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La Mesa Flag Day Parade 2025
Members of our Color Guard will march in the La Mesa Flag Day Parade on Saturday, June 14th. There is typically a large turnout of participants and spectators with perfect parade weather, cool with mixed overcast. The Parade starts at 10AM and will move through downtown La Mesa along La
Enhanced JROTC Chapter & State winner places 2nd at National
Recently our JROTC Award leader, Gary Newton, attended the annual awards presentation at Mira Mesa High School where he presented cadet Julian Tang with his Awards (medal, certificate , $1000 check. and America 250 coin). There were 300 people at the AFJROTC unit awards banquet where Julian was cheered by
Memorial Day Weekend at Ft. Rosecrans
We had a busy Memorial Day Weekend starting with flag placements at Ft. Rosecrans on Saturday (24th) at 7am. On Memorial Day we will hold a wreath laying at 8am followed by the traditional Memorial Day ceremonies. Check our Events page (https://www.sarsandiego.org/events/) for more details
Honoring a Hero
Army Specialist Matthew J Holly was killed in action by a roadside bomb on November 15th 2005. When his remains were returned to San Diego, his coffin was unloaded from a commercial aircraft without any honors, and was unloaded with a fork lift by the airport ground crew. His treatment
First Amphibious Assault by Marines
The California Society, San Diego Chapter and members from around the state are supporting the celebration and unveiling of a monument to recognize the actions of the Continental Marines on March 3-4 1776 who conducted an amphibious assault in the Bahamas of British installations. This is a big project and
May Meeting with Great Speaker
We inducted nine (9) new members at our May meeting! This is the largest group of new inductee’s in years for our Chapter. From the left , Joseph Geiser, Jim McAdory with his back to the camera is blocking Matthew Griesbach, Justin Shelton, Chris Shelton, Ryan Ekler, Howard Bartholomew, Chester