Next Meeting will be December 18, 1930

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1 FORWARDING AND ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED TO: ONCE A MARINE ALWAYS A MARINE All annual dues expire on August 31st of each year. Our membership dues are $40.00 a year and are due prior to August 31st. Please make your check payable to "Pvt. George Phillips Detachment" and send to the Detachment address. This newsletter and previous issues can be obtained from the new Detachment Website. Please contact the Editor to receive future issues electronically. As a suggestion, anyone wishing to provide material should try to have it to the editor no later than the fourth Friday of previous month. (This doesn t mean don t t is a submit anything at all if you need more time, instead please contact the editor.) If sent via , please note that newsletter submission should appear the subject line. Next Meeting will be December 18, 1930

2 Commandant: Lyle McFarlin Sr. Vice-Commandant: Ed Rau Jr. Vice-Commandant/ Public Information Officer: Hugh Smith Adjutant/Paymaster: Dennis Simpson Judge Advocate/ Benevolence: John (Jack) Bickerton Sgt at Arms: Gerald Gerling Chaplain: Larry Schwartz Web Sgt: Brad McNeil December 2018 Volume XIV Issue 12 Detachment Webpage Mail: Pvt George Phillips Detachment Marine Corps League P.O. Box #1 Ballwin, MO Meeting Location: 225 Old Sulphur Springs Road Ballwin, MO Trustee 3Yr: Elliot Glassman Trustee 2Yr: James Grgurich Trustee 1Yr: Mike Cicchese Jr. Past Commandant Gerald Gerling Ways & Means: Elliot Glassman Quartermaster: Rick Shelton Eagle Scout Liaison: Vacant Editor/Historian: Carl E. Ramsey Meetings 3 rd Tuesday of Every Month :30 PM Detachment Membership as of November Meetings 3 rd Tuesday of Every Month :15 PM

3 Commandant s Corner: Happy Holidays to all members and their families. As we enjoy gathering with families and friends during these special days let us not forget our servicemen and women assigned throughout the world who cannot be with loved ones during this special season. Remember that while those in uniform sacrifice to keep our country free their families also suffer the separation military service can often place upon families and their loved ones in uniform. God Bless these families and all those in uniform and God Bless the United States of America. Lyle McFarlin Commandant Pvt. George Phillips Detachment 1214 Marine Corps League December Staff Meeting 1900 Post # Membership Meeting 1930 Post # Auxiliary Meeting 1915 Post #208 January Staff Meeting 1900 Post # Membership Meeting 1930 Post # Auxiliary Meeting 1915 Post #208 February Staff Meeting 1900 Post # Membership Meeting 1930 Post # Auxiliary Meeting 1915 Post #208 Detachment member Colonel Jackie Jackson will be our December guest speaker with a book signing. The memoir opens with a Harrier test flight page turner and the chapter about his youth is so funny I laughed until I hurt. It s also a Godly book and a great Christmas stocking stuffer. Carl Ramsey, editor.

4 MEMBERS MATTER, by Lyle McFarlin Dan & Patrick Mcfarlin I was born in Omaha, Nebraska, September 3, During my early life my family lived pretty much like our beloved president, Abe Lincoln. We didn t live in a log cabin, but on a small rural farm west of Omaha, without plumbing (we had an outhouse); no water (we hand-pumped it from a well into a bucket and carried it inside); and my mother cooked meals on a wood burning cast iron stove. We walked a mile to school on a gravel road. After several years we moved into the city and were able to enjoy the comforts of the modern world. After graduation from high school I went to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for a semester and decided I belonged in the U. S. Navy, where I was trained as a Boiler Tender Operator. I spent four years in the Indian and Pacific Oceans during the Vietnam War on the aircraft carrier U.S. S. Bonne Homme Richard (the Bonnie Dick ). As a Boiler Tender, I was five decks below where it was 120 degrees or above every day and night. After my active duty I returned to Omaha and got a job with the Union Pacific Railroad. But after a few months, based on my Navy experience. I got a civil service job at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha as a Boiler Plant Equipment Operator. I spent the rest of my government career in charge of the base asbestos abatement project at Offutt, wearing a hazard suit and removing asbestos from buildings at the base. As a self-taught artist, I also prepared caricature certificates for over three hundred retiring service men and women, including a four-star general. And for nine years before my own retirement I was the Squadron Santa Claus for military and civilian children of those assigned to the base. After retirement I worked for eight and a half years part time at a local grocery and then eight years full time at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. When I retired for good, I began volunteering at the Omaha Veterans Administration Hospital where I assisted veterans in finding their destination. My wife and I have a blended family of ten children, eighteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. My second of three sons, Patrick, recently retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Chief Master Sergeant E-9 with twenty-eight and a half years. I joined the Private George Phillips Detachment, Marine Corps League as an associate member several years ago because of my Marine brother and my identification with the Marine Corps values and ideals. While I continue to live in Omaha and am unable to attend meetings, I keep abreast of what is happening in the detachment through daily phone conversations with my brother and the detachment newsletter. I am Dan McFarlin

5 Woman s Auxiliary by Gail Bickerton The Private George Phillips Auxiliary would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Our Auxiliary continues to support the detachment and our military whenever the occasion arises. Recently we held the 4 th annual Beef Raffle with all the proceeds going to the Focus Marine Foundation. We join with the Southside Auxiliary to jointly sell the raffle tickets. November seventeen, we had a covered dish luncheon and drew two winning tickets. Once again it was a successful raffle and we were able to present the Focus foundation with a check for $ Also, in November several of our members were able to assist the detachment in their semi-annual collections. At our December eighteenth meeting the Auxiliary will have its annual Christmas party and later in the evening will serve the detachment a delicious homemade Mexican dinner. Please come and join us. We look forward to 2019 and continuing to support our veterans and active duty military. Woman s Auxiliary November Seventeen Beef Raffle

6 November Marine Corps Birthday Pictures. Dan Sprout Solo Musician John Cooper Sandy and Brad McNeil Hugh Smith James and Stacy Grgurich

7 November Pictures Continued Brian & Amanda Cook, Brian is Ted Eberley's Grandson (Ted is in the center) Candi and Ed Rau Lyle & daughter Christine McFarlin Lois Kessler, Carl Ramsey, Donna Murdock (Carl s sister who was a Marine Corps Spouse) Dennis Simpson reads the birthday address of former Commandant John A. Lejeune.

8 December Birthday Scroll John Bauer III Lyle McFarlin Edwin Rau Hank Coleman Thomas Moore Tom Weible Rita Martin Merry Christmas from my house to yours. Picture appeared on a Christmas card, Carl Ramsey sent from Danang, Vietnam, 1970.

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