Det 4, Headquarters 4th Marine Division - Chicago Marines
"When an officer retires, their commission normally remains in force and effect forever. In return for the privilege of being legally entitled to being addressed by their military rank and getting all their retirement benefits, they basically remain an "officer of the United States" until death."
"That means that, if there is a recall, the officers can be brought back without an act of Congress or presidential recall"
You signed on forever. And most of us would willingly go back in if needed. Of course, at our age, if the nation needs, we are all in deep trouble.
We have been playing around with Artificial Intelligence generated poems. Here is a great one by AI and my friend Albert the Army Staff NCO. He and I frequently duel online about foreign wars, the military and politics. I liked the poem a lot, but as you will see it is a rich fantasy with the Army beating Marines.
But the other’s life had been betrayed
We need volunteers to plan our next reunion. Possible locations that we discussed (but no volunteers emerged to plan it) last week included.
Chicago - Great Lakes or Downtown or Suburban, with a one afternoon/evening join us at the bar get together with all the Marines we would like to see again who served with 2/24, MACG-48, or Joliet Arty, or any Marines that we would like to see that we track down.
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, Navy Gateway Inn offers newly renovated rooms in the historic Del Monte Hotel. Lovely building, great location. https://nps.edu/70-years-in-monterey
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Boston. The Mariners House - http://marinershouse.org/. Very good prices for retired Marines.
Affordable Luxury When You’re Anchored In Boston Mariners House offers a variety of rooms, including full and queen rooms and suites. Group rates are also available - please contact the Inn for details. (617) 227-3979 • In the heart of Boston's famous North End  All guests must show documented proof of active service or retired status after a full 20-year service in order to make reservations. 4 or 5 day Cruise Some examples of cruises below: Madison, Wisconsin Indianapolis - So we could see Doug Barney. Quantico, VA - They do a nice simple two nights of receptions at the Museum. Or? Whoever plans it, decides. Volunteers needed |
Tun Tavern was a tavern and brewery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was a founding or early meeting place for a number of notable groups. It is traditionally regarded as the site where what became the United States Marine Corps held its first recruitment drive during the American Revolution.[1] It is also regarded as one of the "birthplaces of Masonic teachings in America".[2]
The tavern was erected in 1686 at the intersection of King (later called Water) Street and Tun Alley by settler Joshua Carpenter, brother of Samuel Carpenter, a Quaker merchant who made a fortune trading in Barbados. Joshua Carpenter built the Tun on the carriageway that led to Carpenter's Wharf.[3] Tun Tavern was named for the Old English word "tun", meaning a barrel or keg of beer.[4] In the 1740s, a restaurant appellation, "Peggy Mullan's Red Hot Beef Steak Club" was added to the name of the tavern.[5]
Tun Tavern hosted the first meetings of a number of organizations. In 1720, the first meetings of the St. George's Society (a charitable organization founded to assist needy Englishmen arriving in the new colony—predecessor of today's Sons of the Society of St. George) were held there.[6] In 1732, the tavern hosted the first meetings of St. John's Lodge No. 1 of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic Temple. The Masonic Temple of Philadelphia recognizes Tun Tavern as the birthplace of Masonic teachings in America. In 1747, Tun Tavern became the founding place of the St. Andrew's Society, which like the St. George's Society, helped newly arrived Scots.
Tun Tavern was a significant meeting place for other groups and individuals. In 1756, Benjamin Franklin used the inn as a recruitment gathering point for the Pennsylvania militia as it prepared to fight Indian uprisings. The tavern later hosted a meeting of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress. In October 1775 a seven man Naval Committee including John Adams appointed by Congress crafted articles of war to build America's first naval fleet.
According to tradition, Tun Tavern was where the United States Marines held their first recruitment drive. On November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress commissioned the innkeeper and former Quaker Samuel Nicholas to raise two battalions of Marines in Philadelphia. The tavern’s manager, Robert Mullan, was the "chief Marine Recruiter". Though legend places its first recruiting post at Tun Tavern, the historian Edwin Simmons surmises that it was more likely the Conestoga Waggon [sic], a tavern owned by the Nicholas family. The first Continental Marine company was composed of one hundred Rhode Islanders commanded by Captain Nicholas. Each year on November 10, U.S. Marines worldwide toast the memory of this colonial inn as the officially-acknowledged birthplace of their service branch. The earliest Marines were deployed aboard Continental Congress Navy vessels as sharpshooters because they were typically recruited as outstanding marksmen.[2]
In 1781, near the end of the American Revolution, Tun Tavern burned down. Its former structure stood at a location now occupied by Interstate 95, where it passes Penn's Landing. Tun Alley once existed between Walnut and Chestnut Streets east of Front Street. A commemorative marker on the east side of Front Street indicates the site, across from Sansom Walk.[7]
In homage to the likely 1775 Tun Tavern menu, the U.S. Marine Corps National Museum located in Quantico, Virginia, contains a Tun Tavern-themed restaurant, whose lunch menu features beer and other fermented (alcoholic) beverages, peanut soup and bread pudding, the non-alcoholic recipe of which remains a traditional staple among some U.S. Marine food services to this day.
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Look what I found on FB, we talked about Tun Tavern at one of the 9pm Debriefings!
Joe Brooks
