fire. The six Marines aboard escaped injury.Colonel Mead and his crew had taken off in the helicopter to investigate artillery and rocket duels betweenrival Syrian-backed Druze Moslem militiamen and Christian Phalangists that endangered French membersof the multinational force. 8 May 1995: In the wake of the most devastating storm to hit the New Orleans area in more than 200years, a group of Marines and sailors from Marine Forces Reserve demonstrated the quick responsesynonymous with the Navy/Marine Corps team. Within 24 hours of being called, Marines assisted in theevacuation of 2,500 civilians, and Navy corpsmen treated scores of flood victims. 10 May 1945: The 22d Marines, 6th Marine Division, executed a pre-dawn attack south across the AsaRiver Estuary and seized a bridgehead from which to continue the attack toward Naha, the capital ofOkinawa. 15 May 1862: Corporal John Mackie, the first Marine to earn the Medal of Honor, was commended forservice in the USS GALENA during action against Confederate shore batteries at Drewry's Bluff whichblocked the James River approaches to Richmond. 16 May 1945: The 22d and 29th Marines continued the attack against Half Moon Hill, a day characterizedby the 6th Marine Division as the "bitterest" of the Okinawa campaign. By the 18th, the famed "Shuri line"had been broached. 22 May 1912: First Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine officer to be assigned to "duty inconnection with aviation" by Major General Commandant William P. Biddle, reported for aviation training atthe Naval Aviation Camp at Annapolis, Maryland, and Marine aviation had its official beginning. 23 May 1988: The V-22 Osprey, the world's first production tilt-rotor aircraft, made its debut during rolloutceremonies at Bell Helicopter Textron's Arlington, Texas, facility. More than 1,000 representatives from themilitary, industry, and media, gathered to hear various speakers, including Gen Alfred Gray, Commandantof the Marine Corps, praise the versatile rotor craft designed to meet the needs of 21st Centurybattlefields. 26 May 1969: Operation Pipestone Canyon began when the 1st Battalion, 26th Marines and 3d Battalion,5th Marines began sweeps in the Dodge City/Go Noi areas southwest of Da Nang. It terminated at the endof June with 610 enemy killed in action at a cost of 34 Marines killed. 29 May 1991: Elements of a joint task force that included the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade departedthe Bay of Bengal off the coast of Bangladesh after nearly two weeks of disaster relief operations followinga devastating cyclone. The joint task force delivered tons of relief supplies using helicopters, C-130s, andlanding craft in Operation Sea Angel.

L/CPL Robert J. Slattery, Marine Corps League Det #206, NEWSLETTER, May 2017 - #4

Memorial Day Weekend - Two Important Detachment events -"Your Participation is Requested"

1. Flag placement on veterans grave sites at Gate of Heaven Cemetery- Saturday May 27. Meet at Post155 about 7:30:AM for coffee and doughnuts, leave for the cemetery at 8:00:AM, hot dogs will be servedafter the placement.

2. Memorial Day Parade - Monday May 29. Breakfast at the Hanover Twp Rec Center 7:00 to 8:15 AM.Ceremony at the Veterans Monument at the Town Campus at 8:30:AM. Parade forms up on East Fairchildby the High School at 9:00:AM. It begins at 9:30 AM and ends at Post 155 for the service. After theservice, hot dogs, ice cream, beer and soda will be served.

Uniform of the day MCL Cover detachment red shirt, blk trousers blk shoes. Meet at the Hanover TwpRec Center* enjoy the great breakfast prepared by the volunteer food detail.

3. The American Legion is the lead veterans group this year, the VFW is 2018 and the Marine CorpsLeague is 2019.

YOUR DETACHMENT CONTINUES ITS SUPPORT OUR VETERANS

THE SLATTERY DETACHMENT March monthly donations in collaboration with Family & Friends forFreedom fund!

Resulted in sending donations in various amounts for a total of $8000 directly to 5 different woundedwarriors and their families. We have been working together as a team supporting our wounded warriorssince 2012 and Slattery detachment MCL has committed to continue our monthly donations in 2017.

