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QUANTICO BARRACKS TO BE
NAMED IN HONOR OF 3/27 MARINE
UPDATED
13 MAY 2008
PFC Robert C.
Burke, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient, will be honored on
Friday May 16, 2008 at USMC base
Quantico, Virginia. The dedication will
be at 10 a.m. and there should be ample seating for all.
Marines, guests and friends of the
3rd Battalion, 27th Regiment are cordially invited and encouraged to
attend the dedication ceremony as an enlisted men's barracks will be
named in honor of the former member of India/3/27. PFC Burke
earned the nation's highest award in May 1968 Vietnam while serving
on Operation Allen Brook.
The six stories of
Anderson-Burke Hall contains 59, 452 square feet of living space for
occupancy by 720 personnel.
For access to the Marine Corps
Base at Quantico, you will be required to show proper I.D.... A
Military I.D. is of course preferable, but if none is available you
may present a valid Driver's License from any state. The MPs
will be notified and expecting us. A list of attendees will be
provided to them, based upon the listing I receive from you.
Sentries will assist visitors and vehicle passes will be issued
along with instructions to our destination.
Motorcycles are permitted on base.
There are no pre-registration
requirements for the dedication ceremony. The only attendees
will be active duty and prior service Marines (and of course our
Navy Corpsmen) along with their families and guests.
Please let
the webmaster of this site, Terry Rigney, know if you plan to attend
the "Get - Together" dinner at a local eatery on Friday night. We
have reservations for Friday May 16 at 5 PM ( that's 1700, Marines)
at the "Original Steak House & Sports Theatre", 4179 Merchant Plz.,
Woodbridge, Va., 22191. Their phone # is (703) 580-0033.
It is located about 15 - 20 minutes from the Ramada Inn in Triangle.
The reservations are also in my name. Unfortunately we as a
unit have no 'wining and dining' budget, so please bring cash,
check, or credit card. The food, I hear, is excellent.
Sight-seeing on board the base
will be permitted, but keep in mind that a military ID is required
for PX and Commissary privileges.
Further details will be placed
here and on the Guest Book as they become available. At this
time we expect no fewer than SEVENTY members of the 3/27
extended Family to attend, and further informal activities are being
scheduled such as visits to the new National Museum of the
Marine Corps near Quantico and a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit
"The Wall". All are welcome.
For those staying at the Ramada
Inn, Triangle, VA, I suggest that we contact one another and find
mutually acceptable congregation points, as we will have no
hospitality suite. The Pool area is closed until after Memorial Day.
The alternatives would be the Lobby area or the hotel's restaurant (
limited to 'a few at a time', according to management). I
tried to get us a conference room, or banquet room to use as a
hospitality suite, but it was cost prohibitive. See you there!
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To read the
story of Robert Burke please click on this link, PFC Robert Burke - Medal Of Honor
, or visit our "History" page.
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