Military Officer - February 2007 - (Page 45) chapteractivities also met with state adjutant general effort and also helped coordinate Maj. Gen. William H. Wade II, USA, other welcome home events by to discuss how MOAA and CALchapters in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, working through MOAA can support National Guard MOAA headquarters. issues in California. In addition, atIn Virginia, welcome home certendees laid a wreath at the Califoremonies were held for different nia Veterans’ Memorial. brigades within the 80th Division. “From a standpoint of getting something done, I would say the rally Members of the Central Virginia Chapter sent a delegation to the was a success,” says CAL-MOAA welcome home ceremony and met President Lt. Col. Larry Stumpf, with commanders of USAF-Ret. “There the 80th Division and were a lot of things available to do, and Every chap- the 8th Brigade, based in Charlottesville. the council addressed ter that Members of the 8th some key issues.” participated Brigade received a In one chief piece … ended up state resolution recof business, CALognizing the soldiers’ MOAA members with new service and perforadopted a strategic members. mance. MOAA memplan to revitalize the bers helped sponsor council during the the resolution. next few years. (To At Fort Belvoir, Mount Vernon review the new strategic plan, visit Chapter members welcomed home CAL-MOAA’s Web site, www the division’s 6th Training Brigade .cal-moaa.org/content/view/57/2.) and donated $600 to pay for a picnic Several representatives from for soldiers and their families. national MOAA attended the rally, The Southwest Virginia Chapthe first convention held by CALter, located in Roanoke, dispatched MOAA since 1999. The rally was organized by former Navy Lt. Phelps a delegation to greet members of the 2nd and 7th brigades. Chapter Hobart, who serves as webmaster and travel coordinator for the Sacra- members distributed membership applications and copies of Military mento Chapter. Officer to returning soldiers. During welcome home ceremoRichmond (Va.) Chapter nies in Richmond, headquarters for Spearheads Welcome the 80th Division, chapter members Celebration distributed more than $200 worth of gift cards to the troops. The chaphapter members in Virter also contributed $260 to help ginia gave members of the cover the cost of the audio equipU.S. Army Reserve’s 80th ment rented for the event. Division a hearty welcome home Every chapter that participated this past fall after the unit rotated in welcome home ceremonies for stateside following deployments to the 80th Division ended up with Iraq and Afghanistan. Richmond new members; the Mount Vernon (Va.) Area Chapter President Col. Chapter signed up 16 new members Don Kaiserman, USA-Ret., led the in less than an hour, and the Southwest Virginia Chapter recruited 12 new members. “The chapters in Virginia jumped in and cooperated,” says Kaiserman. “It worked out really well, and I’m really proud of what we were able to accomplish.” George C. Marshall (Va.) Takes Care of Troops M embers of the George C. Marshall Chapter in Lexington, Va., gathered Oct. 15 to say goodbye to members of B Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, Virginia Army National Guard, before they boarded a bus that would take them back to Camp Atterbury, Ind. The farewell was heartfelt. Only weeks earlier, chapter members learned more than 50 National Guard soldiers from the Lexington/ Rockbridge area were trying to get a loan so they could rent a bus and take a week’s leave back home in Virginia before they returned to Indiana and then deployed to Kosovo for a year. C 1st Sgt. Terry Thompson, ARNG, left, accepts a symbolic check from Marshall Chapter President Tait on behalf of B Company, 116th Infantry. FEBRUARY 2007 MILITARY OFFICER 45 http://www.cal-moaa.org/content/view/57/2 http://www.cal-moaa.org/content/view/57/2
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