June 2010 Motor Pool Messenger - Military Transport Association

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June 2010
ON THE COVER-A M151 Military Police Jeep on display
in the Vietnam era area at the 2010 MTA Swap Meet.
(Picture courtesy of David Steinert).
MTA 2010 Officers and Staff
Tel: 973-738-4624
President- Jim Moore
Email: [email protected]
Quarter Master Report: Randy Emr reports that our new
hats are selling well…particularly the OD version. See
Randy if you want to trade in that old greasy club hat for
one of the new MTA hats…. The new hats are only $10 for
members. Randy also has club shirts and jackets for sale
at every meeting if you are looking to upgrade your
wardrobe.
Vice President-Ken Coanshock
Tel: 848-219-5181
already getting calls from interested parties wanting to
know if we are planning a repeat of last years event.
John also reminds us that we are again invited to the
Whippany Train Museum’s show on September 12th and
13th.
Email:[email protected]
Treasurer-Ginnie McDevitt
Tel: 845-987-7896
Membership Chairman-Fred Schlesinger
Tel:973-228-7257
Swap Meet Report:
Fran Antico-The club members
bestowed Fran and her show committee a big round of
applause and thanks for a job so well done. For those that
attended the show last month, you know what a great
success the show was even with threatening weather.
Fran provided the following update on April’s show results:
Email:[email protected]
Parade/Events Coordinator-Peter Schindo
Email:[email protected]
Tel: 201-444-3198
Recording Secretary-Gary Schultz
Email:[email protected]
Tel: 908-852-4520
Newsletter Editor-Dave Steinert
Tel: 973-347-9091
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Email:[email protected]
Web Master-George Wagner
Tel: 973-927-7616
Email:[email protected]
2011 Sussex Show Chairman- Fran Antico
Email: [email protected]
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NOTICE: The next MTA monthly meeting will be on
Monday, June 14th 2010 at the Whippany American
Legion Post, Legion Place, Whippany, NJ.
Refreshments at 7:00 PM, meeting begins at 8:00 PM.
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Tel: 973-670-1277
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Military Transport Association
Meeting Minutes for May 10th 2010
Meeting started at 8:00PM. President Jim Moore
opened the meeting with our traditional pledge of
allegiance and a moment of silence for the troops.
Prior minutes were approved.
There was no Treasurer’s Report this month.
Membership: Fred Schlesinger reports that we have 173
current members, twelve of those are new members that
joined at the April Swap Meet.
Newsletter: Dave Steinert-As a follow up to last month’s
discussion concerning a Mechanic’s Corner of the
newsletter, Dave is looking for members to submit a few
articles.
Did you change a carburetor on your Deuce,
brake lines on your Jeep, or find a trick to painting numbers
on your vehicle? Try writing a brief recap to share some
tips with the membership!
Adoptee Report: John Dwyer asked that if you have a
friend or a family member that you want to add to our
adoptee list, to please drop him a line with the APO and
contact info.
R.O.B.
John Sobotka noted that budgets cuts are
impacting NJ Transit. Its too early to tell how these cuts
may impact our next Toys For Tots train in Dec, but John is
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Approximately 3000 paid attendees at the gate. If
you factor in exhibitors, staff, children and vendors
we easily double the paid attendee count, even
with the cold weather.
Net Income from the show was $8558
The show collected $100 in donations for the
Adoptee Committee.
121 vehicles were registered by the display
committee
33 CERT and 45 CAP volunteers helped to support
logistics, parking and coordination at the show.
Fran thanked all those that helped make the show
so successful…a special thank you to Jack
Pellington and Ed Marchese!
Leslie Ruben, from Cell Phones for Soldiers was on
hand tonight to explain how the program works. AT&T
sponsors the program and takes all the phones that are
donated and melts them down for the material value of the
components. That value is then donated back to the
program in the form of “Phone Cards” that are distributed to
the troops. During this years show Leslie collected 216
phones and received $154 in donations. Good job Leslie
and thanks for joining our show and providing our Adoptee
Committee with so many phone cards for us to include in
our packages!
Parades and Events: Peter Schindo provided a recap of
the parades that we have on our schedule for Memorial
Day weekend. Peter noted that we need about 50 vehicles
to support all of our parade commitments. We are running
shorts for at least two towns. Please see the MTA web site
for a complete list of parades and events or call Peter if you
think you can help out!
Old Business:
 See Ken Coanshock if you need to pick up your
club badge.
 Our Club Statistician, Paul Dormont is starting to
compile a list of club members and their vehicles.
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Paul will be preparing a form for all members to fill
out so we can keep track of who has what!
Reminder to all that our MTA picnic will be held on
June 26th at Mountain Farm Park in Lebanon
Township.
- The picnic is free for all current members
and one guest
- There will be plenty of trail rides
- The lunch BBQ will be catered…the
Cookie gets a brake this time!
- There will be fishing, bring your pole and
reminder that adults will need a license
- We are told the scenery is spectacular and
it will be an excellent setting to take
pictures of your vehicle, don’t forget to
bring your camera.
New Business:
 Paul Dormont made a motion to donate $60 to our
host American Legion post to help support their
Poppy Drive. Motion was approved.
 Wheels for the Wounded will be hosting their trail
ride again on September 18th. More details to
come.
 New Members in attendance:
- Rich Bammert, CSM
- Merrill Tucker
- Bill Pockatino
- Andrew Salsino
Meeting ended at 9:15PM
Submitted by Gary Schultz
Submitted by Gary Schultz
Email from our Adoptees at the Front:
munchies
went
fast,
and
were
greatly
appreciated by my men. For troops in remote
forward locations, something from home to
break the monotony of the meals is greatly
appreciated. We've found that "just add
water" stuff is a big hit...Ramen noodles,
instant mac & cheese, Propel drink powder
packets, etc.
We have all the bottled
water you could ever ask for, but we are
always looking for something to add to it
to disguise the flat taste of purification
and sterilization!
I also want to personally thank
your team for your assistance with my dad's
Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge picnic
last summer at Horseshoe Lake. The looks
on the veterans' faces when the USO girls
came riding in your Jeeps and hopped out
and started singing...priceless! There was
not a dry eye in the house, including
mine. I won't be able to attend this year
as I am serving in Afghanistan, but I hope
your MTA team can attend and I look forward
to the following summer's picnic.
I also look forward to the day I
can join your organization and restore my
own WWII U.S. Coast Guard Port Security
Jeep...or perhaps a HMMWV like the one I
drive every day here! Please say hello to
my former co-worker Terry Weaver, and thank
your entire team for me.
V/R,
LT (O-3) James K. Cullen OIC,
U.S. Coast Guard RAID Team Afghanistan
U.S. Army 831st DDSB / Bagram
DSN: 318-431-3606
CELL: 079-317-3515
Honor - Respect - Devotion to Duty - Semper
Paratus"
Hello Mr. Dwyer,
Sir,
Thank you very much for the
giant box of candies and snacks.
They
arrived safely and are presently being
consumed by all my guys. I pulled a muscle
in my back trying to lift the box but I’ll
be fine. It was very thoughtful of you and
your organization. Thanks for thinking of
us and we all appreciate your support.
Very Respectfully,
John H Selnekovic, SMSgt, USAF
386 ELRS/LGRV
Vehicle Fleet Manager
DSN 318-442-2821
CP 9-938-9396
COL Dwyer,
and
Just sending a note to thank you
your team for the care package.The
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My
name
is
Specialist
James
Donovan. I wanted to let you know your
package found me very well. My fellow
soldiers and I are always grateful to have
some good snacks. Just a little background
you may or may not know. I am an
Infantryman with 3BDE 3ID out of Fort
Benning, GA. My platoon is the BDE command
security platoon. I work for the CSM. We
are stationed in FOB Kalsu, which is about
25-30 miles south of Baghdad. My mother
tells me the news talks about the violence
out here but I will tell you that we (BDE)
rarely see any of it. So far it’s been a
boring deployment. I tell you this to let
you know that, as I am sure you know from
experience, sitting out here in this heat
and wondering why we are here can wear down
on any soldier. It always gets me excited
when I am told I have a package and helps
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lift my spirits when the box is full of
good stuff we can’t readily get out here. I
told my buddies where the goodies came from
and they were all interested in the
vehicles you have and the work you do. We
all thought the picture you attached to
your letter was pretty interesting. I
Googled the MTA and checked out some of the
pictures. The collection and variety of
vehicles is pretty impressive. It seems
like a lot of fun .I just wanted you to
know that we really appreciated the box and
want to thank you for thinking about us out
here in the desert.
Specialist James Donovan
COLLECTING WW II BATTLEFIELD RELICS
ON THE SCHNEE EIFEL
By Harold Ratzburg
I have been very fortunate in my lifetime to be able to
pursue my interest in the military and anything connected
to it, such as collecting the vehicles and equipment, and
being able to visit some of the old battlefields of the Civil
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War and World Wars I and II. I won't live long enough to
visit them all, but I wish I could.
One of the most interesting areas I have visited is
located in the Ardennes, a forested area in Belgium, where
the Battle of the Bulge (as it was called by Americans) was
fought. Of particular interest was the Schnee Eifel, a long
ridge, running north to south, where American troops were
dug in at the top, facing the German troops dug in to the
east of them
On December 16, 1944, those German troops
charged up the slopes and around the ends of the ridge,
and surrounded the 106th Infantry Division, and after some
severe battles, the Americans surrendered, and about
7000 American troops marched off into captivity.
I have had the opportunity to visit the Schnee Eifel
battleground four times, and the surrounding Battle of the
Bulge area, and it continues to hold a kind of historic
fascination to me. (OK, you can call me weird, but it is my
thing.)
My first visit came about when a friend and I went on
a World War II Battlefield tour run by Northstar Tours. The
owner of the touring company's name was Ray Cowdery,
and yes, it is the same Ray Cowdery who wrote the two
definitive books on the World War II Jeep, "The All
American Wonder", volumes one and two. I will testify that
Ray is as good a Touring company operator and guide as
he is a writer of jeep books and many others. In all, I went
on three different tours of the European World War II with
him, and his wife Josephine. They were great.
But let’s get back to the
Schnee Eifel. The first tour
took us to an area where we
parked the bus, and walked
back into the forest, along
side of a row of concrete
'dragons teeth" (Tank traps)
that were remains of the
German "West Wall". When
we got back into the forest
you could see some of the
remains of the battlefield
debris. I found a part for a
jeep engine, a lot of
communication wire, a piece
of a rusted ammo can, and other odds and ends that I
could not identify laying around on the ground and in
the overgrown remains of old foxholes. I think this was an
area where buses parked frequently to give people a
chance to wander back into the woods, so the area was
pretty well picked over, but very interesting never the less.
My second visit to the Schnee Eifel was about 4 years
later with my new Son-in-Law, Gregg, who acted as my
driver while I guided him using my edition of the "After the
Battle" book of the Battle of the Bulge. This time we found
a small road leading up to and along the top of the ridge,
and about 4 miles along the road through the woods, we
came upon a fenced in, US Army Base that I believe was a
radio or radar base. It was the year 1986, and the cold
War with Russia was a very real thing. After convincing the
guard that we were not Russian spies, we parked the car
near the gate and crossed the road and followed a line of
telephone wires back into the forest.
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The area was heavily shelled in 1944 and I'm sure not
too many trees were left standing or undamaged, but since it
was now forty two years later, the forest had reestablished
itself. However, you could see depressions caused by the
shell fire and old fox holes and dug outs that the GI's had
made during the war.
Near one of the foxholes I uncovered a hole about a foot
across and I don't know how deep, but it was filled with clips of
loaded M1 Garand ammunition. Some of the clips and shells
looked like brand new, and others showed signs of heavy
rusting and corrosion. There must have been fifty or more
clips left there after the GI's took off and the Germans over ran
the position
The temptation to pick them up and take some along for
souvenirs was great, but what do you do with a load of
ammunition in a foreign country where stuff like that is tightly
controlled, and how do you get on an airplane legally with
it. So we just had to walk away from it.
A little farther into the woods in a more or less cleared
spot, I came upon a genuine, honest to goodness, real
live WW II German shell and eagerly picked it up to take a
closer look at it. It was badly rusted and I could see the
electronic fuse and other materiel inside, and then it occurred
to me---HEY, YOU DUMB JERK, YOU HAVE IN YOUR
HANDS A TOUCHY, BADLY DETERIORATED, HIGH
EXPLOSIVE, GERMAN 88MM SHELL THAT COULD BLOW
YOU TO KINGDOM COME IF IT WENT OFF! What to do
with it now? After due consideration, I very, very, gently
eased it back down to the ground and tip toed away, all in one
piece. Was it a stupid move to pick it up? You betcha’ it was!
