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Troop 147 Eagle Court of Honor for Justin Gontarek held on Sept 28th during which a “Good Citizenship Award” certificate was presented by Marine Corps League Patriot Detachment Scout Coordinator Gus Cales.

Richboro, PA. Patriot Detachment 1230 on behalf of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society presented a volunteer award to Elizabeth Todderud May 15th on behalf of Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. Dick Weaver, Shawn McCormick, Pete Palestina, Mike Lecker, Mike Clark, Elizabeth Tollerude, Gus Cales, John Heenan, Neil Clark, Jimmy Clendennen and Harry Niemann.

9 young men were presented “Good Citizenship Award” certificates at their Troop 215 Eagle Scout Court of Honor by Marine Corps League Patriot Detachment Scout Coordinator Gus Cales on April 26, 2024 held at the St. Andrew’s Church, Perkasie, PA. Eagle Scouts are Connor Holberg, Alexander Beck, Colin Beck, Alexander Blount, Timothy Chiappetta, Zachary Keagy, Kevin Kershaw, Kyle Kershaw and Dustin Bakker.

3 young men were presented “Good Citizenship Award” certificates at their Eagle Scout Court of Honor by Marine Corps League Patriot Detachment Scout Coordinator Gus Cales on March 10, 2024 held at the Yardley United Methodist Church, Yardley, PA. L-R are William Tustin – Keith. Mario Brown and Peter Patrick.

(L-R) Judge Advocate John Frain, Chaplain Neil Clark, Sr., Jr. Vice Commandant Don Barder, Commandant Mike Clark, Sr. Vice Commandant Richard Weaver, Paymaster Pete Palestina and Sergeant at Arms Gus Cales.

Scout Coordinator Gus Cales presented a Good Citizenship Award Certificate to Eagle Scout Matthew Mannino of Troop 99 at his March 19, 2023 Court of Honor.

Gus Cales presented the Distinguished Citizens Award to Jonathan Wells of troop 147 at his Jan. 28, 2023 Court of Honor.

Color Guard for Nov. 12, 2022 Northampton Veterans Day Ceremony.

Marine Corps League Patriot Detachment Scout Coordinator Gus Cales presented an Award Certificate to Eagle Scout James Chapek of Troop 99 at his Court of Honor on August 14, 2022.

Patriot Detachment 1230 Scout Coordinator Gus Cales presented certificates on July 24, 2022 to the following Troop 10 Eagle Scouts (shown L-R) at their Court of Honor: Benjamin Nath, Phillip Santos, Justin Brown, Samuel Wang and Jay Moyer.

10 Detachment members on hand for Memorial Day ceremonies at Northampton Township May 30, 2022.

Patriot Detachment 1230 Scout Coordinator Gus Cales had the pleasure of presenting the Good Citizenship Award at the Troop 19 Eagle Scout Court of Honor for Benjamin Harris, May 14th, at the Chapel of Holy Ghost Preparatory School. For his Eagle Scout Project, Benjamin prepared and delivered two “scent boxes” for the training of K-9 police dogs and he presented the training tools to the Bucks County Park Rangers.

2022 Detachment Officers Installed Feb. 16, 2022.

Gus Cales presents Eagle Scout Certificate to Reed Stoltz of Troop 147 at his 11/27/2021 Court of Honor

Detachment provided Color Guard at the Northampton Indians Football 9/11/21 opening day.

Detachment Color Guard and flag detail at Northampton 9/11/2021 Memorial Ceremony.

Gus Cales with Ryan Henry at his 6/21/2021 Court of Honor

Troop 30’s newest Eagle Scout 6/5/2021, Evan Gerdy. For his Scout project, Evan constructed benches at the Churchville Nature Center

Troop 147 Eagle Scout Dean DiDomenico was presented with the Marine Corps League Eagle Scout Certificate by Gus Cales at his May 29, 2021 Court of Honor.

Congrats to Eagle Scout Sarah Hogan of BSA Troop 99 – the first female to earn the Eagle Scout in Bucks County, PA. She constructed the potting bench shown below for the garden at Tyler State Park.

Congrats to Lydia Ermer of Troop 21105 and Sophie Laurence on being presented with the Gold Award on May 14th. Gus Cales was on on hand with Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick for the ceremony.

April 21, 2021 Officers installed by Dist. 2 VC Gene Irvin.

