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Silicon Valley Chapter Military Officers Association of America Silicon Valley Chapter Military Officers Association of America Volume XII Issue 11The Bulletin Dec 2015 OFFICERS, BOARD, AND CHAIRS PRESIDENT: Lt. Col. Mike Sampognaro USAF merry christmas to all 408-779-7389 1st VP: Lt. Col. Jay Craddock USAF 650-968-0446 2nd VP: CWO5 Robert Landgraf USMC 408-323-8838 Secretary: COL Warren Enos AUS Luncheon Program 408-245-2217 Treasurer: CAPT Lloyd McBeth USN 408-241-3514 17 Dec 2015 Past President: CAPT Paul Barrish USN 408-356-7531 Touring Morocco DIRECTORS & COMMITTEE CHAIRS Auxiliary Liaison vacant Chaplain Chaplain Fred Tittle USMC 609-802-3492 Commissary/Exchange Advisory CDR Ralph Hunt USN 650-967-8467 Friends-in-Need (FIN) Program CDR Al Mouns USN 408-257-5629 Programs Lt. Col. Jesse Craddock USAF 650-968-0446 ROTC CWO4 Patrick Clark USA 831-402-8548 Membership/Recruitment CWO5 Robert Landgraf USMC 408-323-8838 Scholarship CAPT Paul Barrish USN 408-356-7531 Travel (Space-A Advisory) CDR V.A. Eagye USN 408-733-3177 Web Master Lt Col Mike Sampognaro USAF 408-779-7389 Veteran Affairs Col Keith Giles,USAF(ret) Lt Col Neil Miles USAF 408-929-1142 Development Officer CAPT Gil Borgardt USN 650-342-1270 Sargeant-at-Arms Social Hour: 11:00 AM CDR Ralph Hunt USN 650-967-8467 Chapter Outreach CWO5 Robert Landgraf USMC 408-323-8838 Luncheon: 11:45 AM CALMOAA, Legislation & Navy League Liaison LCDR Tom Winant USN 650-678-7120 Luncheon is $26.00 Personal Affairs CAPT Robert French USN 650-363-1188 See Back Page for Reservations Form and Directions The Chapter Board meets at the Moffett Air Traffic Control Tower, Moffett Federal Airfield Bulletin Editor It is time to renew your Lt. Col. Mike Sampognaro, USAF “The Bulletin” is published 11 or 12 times annually P.O. BOX 2, Moffett Federal Airfield, CA 94035 membership see page 7. Please direct all correspondence to above address CALENDAR OF EVENTS RETIREE ACTIVITIES OFFICE (RAO) Bldg 587 on Wescoat Court, 650-603-8047 3 Dec Board Meeting 11:00 AM 17 Dec Luncheon 11:00 AM 7 Jan Board Meeting 11:00 AM 21 Jan Luncheon 11:00 AM PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE SVC WEBSITES Our Chapter website is www. Well, they say time flies when you are having fun. I am sure siliconvalleymoaa.org, a shorter it also flies faster as I get older. Two years have certainly whizzed link is www.svcmoaa.org. You by so fast that I am not sure if I was having fun or not. But I am sure can also get to it from the na- glad to turn over the reigns to our new president, CAPT Gil tional MOAA site: Put the cursor Borgardt, with my sincere best wishes for a successful turn at the over Chapters and select Chapter helm. Locator, CA, then Silicon Valley It has been suggested, and I can only heartily agree, that the Chapter. From there you may link over to our primary website invocation by our Secretary/stand-in Chaplain for our November above. Our home page has links luncheon was a keeper. Here it is, both for those who could not for The Bulletin and eBulletin. B attend and for all of us who did. NOVEMBER INVOCATION TRICARE FOR LIFE Almighty God…. SERVICE We are grateful for this chapter and membership as we experience changing seasons, new opportunities and challenges, the sometimes For assistance, contact the increased energy for problem-solving, and the self-satisfaction which Wisconsin Physicians Service comes through notable achievement. www.tricare4u.com We ask your blessing on this special day—the chapter’s annual 866-773-0404 meeting and election of officers and directors for 2016; a celebration REPORTING DEATHS marking the 50th anniversary as a national MOAA affiliate; and a finance/military benefits briefing by Lt. Col. Shane Ostrom, USAF, a Members can report the death of highly skilled certified financial planner. a retiree locally through the As we remember the coming Thanksgiving holiday period, help us Retire Activity Office (RAO). to appreciate our country, the leaders you have put in place, and The phone number is particularly the Armed Forces men and women serving at home and 650-603-8047 abroad, sometimes under extremely dangerous circumstances. You can also notify a MOAA Amen member’s death to: I wish all of us a Merry Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. MOAA, Attn: MSC, 201 N Washington St, Alexandria, VA 22314-2539. mike Or: Call 1-800-234-6622 Or: E-mail: [email protected]. Notify SVC-MOAA by phoning the Membership Chair–see ATTENTION! 