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]

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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 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 -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 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’ pursuit of Lyautey airdrome. elusive, dangerous and high-priority terrorist targets Plans for a massive cross- 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. in Korea. These were (Army) Scouts and (Navy) Training commenced with one grueling week designed Raiders; Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDUs), to eliminate the men from the boys. Some said that the Office of Strategic Services Operational Swimmers, men had sense enough to quit, and left the boys. It was Navy Teams (UDTs), and and is still considered “HELL WEEK”. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons. The training made the use of rubber boats and These varied groups trained in the 1940s for surprisingly little swimming. The assumptions were urgent national security requirements, saw combat that the men would paddle in and work in shallow water in Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific, but mostly leaving the deep-water demolitions to the Army. At this disbanded after World War II. However, The UDTs point, the men were required to wear Navy fatigues with were called upon again and expanded quickly for shoes and helmets. They were ordered to be life-lined to the Korean War in 1950. Exercising great ingenuity their boats and stay out of the water as much as possible. and courage, these special maritime units devised Kauffman’s experience was at disarming explosives, and executed with relatively few casualties many of now he and his teams were learning to use them the missions, tactics, techniques and procedures that offensively. One innovation was to use 2.5-pound packs SEALs still perform today. These missions included of tetryl paced into rubber tubes, thus making 20 pound beach and hydro-reconnaissance, explosive cable lengths of explosive tube that could be manipulated and net cutting; explosive destruction of underwater around obstacles for demolition. obstacles to enable major amphibious landings; By April 1944, a total of 34 NCDUs were limpet mine attacks, submarine operations, and the deployed to England in preparation for Operation

ARPO May 2018 5 OVERLORD, the amphibious landing at Normandy. onto the beaches to avoid becoming a friendly casualty Tested in combat: Normandy D-Day invasion of war. The mission was to open sixteen 50-foot wide Six men from Kauffmans Naval Combat corridors for the landing. By nightfall only thirteen were Demolition Unit Eleven (NCDU-11) were sent to open, and these beaches exacted a heavy toll on the England in the beginning of November 1943 to start Navy Gap-Assault teams. preparations to clear the beaches for the Normandy Of the 175 NCDU and UDT men on Omaha invasion. Later NCDU 11 was enlarged into 13 man beach, 31 where killed and 60 wounded. Their assault teams. The Scouts and Raiders were also Teammates on Utah Beach faired far better because the deployed to start their recon of the Normandy Coast. beach was considerably less fortified. Four were killed General Rommel, Hitler’s greatest military and11 wounded, when an artillery shell landed among Field Marshal, had implemented the intricate defenses one of the teams working to clear the beach. Weeks found on the French coastline. These creatively before the invasion all available Underwater Demolition included steel posts driven into the sand and topped men were sent from Fort Pierce to England. The largest with explosives. Large 3-ton steel barricades called loss occurred at the landing on Omaha beach, Normandy. Belgian Gates were placed well into the surf zone. Within months of the War’s end, the UDT teams were Additionally, he strategically placed reinforced mortar dispersed. This ended a trying but evolutionary time in and machine gun nests. The Scouts and Raiders the history of Naval Special Warfare. spent weeks gathering information during nightly On 6 June 1944, in the face of great adversity, surveillance missions up and down the French coast. the NCDUs at Omaha Beach managed to blow eight Replicas of the Belgian gates were constructed on complete gaps and two partial gaps in the German the South Coast of England for the UDT to practice defenses. The NCDUs suffered 31 killed and 60 wounded, demolitions on. The strategy of the UDT was to knock a casualty rate of 52%. Meanwhile, the NCDUs at Utah the gates flat, not to shred and spread them along the Beach met less intense enemy fire. They cleared 700 beaches, thereby creating more of an obstacle for the yards of beach in two hours, another 900 yards by the advancing troops. afternoon. Casualties at Utah Beach were significantly Men armed with naval offshore artillery, which lighter with 6 killed and 11 wounded. During Operation bombs and shells, led the initial attack on the two OVERLORD, not a single demolitioneer was lost to American landing beaches of Omaha & Utah. Then improper handling of explosives. a first wave of tanks and troop carriers were to land In August 1944, NCDUs from Utah Beach and clear any remaining German bunkers and snipers. participated in the landings in southern France, the The Demolitions Gap-assault teams would come in last amphibious operation in the European Theater of with the second wave and work at low to clear the Operations. NCDUs also operated in the Pacific theater. obstacles. NCDU 2, under LTjg Frank Kaine, after whom the As happens often during the fog of war, the Naval Special Warfare Command building is named, Allied aircraft ended up dropping their bombs too and NCDU 3 under LTjg Lloyd Anderson, formed the far inland. Navy artillery then sent the majority of nucleus of six NCDUs that served with the Seventh their shells far over the German positions – wreaking Amphibious Force tasked with clearing boat channels havoc on the French farmlands but leaving the after the landings from Biak to Borneo.. well-positioned German guns in perfect operating The South Pacific – Growth of UDT condition. These guns sent withering ground fire After a major catastrophe on the island of against the approaching Allied forces. The also Tarawa, the need for the UDT in the South Pacific ended up pushing many of the demolition crews well became glaringly clear. The islands in this region have ahead of the first wave. They found themselves the unpredictable tide changes and shallow reefs that can first to land on the beaches. Many of the teams were easily thwart the progress of the naval transport vessels. killed by machine gun and mortar fire before reaching At Tarawa, the first wave made it across the in the beach. Other team members under enemy fire Amtracs, but the second wave in Higgens boats got stuck managed to set charges on the obstacles and blow on a reef left exposed by the low tide. The Marines had them. At one point, soldiers were taking cover behind to unload and wade to shore. Many drowned or were the obstacles, which were emplaced with demolitions killed before making the beach. The Amtracs, without charged with timers. The GIs quickly made their way reinforcements from the second wave, were slaughtered

