Named in honor of Marine Captain Mike Spann, Marine Corps League Detachment #1272 was chartered on 24 April 2007.
Our namesake was the first battlefield casualty in the war on terrorism that began on September 11, 2001. Our profound gratitude is expressed to his family for permission to name the detachment after their son, husband, father, and friend.
This website and the work of Marine Corps League Detachment #1272 of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is dedicated in his honor, and to support of the country, the Corps, and the Marines he so honorably served.
The Marine Corps League takes great pride in crediting its founding in 1923 to World War I hero, then Major General Commandant John A. Lejeune. It takes equal pride in its Federal Charter, approved by An Act of the Seventy-Fifth Congress of the United States of America and signed and approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 4, 1937.
Local detachments of The Marine Corps League unite serving and former Marines and Navy FMF Corpsmen for the purposes of promoting the interests of the USMC, and serving the communities in which Marines live and work.