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Volume 9 – Issue 3 – April 2010
Chapter Supports AAMU ROTC
Mentorship Panel
The Alabama A&M ROTC “Bulldog” Battalion
hosted its semi-annual mentorship panel for cadets
of all levels on February 23, 2010 at the Huntsville
campus. LTC Lontrell Harris, Professor of Military Science and Battalion Commander, welcomed
the panel members and cadets for the 2-hour session which included lunch. The panel consisted of
Active Duty, Active Guard and Reserve and
Retired officers. Representing the RedstoneHuntsville Chapter of AUSA were Chapter Board
Member Frank Caravella and John T. Wright,
Chapter VP for Satellite Chapter Activities.
The mentorship panel represented a cross-section of combat arms, combat support, and combat
service support with service ranging from 13 – 30
years, and in the ranks of Warrant Officer thru
Colonel. Five majors, members of the first Intermediate Level Education class at Redstone Arsenal, provided the cadets with a current perspective
on what to expect in the early years of their service
as officers. The more senior members of the panel
provided a longer term perspective to the cadets.
Questions ranged from family support and
AAMU ROTC Cadets and Mentors L-R: John
T. Wright, Cadet McIntyre, Frank Caravella,
LTC Cook
interaction during deployments and branch selection to challenges faced and how they were overcome. While each mentor offered their own views,
all seemed to agree on the basics: take care of Soldiers, continue to learn, and make the most of every
opportunity the Army provides.
The Redstone-Huntsville Chapter looks forward to additional opportunities to interact with the
Cadets from the Bulldog Battalion, and hopes
these and other activities build toward the creation
of an ROTC Company Chapter at AAMU in the
near future.
Chapter Supports HAVOC Military Appreciation Night
The
Redstone-Huntsville
Chapter once again co-sponsored
Military Appreciation Night at
the Huntsville HAVOC Hockey
Game on March 6th at the Von
Braun Center in Huntsville. This
event always produces a lot of
excitement, and the 300 Soldiers
and Marines present certainly
added their energy through their
attendance. The troops attended
at no charge courtesy of AUSA,
and really cheered the action –
especially the hard collisions on
the ice. After each score by the
home team, the seats would
empty as the spirited young Soldiers ran around the upper deck
behind their company guidon.
Soldiers were highlighted during
the intermissions as they became
human bowling balls, propelled
across the ice on sleds by huge
slingshots. Soldiers also participated in a three-legged race
across the ice in their boots, and
one soldier even had the chance
to score a goal for cash – sorry, he
missed.
The sold-out arena showed
their appreciation for our military
with a standing ovation during
their introduction. Similarly, sev-
eral HAVOC players saluted the
Soldiers in the stands after scoring goals. One Soldier even
received the honor of riding on
the machine used to re-surface
the ice between periods (I wonder where the Army trains Soldiers to do that – Redstone Arsenal, that’s where!).
Military Appreciation Night is
always a highlight of the
Huntsville HAVOC season,
allowing this pro-military community to say thanks to the
troops. In turn, the young Soldiers and Marines enjoyed the
opportunity to “let their hair
down” on a chilly Saturday night
in downtown Huntsville. Their
cheers were answered, by the
way, with a hometown 7-6 victory in overtime. Now that was
pretty HOOAH!
Chapter Honors Soldier
and NCO of Quarter
Your Redstone-Huntsville Chapter continues to honor Soldiers for
outstanding achievement. On Thursday, 19 March, Team Redstone honored its most recent selections for
Team Redstone NCO and Soldier of
the Quarter at a luncheon held at the
Redstone Officers and Civilians
Club. Some seventy-five in attendance recognized Sergeant George
Menth and Specialist Yoon Kim for
the respective honors. Both Soldiers
are assigned to USAMEDDAC at
Redstone, which means that for the
first time in recent memory, one
organization took both honors.
SGT Menth and SPC
Kim both received a collection of professional
training material, $100
cash, a free one-year
AUSA membership and a
coin presented by Chapter
President Steve Taylor.
These outstanding Soldiers
will compete in June for
the chance to become the
NCO and Soldier of the
Year for Team Redstone.
AUSA wishes the best of
L-R: SGT Menth, SPC Kim and AUSA’s luck to both of these fine
Soldiers.
Steve Taylor
Anniston Chapter Receives Depot
Partnership Award
The Anniston Satellite Chapter of
the Association of the United States
Army was caught by surprise with
the presentation of the Partner of
Excellence Honor Award from
Anniston Army Depot on February
19, 2010.
This award recognized AUSA
for its active participation and support for numerous Anniston Army
Depot programs and events. This
award is well-deserved recognition
for the Chapter’s involvement not
only at the Depot, but also across
the military community as it supports Soldiers, DA Civilians and
Army Families throughout the
region.
Kenneth R. Reynolds, President
of AUSA’s Anniston Satellite
Chapter, accepts the award from
Depot Comander Col. S.B. Keller.
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our Redstone-Huntsville Chapter
is running on all cylinders as we
charge into the last quarter of our
AUSA year which began back on 1 July
2009. We have already had many
notable accomplishments for the year,
but this last quarter is filled with plans
for lots to come. The big events upcoming soonest are the DA Civilian of the
Year Award Dinner on 6 April and the
12th Annual Tactical Missiles Conference on 3-4 May, both events being held
at the Von Braun Center in downtown
Huntsville. Following not too far behind
will be our celebration of the Army’s
235th Birthday on 9 June, followed by
the many activities during the Community’s celebration of Armed Forces Week
(AFW) from 14-19 June. AFW is a special time set aside to honor our outstanding Soldiers, DA Civilians and their
Families. Since there are separate articles on each of these events in this edition, I will not go into detail, but I invite
you to learn more about these events and
participate as you desire. These events
are also covered on the Chapter webpage
at www.ausaredstone.org under the
“Events” tab.
Obviously these events all require an
awful lot of planning and coordination
involving many individuals and organizations, but your tireless officers and
board members are always there when
needed. I don’t often have the opportu-
nity to praise them for their diligent
work behind the scenes, but without
them and the backing of their committee
members, things just don’t get done. I
am proud to have them on the AUSA
team, solving all the issues along the
way. Remember, they are all volunteers,
many of whom have to balance their
time spent supporting our Chapter with
their full-time jobs. They truly make a
phenomenal team.
Speaking of the AUSA team, at our
General Membership Meeting to be held
following our Army Birthday Celebration on 9 June, we will be announcing
the slate of officers and board members
for the new AUSA year beginning on 1
July. I often get the question. “How can
I become a board member?” As covered
in a separate article, nominations are
accepted from the general membership,
but must be forwarded to our Nominating Committee by 1 May for the committee’s review. The ideal candidate is a
Chapter member (required) who has
already been involved in AUSA activities locally as a member of our Chapter
Support Team. So for those with the
desire to become a board member, I recommend you contact us to get on our
standing list of volunteers to participate
and get to know a little about our Chapter. And through your participation, you
get to know some of our board members
and be known by them. As we are a
Steve Taylor
working board, we will likely select new
board members from the pool of candidates who have already been active supporters. Contact us via the website to be
added to our volunteer list for upcoming
events.
Another annual event coming soon is
the 3rd Region Meeting from 14-16
April hosted by the Chattahoochee Valley/Ft Benning Chapter. As you may
recall, our Chapter hosted this event last
year here in Huntsville. The meeting
provides the leaders from the chapters
from throughout the southeast to come
together to share the good ideas about
what AUSA is doing in their communi-
Steve Taylor
President
Armed Forces Week activites approaching soon
Although you will see this article published in April, before we know it, we will
be participating in activities related to Armed Forces Week - 2010, celebrated
throughout the Redstone/Huntsville/Madison community during the week of 14-19
June. There are many events involving the military and the community, beginning
with the annual Military Appreciation Night at Monday night’s Concert in the Park.
Yes, kiddies, this includes fireworks! On Tuesday afternoon, the Army Soldier Show
performs at the Von Braun Center, followed by two more shows on Wednesday afternoon and evening. Ticket information will be forthcoming well in advance, and
attendance is free to the public.
