• *************•••****• *AUTO** 3-DlGlT 400 6Q 00464 BN 00001 M240206 . 11 [? NATIONAL OFFICERS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF COMMENTS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF COL Jack B. Jones Happy New Year! My wife, Joy,,'and I hope Email: [email protected] you and your families had a Merqy Christmas SENIOR VICE and that 2006 will bring you good health, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF LTC David R. Titus prosperity and close friends. Email: [email protected] As we approach the mid-term (if this VICE COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF MOWW year, we have been fortiinate to visit LTG Robert L. "Sam" Wetzel over ten chapters where we have made many Email; [email protected] new MOWW friends and were treated royally. Col James D. Elmer Email: [email protected] In early February, we have another opportu COL Jitck B. Jones COL D. Michael Duggan nity to get together for the "Good of the Order^ Email: [email protected] in Washington, D.C. for our MidwinterGeneral Staff (GS) meet CW4 Robert R. "Bob" Ozier ing. This yearwe willattempt something we have not done Email: [email protected] before and that is to "Walk the Halls ofCongress" inorder to TREASURER GENERAL make them more aware of MOWW and our concerns for COL M. Hall Worthington Email; hworthin@juno,com National Security,our positions on "Service before Self" and JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL those initiatives we undertake to demonstrate that it is "Nobler LT Stuart M. Cowan to Serve than Be Served." I respectfully invite each of you to Email: [email protected] attend the MidwinterGS meeting and "Walk the Halls" with SURGEON GENERAL Lt Col Kenneth D. Shanklin me, and the rest of the EXCOM and General Staff. VCINC COL Email: [email protected] Mike Duggan, Chair of the Resolutions Committee and VCINC CHAPLAIN GENERAL LTG Sam Wetzel, Chair of the National Security Committee will MAJ Charlie R. Beasley provide packets ofinformation 'to take to our Representatives HISTORIAN GENERAL and Senators along with specific directions on how to under Maj John G. Brady Email: [email protected] take the task of presenting the lUoWW point of view. Begin GENERAL STAFF-AT-LARGE now to get ready for this great f'enture by contacting your Elected Congressman's local Staff Aidejto arrange for your appointment COL Billie L.Stephens on February 2nd, between 1400-1600 hours, and join me as we Email: [email protected] walk the "Walk" and talk the "Talk" for MOWW. COL John W. Lazur Last butnotleast, bynow yqu all have received the request Email: [email protected] for the CINC's SoUcitation for fiscal year 2005/2006. We pro CAPT William W. Dibble, Jr. Email: [email protected] posed abalanced and "bare-bcjnes" budget which was LTC Michael S. George approved by the National Con^Vention in San Francisco. In that Email; [email protected] 'no-frills'budget, we included'an item predicated on donations Companion James C. Baird of funds to the Order for operations this year. Please, find it in Email: [email protected] your heartand mind to donat^ what you can to the good ofthe Appointed Order. The leadership of the Order has taken steps to move COL Richard A. Colson MOWW on asound fiscal fooiing which will pay off in the Email: [email protected] future and eliminate the need for solicitations. But as of now, CAPT Watt W. Jordan, Jr. Email: [email protected] the CINC's solicitation is the only way we can accomplish our CAPT Kent S. Webber mission and operate from day-to-day. So don't let "George" do Email: [email protected] it; let each of us donate as we can. In addition, if each of us LTC Henry A. Adams recruits one new member, it \i'ill double our membership and Email: [email protected] we will not need to solicit. CW04 Allan R. Peschek Email: [email protected] Remember, Attitude is Everything! officer Review (ISSN U736-7il7i ii published monihly except Fet)ruai>' and Augusl for SI3 byThe Mililar>' Order oi IhcWorld Wars, -<35 N. Lee Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Periodical postage paidat Front Cover: M(ip of Vietnam, TETOffens ve, 1968, from the United States Militari/ Alexandria, VA, and additional postage mailing offices. I'QSTMASTER; collection in the National Archives Send address changes to OFFICER REVIEW, 435 North Lee Street, Alexandria, VA22314, Back Cover: Photosfrom the Vietnam Men orial website, design byAssistant Editor. Table of Contents Volume 45 Number 6 TAKE TIME TO SERVE YOUR COUNTRY January 2006 4 Vietnam Experiences 14 Major League Baseball Endorses Memoria! ByLTC Harry R. 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Phone (71)3) 683-4911 or toll-free 1-877-320-3774.The Order's websiteis hltp:/Avww.militaryorder.net needed to know v\|-here the target and gims were, the caliber of the artillery, and the channel to use tocall inthemissJon. The more that I realized what I needed to oiow the more inadequate I felt, We kept going south, way past our 1 over 50,000 maps. However, we began to see air strikes and swift boats fij'ing across an inland waterway. We were almost t lere. As we arrived the swift boats, out of ammunition, departed. Just as the last air strike ended we saw a dead soldier on the beach sideofan ^nland waterway. Tlie Brigade Commander, BC Linnel and Task Force Oregon Commander MG Pearson, I believe, arrived in separate C&Cs. Between later air strikes our C&C went down several times to pick up the dead soldier but were By LTC Hany R. Lascola thwarted each tihie by veryheavy fire. After the Sun Citi/ Center, Florida, Chapter last air strike wdwere informed thatthe first lift of My 30th day in Vietnam, August 19,1967, had Company Dwojald arrive in ten minutes.