Marine Corps League Detachment 576

Marine Corps League Detachment 576

Central Division

Department of Ohio

Commandant Walter E. WARNER

About Us

Under Title 36 of the United States Code, the Marine Corps League is the only congressionally chartered United States Marine Corps related veterans organization in the United States. Its Congressional Charter was approved by the 75th United States Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 4, 1937. The organization credits its founding to the legendary Marine Corps Commandant John A. Lejeune in 1923.

Marine Corps League Detachment 576 was chartered on October 31, 1984 in honor and memory of the 241 Marines killed in action as a result of a suicide truck bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon on October 23, 1983, hence the name "BEIRUT 241." The explosives used were equivalent to 12,000 pounds of TNT in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) called at that time, the largest non-nuclear bomb in history. This day also marked the largest single-day loss of life for the U.S. Marines since the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.”

—President Ronald Reagan

(Written September 23, 1983 in a personal note to LCpl Joseph Hickey, the son of a close friend of the President. The Marine was scheduled to deploy to Lebanon.)

Membership

Members of the Marine Corps League join together in camaraderie and fellowship for the purpose of preserving the traditions and promoting the interests of the United States Marine Corps, banding together those who are now serving in the United States Marine Corps and those who have been honorably discharged from that service that they may effectively promote the ideals of American freedom and democracy, voluntarily aiding and rendering assistance to all Marines and former Marines and to their widows and orphans; and to perpetuate the history of the United States Marine Corps and by fitting acts to observe the anniversaries of historical occasions of particular interest to Marines.

If you are interested in joining the League, please click on the link below:

http://www.mcleague.org/

Join Us

“A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.”

—General James F. Amos, 35th Commandant of the Marine Corps