A bit late…but still good news

Photo by Staff. Sgt. John Odette | U.S. Marine Corps

Jennie Piccoli, center, pins the colonel’s insignia on her husband, Col. Francis Piccoli, during a promotion ceremony Friday (Aug. 2), at Cafe Giovanni in the French Quarter. Piccoli is director of public affairs for Marine Forces Reserve, whose headquarters is in Algiers. Their younger son, Anthony, is in the background. To the right is Col. Patrick Hermesmann, chief of staff at the Marine Corps Reserve, who conducted the ceremony. The Piccolis live in Mandeville.

As a post script, Life Member Fran writes that he has been selected to become Commanding Officer of the Deployment Processing Center/Reserve Support Unit, Camp Lejeune in July 2014.

Fran added that he would like the Association to consider holding its annual conference Lejeune area in 2015.