Eagle Scout event troop 3 Caldwell NJCongrats Joseph Salvanto great job

L/CPL Robert J. Slattery, Marine Corps League Det #206, NEWSLETTER, May 2017 - #5

ATTENTION ON DECK - Volunteers Needed!

The detachments Marine RoseFundraising events will be startingsoon. The dates & locations areposted on the Detachment web sitefront page, under Quik Links. Clickon Events Schedule & you will alsofind the dates & locations on page 1of the newsletter.

Volunteers are welcome, the fundscollected helps to maintain our veteran programs & bi-monthly coffee socials for the 40-60 inpatientveterans at the community care center Lyons Campus. Also the Marine Rose fund donates $500 monthlydirectly to a wounded warrior who is requesting financial assistance. So just 2/3 hours of your time meansmore donations can be collected. It is a fact that more members at the location, the more donationscollected. Add a couple of dates to your calendar volunteer and join your fellow Marines. S/F Pete

Congratulations to the New grandparents Keith & Monica Butleras they welcome home their granddaughter AubreyJune Decker

For those of you who have not heard, our oldestdaughter Rachel Decker (the teacher) and herhusband Brett are the proud parents of a baby girl.

Aubrey June Decker was born on March 23rd, 2017at 18:59 hours at 7.1 lbs, 19".

Obviously, Monica and I are elated beyond belief.Baby and parents came home on Sunday andeverything is fine with the world.

For those of you who sent congratulations, I haven'thad much time to respond; THANK YOU!!!(...specifically, Pete!!!)

*IMPORTANT DETACHMENT EVENT*

*IMPORTANT DETACHMENT EVENT* put this date on your calendar

July 27th - 11th annual LCPL Chris Cosgrove III Golf outing at Picatinny Arsenal

www.mclslatterydet.org/pdffiles/2017golf.pdf

L/CPL Robert J. Slattery, Marine Corps League Det #206, NEWSLETTER, May 2017 - #6

Making of a Hollywood Marine

MCRD San Diego. MCRD - Marine Corps Recruit Depot. Believe me the name tells you nothing. MCRDSan Diego is located next to Linberg Field (now, San Diego International Airport), the airport for San Diego.Our Quonset Huts were located almost next to the fence that separated us from them. You could also seean outdoor drive-in theater. Knowing freedom was just a jump over an 8 foot tall fence did not help thesituation any one bit. Many a scared young man jumped that fence.

We lived in Quonset huts. The restrooms (heads), were in another Quonset hut. 2 huts for 60 men plusone head. It never gets cold in San Diego. Right! Sleeping in the huts wasn't all that bad because you werejust to tired to care. Believe me, sleep was not a problem. Getting up at 5:00am was.

At 3:30am, a plane would take off from Linberg which worked to my advantage. We had bunkbeds and mybunkmate was Richie also from Wisconsin. After the first week of being smacked around for not having ourbunks squared away and/or falling out on time dressed, I decided to equal the playing field. I heard the Jetleave at 3:30, and got Richie up. We got dressed except for the boots and tops, then made our bunksexcept for the fart sacks and hopped back in covering up with the fart sacks. When the DI quietly said,“Platoon 285 on the road in 10 minutes.” we were only 5 minutes from done. Tighten up the bunk, put thefart sack on and slip into our boots and lace up. He tried to catch us by coming in at 4am with a flashlightbut never did figure out how we did it and we never told them.

You spend a lot of time just marching. Marching to the mess-hall. Marching to classes. Marching to the trailfor the 3-mile run. Marching to the parade-field so you could learn how to properly march. The parade-fieldwas and still is a very large area of black-top. The parade-field is surrounded on all sides by offices andliving quarters of the Depot staff.

You were the property of the drill instructors - called “DIs”. Each platoon had three. Larry, Moe and Curly.No really, these were dedicated Marines. The problem is that after all these years I have could never forgettheir names.