Poking around in an old foxhole turned up a sterling silver
medal bar that some GI had lost. The bar was the kind that a
GI could hang below his marksmanship badge to signify his
skill with a Browning Automatic Rifle. When you find stuff like
that your imagination starts working to visualize who the man
was 42 years ago that occupied this foxhole and whether or
not he survived the German attack and the war. It is the kind
of stuff that keeps us History Buffs going.
Farther back in the woods, we came upon a row of low
concrete bunkers that were part of Germany's "West Wall".
Every one of them had been blown up so they were no longer
usable. It was interesting to speculate on how much
explosives had to be used to do so much damage, but
somebody really knew their business about blowing things up
to take them out as completely as they did. We went out of the
woods and returned to our car.
My third visit to the area was a few years later when I
was trying out the possibility of becoming a tour group leader
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myself. I recruited two friends and their wives and acted as
the leader of the pack to visit WWII sites in France and
Germany. Our visit on that trip to the Schee Eifel was a short
one, mainly consisting of walking to the bunkers and taking a
general look-see of the area. We did try to locate that hole full
of M1 Garand bullets, but had no success. That forest just
grew too fast for us.
The fourth trip came about when we took our immediate
family, as a treat, to visit the old country. I asked my
Grandson, Brian, if there was anything that he would
especially like to see over there. To my somewhat surprise,
he said he would like to visit the Battle of the Bulge area and
Dachau Concentration Camp. Here was a kid, at 13, my own
Grandson, interested in WWII history like I was. (That kid---You must realize that as a Grandpa, it is my job to brag a little
when I can-----will shortly graduate from college as a Magna
Cum Laude in mathematics and economy.)
We took a road trip from Germany up to Belgium, and up
onto the Schnee Eifel.
It was a rainy day, but we followed the now familiar road
until we came to the US Army base. Low and behold, the
base had been abandoned now that the Cold War was over. It
was secured by a cyclone fence around it and the gates were
all locked, with No Trespassing signs all over the place. Very
tempting, but we did not crawl through the hole in the fence
that was there. We were too worried about the consequences
if we were caught.
The fox holes and shell holes were still there, and there
was a lot of evidence of other collectors, probably with metal
detectors, that went through the area. In one hole, (not the
original hole with all the bullets) I found another pile of M1
ammo that a previous collector had unearthed. Also on the
ground, I found a USGI axe head that had been blown apart
by shell fire in 1944. I can't imagine the force of an explosion
that would blow an axe head into pieces, or how that must
have felt to a soldier in a fox hole close by.
Grandson Brian, digging into the side of another foxhole,
came up with some canvas pieces which were the remains of
part of a cartridge belt and the wire hook and canvas of a
canteen carrier. That pretty much "made our day", so we
packed up the axe head, a bunch of the cartridges, a piece of
barbed wire, and the remains of the cartridge belt and canteen
and headed out for our hotel in Bastogne.
On the way out, Brian noticed something and hollered
"Stop, I think there is a bunker out there." I had driven past
this point a number of times but never noticed it before
because it was so heavily overgrown by the forest. We went to
explore and found a blown apart bunker that must have been
the 'Mother of all the Other Bunkers' we had seen back in
another part of the woods. The bunker must have been at
least 40 feet square, and the walls were at least three feet
thick. The roof was four feet or more thick, heavily re-enforced
with iron bars. Unfortunately, the engineers who blew up the
bunker did such a good job of it, that the only way into the
bunker was on your belly through a small opening, which did
not really interest us very much in the dark and wet forest
surroundings. Head clearance was about two feet maximum.
And so we left, and that was my last visit to the Schee Eifel.
And, this is the end of this story for now. How we got the
relics back to the USA is another story for another time.
June 2010
Club Picnic
th
Saturday, June 26 2010
12:00 noon
Mountain Farm Park
Lebanon Twp, NJ
th
Mandatory RSVP by June 14
[email protected]
Open to all club members and 1 guest
Additional guests $25.00 each
Overnight stays are welcome
(Tent camping only, lean-tos onsite)
Ole West BBQ
Trail Ride
Road Ride
Lawn Games
Movies & Popcorn
Fishing (license required)
Hiking
Mountain Farm Section/Teetertown Preserve - Hunterdon
County Park
DRIVING DIRECTIONS
FROM THE SOUTH – From Clinton/Flemington areas, via
State Route #31 North: Take Rt. 31 North, just past the Hess
gas station in Clinton, and exit to the right onto Rt. 513 North.
