ARE YOU A U.S. MARINE? ONE OF THE FEW, THE PROUD.
Still a Marine. Still needed.
The Marine Corps League, Department of Michigan. Detachments across the state, run by Marines who never stopped showing up for each other.
If you earned the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor, this is your organization.
If you served four years or twenty. Peacetime or wartime. Grunt, wrench-turner, admin, air wing. Parris Island or San Diego, either way you came out the same thing.
If you got out two years ago, you’re not too new. If you got out forty years ago, you’re not too late.
You’re a Marine. That’s the whole requirement.
Why the League?
Nobody here asks what your MOS was.
Walk into a Legion post or a VFW hall and you’ll find good people and a meeting that runs about the same as ours. We’re not going to pretend otherwise.
The difference is who’s in the room.
In most branches, the tight bonds trace back to something specific. A unit. A deployment. A community that most people in that branch never joined. Ask a group of Army veterans what they have in common and you get a list.
Ask a room full of Marines and you get one answer. Everybody in that room went through the same door to get in. Nobody asks what unit you were with. Nobody asks what you did all day. It mattered that you were a Marine, and in here it still does.
That’s a room you can only find in one place.
What Michigan Marines are doing.
We didn’t stop working.
| Eagle Scout Award | Michigan Marines honor new Eagle Scouts across the state with an award that recognizes what that rank actually costs to earn. |
| Scholarships | We help send Marines, their families, and their descendants to school. |
| VA Hospitals and State Veterans Homes | Our volunteers bring programs and presence to VA hospitals and all three State of Michigan Veterans Homes. |
| Legislative Action | We show up where veterans policy in Michigan gets decided. |
| Military Order of the Devil Dogs | Michigan’s Devil Dogs are active statewide and they are one of the strongest things the Department has going. |
How to Join
Joining takes about five minutes.
Steps
- Find a detachment near you. Pick the one closest to home.
- Download the application. One page. Fill it out.
- Bring it to a meeting. Or send it to the detachment Adjutant. Bring your DD Form 214 or other proof of service and you’re done.
Every detachment sets its own dues, so ask when you reach out. The Adjutant will walk you through the rest.
Who can join?
| Marines | Navy Fleet Marine Force | Associate Members |
| Active duty, Reserve, or honorably discharged. Any era, any length of service. | Corpsmen, chaplains, and other Navy personnel who served with Fleet Marine Force units and earned the Marine Corps device or Fleet Marine Force warfare insignia. You served alongside us. You belong here. | Veterans of other branches, and civilians who support the Corps and the Marines in it, can join as Associate Members through a local detachment. |