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Birth of the US Navy Seals ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED POLICE OFFICERS PRESIDENT TREASURER TRUSTEES Robert Livoti Tony Famulari Michael J. Priolo (631) 909-4008 (631) 941-9563 (516) 647-5428 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] e mail: [email protected] st Mitch Blau 1 VICE PRESIDENT JUDGE ADVOCATE (516) 775-1129 Douglas Stiegelmaier Liam F. Twomey e-mail: [email protected] (516) 381-7174 (516) 674-6100 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Don Pospisil (516) 354-5652 ND e-mail: [email protected] 2 VICE PRESIDENT CHAPLAIN Blair E. Beaudet (631) 261-9686 Ray Leonhard QUARTERMASTER Douglas Stiegelmaier e-mail: [email protected] (516) 747-7513 e-mail: raygin2@hotmail EDITOR RECORDING SECRETARY Robert Livoti Richard Scibilia SERGEANTS-AT-ARMS (516) 626-1569 Al Bonfardino ADVERTISING DIRECTOR (516) 538-8248 Dave Fischer FINANCIAL SECRETARY (516) 624-6973 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Jim Mezey (516) 315-8608 Edward D. Wahl CPA [email protected] (516) 579-6592 Robert J. Mitchell e-mail: [email protected] (516) 747-4058 e-mail: [email protected] !" # $% &' ( ) * ! !*+ & ! & ) , $- . $ /!( #)'!(0//+ ARPO May 2018 3 Presidents Message....................................Bob Livoti start to take shape over the summer months. I am always I’d like to wish all our ARPO moms a Happy looking for good color photos of events and items from Mothers Day. I hope you have a great day the past. I prefer color because we print our calendar on your special occasion, you deserve it! in color. If you have something that we can use, please NOTICE contact me or e-mail it or snail mail it to me.Our ARPO Please take notice that ARPO has changed fishing trip is coming up next month and Mitch Blau their e-mail client to gmail. We were having reports that we still have a few openings, so if you are problems with contacting some of our members interested in going, give him a call now at 516 317- using AOL so we decided to switch over to 4545 and reserve your spot. Notes from Dave….. gmail. When you want to send an e-mail to Wishing all the Moms out there a very Happy Mothers’ ARPO, please send it to [email protected] Day, Sunday May 13th..........While we are at it, don’t It is nice to be home after a long winter. Florida forget Peace Officers’ Memorial Day on May 15th, was great, I didn’t miss the snow at all. The Nassau where we honor all our police officers, especially those Blue Reunion was great as usual and they will be who paid the ultimate sacrifice. On May 28th, Memorial having it again next year. I would like to welcome day, Remember all our military , both active & retired, all our snowbirds back to NY. Don’t forget to let us HEROES all. I would like to remind members who know you are back so we can switch your address back may have children attending proms, getting married, etc to get the newsletters. I wish all our snowbirds were who may need a limo, don’t forget to contact our own like Frank McCormack. I can always count on Frank Matt Silver at Ultimate Class Limo (see ad on pg 24) to call when he makes his moves both back and forth. and of course mention ARPO, there are special offers AARP Driving Class for our members and if a tuxedo is needed, contact Our next AARP driving class will be held Ken or John at S&S tuxedo in Hicksville, see their ad on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 10 AM to 4:30 PM on pg 28) and again, don’t forget to mention ARPO. I at the PBA office in Mineola. For an application, would like to thank the following for their give-aways send an e-mail to [email protected] or a stamped, distributed to attending members at our meetings, Mike self-addressed business size envelope to Bob Livoti Desrochers, mgr at Models Sporting Goods, Airport AARP, 42 Toni Ct, Center Moriches, NY 11934. Plaza, Farmingdale, Karen Rupp, Comm Rel Co-or at Those ARPO members who are on our e-mail list Turkey Hill Dairy in PA. Cassandra Petty (comm rel) have already gotten the application via e-mail. Class & NY Giants org, Big Mike Sangiamo & Connoisseur size is limited so send for your application ASAP. Media Group, Farmingdale, Mike Borella, mgr at Stop We are having a good response to our & Shop Oyster Bay, Kathi Olsen, mgr at NEFCU, HR218 Qualification and our pistol match, which Syosset, Nicole, mgr at Bethpage Fed Credit Union, will be held later this month. You still have Melville, Mark Fine (Director) & NY Mets org, Sean time to sign up if you haven’t already done so. Smith A/C Exec & L.I. Ducks org. DID YOU KNOW? Don’t forget