Post 244 - Sanatoga, PA 19464

The American Legion is a Service Organization.  Post 244 of Pottsgrove is helping folks and veterans in our community with a number of diverse issues.  Call the office at 610-323-8905 or e-mail the Service Officer with questions regarding the VA, we have most VA forms.

Or, if you need anything. 

Give us a chance to assist you.   

Commander's Message:

        Ed Clark
        Post Commander

Dear Fellow Legionnaires:

Now the elections are over, I would like to say that, I am proud to have been chosen as your new Commander. 
I guess the first thing we need to do is to start of with a clean slate. 

I will not be a stickler for by the book, nor will I micro manage. 
I think we are all big enough men to know what is needed to be done and will do it 

I intend to listen to everyone and their ideas to make this post the best. 
There is still a lot of thing that we can do for our fellow veterans who are in need so lets start working towards that goal today.

Ed Clark
Commander
American Legion Post 244

Distinguished Post 244 members:

BG (Dr.) Elmer S. Friedberg, USAF (Ret)

T/SGT Willard Bickel (a Pottstown Draftee of '43)

CPL Mahlon L. Fink (IWO JIMA: a rememberance)

(coming soon Dr. John Dubinski, D.D.S.)

(coming soon Gabriel J. Fieni)

link to the American Legion, National Headquarters web site

link to the American Legion, Department of Pennsylvania web site

Lieutenant Colonel (R) Mark Stephen Alexander Sr.

Lieutenant Colonel Mark Alexander was born in Wilmington, Delaware on 13 May 1958. In 1978 he attended Basic Training at Fort Knox Kentucky where he won a ROTC scholarship and upon completion of ROTC at the University of Delaware in 1980 as a Distinguished Military Graduate, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Military Police Corps and awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice. His military education includes completion of the Military Police Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Combined Arms Staff Service School and Command and General Staff College. He also attended the U.S. Army Countering Terrorism Course, the United States Air Force Dynamics of International Terrorism Course, the United States Army Drug and Alcohol Team Training Course, the United Sates Army Civil Affairs Officer Basic Course, the United States Army Jungle Warfare School, the United States Army Cold Weather Training Course, the United States Marine Corps Amphibious Landing School, the United States Army Instructor Training Course and the United States Army Observer/Controller Trainer Course.

He has held a wide variety of important command and staff positions culminating in his recent retirement as Chief of Training G3 78^th Division Headquarters, Edison, New Jersey.

Other assignments include: Platoon Leader 101st Airborne Division Military Police, Officer in Charge of Military Police Investigations FORSCOM Fort Campbell, KY and Assistant Division Provost Marshal Operations Officer 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, KY, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Provost Marshal Staff Officer and Company Commander and Commander of Troops, TRADOC Fort Monroe Virginia, Assistant MOS Director and S3 2076^th USAR School Wilmington, DE, G3 Schools Officer 79^th Division, Willow Grove, P A, S2/S3 367^th MP Group, Ashley, P A, Staff Officer and S3 358^th Civil Affairs Brigade, Norristown, P A, Assistant Director of Training 98^th Division, Fort Dix, NJ, Battalion Commander 39pt Logistical Support Battalion 98^th Division, Fort Dix, NJ, and Provost Marshall s! Infantry Division, Fort Riley, KS, Professor of Military Science 1^8t Region ROTC, Drexel University, Philadelphia, P A and Chief of Training G3 78^th Division Headquarters, Edison, NJ.

Awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal (with one oak leaf cluster), the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal (with one oak leaf cluster), the Army Reserve Achievement Medal (with three oak leaf clusters), the Army Reserve Service Medal, War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Parachutist Badge, and the Air Assault Badge.

Mark is the current Commander of American Legion Post 244, and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Marine Corps League, the Masonic Shrine Legion of Honor, the Royal Escort of the Green Garter and the Vice President of the Joint Veterans Council of Pottstown.

He is married to Joan former Commander of American Legion Post 244 who is a former Marine and President of the Women's Marine Association PA2. Mark and Joan also own and run A-Z Support Company LLC providing safety and computer consulting and training to surrounding businesses. They have 3 children: Jessica, Amy and Mark Junior.