The Chamber of Commerce hosts the Armed Forces Week Luncheon on Wednesday which is an opportunity for corporate and individual sponsorships. The AFW
Golf Tournament is scheduled for The Links at Redstone Arsenal on Friday morning,
18 June, and we look forward to awarding the “Iron Mike Trophy” to the winning
team. Army Community Services will host an open house at a time to be determined
during the week, and the Team Redstone Soldier and NCO of the Year will be
announced at a luncheon as well.
Finally, to end the week of celebration, the Chapter will co-sponsor the Alabama
Vipers Arena Football game on Saturday night with free admission provided to local
Soldiers, Marines, Department of the Army Civilians and Families. Tickets will be
limited for what is expected to be a sold-out affair, so stay tuned for information as
it becomes available.
Every year, this community comes out in tremendous force to celebrate and honor
our Military. This year is no exception, so start making your plans now to participate early and often in the Armed Forces Week activities.
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AUSA The Salute
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From the chapter President:
ties. The meeting also provides an
opportunity for the attendees to tour the
host installation’s facilities and events to
learn more about opportunities we may
be missing locally. Ft Benning, like
Redstone Arsenal, is being impacted significantly by the Base Realignment and
Closure (BRAC) decisions, so there are
dramatic changes taking place to prepare
for those changes. We will also have the
opportunity to attend a graduation ceremony for Basic Combat Training troops
during our visit, and from experience, I
know this will be a moving experience to
see the parade field filled with young
Americans getting ready to embark on
their Army careers. I can already see the
smiles from the families of these Soldiers as they share in the patriotism and
pride generated with their graduation. I
wish everyone could witness this moving
event, guaranteed to bring a tear to
almost every eye.
I hope you spend some time with this
newsletter to catch up on all your Chapter is doing in the upcoming quarter. You
can always get more information on our
website, and I encourage you to do so.
While there, click on the link to our Corporate Members and remember to thank
them for their continuing support. Not a
member? Follow the link to easy membership. Get involved. Help us spread
the good word about AUSA and the vital
support your Redstone-Huntsville Chapter provides to our Army and its Soldiers. HOOAH!
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In yet another new initiative for our
Redstone-Huntsville Chapter, we learned
of an opportunity to support a special
cookie drive conducted by a local Girl
Scout Troop. But in this case, the cookies purchased by the Chapter were not for
local consumption. Rather, the cookies
are for shipment directly to a local unit
currently deployed in the war zone. I
would be happy to tell you the unit, but
would rather it be a surprise to the Soldiers when they report for mail call to
receive the delicious treats.
The Girl Scouts of Troop 474 (pictured) purchased the cookies and affixed
a label on each box indicating that our
AUSA Chapter supports them during
their deployment. The program theme is
providing a “Taste of Home” to the Soldiers, and we hope that our donation provides just that, making their deployment
just a little easier to bear.
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Col Glenn Richie shares details of his
mission with the 2d Recruiting Brigade.
“Taste of Home”
April 7, 2010
LTC Walt Stanish speaks to attendees of
Breakfast with the Boss on Feb. 17.
assigned to LTC Stanish is to identify, educate and commission medical specialists to
meet the needs of the Army. He said he is
often referred to as “the money man” since
he has scholarship money available for medical specialty training. The two missions target a different audience, but both support the
overall Army needs.
The message provided by both commanders is that the recruiting effort continues
to meet and exceed the assigned missions,
but the missions can be further enhanced by
the leaders from our local civic and business
communities. The recruiting effort belongs
to all of us and must have our support to
achieve success in providing quality Soldiers
for tomorrow’s Army.
AUSA The Salute
In its continuing Breakfast with the Boss
series, The Chapter invited two of the newest
“Bosses” from Redstone Arsenal to address
our Corporate Member attendees at a breakfast held on Feb 17. Colonel Glenn Richie,
Cdr., 2d Recruiting Brigade, and LTC Walt
Stanish, Cdr., 2d Medical Recruiting Battalion shared with the audience details of their
respective missions and their impressions of
their new duty location. Both organizations
relocated to Redstone as a result of the 2005
Base Realignment and Closure study without
a change in their missions.
COL Richie’s mission is to identify and
prepare new recruits for entry into the Army
and to support ROTC programs producing
new Army Second Lieutenants. The mission
A message from AUSA president, Gordon R. Sullivan
Well, folks, your association has survived back-to-back blizzards that
dropped several feet of snow in the
Nation’s Capital, only to be faced with
analyzing a blizzard of defense dollars
in the newly-released federal budget.