6 ARPO May 2018 on the beach. It was a valuable lesson that the Navy were at risk of and severe cramps. This would not permit to be repeated. The Navy Combat problem was extreme during the surveying of Okinawa. Swimmers were turned to for an answer. The largest UDT deployment in the war employed The Fifth Amphibious Force set up training veteran Team’s Seven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen and at Waimanalo, on the coast of Oahu in the Hawaiian newly trained teams Eleven, Sixteen, Seventeen, and Islands. Attending were men from Fort Pierce as well Eighteen. Close to a thousand UDT forces worked in as men from the Army and Marines. Represented concert on operations both real and deceptive to create were the Scouts and Raiders as well as the Naval the illusion of landing in other locations. Pointed poles Combat Demolitions Teams. They hastily trained set into the of the beach protected the landing for the attack on Kwajalein on 31 January 1944. This beaches on Okinawa. Team’s Eleven and Sixteen were was a major turning point for the tactics of the UDT. sent in to blast the poles. After all the charges were The plan was to send in night reconnaissance teams set, the men swam to clear the area and the following such as the Scouts and Raiders were accustomed to. explosion took out all of Team Eleven’s and half of Then Admiral Turner, worried about the presence team Sixteen’s targets. Team Sixteen broke from the of obstacles emplaced by the Japanese, ordered two operation due to the death of one of their men; hence, daylight recon operations. their mission was considered a failure and a disgrace. The missions were to follow the standard Team Eleven was sent back the following day to finish procedure. Team one was to go in a rubber boat in the job and then remained to guide the forces to the full fatigues, boots, life jackets and metal helmets. beach. The UDT continued to prepare for the invasion of The coral reef kept their craft too far from shore to Japan. After the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima be certain of the beach conditions. Ensign Lewis and Nagasaki, the war quickly ended. The need for an F. Luehrs and Chief Bill Acheson made a decision invasion of Japan was averted and the UDT’s role in the that changed the shape of Naval Special Warfare South Pacific came to an end. forever. Removing all but their underwear, they swam All told 34 UDT teams were established. undeterred across the reef. They returned with sketches Wearing swim suits, fins, and facemasks on combat of the beach gun embankment locations, along with operations, these “Naked Warriors” saw action across information about a log wall built to deter landings the Pacific in every major amphibious landing including: and other vital intelligence. Naval Combat Swimming Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Angaur, Ulithi, Pelilui, had now entered onto the Mission Essential Task List Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Zambales, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, of the UDT. Labuan, Brunei Bay, and on 4 July 1945 at Balikpapan After Kwajalein, the UDT created the Naval on Borneo which was the last UDT demolition operation Combat Demolition Training and Experimental Base of the war. The rapid demobilization at the conclusion on Maui. Operations began in April 1944. Most of the of the war reduced the number of active duty UDTs to procedures from Fort Pierce had been modified, with two on each coast with a complement of 7 officers and importance placed upon developing strong swimmers. 45 enlisted men each. Extensive training was conducted in the water without In 1962, President Kennedy established SEAL lifelines, using facemasks and wearing swim trunks Teams ONE and TWO from the existing UDT Teams and shoes in the water. This new model gave us the to develop a Navy Unconventional Warfare capability. image that stands today of the WWII UDT “Naked The Navy SEAL Teams were designed as the maritime Warrior”. The landings continued and at Iwo Jima the counterpart to the Army Special Forces “Green Berets.” surveying teams fared favorably. The largest casualties They deployed immediately to Vietnam to operate in the of the UDT occurred not in the water, but aboard the deltas and thousands of rivers and canals in Vietnam, destroyer USS Blessman when a Japanese bomber hit and effectively disrupted the enemy’s maritime lines of it. When the bomb exploded in the mess hall, fifteen communication. men on the UDT Team were killed. Twenty-three The SEAL Teams’ mission was to conduct others were injured. This was by far the most tragic counter guerilla warfare and clandestine maritime loss of life suffered by the UDT in the Pacific theater. operations. Initially, SEALs advised and trained Up until now all the islands worked upon were in Vietnamese forces, such as the LDNN (Vietnamese southern waters. Soon the forces moved North toward SEALs). Later in the war, SEALs conducted nighttime Japan. Having no thermal protection, the UDT men Direct Action missions such as ambushes and raids to

