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The California State Military Museum
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New Ways to Support Museum Announced: The California State Military Museum announced three new ways to support the museum and its program. The best part is it won't cost you anything! (27 Apr 08).
 
Donate Your Car, Boat, Motorcycle and or Recreational Vehicle, Regardless of Condition

 
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A donor may submit a vehicle donation form from this website or contact Cars 4 Causes ® at 1-800-766-CARE (2273). The donor provides general information on the vehicle that they will donate, as well as selects the California State Military Museum as the organization they wish to benefit. We accept most intact vehicles, whether they are running or not. No smog certificate is required.
 
Be sure that you specify the California State Military Museum as your selected charity.
 
 
Do You Shop Online? You Can Help the Museum Without Spending Anything More.
 
Online shoppers can help the museum and its programs by just shopping! Selected merchants and service providers and agreed to provide a percentage of their profits to support museums. These are major merchants such as eBay, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. We have chosen two excellent organizations to provide our supporters the widest number of vendors and services available. Please make sure that you designate the California State Military Museum as the recipient of your gift.
 

 

 

 List of participating merchants and services

 List of participating merchants and services
 
 
Gift Cards
 
Do you have partially used gift cards cluttering up your desk drawer. Consider donating them to the museum. Every little bit helps stretch our limited funds. We can use gift cards from the following stores:
 
Museum Receives Grant for Educational Facility: The California State Military Museum received a $500 grant from The USAA Foundation for the acquisition or upgrading of audiovisual equipment and other improvements to the Sergeant Major Doris Drennan Education and Conference Facility. When completed, this room located on the second floor of the museum building will provide a state of the art training facility for not only military organizations, put also civilian public safety organizations. Private industry may use the facility for an hourly charge plus equipment rental. These funds will be used to fund further improvements to the facility or for museum conservation, restoration or acquisition programs. (24 Apr 08)
 
New or Updated Pages: The California State Military Museum is proud to announce the addition or updating of the following pages (20 Apr 08):
 
Units of the California Militia and National Guard
Sacramento Light Artillery
Historic Posts, Camps Stations, and Airfields:
Minter Field
Naval Regional Medical Center, Oakland
Orange County Army Air Field
Sacramento Municipal Airport
Salinas Army Air Base
Santa Ana Army Air Base
Santa Maria Army Air Field
Santa Rosa Army Air Field
Naval Net Depot, Tiburon
Torney General Hospital
 
New or Updated Pages: The California State Military Museum is proud to announce the addition or updating of the following pages (13 Apr 08):
 
Historic Posts, Camps Stations, and Airfields:
Camp Carlsbad
Chico Army Air Field
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division
Klamath River Radar Station
Camp Callan
Camp Lockett
Mather Field
Camp Matthews
McCormack General Hospital

 

 
New or Updated Pages: The California State Military Museum is proud to announce the addition or updating of the following pages (10 Mar 08):
 
Historic Posts, Camps Stations, and Airfields:
Travis Defense Area Site T-10
Travis Defense Area Site T-53
Winters-Davis Flight Strip
Fort Bragg Radar Station
Emeryville Ordnance Depot
Naval Section Base, Monterey
Hoff General Hospital
Camp Mott
Big Lagoon Bombing Target Number 12
Siskiyou Rocket and Bombing Range
Mount Pierce Radio Relay Annex
Franklin Auxiliary Field
California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories:
San Francisco Home Guard

 

 
New or Updated Pages: The California State Military Museum is proud to announce the addition or updating of the following pages (20 Feb 08):
 
Historic Posts, Camps Stations, and Airfields:
Madera Air Force Station
Oroville Army Air Field
Stockton Ordnance Depot
Camp Montara
Californians and the Military
Major General Edward Otho Cresap Ord

 

 

 
Officers Commissioned at Museum. The United States Army’s newest officers were sworn in at a ceremony held at the California State Military Museum on 4 January 2008. Second Lieutenants Jesse H. Davidson (a former member of the 115th Regional Support Group), Daniel R. Jenkins, and Timothy J. Soh were sworn in by LTC Mark Connelly, Professor of Military Science at the University of California at Davis. The ceremony included a key-note address from COL Robert M. Visbal, the Senior Army Advisor to the California National Guard.
 
2LTs Daniel R. Jenkins, Jesse H. Davidson, and Timothy J. Soh being sworn in as officers in the United States Army at the California State Military Museum.
 
Book Drive a Success. The California State Military Museum’s MG Walter P. Story Library and Research Center’s annual book dive was a huge success this year. The library received over 2,000 books during the months of October through December. Major donors included Professor Karl von den Steinen, Sacramento State University; Professor Carlos Lopez, Menlo College; and MG William Wade II, the Adjutant General. While there were some duplicates (which are sold or traded to obtain new titles), quite a few were very rare reference books worth hundreds of dollars each.
 
Although the official book drive is over for the year, the library will always accept tax-deductible donations of military history and national security books and magazines. Military units are encouraged to send obsolete field and technical manuals to the library. The mailing address of the library is: MG Walter Story Library and Research Center, California State Military Museum, 1119 Second Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.
 
 

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