President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget blueprint for fiscal year 2011 includes
an overall defense request of $549 billion in its base budget plus $159 for
overseas operations, primarily in
Afghanistan and Iraq. Of the $549 billion, the Army is requesting $143.4 billion and an additional $102.2 billion for
overseas contingency operations.
With money like that you might think
everything an Army could possibly want
or need would be funded, but let’s take
some of those numbers apart.
The base budget funds an active
Army end strength of 547,400, while the
overseas contingency operations request
includes money to pay for a temporary
increase of 22,000 active-duty soldiers
until 2011. That adds up to 569,400
active duty soldiers. The base budget
has the Army National Guard at 358,200
and the Army Reserve at 205,000.
AUSA, however, has long said that
the active duty component should have
at least 700,000 soldiers and the
increase should be fully funded in the
base budget. We believe the Army
National Guard needs 371,000 and that
the Army Reserve should be manned at
215,000.
These numbers, in our opinion,
would allow us to reach the goal of
dwell time at home of between two and
three years for every one deployed for
Soldiers who are willing
to give their lives for
their country should not
be paid less than their
civilian counterparts –
period – end of discussion.
active component troops and five years
for every one deployed for Reserve
Component troops. Our troops need
time to train and be with their families.
We cannot continue to send the same
troops into theater over and over without
a break.
The larger number of troops would
also fill the brigade combat teams, and
allow the schools and garrisons of the
Generating Force to be fully manned.
Everyone is concerned about health
care. I was surprised and very pleased
to see that once again the President’s
budget fully funded the Military Health
System without an increase in TRICARE fees and co-pays. However,
that’s only the first step in the fight.
In a recent hearing, both Defense
Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike
Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff discussed the rising costs of health
care. Gates said that he wants to work
with Congress on costs because they’re
“only going to keep going up.” That
means another exchange between the
Pentagon and Congress on whether to
increase TRICARE fees and co-pays.
We know it is Congress that we must
influence. We are grateful that they
continue to rebuff these politically
unpopular initiatives, and we will work
with them to ensure there are no increas-
The Alabama Department of Tourism has declared 2010 as the “Year of Small Towns and Downtowns,”
and has asked every city to hold some type of reunion/festival to bring former residents back to town.
Understanding the vital role Fort McClellan played in its history, Anniston has declared May 14-16 as
“Historic Military Reunion Weekend.” Anyone who ever served at Fort McClellan -- including POW’s,
WAC’s, Chemical School and MP School on down, is invited to attend. This also includes former civilians
who may have worked at Fort McClellan over the years.
Anniston Military Heritage Reunion
May 14
May 14-16, 2010
1 p.m. – Golf Tournament @ Cane Creek Golf
3 p.m. – Unveiling of commemorative marker (TBD)
Course, McClellan
6 p.m. – Bar-Q dinner at The 19th Hole
Restaurant, McClellan
5-8 p.m.– Street Dance on Noble Street,
downtown Anniston, complete with
live band, exhibits, restaurants, shopping.
May 15
May 16
9-2 p.m. – McClellan Reunion Tours, including
Armed Forces Day celebration at the Marshall
Parade Field…exhibits, oral history, tours, etc.
9 a.m. – Non-denominational church service at
the WAC Chapel.
For more information contact Mike Galloway at (256) 237-3536 or e-mail at
[email protected]. Information is also available at www.calhounchamber.com.
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AUSA The Salute
April 7, 2010
Winter brings blizzards and budgets
es again this year.
The budget also requested a 1.4 percent increase in military and civilian pay
and a 4.2 percent in Basic Allowance for
Housing and the Basic Allowance for
Subsistence. Military family support
programs would see an increase of $500
million, including about $440 million to
build and repair DoD schools.
Ok, there is a pay increase, and that’s
good, but I’m not so happy about the
size of it. We still need to close the pay
gap of between 2.5 and 3 percent. Soldiers who are willing to give their lives
for their country should not be paid less
than their civilian counterparts – period
– end of discussion.
