Rear Adm. Samak
Noophairoj, scouts club president, presents vests covered in good luck
symbols to Marine Corps Training Center commander, Vice Adm. Phongsak
Phuririj.
Patcharapol Panrak
The Navy Scouts Club donated “lucky” vests to marines
headed to Thailand’s strife-torn South and gave cash and sports
equipment to school children throughout Thailand.
Rear Adm. Samak Noophairoj, scouts club president,
and 80 club members presented vests covered in good luck symbols to
Marine Corps Training Center commander, Vice Adm. Phongsak Phuririj and
Chief of Staff Rear Adm. Trikhwan Krairuk Sept. 5 at the Prince Chumphon
Camp in Sattahip. The vests, blessed by monks from Jadeehoi Temple in
Pathum Thani, are believed to protect wearers from harm.
The scouts also handed over 70 sets of sports
equipment to be donated by the marines to 70 schools in the three
southern provinces ravaged by a Muslim insurgency since 2004.
Earlier in the day, the Navy Scouts Club and members
donated 180,000 baht toward construction of the Samunthonnavee Pavilion
at Sattahip School to mark the 100th anniversary of Thai scouting.
Members also traveled to Koh Khram in Sattahip Bay
where they enjoyed a visit to an underwater marine park, the beach, and
helped plant coral.
