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danausmc
09-18-2005, 08:09 PM
Conference Picture, getting ready.
danausmc
09-24-2005, 05:27 PM
More Coos Bay.......takes me awhile to resize them.
danausmc
09-24-2005, 05:31 PM
more pictures
danausmc
09-24-2005, 05:34 PM
more still
danausmc
09-24-2005, 05:36 PM
inside the conference area
Chuck
10-07-2005, 07:23 PM
Those are some fantastic photos.. A job well done.
Don Dodson
11-26-2005, 04:55 PM
I will try to post a couple of pictures from the La Mesa Outpost's Pizza Feeds at the Navy Medical Center San Diego Medical Hold Platoon. It is great to see the cross-generational contact and carring.

Don Dodson, Outpost Leader
Don Dodson
02-19-2006, 07:35 PM
Still trying to "get' the posting of pictures. here's another attempt to show the Point Man Pizza Feed at Navy Medical Center San Diego, Marine Medical Hold Platoon.

Don Dodson
La Mesa Outpost Leader
Sparky
03-20-2006, 07:52 PM
Good job, I just wanted to see how all this works. How did you guys line this all up. I would like to do something like it here, but have no idea how or how....
Don Dodson
03-27-2006, 06:50 AM
Sparky:

I made an initial phone call to the Public Affairs Officer at Navy Medical Center, San Diego (NMCSD) (known to us Veet-Nam era guys as Balboa Hospital). That was ignored for about a month and after about two more calls, I received a return call from the Armed Services YMCA Liaison at NMCSD. I initially offerred to take a couple of Medical Hold Platoon Marines to dinner. They set me up with a couple of their semi-staff guys to check me out. After I paid for dinner I realized that for not much more, I could feed the entire Platoon. I called the YMCA contact and pitched my idea, and she thought it would be great. I ran it past a few kindred souls and they all thought it was great. Next thing I knew we had received donations to cover the costs and set up the logistics to bring pizzas, salads, sodas, home made deserts (from our host Church's Military Wives Ministry) and a few veterans and helpers.

The ground rules from YMCA were "no proselytizing" which we have stuck to very rigidly. But many of us wear Point Man "colors" and I put up a poster with the names of those who have contributed so the attendees know we are Christians and infer that we are serving them in His Name.

Let me know if you want to discuss further.

Don Dodson, PMIM La Mesa Outpost
PointManMinLaMesa@NorthernTrail.NET
(619) 698-4055
BuckStripes
04-20-2006, 03:19 PM
Don: Are these troopers war wounded, or Stateside casualties?
....Either way, makes me happy that YeOlde guys stepped up and gave the Young'uns a friendly touch...and maybe a little old Jarhead love too...I hope the day made their week...
Don Dodson
04-24-2006, 07:06 AM
BuckStripes:

Both. It varies month-to-month. In March, the two most serious casualties were Stateside: one was a motorcycle (e.g. donorcycle) crash with inattentive motorist cutting him off and the other was brain cancer diagnosed while he was in Boot Camp. Sometimes the most serious are OIF grads, like the young lad on the crutches.

WELCOME HOME!

Don Dodson, Outpost Leader, PMIM La Mesa Outpost