Recently we struck gold! Cynthia Macha, the Director of Western Museum of Flight at Torrance Airport, has actually volunteered to take on the post of Operations Officer for GPS. She is already in contact with our speaker for 11 June and is working her way through the schedule, arranging for top-notch speakers for our future meetings. Thank you Cindy!
C.O. Tim Brown and his grandsone Adrian (4yo) with Marine F/A-18s
Don’t let Cindy’s efforts go unrewarded, will you! I know that we currently have LtGen David H. Berger, USMC, Commanding General, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force headquartered at Camp Pendleton, CA, scheduled to speak to our group at our meeting on 13 August. At that same meeting we will also be presenting awards to the SOQs from Weapons Station Seal Beach. That is an important meeting on a couple of levels so your participation will be most appreciated. Be sure to bring potential members, family, friends, neighbors and/or acquaintances to the meeting and talk up membership in ANA.
You may have noticed that Hal printed the names of members of ANA in the last issue of the OpPlan. If your name was not there, it is probably because you have let your membership lapse or you were never a member, but attend our meetings. Would you please do ANA and GPS a favor, renew or apply for a membership right away. Fran Pieri, our Membership Officer, is at every meeting and has applications available. He will even mail them for you…but he will not pay your dues! The strength of our organization is in numbers. We need you as a member of ANA! GPS does not charge membership dues. If you are a member of ANA, you are a member of GPS.
Tim Brown, Commanding Officer
One last item. On 23 May, one of my grandsons (Adrian who is 4 years old) and I traveled over to Long Beach Airport to look at a few Marine F/A-18’s that were flying out of LGB on training flights. As it turned out, VMFAT-101 was the squadron that was in training. Adrian and I talked to a couple of Marines including a pilot, Captain Mattis (no relation), and touched the nose of a real F/A-18. Adrian was thrilled! I just want to remind you that if you get a chance to speak to an active duty Sailor, Marine, or Coastie who is working in aviation, make sure that they know that you are a member of ANA and that you support Naval Aviation.
See you on 11 June when LtCol Mike Naylor will be our guest speaker.
