Saguaro Detachment 554 of the Marine Corps League
Marines and Associates of Saguaro 554, Due to the rapidly changing requirements associated with the Coronavirus, all meetings and fundraisers continue to be cancelled until further notice.
I will try to keep everyone posted and notify if there are any positive changes.
Stay safe, remain vigilant.
– Butch Polanski – Commandant, Saguaro 554
Semper Fi
2020 is here and Saguaro Detachment will hold Officer nominations during the February 24 meeting.
If you are a regular member and interested in running for office, contact the Commandant prior to the February meeting or show up at the meeting and put your hat in the ring. If you intend to nominate another for office, please contact them and determine that they would be willing to fulfill the office if elected, prior to your nomination.
Elections for Saguaro Detachment Officers will be held at the MARCH 2020 business meeting.
As in years past, our Detachment will participate in the Memorial Day ceremony held at Mountain View Cemetery in Mesa. 7900 E Main St, Mesa, AZ 85207
We will not have a monthly business meeting for the month of May. Our next business meeting will be 24 JUNE 2019.
Our website has been updated to incorporate our old SAGUARO554.COM address into our new .ORG website.
Officers page has been updated to reflect the new Officers installed on 25-MAR-2019
MARINE FOR LIFE page has been created and posted to “our programs” drop down tab
Documents page. coming soon
Over the past few days, many of you noticed a blockage of our website and a warning from Google, ESET, Norton, McAffee about the site having “phishing” content.
This content was maliciously attached to our site by outside sources, apparently through an injection of code into then, out of date web software.
This content, and the rest of the website, was then blocked to limit access.
The content has been removed and all software updated, our web host has been very helpful at getting the site up and working again and we greatly appreciate their efforts.
We are still working with the blacklisting sites to remove our website from their list of malicious websites. Please contact the webSgt with questions or to report other issues. Thank you.
Saguaro Detachment has elected new officers for 2019.
By M. Curry – 12FEB2019
On February 25, 2019 at the Detachment general meeting held at the poolside room at Fountain of the Sun resort, an election of Officers was held for 2019.
The newly elected Officers of the Detachment are…
E. “Butch” Polanski; Commandant
Keith Barrow; Sr. Vice Commandant
David Eneboe; Jr. Vice Commandant
Steve Orsini; Judge Advocate
The swearing in of Officers will be held during the 25 March 2019 meeting. The new Commandant will appoint the offices of Paymaster, Sgt.-at-arms, Quartermaster, Adjutant, Chaplain at that meeting. We encourage all members to attend.
Saguaro Detachment is proud to participate in the East Valley Veterans Day Parade again this year. Our Detachment Historian is in process of preparing a page reflecting Saguaro Detachment’s historical participation in the East Valley Veterans Day Parade which was very nearly cancelled many years ago but for the enormous efforts Saguaro Detachment and many of our members.
For more information, visit the E.V.V.P page on our site, and the E.V.V.P. website.
As of October 2018, we have a new, temporary meeting location.
Fountain of the Sun resort, in the Poolside room.
540 S 80th St, Mesa, AZ 85208
Members can ask directions at the guard house and you will be given a temporary pass and directions to the poolside room. Disabled parking available.
Note: we have a slightly earlier meeting time now. It will start at 1830 hrs.
See you there!
Our new Saguaro 554 photo gallery is installed and working. Members can send images in to be published.
Old images from our previous site will be transferred to this new site as soon as possible.
Our Calendar is also working now. Members will be able to subscribe to the RSS and have updates to calendar pushed to their phone or device!
These are the things I am working on today. Updated 29 Oct 2018
MAKING THIS PAGE EASIER TO FIND!!!
Upcoming pages / sections: