Detachment Meeting April 2, 2012

I cannot say how grateful I am for everyone's patience last night. It may have been a rough start, but the meeting did go pretty well. Many good items were discussed and I feel confident that we are taking very good steps toward being the best and brightest detachment in the state. My two main priorities are membership and money. Without these two things we are basically dead in the water. We will get to where we need to be. Of this, I am sure.

Washington Department Meeting

I was. I knew I would be. I was the youngest Marine there. The only guy close to my age was a few years older than I am. That's ok, when one Marine blurted out that I am just a kid I wanted to turn around and tell him he may be right, but I'm the kid that has more kills on his belt than there are people in this room! I'm still wondering if I should've shot back at him with that. Maybe next time. On to the meat and potatos of this post. And before I forget, congratulations goes to my adjutant Pam Pineda as she is now an official member of the Marine Corps League Auxilliary. OOH-RAH! In addition to myself, my adjutant, paymaster, and judge advocate were all in attendence. The meeting was much more informal than I was expecting. Anthony Tonda, my judge advocate, had told me that the meetings were much more informal than they were in the past. When the meeting started the number of Marines in attendence was impressive. 15 of the 17 detachments in the department were represented. There was standing room only. Nothing really impressive or overly important had happened in the meeting. There a lot of learning and soaking up of information on my part though. For example: one of the other detachments had gotten prisoners from the local prison to help with packing the toys collected during the T4T campaign last year. I'm sure those inmates would have come in handy for those bikes that our detachment received last year. Plenty of new things learned, and many ideas bouncing around in my head as to how we can improve our detachment. I look forward to the detachment meeting tonight. Semper Fidelis, Marines!