2024 Training Schedule
Training is typically held on one Saturday a month at Coast Guard Island, Alameda.
The Honor Guard Team Leader, in conjunction with the Team Chief, sets up the schedule. It is often contingent on upcoming taskings.
Please continue to check this website for updates, and when training is scheduled...
Please do your best to attend.
Next Interest/training session:
Date: 09 March 2024
Time: 0900 hrs
Location: Coast Guard Island
Dress: ODUs
Items: Rifles/Flags/Harnesses
The Face of Iwo Jima
Many of us have been honored to see the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington D.C. For those who haven't, the iconic Pulitzer Prize winning picture by Joe Rosenthal, has been seen by all. The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marine Division was ordered to capture Mount Suribachi and on February 21, 1945, two days after the assault on Iwo Jima began, they reached the base of the mountain.
"On the morning of February 23, Marines of Company E, 2nd Battalion, started the tortuous climb up the rough terrain to the top. At about 10:30 am men all over the island were thrilled by the sight of a small American flag flying from atop Mount Suribachi. That afternoon, when the slopes were clear of enemy resistance, a second, larger flag was raised by five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman: Sgt Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlon H. Block, Pfc. Franklin R. Sousley, Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes, and PhM. 2/c John H. Bradley, USN."
The men who raised the flag are wonderful representatives of America including a Czech immigrant from Pennsylvania, a Pima Native American from Arizona who had seldom been off his reservation before joining the Marines, a farm boy from Kentucky, a high school football star from a small town in Texas, and two men who would return to their hometowns and live long lives, one from Manchester, one from New Hampshire and the other from Antigo, Wisconsin. Two of the men raising the flag were dead within a week and a third died in late March 1945 before Iwo Jima was completely secure.
Many of us have been honored to see the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington D.C. For those who haven't, the iconic Pulitzer Prize winning picture by Joe Rosenthal, has been seen by all. The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marine Division was ordered to capture Mount Suribachi and on February 21, 1945, two days after the assault on Iwo Jima began, they reached the base of the mountain.
"On the morning of February 23, Marines of Company E, 2nd Battalion, started the tortuous climb up the rough terrain to the top. At about 10:30 am men all over the island were thrilled by the sight of a small American flag flying from atop Mount Suribachi. That afternoon, when the slopes were clear of enemy resistance, a second, larger flag was raised by five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman: Sgt Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlon H. Block, Pfc. Franklin R. Sousley, Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes, and PhM. 2/c John H. Bradley, USN."
The men who raised the flag are wonderful representatives of America including a Czech immigrant from Pennsylvania, a Pima Native American from Arizona who had seldom been off his reservation before joining the Marines, a farm boy from Kentucky, a high school football star from a small town in Texas, and two men who would return to their hometowns and live long lives, one from Manchester, one from New Hampshire and the other from Antigo, Wisconsin. Two of the men raising the flag were dead within a week and a third died in late March 1945 before Iwo Jima was completely secure.