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MCA Marine Week Dinner

June 23, 2011 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Millenium Hotel St. Louis, MO

During the week of 20-24 June 2011, the Marines invaded the city of St. Louis, Missouri as a public outreach venture to generate good will and popular support. Marines roamed the city in uniform, meeting the populace and also staged extensive equipment displays of the major ground and air weapons systems, communications equipment, logistics gear and a lot more to generate interest and had Marines on hand at each display to brief the public on capabilities and functioning.

The Marine Corps Association was on hand to support the event as well and staged the second annual MCA Marine Week Dinner on Thursday, 23 June at the Millennium Hotel near the Freedom Arch in downtown St. Louis featuring LtGen Robert E. Milstead, Jr., Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs as the guest speaker.

Here are some photos of the dinner event and equipment displays around the city:

MCA Marine Week Dinner Photos:


Dinner guests at no-host reception


The band and color guard supporting the dinner event


MCA’s West Coast Area Rep – SgtMaj Frank Pulley, USMC, (Ret) introducing MCA President


MajGen Edward Usher, MCA President & CEO welcoming guests


Dinner invocation by RADM Margaret Kibben, USN, Chaplain of the Marine Corps


Dinner is served!


Guest speaker introduction and presentation

Marine Week Display Photos:


St. Louis Freedom Arch


CH46 Helicopter under the Freedom Arch


MV22 Osprey on Parade!


Local kid dodging flak with USMC equipment


The venerable LVTP-7


Local kid about to have his Dukakis moment on an LAV


Lethal Marine snake poised to strike


Huey – still going strong after all these years!


Heavy hauler – THINK LOGISTICS…


Marksmanship begins EARLY in Missouri!


Fun in the sun with Marine gear and weapons


LAV marking it’s spot


Howitzer – They ALWAYS Lend dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl!


M1A1 Tank

For more pictures click here to visit our flickr account!

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the following sponsors for their support of this event:

Platinum: Pepsi

Gold: Emerson

Bronze: Taser, ATK, CK Power

Other: Impact Resources, Anheuser Busche, BOSE, AS&E, Navistar

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Past MCAF Events

2012 MCA&F C4 Awards Dinner
The Marine Corps C4 community was shining in the spotlight on Thursday, 19 April, as the Marine Corps Association & Foundation co-hosted the 9th Annual C4 Awards Dinner along with HQMC C4 Division. The dinner provided the opportunity to recognize the top performing Marines in the C4 community during 2011 and featured LtGen Robert E. Schmidle, Jr., Deputy Commander, U.S. Cyber Command as the guest speaker and awards presenter.
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To the Men and Women of the Marine Corps Association:

I am MIDN Paul Pham and in less than a month I can say I am a United States Marine. I have worked four years at USC, studying economics and laerning the Marine Corps' way of life. To be presented with this award is an unforgettable experience because to earn this award one must exemplify the Marine Corps traditions.

Thank you for presenting me with the Marine Corps Association Honor Award. I am deeply grateful to be given...

MIDN First Class P.Q. Pham, USMCR
USC Trojan Battalion - 19 April 2011

Januaray 27, 2011

Dear Col Keenan,

On behalf of the Marines and Sailors of 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion, I would like to thank you for your support in helping us to establish our unity library. We are lucky to have a world class facility, newly constructed by a joint Marine Corps and Special Operations Command MILCON effort. Our Academic Instruction Facility contains a library room complete with book shelves and reading tables, but no books. Without your assistance...

LtCol Michael A. Brooks, USMC
1st Marine Special Operations Battalion

Sir,
The shipment of books were received last week and are already in our S-3 library numbered and available for the Marines. I would like to thank you and the Marine Corps Association for providing them they are most definitely going to be read over and over again during the deployment and afterward. Thank you once again.
S/F

Cpl Dunbar
VMM-161 S-3

I want to relay my many thanks to everyone at Marine Corps Association
and Military Historical Tours for providing me the opportunity to
experience such a wonderful trip to Russia. Had I not won this trip
through MCA I may have never taken advantage of such fantastic
travels. The group, the Russian Tour guide (Oleg Alexandrov) and
Charlie Dunn were wonderful companions during the trip. It will be a
memory I will cherish all of my remaing days on this earth...

1stSgt Bradshaw, USMC (Ret.)

To the Marine Corps Association,

I would like to thank you for presenting me with the Marine Corps Association Award.  I feel it is an honor to be the recipient of this award and I am grateful for the recognition of my efforts while at the Iowa State University Naval ROTC.  I consider this award a source of pride and will continue to cherish it in the years to come.

SSgt Michael C. Swenson, USMC - 25 April 2011

Dear Sirs,

Thank you so much for providing an award to me at our NJROTC Spring Awards Banquet. Support from national organizations and the local community means very much to me personally and to the NJROTC unit as well. I am glad that patriotic organizations such as yours choose to recognize and reward gadets for their acheivements. Awards, such as yours, reassure us that our services and efforts are appreciated, and that achieving the high standards expected in the NJROTC program is...

Rachel L. Sampson
Shawnee Heights SHS, Tecumseh, Kansas - 5 May 2011

Sir (Col John Keenan),

This is a belated thank you note for the order of professional reading books that were received by the MSG Detachment in Lima, Peru.  The books arrived only a few days after our order, with none missing or damaged in any way.  I placed all the books in the inventory of our library and breifed all the Marines that the new books were in and ready to be checked out and read at any time.  All of us here in Lima greatly appreciate what the Marine Corps...

Cpl Rodney Egel
MSG Det Lima, American Embassy Lima, Peru - October 6, 2010

Sir,

My name is Major Bob McCarthy, I am the CO for HQ Btry, 10th Marines.

I want to extend my thanks and appreciation to you and the Association for your assistance ($500 grant) in the establishment of our unit library.

My primary MET right now is to "Provide Forces" in support of the MEF, Div, RCT, and sister battalions going forward. We should provide the gaining unit with a flexible, agile, confident Marine capable of executing a variety of tasks - I believe...

Major Bob McCarthy
Commanding Officer, HQ Btry, 10th Mar Regt - received September 27, 2010

Tina,

I received the package today ( Thurs. 2/9), The Award is beautiful, it will display well with my other Collectibles. Although it is not the same format that I was presented in 1968, it was worth waiting 43 years to receive.  I have a photo of the original presentation to display with the plaque.

Thanks again for your efforts to make a former Marine proud. 

Gary M. Jones - 9 February 2012

I wanted to take a moment and thank everyone at the association for sponsoring the Ground Awards Dinner on 3 June at the Crystal City Marriott. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and were tremendously pleased with the hospitality shown to us and the great accommodations. As well, I wanted to thank the association for the DVD of the event that was mailed to me. It is something that I will keep and treasure for the rest of my days. Again, thanks for everything.

Semper Fidelis!...

Capt Chris Conner