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and updated pages.
9/4/08 for 2009 reunion information scroll down
9/2/08 new entry at looking for . see
Looking For
9/2/08 updated roster from a-l & m-z please check your
information for accuracy
and inform the webmaster of any errors.
Also inform webmaster of any errors of anyone that you know.
If you have not
gotten a "Sponson Box" magazine lately your dues are not paid up!
Jul-Aug 08 added some new graphics to this page
and to;
foundation,
roster pages,
purple
heart, in
remembrance pages.
6/23/08 updated Locate your tank,
Battalion, Company, or Platoon on a map.
5/7/08 updated sponson box archives
4/15/08 Oscar Gilbert's new book about us is now
available through
amazon or by order from your local book store.
Updated books page with four new books about
tanks.
Click on above logo to go to past articles on
USMC Vietnam era tanks.
Note, to learn about Tactical markings on USMC tanks and the Table of
Organization of a Marine Tank Battalion, in
PDF or
Word click on file
extension.
5/20/07 Buddies find each other see
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 Marines/Tankers
it really is
time,
especially for members of 3rd Plt., Alpha Co.,
3rd Tks., or Tankers in Florida. See the
latest posting (9/8/06) on the
Looking For page. Well done and semper fi to
Gene Wright and hank fuller. |
YOUR
SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT!!!
There is a little known
program/benefit for people
who've served in the
military from 1940 to Jan 2002. In
a nutshell it boils down to this:
Credited for years of active duty
through 2001 (the program was done
away with in January 2002)
Up
to $1200 per year of earnings credit
can be
credited at time of
application (see below websites for more
detail) .
Bring in your DD-214 to Social Security
Office - you must ask for this
benefit to receive it!
Soc Sec website:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/retire2/military.htm
If you already know about this,
sorry to have bothered you. For
those of you
who did not have this info it is
something to put in your files for
when you
apply for Social Security down the
road. It is not just for retirees
but
anyone who has served on active duty
prior to January 2002.
Please feel free to forward this to
all our guys so they can benefit
from it.
Personal Info on Internet Site
SHARING WITH YOU SOME INFORMATION
A FRIEND SENT TO ME.......
Beginning JULY '06 a new database
will be available to the general
public free of charge that displays
your personal information (names,
addresses, phone numbers, birth
dates). (Soc. Sec. is available for
a price.) The database is found at
http://www.zabasearch.com/
type in your name and check...you'll
be SHOCKED as I was!
I urge you to forward this email to
family and friends. Check to see if
your name and information is in
their database. If so and you want
it removed, send them an e-mail at
info@zabasearch.com to
request it be removed. I do not know
how our names are appearing there,
but I checked my own and a few other
random ones and they are
all in this database!
After opting out by email, check
back after a few days to make
certain your information has been
removed. If it has not been removed
then file a complaint with your
States Attorney General.
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to date information on veterans check out
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 Just
a reminder! Your 2008 Dues are due.
Give me $30.00 |
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you,
Jesus Christ and the American G.I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
Thank them both today.
 Alright Tankers! Pay Attention, listen up! Corgi has
3 models out of Vietnam Tanks. This
model depicts Corporal Garry Hall's Tank of
"Charlie" Company, 3rd Tank Battalion, and honors the driver Jim Jaynes, KIA April 25, 1968.
See the others available!! Check it out!!!
Click on the picture or link!
OTHER VIETNAM
VETERANS ORGINIZATIONS REUNIONS
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Attention
!
The
Association has a new E-Mail
address:
usmcvta@comcast.net
The
AOL email address no longer exist
Please
change your rosters and contact
information, Thank you!
"The
Best Reunion is Yet to Happen."
See You in 2009 in Charleston, SC.
Aug. 19-23.
SHERITON
NORTH CHARLESTON
4770 Goer Drive,
North Charleston,
SC
29406
(843) 747-1900
The room rate will be $99 per night.
This room rate will be good for
three days before the reunion and
three days after.
The Hotel will be setting up a web
site for us to go to and make our
reservations.
A link will be
set up here as soon as as it is set
up.
2007
Las Vegas
2005
Philadelphia
2003
Seattle
2001
Minneapolis
1999
Washington,
DC
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The purpose of the of the USMC Vietnam Tankers Association
is to ensure our legacy through
reunion, renewal and remembrance
by fostering the camaraderie, friendships and memories of those
that served in America's longest and most controversial war. To provide
an organization that will research, document and record the histories
of those individuals and units that served in the First, Third and
Fifth Tank Battalions in the Republic of South Vietnam from 1965, to
and including 1970. And, to further ensure that the USMCVTA will
continue as a nonprofit veterans organization serving all Marine Corps
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To
research and archive historical documents relating to Vietnam Marine
Corps Tank Units. To publish historical literature, documents and
publications as to the facts as it relates to individual tankers,
attached personnel and tank units during the Vietnam War. To provide a
place to have and hold reunions for the purposes stated above. To
ensure that the purposes of the United States Marine Corps Vietnam
Tankers Association as set forth in its articles of incorporation are
continued.
The United States Marine Corps Vietnam Tankers Association is for you
if you served with a tanker MOS or were attached to any tank battalion
in the Marine Corps or Navy from 1965, to 1970, in the Republic
of South Vietnam; you are qualified to join. It doesn't matter
whether you served as a tank crewman or was an office clerk. The
only requirement is that you served with a Marine Corps tank battalion
during the Vietnam War.
July 3-5, 1999, the first reunion of the USMC Vietnam Tankers was held
near Washington, DC. At an organizational meeting held on the
reunion's second day a decision was made to organize the Vietnam
tankers. It was unanimously voted on by all 58 former Vietnam
tankers, which included former Officers and Enlisted personnel, to
become a 501 (c) 19, a nonprofit war era veterans association.
Membership in the
USMCVTA includes: The right to participate in all meetings
and reunions, receive a Vietnam Tankers
newsletter, the Sponson Box,
a current membership roster, assistance in finding former Vietnam
buddies. Special notices for and about Vietnam veteran issues.
Your individual histories to be published in historical publications
dealing with your experiences while attached to any tank battalion in
Vietnam. Assistance with claims with the Department of Veterans
Affairs. An opportunity to help others, who served with pride and
distinction.
Membership doesn't cost, when you
consider all of the benefits, ...it
pays!
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Tankers Association . All rights reserved.
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