Proceed 6.5 miles, and turn left just past the A&P store in Califon,
onto Sliker Road…(  ) Proceed 1.5 miles up the hill on Sliker
Road, (and turn right onto Pleasant Grove Road. Proceed 0.6
miles to park entrance sign & black mailbox @ #30 Pleasant
Grove Road, on the right.
FROM THE NORTH – From Chester/Randolph areas, via
Morris/Hunterdon County Route #513 South: Take Rt. 513
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or
973-738-4624
South, past Long Valley, and turn right just before the A&P store
in Califon, onto Sliker Road. Continue with the same directions
after (  ) as when coming from the South.
FROM THE EAST – From Somerset/Union Counties, via
Route #I-78 West: Take Rt. 78 West to Exit 24 (marked “523 to
517 Oldwick/Whitehouse”), and turn right onto Rt. 523 North.
Proceed 1.0 mile to an intersection with a bank branch on the
right hand corner – DON’T TURN. (Although Rt. 523 turns right at
that light, continue driving straight – road becomes Rt. 517 North.)
Proceed 5 miles on Rt. 517 North to the first traffic light, and turn
left onto Rt. 512. (Landmarks on Rt. 517: you'll pass through the
Village of Oldwick, wind up a long hill & see a large white church
on your right hand side, just before that traffic light.)
Turn left (at the light) onto Rt. 512 West, and proceed 4.3 miles to
end. (Landmarks on Rt. 512: you'll pass through Califon Borough
& over an old white steel bridge over the South Branch/Raritan
River.) At the end of Rt. 512, turn right onto Rt. 513 North.
Proceed only 0.1 miles, and turn left, just past the A&P
Supermarket, onto Sliker Road. Continue directions at (  )
above.
FROM THE NORTHEAST – From Morris/Passaic Counties, via
Route #I-80 West: Take Rt. #I-80 West to Exit 26 (marked “Rt. 46
West - Mount Olive – Budd Lake”). Proceed 4.9 miles on Rt. 46
West. Landmarks on Rt. 46: After you see the Saturn car
dealership of Mt. Olive on the right, turn left just past the “Parkade
Shopping Center” (Super A&P store), onto Naughright Road.
Proceed 2.7 miles on Naughright Road, and turn right onto
Flocktown Road. Proceed 1.8 miles on Flocktown Road, and turn
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left onto Schooley’s Mountain Road. Proceed only 0.2 miles on
Schooley’s Mountain Road, and turn right onto Pleasant Grove
Rd. (Morris Co.). Proceed 2.5 miles on Pleasant Grove Road¹
(Morris County), and turn left onto Califon Road.
¹ NOTE: Pleasant Grove Road in Morris County does not
intersect or have any connection to the Hunterdon County
roadway of the same name; the Mountain Farm Section of
Teetertown is located on Pleasant Grove Road in Lebanon
Twp., in Hunterdon County.
( & ) Proceed 2 miles on Califon Road² to park entrance sign
& black mailbox @ #30 Pleasant Grove Road, on left.
² NOTE: Califon Road in Morris County turns into Pleasant
Grove Road in Hunterdon County, at the corner of Middle Valley
Road, just beyond the Centenary College Equestrian Center.
FROM THE NORTHWEST – From Warren County, via Route
#57: Take Rt. 57 North or South to the Mansfield/Beattystown
area, and turn onto Stephensburg Road. Proceed 1.3 miles up
the hill on Stephensburg Road to the intersection of Pleasant
Grove Road (This is NOT the Pleasant Grove Road in Hunterdon
County, where the park entrance is located. See ¹NOTE, above.)
Continue driving straight ahead – At this intersection,
Stephensburg Road becomes Califon Road. Continue directions
at ( & ) as above.
Street address for on-line map/driving direction service: 30
Pleasant Grove Road, Port Murray, NJ 07865
Although the Teetertown Preserve is located in Lebanon
Twp./Hunterdon County, the mailing address at the Mountain
Farm entrance is in an area served by the Port Murray Post
Office, Warren County.
CARC color, $40 each plus shipping. I'm in Zip 21071 (Maryland).
