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  SEPTEMBER 29, 1899 
 
                                                                 
  THE NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED
 


 


                                                                           
 
                                     POST LEADERSHIP PRESENTS A $5000 DONATION THE OCCOQUAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
 

 

 
 

    
 
 Our 2024-2025 Leadership Team (left to right) Second Year Trustee Craig Chuba, Third Year Trustee Bob Love, House Committee Chairman Rick Cornelio, Service Officer Brendon Conway, Adjutant Lindy Dolan, Quartermaster Pete Jackson, Senior Vice Commander Brandon D’Andrea, Commander Jeff Lett, Installing Officer Past District Commander Chuck Wilson. Not Shown Junior Vice Commander Bob Fenlason, Judge Advocate General Jeff Springman, Chaplain Jim Hewitt, First Year Trustee Rob Hill
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

  

 
 VFW Post 7916 2023 Scout of the Year wins National Girl Scout Scholarship
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 

A Perfect Day at Old Hickory Golf Club, Woodbridge Raised Several Thousand Dollars for the Post.  Thanks to all, Especially Our Generous Sponsors

Be sure to see the Post's Gallery

 

 

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 This Breakfast Was Made in the Post Canteen and Carried to WDC IHO Police Officers attending Police Week 2023
 
James Prendergast, Jim Hewitt, Lindy Dolan, Bob Fenlason, Nick Roper and Jeff Lett have been inducted by Past District 10 Commander Chuck Wilson as Post 7916's 2023-2024 senior leaders.
 
 
 
  
 In respect and recognition of the contributions of our veterans and their families,  Mayor Porta presents Commander Lett and members of VFW Post 7916 a proclamation naming November 11, 2022, as Veterans Day,
and encouraged all citizens to recognize the valor, courage, and sacrifice of our veterans.
Vietnam veteran and Post Life member, retired Col. Paris Davis U.S. Army received the Army Medal of Honor March 3d.  To learn more about the 83-year-young colonel’s military career 
 
 Post 7916 Woodbridge Orange Warriors 

 
 Past Post and Past District Commander Chuck Wilson was Presented The 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Annual U-2 Dragon Lady Symposium
 Eagle Scout Jonathan, Post 7916 Scout of the Year and His Family
Many, Many Thanks To All Who Made This the Most Successful Post 7916
Fund Raising and Recruiting Occoquan RiverFest EVER!!!
 
POST COMMANDER JEFF LETT IS NOTED IN THIS MONTH'S VFW MAGAZINE FOR LEADING THE POST TO IT'S 5TH CONSECUTIVE ALL AMERICAN AWARD
 

   
 
 Thank you for your great support of Wreaths Across America for Quantico National Cemetery!!!
Post 7916 On National TV 
 
 This one has Joe and George raising the flag and Big Jim walking his dog on the boardwalk in Occoquan.
 

 VFW 2020 Year In Review
 


 

On May 14, Life Member and USMC Vietnam combat doctor Dr. Joe Gutierrez  received the President of the Washington Medical Society’s Award for his extraordinary contributions to DC medicine.  Here is Joe giving 100 year old Ken Chilstrom (Test pilot for the 10/1/42 P-59 first U.S. Jet Fighter flight) a hand in the Post 7916 Black Cat Lounge. CONGRADULATIONS JOE!!
 
 

 LEARN ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS NEW Telehealth Program for Hi-Tech connection for you with your VA care teams and specialists including:

no matter the distance at:  

HAWKINS-REEVE POST 7916 HAS EARNED ALL-AMERICAN STATUS FOR THE SIXTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR PLACING THE POST IN THE TOP 1% OF OVER 6300 VFW POSTS WORLDWIDE.

 "But we have forgotten God.  We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserves us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.  Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace too proud to pray to the God that made us".
Abraham Lincoln Proclamation - A National Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, March 30, 1863  
  
 " Remember the Maine" Sunk at anchor in Havana Harbor February 15, 1898
 
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima February 23, 1945 is the iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.  
 
On March 6,1836, After a two week siege, the Battle of the Alamo came to a gruesome end, capping off a pivotal moment in the Texas Revolution. Over 1000 Mexican forces recaptured the fort, and nearly all of the roughly 200 Texan defenders were killed.  On April 21, Texas won the battle of San Jacinto and independence from Mexico.  
 
                          Happy Birthday Green Berets
U.S. NAVY OCTOBER 13, 1775
Non Sibi Sed Patriae