Gus Cales presented Certificates to Anthony Gambescia, Jr. & Colin Charr on 10/24/2020

Marine Corps League Patriot Detachment 1230 Officers installed February 19, 2020 by District 2 Vice Commandant Gene Irvin assisted by Sue Irvin are (L-R) Adjutant Mike Lecker, Junior Vice Commandant John Koutsouros, Senior Vice Commandant Mike Clark, Commandant Neil Clark, Sr., Paymaster Pete Palestina, Sergeant at Arms Gus Cales and Chaplain William O’Hara.

On Jan. 25, 2020 Gus Cales presented certificate to Victor Sorace at his Court of Honor.

January 6, 2020 Welcome Home and Flag Exchange

Detachment Commandant Neil Clark, Sr. presented the Distinguished Citizens Certificate to Art Ruth’s son James Ruth at the Dec. 7th Memorial Service

Patriot Detachment renders a final salute to its Past Commandant Art Ruth at his Dec. 7, 2019 Memorial Service

Patriot Detachment advanced the Colors at a Dec. 7th Wreath Ceremony in Northampton Township

Raising the flag Dec. 7th at Union Cemetery.

Nov. 20, 2019 Welcome Home for Air Force Sr. Airman Tim Harman

Color Guard at Northampton Veterans Day Ceremony 11/10/19

Photo and video of the Army flag placement for deployed Northampton Township resident 1st Lt. Jacob Sweed at the October 23, 2019 Board of Supervisors meeting by his mother Margot Sweed and father Bob Sweed. Sweed is the 90th resident to be honored with a service flag since the program began on April 23, 2003. On hand for the presentation were members of the Patriot Detachment 1230 Marine Corps League (Pete Palestina, Neil Clark, Sr., Jimmy Clendennen, Don Barder and John Koutsouros.
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Members at the 9/28/19 Northampton Day booth.

At the flag placement 9/25/19 for Air Force Sr. Airman Tim Harman.

Gus Cales presents Certificate to Andrew Schmitz 6/15/19

Gus Cales present Certificate to Andrew DiDomenaco 5/18/2019

About our Detachment member Richie Gresko

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Color Guard Memorial Day 5-27-19

Memorial Day 2019 Taps

Marching to the flagpole

New member Bill O’Hara sworn in 5-15-2019.

May 11, 2019 5 Troop 10 Eagles Scouts with Gus Calas

Gus Cales presents cerificate on March 31, 2019 to Christopher Gasiewski of Troop 29 at his Court of Honor

Detachment members with Supervisors at Northampton Citation

Commandant Neil Clark holding Northampton Citation

Commandant Neil Clark, Sr. presents outgoing Commandant Dick Weaver with a plaque of Commendation.

Outgoing Commandant Dick Weaver passes the gavel to new Commandant Neil Clark, Sr.

Marine Corps League Patriot Detachment Commandant Neil Clark, Sr. sworn in by District 2 Vice Commandant Gene Irvin

Marine Corps League Patriot Detachment 1230 Officers installed March 20, 2019 by District 2 Vice Commandant Gene Irvin assisted by Sue Irvin are (L-R) Trustee Harry Niemann, Trustee John Heenan, Junior Vice Commandant John Koutsouros, Judge Advocate Don Barder, Adjutant Mike Lecker, Commandant Neil Clark, Sr. Vice Commandant Dick Weaver, Paymaster Pete Palestina, Sergeant at Arms Gus Cales.

Patriot Detachment 1230 Eagle Scout Coordinator Gus Cales presented a certificate to Brandon Dorsey of Troop 29 at his March 2, 2019 Court of Honor .

Gus Cales presented Cole Schenkman of Troop 29 a certificate at his March 10, 2019 Court of Honor

Patriot Detachment 1230 members Gus Cales, Dick Weaver, Jimmy Clendennen, Neil Clark, Harry Niemann, John Hennan and Mike Lecker assisted member Pete Palestina at the February 27th Northampton Board of Supervisors meeting where they placed a Coast Guard flag honoring deployed resident Seaman Robert Hayes.

Patriot Detachment 1230 members on hand September 26th at the Northampton Supervisors meeting for the Flag Ceremony honoring Army Specialist Tyler Reichert. Pete Palestina (moderator), Mike Clark, Neil Clark, John Heenan, Gus Cales, Jack Westberg, John Koutsouros, Harry Niemann and Mike Lecker

Patriot Detachment received Detachment Facebook Award and a 100% Membership Ribbon for 2017-18 presented to Commandant Dick Weaver by PA District Vice Commandant Gene Irvin on September 19th.

