Visit the canteen this Week (November 13 - November 20): Friday and Saturday, open 6-10 PM. 

 

Friday, November 13: 

Commander's Post Up, 430 PM

Canteen open, 6 PM

Trivia Night, 7 PM

Saturday, November 14: 

G4V Group Guitar Lessons, 9 AM

Post Monthly Maintenance Day, 3 PM

Tutubi Live Band, 7 PM

Sunday, November 15:

Zoom Yoga, 10 am

 

Monday, November 16:

Post General Meeting, 7:30 PM

 

Tuesday, November 17:

Soldiers Angels Food Pantry, 9 AM

Brickyard Event, 7 PM

 

Wednesday, November 18:

Georgetown vs. USNA Basketball Game, 630 PM

 

Thursday, November 19:

Thanksgiving Basket Shopping Day, 9 AM

 

Post Survey:  YOUR POST WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!  We sent out a Post Survey earlier this year, if you did not receive that email, or it went to your spam folder, here is the link to complete the survey. Please take a few minutes to fill it out, we want to know how we can make your Post and VFW Experience better!

 

Your Post needs a Community Outreach Committee!  If this is something you are good at, please contact the Post Commander and let him know that you are interested

  

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Commander's Post Up (November 13th, 430 PM): More fish pictures? Sure thing! Join the Post Commander as he posts up at the Post. Do you have a question about the Post? The VFW? Just want to talk to someone on a Friday afternoon? Come to the Post! The Post Commander will be there.

Trivia Night (November 14th, 7 PM) - Want to test your knowledge against the Posts most trivial minds? Come on out to the Post on Friday night and challenge yourself to 3 rounds of Jeopardy Style trivia.

Post General Meeting (November 16th, 730 PM) - Join your Post Comrades in helping to guide the Post as we move through the winter. We will have our November Post General Meeting at 730. You can attend in person, or at the Teams link from the Post Calendar. We will be covering:

• Thanksgiving Baskets
• Post's Thanksgiving Pot Luck
• Our progress towards All American and All State Recognition
• Hiking Club update
• Community Service Discussion
• Updates from Georgetown and George Washington SVAs

Click Here for the link to attend via Teams 

 

Soldiers Angels Food Pantry (November 17th, 9 AM) - Join your comrades at the November Soldiers Angels Food Pantry.  If you would like to volunteer to help out, please click at the link below:

 

Volunteer for Soldiers Angels Food Pantry

  

Brickyard DC Community Outreach Event (November 17, 630 PM):  Join our community partners, Brickyard DC, as they present another roundtable discussion about national service, presented by Vicky Hausman from the American Service Project.   "The American Service Project is reimaging national service as the new bottom rung of the career ladder, and building the political power to make it real. 

RSVP by clicking here

 

Georgetown vs. USNA Basketball Game (November 18, 630 PM):  Our friends at Georgetown SVA have invited us to attend the Georgetown vs. USNA basketball game on Wednesday, November 18th, 630 PM at the Capitol One Arena in Downtown DC.  If you are interested in attending, we have 5 tickets available, first come, first served, just send an email to the Post Commander at CDRPost3150@vfwva.org 

Thanksgiving Basket Shopping Day (November 19, 9 AM):  The Post will be shopping for the Thanksgiving Baskets for families on FT Myer that are food insecure on Thursday morning.  We should be shopping for 5-10 families, that is a lot of carts to push!  We will meet at the Post and head over to the FT Myer Commissary.  If you would like to help, be at the Post a few minutes before 9 AM. 

 

Volunteers needed: Post Thanksgiving Basket Donations (November 21st) - We are working to partner with USAA and Joint Base Fort Myer/Henderson Hall to reach out to Army and Marine Corps families that are in need during the holiday season.   If you are interested in being part of this team we can always use help with shopping on (November 19th) and packing up the boxes as well as delivering them in November. If this is something you are interested in and didn't sign up for yet, send a note to: cdrpost3150@vfwva.org .

 

Help your Post out and step up!  You will enjoy it and see how easy it is 

What is going on in our community?

 

The Washington-Rochambeau Route Through Arlington( November 12, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Reinsch Library Auditorium, Marymount University):  The Arlington Historical Society is proud to present a talk by Kevin Vincent on the march of the French and American Armies to and from Yorktown that passed through present-day Arlington in 1781 and 1782 and our area’s specific connections with the campaign. The route of the march from Newport, Rhode Island to Yorktown, Virginia is now commemorated in the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail and the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (W3R) Association’s Victory Towns program.

Fall 2026 Stumbling Stone Dedications:  The Arlington Historical Society and the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington invite you to the unveiling of "Stumbling Stones.” These bronze markers commemorate the lives of the enslaved people who helped build our county and our country and are placed in the sidewalk at the last known site of their enslavement. Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington’s research has revealed over 2000 enslaved people and identified 1050 by name.

• Saturday, Nov 14 @ 2 PM - Pike Park, 2820 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA 22204  

Veterans in Need:

 

If you know of a Veteran in need, here are some resources that can help them in Virginia or in the greater DMV area:

 

Right here in Arlington, there are two resources available at our comrades' American Legion Post 139:  

     - Charles Reynolds is a Virginia Veterans Service Representative.  He can be reached at (571) 317-6680 or at charles.reynolds@dvs.virginia.gov

     - George Mason Law School has an MVETS office at American Legion 139.  M-VETS enables Mason law students to assist servicemembers, veterans, and dependent family members in a wide variety of litigation and non-litigation matters.  Contact MVETS here

  

US Vets: US Vets (here is a link to their Website) has just opened a Service Hub in DC. If you know of a Veteran facing housing insecurity, please link them up with US Vets. As a note, we have a Post member who is a counselor for US Vets, our Chaplain, Chris G. 

  

Virginia Department of Veterans Services: Here is some useful contact information to assist Veterans in need. The Virginia Department of Veterans Services can help out:

 

• Contact Edwin Robles if you live in either Fairfax County or Arlington County.

• Fill out a request form if you live outside Fairfax County or Arlington County.

• If you have the resources to donate money for assisting a Veteran, the Virginia Department of Veteran Services recommends donating by sending a check to Northern Virginia Vietnam Veterans of America, PO Box 2111, Reston, VA 20195.

 

VA Disability Claim Assistance:  All of the organizations above can assist with a VA Disability Claim.  If you are unable to contact any of them, you can call Keith Garrison at the VFW National Headquarters at (202) 530-9385 or (202) 815-7241.

REFLEX Comedy Classes: Reflex Improv will offer FREE Intro to Improv classes to members of VFW Post 3150. During class, you will learn about the fundamentals of improv comedy, including Yes-And, Got Your Back teamwork, creating characters on the fly, and recognizing and playing with scene game. No prior experience in improv or comedy needed! If you're interested in joining the classes, please email Daniel Brown and cc Mike Cantwell. Include your full name and contact information, and state that you are a member of VFW Post 3150. 

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