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This post doesn’t have much to do with Quantico, but it is worth reading.  Marines celebrate the Marine Corps ball wherever they are located.  I’ve heard stories of company commanders in Vietnam fragging choppers to spend a few minutes with a brother Marine on the beach to celebrate the birthday.  Once when stationed in Germany myself and a fellow Marine climbed a mountain in the Alps and had a oldest and youngest Marine Birthday ceremony (our wives thought we were a little nuts).  It’s an important day for Marines and the 232nd birthday is not too far in the future.  The Marines in Baghdad are not different and are getting ready for their ball.  The excerpt below is from a blog named for the event:

“Celebrate the 232nd Marine Corps Birthday Ball with our men and women serving in Baghdad. For every purchase of three (3) coffee items you will receive a custom designed premium ceramic poker chip commemorating the 232nd Marine Corps Birthday Ball being celebrated by the Marines in Baghdad. A gift of Devil Dog Brew coffee and a poker chip will also be sent to honor our men and women in Baghdad! Remember you’ll also receive FREE shipping with any order of 3 or more coffee items!!

Beginning on November 10, 1775 Marines have enjoyed celebrating their Birthday regardless of where they are stationed. This year Devil Dog Brew has teamed up with our close friends at CombatBet, TogetherWeServed, MilitaryByOwner, and SemperToons to help the Marines celebrate while serving in Iraq.

In order for us to make shipping deadlines we’re running this program through October 13, 2007 so order today and be sure to tell your friends about Devil Dog Brew!”

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I bet that a lot of you didn’t know that there is a dinner theater near Quantico.  The Riverside Dinner Theater is located near the Route 17 exit in South Stafford County.  The current production, running until October 28th, is “A funny thing happened on the way to the forum”.  Follow the link above for show times, prices, and dinner menu.

Broadway musical critics for over three decades have proclaimed this Stephen Sondheim work (A funny thing happened on the way to the forum), set in ancient Rome and based on a classic comedy by Roman playwright Titus Plautus (200 B.C.), as “simply one of the best musical comedies ever.” Rogue slave Pseudolus is promised his freedom if he can secure a wife for his young master Hero, but runs into complications from a blend of deliciously unsavory characters that keep him, his cohorts and you–guessing and laughing all the way. You’ll meet Senex, Hero’s meandering and “misunderstood” father, Domina, Senex’s overbearing and frustrated wife, the intimidating and self-righteous General Miles Gloriousus, Philia, the beautiful and innocent courtesan bride, Marcus Lycus, the archetypical procurer/matchmaker (of sorts), and the Proteans, reminiscent of the Three Stooges in past movie days. Punctuating the zany twists and turns is an entrancing Sondheim score which includes Comedy Tonight, Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, I’m Calm, Pretty Little Picture, That Dirty Old Man, and Bring Me My Bride. This show is fun personified!

Riverside also has a children’s theater.  Playing until October 6th is “Cinderella’s Slipper.”  Check the Riverside Children’s Theater page for matinee times, prices, and menu.

The Riverside Dinner Theater is located at Riverside Center, 95 Riverside Parkway, Fredericksburg, VA 22406.  Phone 540-370-4300.  See also Google Maps insert: 

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The “Medal of Honor” Golf Course offers eligible patrons, including DoD contractors, a wide variety of golfing activities. Located off Fuller Road, this facility offers an 18-hole course, practice range, practice putting green, pro shop, locker rooms, club storage services, banquet-sized pavilion and a new clubhouse and eatery, Mulligan’s.

This historic golf course, originally called The Officers’ Club Golf Course, began in 1930 as a six-hole layout, probably built by Marine Corps construction personnel and grew into a nine-hole course with two tee boxes on each hole around 1934.

Instrumental in the course’s development and later expansion to eighteen holes in the mid-1940s was Ernest Stanley, Course Superintendent from 1933, until he retired in 1976. After this expansion, the golf course became known as the “Quantico Golf Course.” Although not an exceptionally long track, the rolling terrain creates subtle challenges for golfers of every skill level. The course is well marked with interval disks in the fairways, marker stakes, and yardage shown on the sprinkler heads. Some very skilled players in Northern Virginia consider this one of the area’s better courses. The course is dedicated to the memory of Marines who have been awarded the nation’s highest
honor. In 1980, the “Quantico Golf Course” was renamed the “Medal of Honor Golf Course.”

The Medal of Honor Golf Course has become a popular retreat for Commanders-in-Chief starting in the 1950s with President Dwight Eisenhower, an avid golfer, and including Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George Bush and Bill Clinton. Golfers who tee it up here, find the Medal of Honor Golf Course a tight layout, placing a premium on shot-making in order to avoid mature trees, sand bunkers and water lining the sculptured Bermuda fairways. Landing areas that set up the best approach angle to the well-protected greens are uniformly small and hazard-lined. The small, contoured greens feature a mixture of several varieties of bent grasses, making putting somewhat complicated. The course is open all year to Active Duty and Retired military, DoD civilian employees, their family members, FBI Academy, National Guard and Reserve personnel. Civilian guests must be accompanied by an authorized host.

TEE TIME
Tee times for weekdays may be made up to four days in advance. To obtain tee times for Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, patrons may call or walk into the Pro Shop with the following priority:

• Active Duty Marines and family members assigned to commands in the National Capital Area and all Active Duty service members and their families assigned to commands at Quantico may call or walk into the Pro Shop on Wednesdays at 1300.

• Active Duty service members and their families and patrons who hold annual greens fee tickets may call or walk into the Pro Shop on Thursday mornings at 0730.

• All other authorized patrons may call or walk into the Pro Shop Thursday mornings at 0800.

To get there enter at the Main Gate in Triangle, Virginia and proceed through the security check point.  The golf course entrance is about a mile through the gate on your left at 3313 Fuller Heights Road.

Contact Info:Phone: 703.784.2424; Pro Shop: 703.784.2424; Mulligan’s: 703.784.2426

Hours of Operation:
Golf Course: Monday-Sunday: 0700-Dusk w Pho-Shop: 0645-1800 w Mulligan’s: Monday-Sunday: 0700-1830

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