family day at Police HQ Texas permits the testing of driverless vehicles in a new th on May 19 . There will be refreshments for law passed in 2017. There are 13 National Parks and 93 everyone and the grandkids will love the displays State Parks in Texas, including 600 miles 0f Mexico of all the police equipment and will actually coastline. Florida has over 20.3 million residents which get a chance to operate some of the displays. includes almost 5 million at age 60 and older. TRIVIA I received a few phone calls from members for May 5th 1904, Cy Young of the Boston Americans about the article on Coney Island. There were more pitches the first perfect game, retiring 27 Philadelphia people that remembered the place than just me. It Phillies....May 17th, 1792, The NY Stock Exchange brought back many good memories to a lot of us. is Organized, I was there, it was a rough day....what Remember our veterans and those serving us overseas can I tell you, I’m old....and on May 28th 1773, The th th on May 19 Armed Forces Day and May 28 Memorial 1st Jewish service in America was held at the Touro Day. Remember our Police Memorial service will be Synagogue in Newport, R.I. I would have been there, nd held May 22 on the front lawn of HQ.A final dues but my invitation was delivered late by the post office. notice was sent out to 13 members that still hadn’t paid Well members, hope to see you at our meetings that their dues and they were dropped at the April meeting. are held the 2nd Wednesday of every month (except If they want to keep their membership, all they have to July/August) at 7:30 PM.....stay healthy & beat the do is pay their dues. Our ARPO calendar for 2019 will system, Dave Fischer, a/k/a Mr Tchotchke 10-4 4 ARPO May 2018 Birth Of The U.S. Navy SEALs .....Bob Livoti SEALs are U.S. Special Operations locating and marking of mines for minesweepers. Command’s force-of-choice among Navy, Army They also conducted river surveys and foreign military and Air Force Special Operations Forces (SOF) to training. While doing this, the SEALs’ predecessors conduct small-unit maritime military operations pioneered combat swimming, closed-circuit diving, which originate from, and return to a river, ocean, underwater demolitions, and mini-submarine (dry and swamp, delta or coastline. This littoral capability is wet submersible) operations. more important now than ever in our history, as half Naval Combat Demolition Unit (NCDU) the world’s infrastructure and population is located In September of 1942, 17 Navy salvage personnel arrived within one mile of an ocean or river. Of crucial at ATB Little Creek, VA for a one-week concentrated importance, SEALs can negotiate shallow water areas course on demolitions, explosive cable cutting and such as the Persian Gulf coastline, where large ships commando raiding techniques. On 10 November 1942, and submarines are limited by depth. this first combat demolition unit succeeded in cutting The Navy SEALs are trained to operate in all a cable and net barrier across the Wadi Sebou River the environments (Sea, Air and Land) for which they during Operation TORCH in North Africa. Their actions are named. SEALs are also prepared to operate in enabled the USS DALLAS (DD 199) to traverse the climate extremes of scorching desert, freezing Arctic, river and insert U.S. Rangers who captured the Port and humid jungle. The SEALs’ current pursuit of Lyautey airdrome. elusive, dangerous and high-priority terrorist targets Plans for a massive cross-channel invasion of has them operating in remote, mountainous regions of Europe had begun and intelligence indicated that the Afghanistan, and in cities torn by factional violence, Germans were placing extensive underwater obstacles such as Baghdad, Iraq. Historically, SEALs have on the beaches at Normandy. On 7 May 1943, LCDR always had “one foot in the water.” The reality today, Draper L. Kauffman, “The Father of Naval Combat however, is that they initiate lethal Direct Action Demolition,” was directed to set up a school and train strikes equally well from air and land. people to eliminate obstacles on an enemy-held beach WWII Origins prior to an invasion. Today’s SEALs embody in a single force the heritage, On 6 June 1943, LCDR Kaufmann established missions, capabilities, and combat lessons-learned of Naval Combat Demolition Unit training at Ft. Pierce, five daring groups that no longer exist but were crucial Florida. Most of Kauffman’s volunteers came from to Allied Victory in World War II and the conflict the Navy’s engineering and construction battalions.
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