Marine Corps League Patriot Detachment Eagle Scout Coordinator Gus Cales presented MCL Award Certificates to Zachary Miller and Kevin Trusdell at their 8/19/2018 Court of Honor. Other dignitaries on hand were Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, State Representative Gene DiGirolomo and State Senator Tommy Tomlinson.

There were 9 Patriot Detachment 1230 members participating at the June 27th Northampton Township flag placement ceremony for recently deployed Air Force Senior Airman Austin Fizel.

Pete Palestina with Fitzpatrick family at 6/9/18 ECOA.

Gus Cales presents Eagle Scout Certificates on 6/9/18 to Michael and Thomas Fitzpatrick

Gus Cales with dignitaries at a 6/3/18 Eagle Court of Honor for 5 Scouts.

Detachment selling raffle tickets 5/26/2018

Detachment members at Northampton Day, May 6, 2018 with Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick.

Detachment members participated in a flag exchange directed by Pete Palestina on February 28th at the Northampton Township Board of Supervisors public meeting where they welcomed home from Afghanistan Army Maj. Kevin Loughnane and placed an Air Force flag in the township display for deployed 1st Lt. Kelsey Glover. Detachment members in the photo (L-R) are John Heenan, Gus Cales, Neil Clark, Sr., Pete Palestina and Mike Clark.

Officer Installation 2-21-2018

Patriot Detachment Eagle Scout Coordinator Gus Cales presents Good Citizenship Award to Eagle Scout Christopher Singleton of Troop 19, at his Court of Honor on 2/3/2018.

On Dec. 16 Scout Troop 29 honored Gus Cales for his representing the MCL Patriot Detachment 1230 in the Eagle Scout recognition program. An award was presented to Gus by Troop 29 and Scoutmaster Dave Brown who said the following:
“Gus, How nice to have our Eagle Scouts at Troop 29 honor you for all you do to represent the Marine Corps League at countless scouting events throughout the year. We are so lucky to have you as our rep. Thank you for your service to our country and your continued service to our community”.

Provided a Color Guard and Firing Squad on December 2, 2017 at the Union Cemetery, Richboro, PA for a Hometown Heroes Wreath Laying Ceremony

Patriot Detachment members after participating in Northampton Veterans Day event 11-11-2017.

Color Guard Northampton Veterans Day Nov. 11, 2017

Welcome Home for Airman Timothy Rihl 10/25/2017

Table at 10/17/2017 Northampton Veterans Expo

Photo taken last Wednesday at Washington Crossing National Cemetery with Medal of Honor recipient Herschel “Woody” Williams along with Eddie Hackett and Patriot Detachment member John Heenan.
Marine Woody Williams is the last living Medal of Honor recipient from Iwo Jima and is an MCL member.

Meritorious Commendation for Pete Palestina

Meritorious Commendation presented to Pete Palestina

Distinguished Service Award for George Kelly

Sypek Flag Exchange 8-23-17

Pete Palestina pinned

Neil Clark pinned

Vietnam Era Recognition 8-30-2017

June 28, 2017 Flag Placement Maj. Kevin Loughnane

Patriot Detachment 1230 members were on hand for a welcome home reception for Army Specialist Jeffrey Vogel March 23, 2017 at his home.

Gus Cales presented MCL certificates at the March 5th Court of Honor to 3 Troop 10 Eagle Scouts: (L-R) Cooper Pandorf, Daniel Rottenborn and Rex Berger.

The Patriot Detachment Marine Corps League was pleased to present a Marine Corps League Distinguished Service Award to former Congressman Michael G. Fitzpatrick at its meeting of January 18, 2017

Gus Cales presented Eagle Scout Certificate to Hugh Collins at his December 10, 2016 Court of Honor.

Eagle Scout Court of Honor on Oct. 30, 2016 Gus Cales presented MCL Certificates to Zachary Nester, Robert Quinn and Daniel Dwyer.

After participating in the Northampton Veterans Monument unveiling on 11/11/16 members had a photo taken with officials (left to right) Northampton Supervisors Chairman Larry Weinstein, Gus Cales, Mike Clark, Harry Niemann, Congressman Elect Brian Fitzpatrick, Pete Palestina, State Representative Scott Petri and Commandant Dick Weaver.