ARPO May 2018 7 capture prisoners of high intelligence value. UDT personnel acted as advisors. On May 1, 1983, all The SEALs were so effective that the enemy UDTs were re-designated as SEAL Teams or Swimmer named them, “the men with the green faces.” At the Delivery Vehicle Teams (SDVT). SDVTs have since war’s height, eight SEAL platoons were in Vietnam on been re-designated SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams. a continuing rotational basis. The last SEAL platoon Special Boat Units departed Vietnam in 1971, and the last SEAL advisor SBU can also trace their history back to WWII. in 1973. The Patrol Coastal and Patrol Boat Torpedo are the President Kennedy, aware of the situations in ancestors of today’s PC and MKV. Motor Torpedo Southeast Asia, recognized the need for unconventional Boat Squadron THREE rescued General Macarthur warfare and utilized Special Operations as a measure (and later the Filipino President) from the Philippines against guerrilla activity. In a speech to Congress in after the Japanese invasion and then participated in May 1961, Kennedy shared his deep respect of the guerrilla actions until American resistance ended Green Berets. He announced the government’s plan with the fall of Corregidor. PT Boats subsequently to put a man on the moon, and, in the same speech, participated in most of the campaigns in the Southwest allocated over one hundred million dollars toward the Pacific by conducting and supporting joint/combined strengthening of the Special Forces in order to expand reconnaissance, blockade, sabotage, and raiding the strength of the American conventional forces. missions as well as attacking Japanese shore facilities, Realizing the administration’s favor of the shipping, and combatants. PT Boats were used in the Army’s Green Berets, the Navy needed to determine European Theater beginning in April 1944 to support its role within the Special Forces arena. In March of the OSS in the insertions of espionage and French 1961, the Chief of Naval Operations recommended Resistance personnel and for amphibious landing the establishment of guerrilla and counter-guerrilla deception. While there is no direct line between units. These units would be able to operate from sea, organizations, NSW embracement is predicated on the air or land. This was the beginning the official Navy similarity in craft and mission. SEALs. Many SEAL members came from the Navy’s The development of a robust riverine warfare UDT units, who had already gained experience in capability during the Vietnam War produced the commando warfare in Korea; however, the UDTs were forerunner of the modern Special Warfare Combatant- still necessary to the Navy’s amphibious force. craft Crewman. Mobile Support Teams provided combat The first two teams were on opposite coasts: craft support for SEAL operations, as did Patrol Boat, Team Two in Little Creek, Virginia and Team ONE in Riverine (PBR) and Swift Boat sailors. In February Coronado, California. The men of the newly formed 1964, Boat Support Unit ONE was established under SEAL Teams were educated in such unconventional Naval Operations Support Group, Pacific to operate the areas as hand-to-hand combat, high altitude newly reinstated Patrol Torpedo Fast (PTF) program and parachuting, safecracking, demolitions and languages. to operate high-speed craft in support of NSW forces. Among the varied tools and weapons required by the In late 1964 the first PTFs arrived in Danang, Vietnam. Teams was the AR-15 assault rifle, a new design that In 1965, Boat Support Squadron ONE began training evolved into today’s M-16. The SEAL’s attended UDT Patrol Craft Fast crews for Vietnamese coastal patrol Replacement training and they spent some time cutting and interdiction operations. As the Vietnam mission their teeth at a UDT Team. Upon making it to a SEAL expanded into the riverine environment, additional Team, they would undergo a three-month SEAL Basic craft, tactics, and training evolved for riverine patrol Indoctrination (SBI) training class at Camp Kerry in and SEAL support. the Cuyamaca Mountains. After SBI training class, SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams they would enter a platoon and train in platoon tactics SDV Teams trace their historical roots to the (especially for the conflict in Vietnam). The UDTs WWII exploits of Italian and British combat swimmers again saw combat in Vietnam while supporting the and wet submersibles. Naval Special Warfare entered Amphibious Ready Groups. When attached to the the submersible field in the 1960’s when the Coastal riverine groups the UDTs conducted operations with Systems Center developed the Mark 7, a free-flooding river patrol boats and, in many cases, patrolled into the SDV of the type used today, and the first SDV to be hinterland as well as along the riverbanks and beaches used in the fleet. The Mark 8 and 9 followed in the late in order to destroy obstacles and bunkers. Additionally, 1970’s. Today’s Mark 8 Mod 1 and the Advanced SEAL 8 ARPO May 2018 Delivery System (ASDS), a dry submersible, provide NSW with an unprecedented capability that combines the attributes of clandestine underwater mobility and the combat swimmer. Post-Vietnam War operations that NSW forces have participated in include URGENT FURY (Grenada 1983); EARNEST WILL (Persian Gulf 1987-1990); JUST CAUSE (Panama 1989-1990); and DESERT SHIELD/ DESERT STORM Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Liberia, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and a host of classified mission around the world.

