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Please
check the Main Menu on the left for NEW and updated pages.
3/27/10
updated
new page on the web site,
"Tankers Sea stories".
submit your storys to the
sponson box/webmaster and they will be posted here.
1/24/10
updated roster changes 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!
1/17/10
combined a lot of vietnam veterans information & health
information on one page
clicke here
1/10/10 ray
stewart would like to hear from any tankers that
participated in any of the "dagger thrust", "special landing
force" or any of the "amphibious operations" during the
vietnam war as a tanker or a grunt/tanker. this is
research for a leatherneck article.
12/20/09
posted new photos for charlie co. 3rd tks.
12/20/09
updated tidbits page w/p-38 can opener.
12/20/09
updated looking for page.
12/6/09
posted a new page for latest important va information
click here.
12/5/09 Your
webmasters birthday ball event
click here.
and the
follow on, a day at the
"tank park".
12/5/09updated
another new page on the web site, it is for videos, power
point and music go to good videos click
here
11/1/09
uploaded april 09 sponson box.
click here.
10/14/09
updated Locate your tank,
Battalion,
Company, or Platoon on a map.
9/12/09
important read about vietnam vets, agent orange cancer.
click here for pdf article.
6/6/09
Posted Chris Vargo's photo page for
3rd plt. bravo co. 3rd tks 67-69.
5/26/09 read
general conway's testimony before congress in
pdf.
9/7/08
uploaded information on prostate cancer in pdf format. a must
read for veterans.
click
here to read it.
9/6/08
the historical foundation has set up a blog site for us tankers to post
comments, questions and information at
http://mcvthf.blogspot.com/
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.
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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2009 Dues are due.
Give me $30.00
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Send payment to:
USMCVTA
5537 Lower Mountain Road,
New Hope, PA
18938
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.
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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."
2009
Charleston, NC
2007
Las Vegas, NV
2005
Philadelphia
2003
Seattle,
WA
2001
Minneapolis,
MN
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
tankers of the Vietnam War era.
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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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Association . All rights reserved.
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