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MILITARY OFFICERS CALL Sun City Center Chapter Military Officers Association of America P MILITARY OFFICERS CALL Sun City Center Chapter Military Officers Association of America P. O. Box 5693, Sun City Center, FL. 33571 Website: www.sccmoaa.org Volume 36 Number 8 August 2020 AUGUST LUNCHEON CANCELLED President’s Message VA Secretary: Hdroxychloroquine Is Safe - And James Haney, MAJ. USMC (Ret) We'll Keep Giving It to Veterans Department of Veterans Affairs Secre- tary Robert Wilkie pushed back against critics of the VA’s use of the antimalarial Members, Prospects & Friends, drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID- 19 patients. Here is hoping everyone had a safe Independence Day, and was During an appearance on a Fox News show. First,” Wilkie was able to “celebrate” in some manner the awesome freedom & liber- asked about media reports claiming that taking the drug can kill ties we have in this great Country. patients instead of effecting a cure. Even though the pandemic response / restrictions continue to “Well I think it’s nonsense,” Wilkie said. curtail gatherings, the Chapter Board has agreed to plan for a “And I’ll echo what the president said the other day. I think it’s Wednesday, 2 September 2020, luncheon meeting at the Ruskin more aimed at President Trump than it is against the science be- Firehouse Cultural Center. The Board will continue to monitor and cause as we speak, Dr. Fauci and his institute are conducting evaluate this plan until the 12 August Board Zoom meeting, and very dailed clinical trials if this and I would also underline the fact make a determination at that time as to whether to continue with that it is the 128th most-used drug in this country,” Wilkie said, the planned meeting. Let’s hope to meet safely again soon. referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Retired Army COL Gary Bridges continues to be on the speaker “We have seen it work in many settings across America and our schedule for a 2 September meeting to share his experiences as goal at VA is to do everything we can to preserve and prolong a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, and Dr Susan MacManus will bring life,” he said. the Chapter up to date on the ever important Florida election cli- Wilkie slammed a study he said “the press has been touting” as mate on 7 October. Contact Program Chair Eunice Patxot with showing that the drug could be dangerous. speaker suggestions that you have for November and beyond. “That was something that researchers took and used VA num- Also, if you have any nearby Chapter field trip thoughts please let bers — didn’t even look at underlying medical conditions — and Eunice and I know as soon as possible. really misrepresented what was going on at VA,” he said. When you might be out & about be aware of others that have Wilkie added that VA hospitals gave the drug to veterans for served and quickly offer them an MOAA Chapter contact infor- whom there was no other option. mation cut out (Officers & Directors list) from this newsletter or a “We used it with veterans who were in the last hours of life in the complete, always handy, award winning Chapter newsletter. I hopes that it would prolong that life and we will continue to do that know Chapter Membership Chair Walt Cawein will greatly appre- under FDA guidelines, which we have been following religiously,” ciate your assistance during this “slow” recruiting pandemic period he said. and throughout the year. “We started using this in the military in 1955,” Wilkie continued. “I’ve taken it. Everyone who’s served in the military since the Ei- If you haven’t already, you should visit the Chapter Web site at senhower administration has taken this regularly. We know its www.sccmoaa.org, especially to participate in the TAKE ACTION side effects, we know what it does and if we can offer hope to item for maintaining active duty medical personnel manning lev- people, we’re going to continue to do that.” els. Wilkie also noted that the study the media has been citing was You can also reach the TAKE ACTION MOAA site by clicking on not clinically reviewed or peer-reviewed. the one in the left hand Box on pg 2. These letters have been “It was gone over by three ophthalmologists,” he said. “Now, I shown to be very effective,. like ophthalmology, but I’m not going to turn to an ophthalmologist to review studies on infectious diseases. So I think this was more aimed at taking a hit at the president than it was science.” Stay safe, Editor’s Note: Hydroxychloroquine is an FDA-approved medica- tion with a long-proven track record for safety. It has been used Jim for many years without significant side effects. This appears to be a partisan political criticism. North and South mark 70th anniversary of Tampa