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South Pacific islands invasion assisted by early UDT teams

UDT teams placing explosives on beach obstacles during Normandy invasion in WWII

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10 ARPO May 2018 CHILDREN OF THE GREATEST GENERATION.BORN IN 1930-40’S Born in the 1930s and early 40s, we exist as a very special age group. We are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900s. We are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years. We are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves. We saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans. We saw cars up on blocks because tires weren’t available. We can remember milk being delivered to our house early in the morning and placed in the “milk box” on the porch. We are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War. We saw the ‘boys’ home from the war, build their little houses. We are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, we imagined what we heard on the radio. As we all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood playing outside until the street lights came on. There was no little league. There was no city playground for kids. The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like. On Saturday afternoons, the movies, gave us newsreels sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons. Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party Lines) and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy). Computers were called calculators, they were hand cranked; typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage and changing the ribbon. The INTERNET and GOOGLE were words that did not exist. Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on our radio in the evening by Gabriel Heatter and later Paul Harvey and Walter Winchell. As we grew up, the country was exploding with growth. The G.I. Bill gave returning veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow. VA loans fanned a housing boom. Pent up demand coupled with new Installment payment plans opened many factories for work. New highways would bring jobs and mobility. The veterans joined civic clubs and became active in politics. The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands. Our parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never imagined. We weren’t neglected, but we weren’t today’s all-consuming family focus. They were glad we played by ourselves until the street lights came on. They were busy discovering the post war world. We entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where we were welcomed, enjoyed ourselves and felt secure in our future. Although, depression and poverty was deeply remembered. Polio was still a crippler. We came of age in the 50s and 60s. The Korean War was a dark passage in the early 50s and by mid-decade school children were ducking under desks for Air- Raid training. Russia built the “Iron Curtain” and China became Red China . Eisenhower sent the first Army Advisers to Vietnam. Castro took over in Cuba and Khrushchev came to power. We are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland. The war was over and the cold war, terrorism, “global warming”, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease. Only our generation can remember both a time of great war, and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty lived through both. We grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better. not worse. We are “The Last Ones” More than 99 % of us are either retired or deceased, and we feel privileged to have “lived in the best of times”!

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Support our advertisers....tell them you saw it in the ARPO newsletter ARPO March 2015 11 Support our advertisers....tell them you saw it in the ARPO newsletter ARPO PISTOL MATCH Our ARPO pistol match will be held 9 AM, Thursday, May 31, 2018. We have to know how many of you are interested in shooting. If you are interested, fill out the registration form below and return it to us along with a check for $10 made out to ARPO. Because we had a lot of no shows last year, you will need to send in the check. Your check will be returned to you the day of the match. Be sure to circle your shirt size on the registration form. The match is open to any retired member from the job and you can use whatever weapon you retired with, revolver with 4” or 2” barrel or semi-auto 9mm or 40 cal Sig Sauer . You will need 100 rounds of ammunition and eye and ear protection. This will be a combat style match and the Lewis System will be used for scoring, so everyone will have an equal chance at winning a prize. All registration forms must be in no later than Saturday, May 26, 2018. QUALIFICATION COURSE OF FIRE: There will be two course of fire like last year, the first one practice and the second one for scoring. Fifty (50) round New York State DCJS qualification courses of fire. @ 3 yard line – 12 rounds fired in two phases: Phase # 1 – 6 rounds fired in two round increments – no time limit. Phase # 2 – 6 rounds fired in 6 seconds. @ 7 yard line – 18 rounds fired in two phases: Phase # 1 – 6 rounds fired in two round increments – no time limit. Phase # 1 – 12 rounds fired in 25 seconds with one reload. @ 15 yard line – 12 rounds fired in 40 seconds with one reload. @ 25 yard line – 8 rounds fired in 40 seconds with one reload. The above qualification course was designed for 6 shot revolvers. Reloading devices are suggested but not required. Semi-automatic shooters are required to have two additional magazines.

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