DETACHMENT
1088 MISSION STATEMENT
London
Detachment 1088 of the Marine Corps League, in its unique location geographically,
will strive to be a haven of comradeship to all US Marines based in
the UK. The
Detachment, through its Regular and Associate Membership, will provide
support, lines of communication, social interaction and embody the "Esprit
de Corps" spirit. Detachment
1088 will actively identify and offer membership to all eligible US
Marines and continue to welcome and include our robust Associate Membership
in a continuous, motivated unit.
THE
MARINE CORPS LEAGUE
The
Marine Corps League is the organization for all Marines. It takes great
pride in crediting its founding in 1923 to World War I hero, then Major
General Commandant John A. Lejeune. It takes equal pride in its Federal
Charter, approved by an Act of the Seventy-Fifth Congress of the United
States of America and signed and approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
on August 4, 1937. Since its earliest days, the Marine Corps League
has enjoyed the support and encouragement of the active duty and reserve
estalbishments of the U.S. Marine Corps.
The
PURPOSES of the Marine Corps League as prescribed in its Federal Charter
are:
...to
preserve the traditions and to promote the interest of the United
States Marine Corps;
...to
band those who are now serving in the United States Marine Corps and
those who have been honorably discharged from that service together
in fellowship that they may effectively promote the ideals of the
American freedom and democracy;
...to
fit its members for the duties of citizenship and to encourage them
to serve as ably as citizens as they have served the Nation under
arms;
...to
hold sacred the history and memory of the men and women who have given
their lives to the Nation;
...to
foster love for the principles which they have supported by blood
and valor since the founding of the Republic;
...to
maintain true allegiance to American institutions;
...to
create a bond of comradeship between those in the service and those
who have returned to civil life;
...to
aid voluntarily and to render assistance to all Marines and former
Marines as well as to their widows and orphans;
...to
perpetuate the history of the United States Marine Corps and by fitting
acts to observe the anniversaries of historical occasions of peculiar
interest to Marines.
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