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For more information on
a Marine Corps League Detachment nearest you,
contact any of the Department Officers listed on
this web site. You may also check the Detachments
link on this site.
THE MARINE
CORPS LEAGUE
THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE - is the
organization for all Marines and Navy Corpsmen who
served with Marines. It takes great pride in
crediting its founding in 1923 to World War I hero,
then 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Major
General Commandant John A. Lejune. It's Federal
Charter, approved by An Act of the Seventy-Fifth
Congress of the United States of America was signed
and approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on
August 4, 1937. Since it's earliest days, the Marine
Corps League has enjoyed the support and
encouragement of the active duty and Reserve
establishments of the U.S. Marine Corps.
PURPOSES - The purposes of the
Marine Corps League as prescribed in it's Federal
Charter are
…to preserve the traditions and to promote the
interests 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 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
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.
THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE…
THE ORGANIZATION
FOR ALL MARINES
AND CORPSMEN WHO SERVED
WITH MARINES
Active
Duty/Reserve/Former/Retired/Officer Enlisted
Marine
Corps League Preamble
Marines
Helping Marines
In the name of the Beneficent God of all, we who
have Honorably Served, or are now Honorably Serving
our country in the United States Marine Corps for
the common good of this nation, and all the nations
and people of our world, and in order that the
Fundamental Rights and Freedom of every person may
be preserved, to foster interest in the affairs of
the United states Marines Corps, TO PROTECT
AND ADVANCE THE WELFARE OF THE WOUNDED AND DISABLED
MARINES AND THEIR DEPENDENTS, and for the
further purposes set fourth after, do solemnly and
firmly associate ourselves together in a Nonprofit
Corporation, known as the Marin Corps League.
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