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Free Martial Arts Practice For Active Duty Military

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Foothills Detachment member Bob Orlando is offering free martial arts training for active duty servicemen and women at his JE DU-TOO SCHOOL OF MARTIAL ARTS.  To quote from his web site:

United States Active Duty Service Men and Women
  • Stationed in Colorado?  As long as you are on active duty you may train with us for free.
  • On leave or furlough in Colorado?  You too, may train with us while on leave at  no charge.
    Again, free -- absolutely no charge.

This free martial art training offer for active duty U.S. Military is not some bait and switch scheme designed to draw you in, only to start charging you for instruction later.  This is a legitimate offer -- our way of saying, Thank You  for standing between us and those who would destroy our nation.

The instruction offered, while not specific to wartime combat, is nevertheless, realistic, no-nonsense, practical self-defense.  Dutch-IndoChinese and Filipino martial arts provide the bulk of our empty-hand and edged/impact-weapons training, but we also incorporate practical self-protection elements from other arts into our instruction as well (i.e. stand-up jujitsu, down-and-dirty ground fighting, and one of the best fighting strategies, Mexican judo). 

Inexpensive protective equipment is mandatory (primarily groin protection and footwear), but uniforms are not, so please check out our  Required Equipment  page.

Again, for active duty service men and women, the instruction is absolutely  free.  It will cost you NOTHING.  Try it, or at least stop by and watch.  What do you have to lose?

And to my fellow Devil Dogs out there, Semper Fi.

Check out his web site at www.OrlandKuntao.com for full details on his school and his very generous offer.

 

 

 

 

A New Home For LCpl. Kade Hinkhouse

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The Last weekend of April 2010 in Colorado,
many  individuals volunteered to help build a home for a severely Wounded Marine Warrior
with the organization http://www.HomesForOurTroops.org.
In 2 days the 3000+ sq ft. house went from foundation slab to completely Framed!
Many volunteers made this happen - truly an OUTSTANDING EFFORT  by all!   
Steve Hosie, USMC Veteran and Marine Corps League Life member, highly recommends
checking out the website above from time to time, as they build homes in all States and there
 may be an opportunity to volunteer locally.
Read more...
 

Updates: Veterans Helping Vets & Wounded Warrior Jeweler Apprenticeship

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Veterans Helping Vets

A small group of our Foothills Detachment attended a large charity event to raise money for Severely wounded Marine LCpl Kade Hinkhouse this last Saturday evening.  Steak Dinner hosted by the Veterans Helping Vets organization in Colorado, over 200+ people where served up a fine Steak and potato dinner with 100% of all proceeds going to funds to help build LCpl Kade Hinkhouse a new home.  Dinner was wonderful and we presented Kade's wife Becky with the very first set of new Marine Corps Earrings we designed and handcrafted as a gift:

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Want to know more about the home building for LCpl Kade Hinkhouse:

http://www.homesforourtroops.org/site/PageServer?pagename=KadeHinkhouse

April 30, May 1st and 2nd - that same small group of Marines from our Foothills Detachment will be traveling out to Elizabeth to help build this wounded Marine a new home.  We of course would hope that if anyone else is not going to attend the 2010 Department of Colorado Convention - that they would come on out and join us in building a new home for LCpl Kade Hinkhouse.  Please go to the link above for information and reading more about Kade, a Colorado Marine!

 

Wounded Warrior Jeweler Apprenticeship Program 

Attached photos are of:  (1) Wounded Marine LCpl Sean Carroll

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who has entered into our Wounded Warrior Jeweler Apprenticeship program - learning how to be a jeweler/gold smith and designer. 

(2) A 18K gold Marine Corps Ring with diamonds - beautiful ring that we designed and handcrafted for a Marine Veteran,

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The Wounded Warrior Jeweler Apprenticeship program is part of United Casting Company business plan. United Casting Company Inc is a Service Disabled USMC Veteran owned and operated jewelry business - 

http://www.MarineCorpsRings.com ..   We design and handcraft fine jewelry, bridal, wedding, anniversary, gold, silver, platinum and diamonds, etc., at our shop in Lakewood Colorado - 897 S. Kipling Parkway.

As a Service Disabled USMC Veteran owned and operated business - we invite all of our detachment members to stop by anytime and visit.

We are also looking for more Wounded Warriors who want to learn how to become a professional goldsmith/jeweler as with our recent move to a much larger shop - we have more slots to teach, train and hire upon training more Wounded Warriors. So if you know of any Wounded Warriors who may be interested, please have them contact United Casting Company at: 303-985-8530.

Semper Fidelis,Steve Hosie

MCL Life Member, Foothills Detachment

United Casting Company - a professional Jewelry business - design and handcrafted jewelry....  100% Service Disabled USMC Veteran owned and operated small business.
          897 S. Kipling Parkway, Lakewood CO 80226,
          303-985-8530, 1-866-545-1775
 

Detachment Member Deploys

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Active Duty detachment member V. Schoeninger is deploying to Afghanistan with his unit.  At a family farewell gathering on April 10th his cousin, member Ron Nelson, gave Schoeninger one of our Iwo Jima sand mementos and a Foothills Detachment Challenge Coin to let him know that all of us are behind him and will be keeping him in our thoughts and prayers while he's gone.  Ron also told him to let us know if there's anything that we can do for him or his unit.  We will have contact information up for Schoeninger and his unit in the "Christmas to the Troops All Year Long" section of the web site as soon as we get it.  Don't forget, letters and care packages are always appropriate.

 

Foothills Recognizes Iwo Vets

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February 19th marked the 65th Anniversary of the landing on Iwo Jima. 

To honor those who helped set the standard for what it means to be a Marine,
Foothills Detachment is offering the veterans of that epic battle a small remembrance
as a way of showing our respect and gratitude:
 

A plastic container, 1.5”d x .75”h of sand from the island

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Foothills Detachment was privileged to honor nine veterans of Iwo Jima at the February 18th meeting of Cooper’s Troopers at American Legion Post 161 in Arvada.  Each veteran was given one of the Detachment’s “Sands of Iwo Jima” mementoes containing sand from the landing beach at Iwo and a letter from the Detachment expressing our gratitude for their service, sacrifice and inspiration to the generations of Marines who followed them.  An additional three mementoes were given to several of the vets present to be passed on to fellow Iwo vets who were not at the luncheon.

Active duty Marine, and Detachment member, Capt. Stefan Majeski recently completed a 6 month deployment to MAS Iwakuni with VMFA(AW)-225.  From Iwakuni, there are occasional flights taking Marines to tour Iwo Jima.  Stefan had actually boarded one of these flights and was waiting to take off when the squadron providing the transportation decided they wanted to put a few more of their own people on board and started bumping enlisted Marines.  Stefan took himself off the flight so one more of his squadron enlisted people could make the trip.  Before de-planeing, he handed a couple of small plastic baggies to Staff Sergeant Secrist, an Airframes NCOIC from 225 and asked if he would bring him back a bit of sand from the beach.

When Staff Sergeant Secrist returned, he presented Stef with about a 4 or 5 pound bag of the black volcanic sand, telling Stef that he thought he might want a bit more than those two small baggies.  It turns out that SSgt Secrist had collected the sand at the very beginning of the tour, put it in his pack, and humped the extra weight around the entire island including up and back down Mt. Surabachi.

Stefan, in turn, presented about 2 pounds of the sand to Foothills Detachment for the members.  At the January Detachment Meeting, the members decided that we would offer to make it available to those Iwo Jima veterans who might want it.

 
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