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Detachment Leadership
as of 10/18/2025
as of 10/18/2025
Commandant: Greg Kubler
Sr. Vice Commandant: Bryan Swink
Jr. Vice Commandant: Cary Kern
Judge Advocate: Mark Crowe
Adjutant/Paymaster: Tom Krueger
Chaplain: Jeff Jessup
Sgt.-At-Arms: Dave James
Web Sergeant: Jesse Wisniewski
Christmas Stockings for Deployed Troops
The Whipple/Coffey detachment is dedicated to helping out active duty and veteran Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, and Airmen. In 2018, we filled and shipped out over 2,000 Christmas stockings to deployed troops all over the world. These stockings were loaded with essential items such as dental care products, toiletries, snack items and other things not typically available to troops in the field or underway at sea.
Parades
The Whipple/Coffey Detachment is very active in parades up and down the Front Range. Our two floats, The Iwo Jima float (manned by Young Marines in WW2 uniforms) and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are big hits with the crowds. We've appeared in the St. Patrick's Day Parade, and multiple parades on Memorial Day and Independence Day, as well as parades in Broomfield and Arvada, among others.
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About Us
Our Detachment Name
The detachment is named for former member Don Whipple, an Iwo Jima veteran who passed away in 2025, and for Victor Coffey, a U.S. Merchant Marine and grandfather of one of our current members.
Donald Earl Whipple
August 31, 1925 — May 14, 2025
Corporal Donald Whipple grew up on a farm in Kansas but knew he wanted to serve in the military. With his parents' permission, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943 just a month shy of his 17th birthday.
Being one of eight brothers, Whipple always believed that with four of my brothers serving in the Navy, he could achieve more. So, he aspired to join the Marine Corps and proved himself capable of doing better than his brothers. At the age of eighteen, he served in the Pacific during World War II, assigned to Headquarters, Service Battery, 3rd Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division seeing combat action during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Despite sustaining injuries on D-Day, evacuated to an overloaded hospital ship bound for Guam, corporal Whipple instead, descended down onto an LCVP and made a second landing on Iwo Jima, where he endured the entirety of the battle.
For nearly two decades, Whipple was an ardent advocate for the Heroes of World War II. On two separate occasions, in collaboration with The Greatest Generations Foundation, Whipple returned to Iwo Jima to commemorate the sacrifices of the marines who lost their lives in this 36-battle conflict, which holds the distinction of being the costliest battle in the history of the United States Marine Corps during World War II.
Victor Isaac Coffey
U.S. Merchant Marine
Dates of Service: 3/4/1944 to 7/30/1945
Served on the USS Henry C. Wallace