Author: LukeDouglas

Townsend Detachment members, families and friends placed over 500 flags on USMC veteran’s grave in the River Region over the Memorial Day Weekend {gallery}gallery/2018/2018-05-28-memorial-day-flags:200:150:0:0{/gallery}

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Townsend Detachment members attended and participated in the POW/MIA ceremonies at the Alabama State Capital Building on Saturday, September 16, 2017. Alabama remembers those service members who have not returned and those who were held as Prisoners of War in an Annual Remembrance ceremony. This year’s Guest Speaker was Michael Durant, a COBRA pilot shot down and held captive…

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Townsend Detachment hosted a Welcome Aboard Party for Marines newly assigned to the Air Force staff colleges aboard Maxwell Air Force base. Twenty-seven members of the detachment along with 20 spouses and family members prepared and hosted the event, which included a picnic lunch, door prizes for the Marines, their wives and children, and games for the children. Twenty-four…

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Townsend Detachment has instituted a Mentor program to assist new members to assimilate into the detachment. When a Marine or potential associate member indicates an interest in joining the detachment, they are assigned a Member Mentor, usually the member who recruited them. The Mentor presents the candidate for membership to the detachment. The mentor will provide and explain to…

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Townsend Detachment members and their spouses, Nancy Burtron; Richard and Linda Davis; Paul & Janet Williamson; Dick and Sharon McClain; Chuck Moore; Todd Kemper; Jim Fulks; Don and Karen Fisher; Patsy Brookshire; attended and represented the Townsend Detachment at the Department of Alabama annual convention in Dothan Alabama. Townsend Member Don Fisher has just completed his term as Department…

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