The Goyetten September 2019 a Newsletter of the Tucson - Goyette Chapter Association of the United States Army;
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The Goyetten September 2019 A Newsletter of the Tucson - Goyette Chapter Association of the United States Army; www.AUSA.org Featured Articles Message from the Chapter President Message from Chapter Greeting AUSA Members and Our annual AUSA awards and President Friends, recognition dinner will be Thursday, November 7. Mark AUSA Community Partner Cooler temperatures aren’t far your calendars for another Recognition away as our Chapter activities great Army and AUSA event in begin to “heat up”! Tucson! We will be Annual Awards & Recognition recognizing Active, Guard and Dinner We welcome several new Reserve Soldiers, Army ROTC www.MaranaChamber.com Fundraiser with Tucson AUSA Community Partners to and JROTC Cadets, and our Roadrunners our team! Read more about Community Partner businesses them in the newsletter. Each attending. It is the highlight of AUSA Podcasts AUSA Community Partner the year and an event not to and individual membership miss! Invitations will be Newest Community Partners provides funding to support emailed separately. Details are Army ROTC Cadet World the Active, Guard and on our Chapter web page, Record Reserve in greater Tucson. www.TucsonAUSA.org We can always use more so if www.Marriott.com Winter Deployments you know any businesses or We welcome home A individuals that might want Company, 1/158th Infantry, Army Family Voices join AUSA, please let me Arizona Army National Guard know. from their deployment and give our best wishes to the 7220th We are helping to send an MSU and 7400th TPU, Army Army ROTC team to the Army Reserve, during their 12 - month 10 - miler in Washington DC mobilization. 520 - 327 - 8706 this October. We have sent a www.FlowersRieger.com couple of emails asking for If you are a member of AUSA, donations. Thank you! We thank you! If you aren’t a also have a fundraiser with member yet, visit the Tucson Roadrunners www.AUSA.org and join today! Hockey team. Read more about the Tucson Don Spiece Roadrunners fundraiser in the LTC, USA Ret. newsletter. President, Tucson - Goyette Chapter, www.GCU.com September 2019 We welcome Command AUSA Army Magazine Sergeant Major (R) Paul E: Tucson - [email protected] Belanger and SSG Katie Chapter Web: Ferencik to our Chapter www.TucsonAUSA.org Executive Team. If you would like to attend a monthly executive committee meeting lunch, reply and I provide the details. We can always use www.Raytheon.com/businesses/rm s/ more on the leadership team. August 22 AUSA Extra www.Marana.com www.AcomaAnimalClinicTucson.com www.AUSA.org AUSA - Voice for the Army, Support for the Soldier Tucson - Goyette Chapter, Association of the United States Army AUSA Community Partners – Thank You! Support our Community Partners! www.AGMcontainer.co m 1. Acoma Animal Clinic www.AcomaAnimalClinicTucson.com member since 2014 2. Act Now Durable Medical Equipment www.ActNowDME.com member since 2015 3. AGM Container Controls, Inc. www.AGMcontainer.com member since 2012 4. Bio Direction, Inc. www.BioDirection.com member since 2013 5. CAID Industries www.CAID.com member since 2015 6. Charles E. Gillman Company www.Gillman.com member since 2018 7. Embassy Suites by Hilton Tucson East www.EmbassySuites.com member since 2012 8. FastPark & Relax www.TheFastPark.com/location/Tucson member since 2015 9. First Command Financial Services, Inc. www.FirstCommand.com member since 2011 10. Fishkind, Bakewell, Maltzman & Hunter Eye Care www.EyesTucson.com member since 2017 11. Flowers - Reiger & Associates, CPA, PLLC, www.FlowersRieger.com member since 2019 12. Grand Canyon University www.GCU.com member since 2019 13. Jack Furrier's Western Tire www.JackFurriers.com member since 2007 14. Jim Click Automotive Team www.JimClick.com member since 2003 15. Jordan Solutions LLC [email protected] member since 2019 16. Marana Chamber of Commerce www.MaranaChamber.com member since 2012 17. Marriott International www.Marriott.com member since 2017 18. Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce www.OroValleyChamber.com member since 2017 19. Pima Federal Credit Union www.PimaFCU.org member since 1994 20. R. E. Darling Company, Inc. www.REDarling.com member since 2015 21. Raytheon Missile Systems www.Raytheon.com/businesses/rms member since 2003 22. Sheraton Hotel & Suites www.SheratonTucson.com member since 2014 23. Sierra Tucson www.SierraTucson.com member since 2019 24. Silverado Rooter and Plumbing www.SilveradoPlumbing.com member since 2017 More next page! First Command Financial Services, Inc. www.Gillman.com www.FirstCommand.com David Ifflander : [email protected] SportClips Haircuts Haircut for Men in Tucson, Arizona www.HairCutMenTucsonAZ.com www.AUSA.org AUSA - Voice for the Army, Support for the Soldier Tucson - Goyette Chapter, Association of the United States Army AUSA Community Partners – Thank You! Continued…. 