Congratulations to the 11 Members having a birthday during May:
Charles (Bill) Bailey, Lynn Bolte, Andrew Didier, Ruth Falconbury, William Mangels, Michael (Mike) Marcum, Richard Martin, Donald Newell, James (Jim) Schulze, Janet Spence, and Mathew Wilson

Make sure to mark you calendar for 17 May 2008 at 1730hrs for the Detachment’s Annual Dinner where we will install next year’s slate of officers and make presentation of awards. Cocktails at 17:30, followed by dinner at 18:30 (that’s 5:30 PM and 6:30 PM for you Corpsmen types), at the Elks Lodge.

The National Bylaws and Administrative Procedures changes approved at the 2007 National Convention there is one big change:

Summary of Changes

a. The proposal to change the requirement for “Membership Eligibility” to recognize “honorable service” as relating to the most recent DD-214 or a Certificate of Discharge that the applicant received was approved.
b. The proposal to authorize the National Executive Director to request a copy of a member or applicant’s DD-214 from the National Personnel Records Center, if deemed necessary, for any application for membership received subsequent to August 10, 2007 was also approved. The corresponding membership application changes were approved as well.
c. The proposal to change the Bylaws to allow a member charge with being “ineligible for membership” to voluntarily surrender his/her membership to avoid a hearing, was rejected.

The Department Judge Advocate is interoperating this to mean that the most recent DD-214 of any new member should be reviewed by the Detachment before it accepts a new member’s application. The other changes will not significantly affect the operations of the Detachments.

Semper Fi

Jim