Donald Cook Detachment # 608 –
Burlington Vermont
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Contact us at mcldet608vt@gmail.com
About Us: We are one of 5 detachments of the Marine Corps League in Vermont and based in Burlington. We are honored to be able to name our detachment after Donald Cook who was a POW in Vietnam and repeatedly put the interests of his comrades before that of his own well-being. Giving more needy men his medicine and drug allowance while constantly nursing them, he risked infection from contagious diseases while in a rapidly deteriorating state of health, eventually losing his life. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Mission: Members of the Donald G. Cook Detachment provide assistance to all Marines, FMF Corpsmen and their families as well as conduct events and ceremonies together in fellowship and camaraderie in order to preserve the history and traditions of the United States Marine Corps and support our local community.
The USS Donald Cook DDG75 is the first naval war vessel
named for an unreturned Prisoner of War. On 20 March 2003 the first
Tomahawk missiles launched at the beginning
of the Second Gulf War were fired from the USS Donald Cook. More
information is available here.
Donald G. Cook - USMC
The current committees of the Donald G. Cook
Detachment are:
Toys
for Kids of Vermont
Picnic
Committee
Welcome
Aboard Committee
Marine
Corps Birthday Ball Committee
Technology
Committee
Honor
Guard Committee
The
current activities include:
Color
Guard Detail
Toys
for Kids of Vermont
Marine
Corps Birthday Ball
Local
Parades
Once
a Marine! - Always a Marine!