The January 20th meeting was a business meeting. Explorer Steve Szilaygi was on leave from his duties since joining the Marine Corps and attended, speaking to the Explorers about Marine Corps values and experiences so far.
Other items discussed were about our community service car wash held January 13th at the station where Explorers offered free car wash and donation detailing service for officers' squad cars. We will be holding more of these events to keep the city fleet clean! We also raised approximately $125.00 in donations from this event!
In addition, new ranks and positions were opened up and announced by Cpl Koczan as follows:
Explorer Captain: Kody Marvel
Explorer Lieutenant: Heather Szymanski
Explorer Sergeant: Krista Garcia
Explorer Corporal: Marc Chiddister
These members represent the ranking structure of the post and we will be holding executive leadership meetings periodically in 2008 to plan our goals and events.
In addition, we discussed our uniforms which are here, and have had patches installed. These will be distributed for the February 3rd meeting, which is our next scheduled event. (Building searches will be the topic)