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Brick Alley Fundraiser a Tremendous Success

The 14 May Veterans Serving Veterans at the Brick Alley Pub was a great success. The result of this inaugural fundraising event for the post will allow Post 406 to further serve Veterans, in addition to strengthening the bonds within our team. We have built relationships within the Newport community and fostered camaraderie within our…

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Newport Gulls Game a Success

For the second year in a row, VFW 406 set the season high for the the 50/50 raffle at the game. Despite many empty seats in the stadium due to the threat of rain, post members could sell $1372 in tickets for the 50/50 raffle – over $350 more than last year! As luck would have…

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Mark Turner Elected RI VFW State Commander for 2024-2025

Capt. Mark Turner, (Ret.) U.S. Navy was elected as the State Commander of the Rhode Island Veterans of Foreign Wars for the 2024-2025 calendar year as part of the 2024 State VFW convention proceedings.

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Newport Gulls & Gold Star Sailing Both Win!

On July 17th, the Newport Gulls hosted their annual Military Appreciation night for Active Military, Veterans and their families at Cardine’s Field. In addition to providing a great night of baseball (just a reminder they are the New England Collegiate Baseball League regular season champs!), the Newport Gulls organization recognized and honored many local military…

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Celebrating ANZAC Day

On March 30, Phill King, a retired Artificer Sergeant Major (ASM) of the Australian Army gave a dynamic lecture on the origins and celebration of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Day, a day of national observance of equal significance to our observance of Memorial Day each May. Soon following the lecture, Phill departed for Australia to…

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50th Anniversary of Combat Troops Leaving Vietnam – March 29th, 2023

On January 27th, 1973 the United States and the other three official combatants of the Vietnam War signed the Paris Peace Accords, providing for the withdrawal of U.S. forces within 60 days, and the implementation of a ceasefire within South Vietnam. On March 29th, 1973 United States Combat Forces ceased operations and left Vietnam, coinciding…

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20th Anniversary of the Start of OIF – Post 406 Members Reflect

On October 16, 2002, the 107th United States Congress passed the “Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq”, citing a number of grievances with the actual and suspected conduct of Iraq under the leadership of Saddam Hussein. More importantly, the resolution provided authority to President George W. Bush to…

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February Post Meeting Moved to Feb 15th!

To all Post Members and anticipated guests, the regularly scheduled business meeting for the Post shall be moved from Tuesday, February 14th at 1700 to Wednesday, February 15th at 1700. In case you are wondering why we moved the meeting, now is a good time as ever to remind you that Tuesday, Feb 14th is…