2016 ANNUAL DUES listing on front page of The The time has arrived to renew your Silicon Valley Bulletin. B Membership for 2016!!! Annual dues remain $30. Please use the form on last page of the Bulletin and Thought For The Month send your dues in now. We have to submit a list of 2016 members to National by January 31. “Do or do not. There is no try.” so please send your renewal today. Yoda Thank you for your prompt response. CAPT Lloyd McBeth USN (RET), Treasurer - 2 - DECEMBER SPEAKER According to Keith, “Things had changed in Marrakech in the 69 years since I had been there. The One young American drafted into the World War only thing I recognized was the main mosque. A II U.S. Army Air Corps was posted to the Middle modern city had grown up around the old bazaar East and Africa, specifically Egypt, Iran, and what area. I brought some photos I had taken in 1945 but was at the time French Morocco, and he had a series even the bazaar area looked different to me.” of interesting experiences. Years later he decided to Earlier in 1988 Keith took a tour of Egypt again return to the area as a tourist determined to see how just to see how things had changed. During the war, things had changed, and his discoveries brought some when most GIs never left the overseas bases, he real surprises. walked around the cities, used the weather jeep to get The chapter’s December speaker will be member to places like Alexandria, Egypt or the Suez Canal, and past long-time Bulletin editor Col Keith Giles, and even obtained 10-day R&R (Rest & USAF-Ret, who will provide an illustrated and fully Recuperation) air trips to Rome and Tel Aviv, narrated travelogue perfect for the Christmas holiday hitchhiking on trucks the British military was season and in keeping with the high quality sending around Palestine and Lebanon. He even presentations he has made during past December managed a 3-day flight to Luxor in Egypt where he luncheon meetings--his photo images are always visited Thebes and crossed the West Bank tomb areas beautiful. And in keeping with tradition, members of where King Tutankhamun was buried. Cairo is the Reserve Officers Association (ROA) Chapter #63, capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle San Jose and perhaps other special guests will be in East and second-largest in Africa after Lagos. Its attendance. metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the world, Keith’s arrival overseas was exciting as his nothing close to what Keith saw in the war years. convoy was attacked by German JU88 bombers as it After being drafted in 1943 and his discharge in entered the Mediterranean; the ship next to his was 1946, Col Giles was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant hit. His service provided him with training as a in the Air Force Reserves, spent 10 years working for weather observer leading after the war to an advanced General Mills in Minneapolis primarily on classified degree in Meteorology at UCLA; in addition, military government projects, and then made a career of the service helped him learn that he was a born sightseer Weather Bureau, ending up in the aviation section of and started him on a lifetime of world travel. Keith the Weather Service Forecast Office in Redwood served with the 19th Weather Squadron as a sergeant City. He has become an accomplished cyclist and in North Africa and Iran in the area called The United computer expert. States Armed Forces in the Middle East with As for Iran, irrespective of what positive things headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. America’s authority on European travel Rick Steves In 2014 he took a bus tour in Morocco in order to has said and filmed about that country, Keith says, visit Marrakech, where he was stationed, living in a “I’m sure I won’t be going back to Abadan, Iran!” tent in an olive grove belonging to one of the Pashas. ________________________ The tour started in Casablanca and worked its way SOURCE: Luncheon Speaker around Morocco with stops at various cities, including Marrakech, and ended back in Casablanca. During World War II, Marrakech Menara Airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command as a hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel and functioned as a stopover en route to Casablanca Airfield. Today the airport supports up to fourteen Boeing 737s and four Boeing 747s and handles 2.5 million passengers per year. - 3 - NOVEMBER SPEAKER REPORT must explain the issues and answer questions National MOAA received a desperate telephone effectively. National MOAA offers a wide variety of call from a surviving spouse who lost her husband publications free for the asking—see the publications three months earlier. She had been confined to her here http://www1.moaa.org/publications/ and then house, had no access to cash, was out of food, and telephone (800) 234-6622 to place an order.
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