E-mail at [email protected], if interested. Tim Clark.
For Sale-Dodge M37, 1959 ¾-Ton. Disc brakes-new canvas on
seats and top, low mileage. New racks, garage kept and runs
well. Manty extras. $7500 or best offer. Call Don at 609-655-3395
or 732-890-3173. 11/09.
For Sale: Looking for a military vehicle? From projects to
ground-up Restorations and everything in between!
Check out: WWW.USMILITARYVEHICLES.COM
WANTED-Original seats for WC-51, any condition. Also any other
parts for same vehicle. Call Tom Virden at 304-269-4215.
Eastern Surplus & Equipment Co. is celebrating its 12th year!
We are now offering 100% PARTS SUPPORT for 2½ TON and
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Please take a look at our web page to see many of the parts and
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To add or remove listings from the Classifieds, please
email Dave Steinert at [email protected] or call
973-347-9091
For Sale -1985 CUCV M1009 for sale, 62,140 Miles. Current NJ
inspection valid till 4/11. Trans and differentials serviced with new
fluids and seals. New fuel tank and straps. New fuel pump, new
shocks, new belts, cooling hoses, new brake hoses, silicone fluid
installed. Truck is complete with all lights, markers, trailer hitch
with receptacle. Manual included and some spare parts. Green
camo pattern paint. Asking $5200. Contact Gary Kuipers Sr. after
5pm weekdays and anytime weekends. 908-813-0090. (4/10)
FOR SALE-1999 GRACO G MAX Airless Paint Sprayer, with
extra hole, gun, filters, tips; $1500.00. ITW Ransburg
Electrostatic Paint Unit; $1000.00. Call John Peterson at 732-7776828 or email me at [email protected]. (4/10)
For Sale-M35 truck bed, solid condition w/surface rust on inside
of bed, straight tailgate; latest 3-color camo, $500. M200A1, 2-1/2
ton, single-axle, 4 wheel trailer, nice condition, $500. Call
973.702.7366 (11/10)
For Sale-1952 M37 for parts, no engine, 1951 M37 in mint
shape, heat, winch, troop seats, 1968 M725 Jeep ambulance in
great shape, 1-ton trailer with bows, 2.5-ton w/winch, multi-fuel,
troop seats, runs great, needs sheet metal work. I’m looking for
halftrack parts, T16 carrier parts, 105 MM Howitzer. I will buy train
wrecks for cash.!! , or trade call me Dave at 1-917-567-6419.
For Sale-I have just received some of the adjustable legs for the
rear of the M-101, ¾-ton trailers. These are new in the box (NOS),
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The next MTA Meeting is
Monday, June 14th
At the Whippany American
Legion Post!
Military Transport Association
Of North Jersey
P.O. Box 393
Budd Lake, NJ 07828
Military Transport Association of North Jersey
A Chapter of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association
The Military Transport Association of North Jersey is a nonprofit organization for people interested in collecting,
restoring, displaying, and operating historic military
vehicles. Members of the club participate in 15 to 20
parades every year as well as educational events, militaria
and truck shows, rallies, trail rides and visits to veteran’s
homes.
Members also participate in projects such as restoring a
jeep for the National Guard Museum, the National Night Out,
USMC Toys for Tots campaign, fund raising for the National
WWII and Korean War Memorials, Boy Scout projects, and
National Guard recruiting campaigns.
Meetings are held on the second Monday of every month
at the Whippany American Legion Hall, Legion Place,
Whippany, NJ. You can come between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m. to
eat pizza, sandwiches and enjoy other refreshments. Beer
and wine is available from the Legion Hall. The meeting
starts at 8:00 p.m. and is normally over by 9:00 p.m.
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Notices of parades and events in which you can
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MTA of NJ Newsletter
Page 8
To join the Military Transport Association, send this form
(or the same information on a blank sheet of paper) with
$20.00 annual membership dues ($25.00 for Family
Membership) to the address below. Dues are for the
calendar year.
Name______________________________________________
Address____________________________________________
City, State, Zip_______________________________________
Telephone (________)________________________________
Email______________________________________________
Military vehicle(s) owned_____________________________
Mail completed application with $20.00 annual dues to:
Military Transport Ass’n of North Jersey
P.O. Box 393
Budd Lake, NJ 07828
June 2010