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It’s
Our First!! This is the first issue of Marine Helicopter Squadron 361 Veterans
Association Newsletter We
are launching this newsletter for 361 squadron members, past and
present, and their friends as a way to keep in touch, share our stories
and generally remain closer together. 361—from HMR to HMM to HMH—has
always been one of the U.S. Marine Corps’ most spirited helicopter
squadrons. It is one of the oldest and has a colorful history that spans
almost 50 years. The
newsletter of our sister squadron, HMM-362, The Ugly Angels, was
available at the recent USMC/ Vietnam Helicopter Association reunion and
we thought we should have one too. But it was Keith Cameron (1966), one
of our coordinators for the 361 squadron mini-reunion in San Diego, who
first suggested the idea and persuaded a few of us to get it going. Our
plans are modest, just to communicate a few times a year. And our
occasional newsletter mailings are not intended to interfere in any way
with Popasmoke, the official
USMC/Vietnam Helicopter Association quarterly newsletter. But
creation of this newsletter and filing for 501c
3 tax-exempt status with the IRS, which has been started by Al Weiss
(1969), also a coordinator at the August reunion, can benefit us in
other important ways. The non-profit veteran’s group status will make
us eligible, should we ever want to, to seek and obtain grant money,
corporate gifts or other contributions on which they and we would be
otherwise taxed. We
envision getting future educational grants that will benefit
veteran-related matters that would be in our interest. The process of
obtaining our tax-exempt veterans organization will take some time, but
when it is achieved it will make it easier to do other things in the
future, such as build a memorial to the squadron. There is also interest
in eventually locating and restoring an H-34. We would like to restore
the 34 to its Marine appearance and work on its fly-ability later. It
could be displayed at air shows, and we could use it for other
educational purposes. But
we need charter subscribers to get the newsletter into a hover.
Otherwise, we’ll auto rotate. Charter subscriptions are $35
for the first 12 months. Subscription information can be found on
page 7. But we do need you for this mission. We need the subscription
support of all of our squadron
members. So
here we are. This is a volunteer effort from pre-press to mailing, with
no paid staff Former Squadron Everyone on my 361 Popasmoke roster should have received your free copy. If
you are not on my 361 roster and want to receive the newsletters please
sign up below. Well,
we’ve pre-flight checked this issue and are ready for take off. Hope
you enjoy the ride, G.I.
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