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WA Chapter of VHPAJanuary 29, 2005 Meeting Minutes Vietnam Helicopter Pilots AssociationBriefing & meeting @ Ft. Lewis, WA. Subject: Minutes of business meeting and other notes of interest. 08:45 Meet at the Ft. Lewis Golf Course as the initial meet site. Convoyed to US Army Reserve Center Aviation Support Facility, Van Eaton Hanger, on Ft. Lewis for tour and meeting. Meeting and reports of the organization: Business meeting: 09:15 Dave Rosenkranz, President, opened and all present introduced there self with a brief background. a. Skip Blaksley reported $6,018 plus new funds available and a good response on membership dues paid. b. Doug Decker read the long minutes report for the last meeting in Oct. 04. c. Dave reported that he has already set up and paid for our next meeting at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field, more details will follow and in the reminder card. Generally we will have a meeting room, 2 hours of guided tours and we should plan to spend all day. He has paid for 30 people at present for the meeting and we should have our family and friends join us for the tours after the meeting. No food will be served but the on site facility can be used for light meals. d. For future plans we are looking at the last Saturday of July. e. And the last Saturday of October for meetings. f. Veterans parade in November. g. A good idea is that at least a few folks get together or a family to show our banner at each of the air-shows this summer. Volunteers are welcome to use the banner at any of these types of events. h. Mike Brown is a member of the Red River Valley Rats local chapter and we are invited to join them at a “Tet” Dinner on Feb 26, 2005 from 6 PM to 8:30 PM at a low-key group get-to-gather. These are “jet pilots”/crews who flew north of the DMZ. Additional information follows in these notes. (This info was not published in time to be useful. Reference only now.) i. A suggestion was made to replace the current banner with a newer one that makes our statement clearer. j. New members welcomed during introduction. a. Rudy Davis – Potential has not joined yet. b. Guest: Drummond, Edward End of business meeting. 0950: Briefing: The meeting was turned over to CW4 Gerry Curtis and CW4 Pat Lance who provided a power point set of photos of the older members of the reserve unit in Iraq followed by a general overview of the use of CH47D aircraft use and missions flown by the crews in Iraq. This was followed by a Q&A session then we broke into 2 elements for the guided tour by both men. We spent most of the time in the new hanger with a few Chinooks to walk through and more discussion of the mission profile. Notes of interest: 30 members and guests attended. See separate list for those present. Estimated, count was by a guest who told me. WA Chapter Secretary, The following is from the signin list and those known to be in attendance. (Email addresses were removed to protect the privacy of the memebers and to reduce SPAM.
Davis & Drummond, Jr. potential member and guest. Dave: Separate note from Doug Decker. I received an email from a man looking to locate a new member from the last meeting, Bob Asbell. He saw Bob’s name on the new member list from the last meeting that was posted on our web site. That was one reason that I asked our members to go to and look at our web site. It is important for us to check it often and for us to add to it. The man who had the pictures from VN, Steve Franich, Gig Harbor, ph 253-851-4288, should be encouraged to have some of his photos digitized and have Bill Vaughn post them. I asked him but others should encourage him to do so as well. If anyone can assist in the digitizing it would help as well. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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