We will drill in person Monday, 17 May at 1900. Uniform is NWU Type I or Type III.

• Memorial Day Events Preparation: Tonight's drill will concentrate on preparing for our Memorial Day Parades.
• Uniform Inspection: Cadets that have not had a Dress White Uniform inspection, please arrive in your dress uniform and bring NWUs to change into later. Please keep working on any discrepancy. Cadets will have the opportunity to update their ribbon rack.
• PRT: For those who need to retake your PRT, you can conduct a PRT at home or take one at the next available drill with permission form the chain of command. Remember you cannot attend training unless you have a current passing PRT.
• Annual Inspection: Please bring any cadet record forms requested. The most important form is the Report of Medical Examination. Form link: PDF or MS Word. No cadet may attend training without this form and we are past the deadline to have 100% compliance for our annual inspection.
• Plan of the Month: May will be a busy month. Please check the POM for all the events.
  • Thank you to all who planted flags this past Saturday at Saint John cemetery. We placed approximately 1500 flags at veterans' graves.
  • Outstanding job by the color guard team for the Stamford Yacht Club commissioning. The club was very impressed!
  • Stamford Memorial Day Ceremony and Parade - Sunday,  30 May
  • New Canaan Memorial Day Ceremony and Parade - Monday, 31 May.
  • DEALEY Divsion Graduation - Monday, 7 June at SYC. (New)
• Training: Summer training opportunities are populating quickly. Please look often for training availability. Once you have found the training you want, let us know and we will initiate the registration. Be aware, that unless the training is virtual you will need a current passing PRT in order to register. May of the trainings have rank and other requirements. Please look closely. Watch this video for more information on how to find the training you want and how to interpret the information. We will provide the filled out Request for Training Authorization form. Do not download and fill it out as the video may suggest.
• Regional NSCC Recruit Training (RT): Though not yet posted in the Magellan Training List, NSCC Recruit Training (boot camp for sea cadets) for our region is tentatively scheduled on 15-24 July at Camp Edwards, Cape Cod, MA, same place as Flagship. Please look at your schedule to see if that works. If not we have to look elsewhere for RT.
• Regional NLCC Orientation, Basic (NLO): Though not yet posted in the Magellan Training List, NLCC Orientation (boot camp for league cadets) for our region is tentatively scheduled on 26 June - 3 July at Camp Nett, Niantic, CT. Please look at your schedule to see if that works. If not we have to look elsewhere for NLO.
• ​Seniors: All seniors to submit essays, resumes and FAFSA forms for scholarship consideration ASAP. Visit the scholarship page for full details.

This Day in Naval History

• 17 May 1987 - USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by two Iraqi Exocet Missiles in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 Sailors and wounding 21.

Go the the Naval History and Heritage Command webpage for today and look at other days in Naval History.

Hello CT Navy League members and other supporters of the sea services:
​
The Connecticut Council of the US Navy League is pleased to invite you to attend an online Zoom meeting scheduled for Wednesday May 19th at 7:30 pm eastern time
Our principal speaker will be Vic Mercado, retired Rear Admiral and more recently former Assistant Secretary of Defense for strategy, plans, and capabilities.  
For more details, see our March Council newsletter at: https://www.navyleaguewestct.org/NLissue1.0Mar21.pdf
To attend this Zoom meeting, please register in advance at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdeCqqj8pH9LMG-_imaHY_btPhAX3vE0P 

If you register, you will receive a confirmation email one or two days prior to May 19th containing instructions on joining the meeting.
In the meantime, if you have a question that you would like our speaker to address, send it to: navyleague@verizon.net   There will also be opportunity to ask questions during the meeting itself.
We anticipate Admiral Mercado will make a highly informative and topical presentation.  We hope you can attend, 
Ed Fitzgerald, Council communications

Thank you to all who participated in planting U.S. flags at veterans graves. Approximately. 1,500 flags where placed at Saint John Cemetery. We located specific graves of PVT Angelo DeMasi (WWII casualty),  SGT Vincent Horan (WWII, Pearl Harbor casualty) and SSGT Homer Wise (WWII Medal of Honor recipient).

Outstanding job by the Color Guard team at the Stamford Yacht Club Commissioning. The Flag Officers and members were impressed! Bravo Zulu

 We will drill in person Monday, 10 May at 1900. Uniform is Physical Training (PT) Uniform.

• Uniform Inspection: Tonight we will conduct a Dress White uniform inspection. This is to prepare our uniforms for Memorial Day events and graduation. 
• PRT: For those who need to retake your PRT, you can conduct a PRT at home or take on next drill on 17 May. 
• Annual Inspection: Please bring any cadet record forms requested. The most important form is the Report of Medical Examination. Form link: PDF or MS Word. No cadet may attend training with out this form and we have a local deadline of 14 May to have 100% compliance for our annual inspection.
• Plan of the Month: May will be a busy month. Please check the POM for all the events.
  • Flag planting 15 May 0800-1200
  • Stamford Yacht Club commissioning (Honor Guard) - 15 May 1600-1800
  • Stamford Memorial Day Ceremony and Parade Sunday-  30 May
  • New Canaan Memorial Day Ceremony and Parade - Pending on 31 May.
  • Dress White uniform inspection - Today.
• Training: Summer training opportunities are populating quickly. Please look often for training availability. Once you have found the training you want, let us know and we will initiate the registration. Be aware, that unless the training is virtual you will need a current passing PRT in order to register. May of the trainings have rank and other requirements. Please look closely. Watch this video for more information on how to find the training you want and how to interpret the information. We will provide the filled out Request for Training Authorization form. Do not download and fill it out as the video may suggest.
• NSCC Recruit Training (RT): Though not yet posted in the Magellan Training List, NSCC Recruit Training (boot camp for sea cadets) for our region is tentatively scheduled on 15-24 July at Camp Edwards, Cape Cod, MA, same place as Flagship. Please look at your schedule to see if that works. If not we have to look elsewhere for RT.
• NLCC Orientation, Basic (NLO): Though not yet posted in the Magellan Training List, NLCC Orientation (boot camp for league cadets) for our region is tentatively scheduled on 26 June - 3 July at Camp Nett, Niantic, CT. Please look at your schedule to see if that works. If not we have to look elsewhere for NLO.
• ​Seniors: I need all seniors to submit essays, resumes and FAFSA forms for scholarship consideration ASAP. Visit the scholarship page for full details.

This Day in Naval History

• 10 May 1960 - USS Triton (SSRN 586), commanded by Capt. Edward L. Beach, completes a submerged circumnavigation of the world in 84 days following many of the routes taken by Magellan.

Go the the Naval History and Heritage Command webpage for today and look at other days in Naval History.