Casas Adobes VFW Post 10,188 - Tucson, AZ

07/11/2021

VFW Post 10188 has consolidated with VFW Post 549.
Post 549's website https://www.vfwpost549.com/

A letter from the Commander of our new Post.

Tucson Post 549 VFW
8424 East Old Spanish Trail
Tucson, Arizona 85710-4302

7 July 2021

Welcome Brothers and Sisters in Arms!

On behalf of VFW Post 549, I am excited to welcome you to the family!

This is your new Post Home. Our Post motto is “The Friendly Post” and I sincerely hope that you will embrace that motto with your experiences here at 549. It is our responsibility to ensure that the Post offers a safe and welcoming place for Veterans to be with those of common experience and comradery. We support numerous local Veteran programs and community initiatives.

For those of you that have not had the opportunity to visit our Post, we are located on the corner of Old Spanish Trail and Broadway (the building with the copper roof). We have a nonsmoking cantina area that is open daily, a patio area, a climate-controlled smoking room, and a banquet hall (125 capacity). We have a variety of weekly activities, such as Slingo, Cantina Showdown, Ace of Spades, electronic bingo machines, and pull-tabs. Our kitchen is open daily with limited hours. (Please check out our webpage or follow us on Facebook).

On July 4th, we celebrated our Nation’s birthday with smoked brisket, turkey and pulled pork thanks to a couple of very energetic volunteers. As a fundraiser, one of our members agreed to dye his hair red, white, and blue if we could raise $1000, which we did, and he did! At the end of July, we are hosting a Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament, in conjunction with Women Warriors.

Membership meetings are held the third Saturday of the month at 1100 hours; our Post Auxiliary meets at the same time. The House Committee meets the first Tuesday of the month at 1800 hours.

I am looking forward to meeting each of you as we start this new chapter together.

With Regards,

Susan M Warner
Commander

Come visit Tucson's "Friendly Post," where it's our mission to serve every veteran, assist our community, and grow patriotism in our youth.

03/07/2021

If you would like to help prepare food bags or pass out food day of please contact the Post for information.

Find local events on Nextdoor, the neighborhood hub.

03/29/2020

Thank You, and Welcome Home!

11/05/2019

Tuesday will mark 10 years since the horrific Fort Hood shooting. A 10th anniversary remembrance ceremony will honor those who died and were injured in the mass shooting.

10/03/2019

TODAY WE REMEMBER

On October 3, 1993 Delta Force operators Msgt. Gary Gordon and SFC Randy Shughart gave up their lives in order to save their fellow brothers against incredible odds.

After 2 Blackhawks were shot down over the city of Mogadishu, both snipers repeatedly requested to be inserted and help secure one of the crash sites from an overwhelming enemy force.

After being denied twice by command, their request was granted knowing full well the dangers which lay ahead.

They were both inserted approx 100 meters from the site, and armed with only their personal weapons, fought their way to the wounded crew.

CWO Mike Durant was already defending the aircraft with an MP-5 but was unable to move from his chair due to a crushed vertebra in his back and a compound fracture of his left femur.

Shughart and Gordon extracted Durant and the crew members from the crash and defended the aircraft.

Under heavy fire, completely surrounded and outmanned, the Delta snipers killed scores of enemy fighters until their ammunition was completely depleted. Gordon held his position until he was killed by small arms fire. Shughart, still alive, recovered a rifle with the last five rounds of ammunition and gave it to the pilot with the words, "good luck." Then, armed only with his pistol, Shughart continued to fight until he too, was killed.

Their actions saved the life of Durant, despite him being eventually captured.
Both operators would posthumously receive the Medal of Honor, the first to receive it since the Vietnam war.

RESY EASY BROTHERS

10/01/2019

09/18/2019

The Department of the Air Force was created this day in 1947.

Off we go, into the wild blue yonder...

09/03/2019

On the 2nd of September in 1945, imperial Japan formally surrenders on the deck of the USS Missouri (The Mighty Mo) in Tokyo harbor.

08/15/2019

Excerpt from 45th Infantry Division Page

14 August, 1945 - Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allies is announced, effectively ending World War II. Since this day in history, both today and August 15th have been known as “Victory over Japan Day, or more simply, “V-J Day”.

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 forced the U.S. to respond with a declaration of war the following day. Germany, as Japan’s ally, then declared war on the United States, turning the war in Europe into a global conflict. Over the next three years, the Allies waged an increasingly one-sided war against Japan in the pacific, inflicting enormous casualties thanks to superior technology and productivity. Come 1945, the Allies were consistently bombarding Japan from air and sea, dropping over 100,000 tons of explosives on more than 60 Japanese cities and towns between March and July.

This bombardment campaign led to the Potsdam Declaration, issued by Allied leaders on July 16th, 1945, calling for an unconditional Japanese surrender. This declaration included the promise of a peaceful government to the Japanese people, but also stated that if the Japanese did not oblige to the Allie’s request, that they would face “prompt and utter destruction”. With the Japanese government refusing to surrender, the United States felt they were left with no option but to move forward with its atomic bomb. And so, on August 6th, 1945 a B-29 plane coined Enola Gay dropped Little Boy by parachute at about 8:15 AM, exploding 2,000 feet above Hiroshima, destroying five square miles of the city and killing 70,000 people. Despite the massive destruction caused by the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, the Japanese government still showed no signs of surrendering. The United States then dropped its second atomic bomb, just three days later, this time on the city of Nagasaki.

The day following the bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese government accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. Coming several months after N**i Germany’s surrender, Japan’s surrender in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a highly anticipated close. In a radio address that took place 14 Aug, 1945, Emperor Hirohito urged his people to accept surrender, blaming the use of the “new and most cruel bomb” on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the country’s defeat. In response, President Harry S. Truman announced the news of Japan’s surrender in a press conference at the White House stating, “This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would.”

Celebrations commenced around the United States and world, reflecting the overwhelming sense of relief and exhilaration felt by citizens of the Allied nations at the end of the long and bloody conflict. Since its initial celebration, V-J Day has fallen out of favor in fear of celebrations being offensive to the Japanese, who are now one of the United States’ strongest allies. This concern prompted the Clinton administration to refer to V-J Day as the “End of the Pacific War” during a speech celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.