The oldest and most senior was a staff-sergeant who saw action in Korea. S/Sgt. Aloia was his name. Niceguy at the end but by then it didn’t really matter as we would never see him again. He was a very imposingguy, short but imposing. Scary. If he said, “Jump!” You went up and didn't bother to ask how high. He'd letyou know.

Next in line was a sergeant. He was a tall and lanky Marine. Sgt. Barker and he gave the appearance ofbeing a total, squared away Marine but also a push-over. If you thought he was a push-over then you weregoing to regret that opinion. He and Aloia ran the platoon like a precision Swiss watch.

The third DI was a “looney-toon”. He was a buck-sergeant with no combat experience. Sgt. Peyton - notmy idea of what a Marine should have been. A bit over weight and frumpy. His dream was to get intocombat himself and get the Medal of Honor. Considering the Vietnam War was just beginning I'm sure hehad his chance, but I doubt he ever got past being wounded.

After the fourth week we were blessed by gaining a gunny-sergeant (the 4th DI) who was totally worthless.Gunny Smoot was his name and a Marine he wasn’t. He would later go on to work on staff at the MarineHigh School in Texas.

We had a crazy group who ran the list from Montana country boy to hot-shot from Chicago (he peeved meoff and I stuck his head in one of our wash buckets we used for seats. We had a very rich guy from Kansaswho owned a meat-packing company and a poor black guy from Mississippi. Yes, we had a mixture. If wehave room in a future newsletter, I’ll tell you more about boot-camp.

FEATURE ARTICLE BY TOM MILLER

Continued Next Page...

L/CPL Robert J. Slattery, Marine Corps League Det #206, NEWSLETTER, May 2017 - #7

Making of a Hollywood Marine Continued

After the second week I was “promoted” to be the Head of the Head Detail. Three of us cleaning the DIsHead. Well it seems one day I really had to take a “sit-down.” And no sooner did I take down my skivviesand plop down but the door swung open and there stood S/Sgt Aloia. I don’t have to tell you what happennext but, “Down and give me 50.” would have been easy. After the first week of the “sh-- detail” he startedto pick on others. I learned from that, the DIs can hear you at any place at any time.

My most memorable experiences were on forced 3-mile runs. One was at the rifle range at CampMathews in La Jolla, Ca.. We were running along in platoon formation when as we passed another groupthe DI (I think it was Barker) yelled, “Get them.” the entire platoon broke formation and started kicking thecrap out of the outer platoon. After a few seconds he again yelled, “285, fall-in and resume running.” Ithought it was pretty shitty to do that but, just following orders. Another time at MCRD San Diego, maybe aweek or two later we were on another 3 miler when we went down this dirt path and hid behind a large hillnear the fence between MCRD and the Naval Recruit Depot. We waited about 15 minutes and alongcomes a group of recruit boots. They got right next to the hill on the other side of the fence and our DIyelled, “Get them.” Well those Navy boots never knew what hit them - rocks, dirt chunks and anything wecould pick up went flying. Another “shake-your-head” day.

We finally graduated and off we went to ITR (Infantry Train Regiment) up the coast. Strange things theretoo but much easier to handle.

Never did make PFC on time as They knew I was doing things after the “Head’s Head” but never couldcatch me.

FEATURE ARTICLE BY TOM MILLER

K-9 Kids

The LincolnElementary School5th grade classfrom Nutley NJand the Townshipof Nutley NJCommissionerSteven L. Rogers,put together“operation kids forK-9‘s”. Mrs.Martin's 5th gradeclass sponsored aschool wideinitiative to collectvarious items formilitary dogsserving overseas.All items collectedare going to K9Soldiers “JT” helpmilitary dogsoverseas and in United States. Sgt Monaco Commissioner Steven L. Rogers of Nutley NJ Gunny Monaco& kids from Lincoln Elementary School from Nutley NJ

L/CPL Robert J. Slattery, Marine Corps League Det #206, NEWSLETTER, May 2017 - #8

Welcome Aboard

Welcome aboard to 2 new members who joined the Slattery Detachment at the April meeting1. Sam Trimble 2. Joseph Clayton Joe is currently on active duty with Golf Co. Picatinny

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