25. SportClips Haircuts www.HaircutMenTucsonAZ.com member since 2011 26. Town of Marana www.Marana.com member since 2013 27. Tucson Subaru www.TucsonSubaru.com member since 2015 28. Universal Avionics Systems www.UASC.com member since 2009 29. University of Arizona Applied Research Corp. [email protected] member since 2019 30. Vantage West Credit Union www.VantageWest.org member since 2015 31. Walmart – El Con Mall www.Walmart.com member since 2013 AUSA Tucson Annual Awards & AUSA Fundraiser with Help from Recognition Dinner Tucson Roadrunners Hockey Our annual awards and recognition dinner will A special portal to buy tickets for the be held on Thursday, November 7, 2019 at La Stockton Heat vs Tucson Roadrunners Quinta Inn and Suites, 102 N. Alvernon Way. hockey game on November 9 will help our Invitations will be in a separate email soon. AUSA Chapter. Every ticket bought on Mark your calendars for this once a year the portal will provide our Chapter eight event! Dr. Lee Lambert, Chancellor of Pima dollars. Some activities we are raising Community College and an Army veteran, will funds for include: helping to send a be our speaker! University of Arizona Army ROTC Cadet team to the Army 10 - miler, offering some Wounded Warrior families a weekend get - away at the DD Gamble Lodge and Ranch, supporting Heroes to Hometowns, www.SierraTucson.com supporting Guard and Reserve unit family days and Wreaths Across America. Please forward the portal link to all of your friends to buy tickets for the game. Take your family and friends to the game! Ticket Portal: https://roadrunners.spinzo.com/ausa www.SilveradoPlumbing.com Tucson: 696 - 000 Green Valley: 625 - 8888 www.Sheraton.com/Tucson 5151 East Grant Road (520) 323 - 6262 www.TheFastPark.com/location/Tucson/ www.REDarling.com www.AUSA.org AUSA - Voice for the Army, Support for the Soldier Tucson - Goyette Chapter, Association of the United States Army AUSA Podcasts AUSA is releasing five new podcast episodes in September. The first podcast in the “Army Matters” series features a Jim Click Automotive Group discussion with retired Sgt. Maj. of the Army Tucson, Green Valley, Kenneth Preston and retired Command Sgt. Sahuarita Maj. Troy Welch about standards and Jim Click Automotive Team discipline and how they keep soldiers alive and focused on the mission. The podcast will be 888 - 877 - 9934 www.JimClick.com available Sept. 2. The Sept. 9 podcast will feature soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team. The Fort Hood, Texas - based soldiers will discuss their upcoming deployment to Poland in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve and AUSA’s partnership with the brigade with the goal of providing a www.PimaFCU.org supporting relationship before, during and after 829 - 0927 the deployment. In the next episode, a retired Army officer New AUSA Community Partners! shares his personal story of dealing with alcohol while in the military, including how to Welcome to our newest AUSA Community help a loved one dealing with addiction and Partners! Along with our over 500 individual how soldiers can find help through Alcoholics members we have 31 Community Partner Anonymous. The episode will be available local businesses who have made a statement Sept. 16. of support for the U.S. Army by joining AUSA. Next up is an episode, available Sept. 23, If you know of an individual or business who featuring MG J.P. McGee, director of the Army would like to join AUSA, direct them to the Talent Management Task Force. The AUSA web page, www.AUSA.org under discussion will focus on the changes the Army Membership. is making to its industrial - age personnel Three Newest Community Partners: system to best leverage the knowledge, skills, Grand Canyon University behaviors and preferences of its officers and Sierra Tucson noncommissioned officers. University of Arizona Applied Research Corp. September also will include a special edition episode featuring LTG. Eric Wesley, director of the Futures and Concepts Center and deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Futures Command. During the episode, Wesley describes how the Army is undergoing its most fundamental change in 40 years in response to the re - emergence of long - term strategic competition with Russia and China, and how the U.S. military and its allies will overcome www.EyesTucson.com the problem of layered standoff and anti - (520) 293 - 6740 access area denial capabilities. The episode will be available Sept. 30. Full details are available at https://podcast.ausa.org . Jack Furrier — Arizona's Tire Expert and Service and Auto Repairs Since 1960 El Con Mall, Tucson, AZ www.JackFurriers.com www.AUSA.org AUSA - Voice for the Army, Support for the Soldier Tucson - Goyette Chapter, Association of the United States Army Army ROTC Cadet Sets Guinness World Record An Army cadet from Michigan State University recently set a Guinness World Record for the most chest - to - ground burpees completed in 12 hours, an effort that helped him raise more than $7,800 for his nonprofit group for wounded veterans.