Officers Ambushed by Mob, Attacked Korean War with Glass While Trying To Respond to Shooting Call Seoul (AFP) - North and South Korea on separately marked the Tampa Police Department 70th anniversary of the start of the Chief Brian Dugan told the me- Korean War, a conflict that killed dia his force was running on millions of people and has techni- empty. cally yet to end. “The police, we always have Communist North Korea invaded the US-backed South everybody’s back and nobody on June 25, 1950, as it sought to reunify by force the penin- has our back,” he said, accord- sula Moscow and Washington had divided at the end of the ing to the Tampa Bay Times. Second World War. “Right now the officers feel like they can’t win. And I The fighting ended with an armistice that was never re- would have to agree with them.” placed by a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula and millions There were several reasons the Florida police chief gave of families split by the Demilitarized Zone. for the depleted morale, including the difficulty of walking Up to three million Koreans died in the conflict, the vast the fine line between giving protesters space and having a majority of them civilians. presence at events that can turn volatile. Nearly 37,000 Americans were among the more than And then there was the assault on Saturday. 40,000 UN soldiers killed, and Western estimates say Chi- Tampa police were called out to an intersection at 1 a.m. na, which backed the North, saw 400,000 fatalities, while Saturday morning on a report of shots fired and a victim Chinese sources put it at about 180,000. down, according to WFTS-TV. Police say there weren’t any gunshots and there wasn’t Army leaders want to talk to soldiers about any victim down. Instead, there was, by all accounts, a race issues, but won’t immediately change massive crowd waiting to ambush them, throwing bottles and glass at the officers and jumping on police vehicles. Confederate-named bases “There were hundreds of them,” Dugan said, Fox News reported. “Hundreds. We actually ended up having to call The Army’s top leaders want to every single police officer that was available that night to hear directly from soldiers amid a respond there, from New Tampa to South Tampa.” national conversation on racial is- “It’s an ambush. I have no other way to describe it,” sues and a renewed effort to strip Dugan said. “When there are that many people out there military institutions of Confederate- and clearly no one had been shot. It was just a set-up to linked names, which has pushed the get the cops there.” military into the forefront of the debate. The Army’s senior leaders plan to spend the coming months visiting with groups of soldiers at posts around the MEMBERSHIP CORNER globe for candid conversations on race and diversity meant MEMBERSHIP CORNER to help them improve life for minorities in its ranks, top lead- The Membership Committee Chair is providing the fol- ers said Wednesday. The effort, dubbed Project Inclusion, Thelowing Membership to update theCommittee Chapter Chairmembership is providing regarding the fol- our was announced Thursday by Army Secretary Ryan McCar- lowingChapter to LOE update & MOAA the Chapter rewards. membership Also, this articleregarding will listour thy, who vowed his leaders would have “hard, uncomforta- Chapternew Chapter LOE members& MOAA rewards. Also, this article will list ble conversations” that would lead to improvement. new Chapter members The Army will take some immediate steps aimed at im- — 185 Chapter members proving race issues within its ranks, said Martin and James —- 171 93 RegularChapter LIFEmembers members McPherson, the Army undersecretary. Those steps — at — 8532 Regular LIFEANNUAL members members least for now — will not include a ban on Confederate im- — 2927 Regular ANNUALBASIC members members agery on Army posts or name changes for the service’s 10 — 3320 RegularSurviving BASIC Spouses members southern installations named for Confederate generals from — 18 5 Surviving Honorary Spousesmembers the Civil War, they said. Click here for Full story — 64 HonoraryNon-MOAA members members — 0 Non-MOAA members New Chapter member(s) We welcome them aboard. MOAA ACTION SITE William Scudder, COL, USA (Ret) NewTom ChapterLutes, Maj, member(s) USA (Ret) I have created this box to direct members to the online BillBob Hodges Smith, Maj— voted USA as(Ret). the 6th Honorary Member MOAA ‘Take Action’ site in order to assist MOAA in Edgar Smart-Homer, CW3, USA (Ret) achieving their legislative goals. REMINDER: The Chapter reimburses $100 to members upgradingREMINDER: to LIFEThe Chapter when LIFE reimburses certificate $100 is presented to members to Click here and select the issue(s) you would like to theupgrading Treasurer.
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