Welcome Aboard!
Welcome to the online home of Fleet Reserve Association Mount Rainier Branch #104. Based in Tacoma/Pierce County, Washington. Our membership primarily lives in South King, Pierce and Thurston Counties. We serve the active duty, reserve, veteran, and retirees of the US Navy, Marine Corps, and US Coast Guard.
Branch #104 2010 Membership Drive Announced
Welcome Aboard to our New Members!
Photo of the Week **NEW FEATURE**
Next Meeting
What's New this Week
2010-11 Membership Drive
The March 2010 General Meeting kicked off this year's membership drive. For every NEW 1 Year membership turned into the branch Secretary/Treasurer with payment, the Branch will pay for a 2nd year as an incentive.
Membership forms can be found on the back page of the bi-monthly Scuttlebutt Newsletter, our membership page, or available through the branch Secretary/Treasurer.
Welcome Aboard to our New Members!!
A big Welcome Aboard to all of our new branch members:
- Transferring in from Branch #191, Olympia:
ACC Billy Meints, CWO3 Billy Hrbacek, PNC Chester Lobaugh
ETCS Dewitt Johnson, YN1 Diana Parkison, EM1 Jack Collins
CWO3 Jerry Fugich, PN3 Mark Thompson, CDR Mary Hrbacek
PO1 Michael Varner, CPO Robert Whitney, DC3 Ryan Nabors
ADCS Joe Ryan, GMCS Jack Parker, ET1(ss) James Heltsley
TM2 Kenneth Walling, HTC Marion Davis, BTC Robert Waugh
MMC Robert Wright, PC1 Marvin Behrends, MCPO Marvin Shriver - Transferring from the Member-at-Large ranks:
CTOCS Rex Faubion - New Members-Retired/Veteran:
AGC Gordon McCraw, AT3 Sarah Charron, EM1 Mathew Selter
GMG2 Jamie McKenzie, SK3 Carl Silvernail, IC1(ss) Steven Kimbrough
BM1 Leo Talbot, AO2 William Wallace, RM2 Heidi McCraw
ET3 Tammie Lazzaretti - New Members - Active Duty:
SN Walter Draper - SubSchool, Groton, CT
ET2(sw) Andrew Jensen - USS Stetham (DDG-63), Yokosuka, Japan
IC1(sw) JA Lazzaretti - USS Nimitz (CVN-68), San Diego, CA
Total Transfers - 22 Total New Members - 13 Eff. 05/15/2010
Photo of the Week
New Feature: we will be publishing a photo each week from either, the Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard. All Photos are official released photos from the respective forces, and are available for public use.
PACIFIC OCEAN (May 28, 2010) The guided-missile destroyer USS
Stethem (DDG 63) is underway alongside the aircraft carrier USS George
Washington (CVN 73) as F/A-18 Hornets prepare to launch during flight
operations. George Washington is underway from its permanently
forward-deployed port at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka for combat
operations efficiency evaluation in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S.
Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Adam K.
Thomas/Released)
Webmaster note: Shipmate ET2 Andrew Jensen is forward deployed onboard the USS Stetham
Next Meeting - June General Membership
The June meeting will be held at 1900 hrs on Monday, June 14th.
We invite all shipmates to attend.
Meeting information is found on
the Meeting Page.
What's new? - 05/17/2010
- Updated the Front page - Added the Photo of the week and a welcome aboard for our new members.
- Updated the News Page with FRA's Newsbytes, a new Sgt Shaft article, NED Update, and a Military Update Article, by Tom Philpott.
- Uploaded the May 01st & May 15th RAO Newsletters
- Updated the Meetings Page