Our monthly Post and Auxiliary meetings are the 2nd Monday of each month with the social/dinner starting around 6:00pm. Our business meetings for the Post and ALA start at 7:00…
The American Legion was formed March 15–17, 1919, when about 1,000 officers and enlisted men of the American Expeditionary Forces convened in Paris, France, for the organization's founding caucus amid…
Chris Kyle (full name: Christopher Scott Kyle), born April 8, 1974, in Odessa, Texas, was the U.S. military's most lethal sniper—a legendary Navy SEAL who served four tours in the Iraq…
Patriots' Day (also spelled Patriot's Day in Maine) officially recognizes the start of the American Revolutionary War, specifically the Battles of Lexington and Concord (and Menotomy) on April 19, 1775.…
When the delegates to the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia on 10 May, they soon learned that armed men commanded by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold had captured the…
The United States Coast Guard, one of the country's five armed services, is a unique agency of the federal government. We trace our history to 4 August 1790, when the…
Patriot Day commemorates the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 when al-Qaeda hijackers crashed four planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field, killing…
The history of the Air Force dates back to the Signal Corps when it began testing its first airplane at Fort Myer, Virginia, on August 20, 1908, and on September…
“Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior…
On November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia passed a resolution stating that "two Battalions of Marines be raised" for service as landing forces with the fleet.…
Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is observed annually on November 11, for honoring military Veterans of the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with holidays in several countries,…