The President asked for $1.1 billion
for treatment, care and research of Traumatic Brain Injury and psychological
health issues. This issue is about making troops mentally and physically
sound after experiences that civilians for
the most part cannot even imagine. It
goes back to having enough troops for
the mission and then allowing them time
to sufficiently heal, both mentally and
physically, between deployments.
AUSA will strongly support these
efforts again this year.
So during this budget season, AUSA
will monitor the process and speak out
when we believe that our members’
interests and our Army’s interests are
not being served and will offer our support when needed.
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in three categories: Management/Executive Award, Professional / Technical
Award, and Supporting Staff Award. These outstanding civilians were nominated
in February by their commands or agencies throughout the Redstone-Huntsville
area.
The nominees recognized in each category were:
Project Office, Program Executive Office – Missiles and
Space
Ms. Lisha G. Adams, G-3 Operations (Acting), U.S.
Army Aviation and Missile Command
Professional / Technical Nominees
Mr. Michael C. Connolly, Director of the Army Space
Personnel Development Office, U.S. Army Space and
Missile Defense Command / Army Forces Strategic Command
Mr. Brett Boren, Senior Computer Engineer and Lab
Manager for the Electro-Optical Sensor Flight Evaluation
Laboratory, Redstone Test Center, U.S. Army Developmental Test Command
Mr. Jimmy E. Downs, Deputy Product Manager, Kiowa
Warrior, Program Executive Office – Aviation
Mr. Willie G. Gaddis, Team Leader, Demand and Supply Planning, Integrated Materiel Management Center,
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command
Mr. Dale E. Moore, Director of Systems Integration,
Cruise Missile Defense Systems Project Office, Program
Executive Office – Missiles and Space
Ms. Jodi Gott, Information Technology Supervisor, 2nd
Recruiting Brigade, U.S. Army Recruiting Command
Mr. William D. Knox, Director of Business Management, JAMS Project Office, Program Executive Office –
Missiles and Space,
Ms. Kimberly M. Henry, Chief of Garrison Public
Affairs and Deputy Chief of Public and Congressional
Affairs, Joint AMCOM/Garrison PCA Office, U.S. Army
Aviation and Missile Command
Mr. William B. Ruta, Project Manager for Close Combat Weapon Systems Project Office, Program Executive
Office – Missiles and Space
Mr. Robert L. Thomas, Project Manager of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Project Office, Program
Executive Office – Missiles and Space
Mr. Ollie B. Toney III, Director of Logistics, Lower Tier
Mr. James R. Hillis, International Program Management
Specialist, Security Assistance Management Directorate,
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command
Mr. Thomas J. Lapointe, Aviation Special Projects Lead
for Rapid Deployment Efforts, Prototype Integration
Facility, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center, U.S. Army Research
Mr. Preston Lindsey, Information Technology Specialist
and Data Base Administrator for the Army-wide Central
Dissymmetry Records Repository, U.S. Army Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment Activity, U.S. Army
Aviation and Missile Command
Ms. Lejeania Wood, Senior Operations Research Systems Analyst Cost Analyst Lead for Surface Launched
Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile Program,
Cruise Missiles Defense Systems Project Office, Program
Executive Office – Missiles and Space
Supporting Staff Nominees
Ms. Sheila McCrary-Crutcher, Management Assistant
for the Command Sergeant Major Office, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command
Ms. Verna K. Preston, Data Quality Manager, Fox Army
Health Center, U.S. Army MEDDAC
Mr. Michael Roach, Logistics Management Specialist,
Security Assistance Management Directorate, U.S. Army
Aviation and Missile Command
Ms. Beverly Tierney, Executive Assistant to the Project
Manager, Cruise Missiles Defense Systems Project
Office, Program Executive Office – Missiles and Space
east) competition in the summer. The Region winners are recognized nationally at
the AUSA Annual Meeting in Washington DC in October. The winner in 2009 was
Mr. Richard Turner, then Executive Director of the US Army TMDE Activity. Mr.
Turner went on to win the Region award and was chosen as the AUSA National DA
Civilian of the Year for 2009. Other past Chapter winners have included Mr. Tim
Owings, Deputy Project Manager, Unmanned Aerial Systems; Mr. Troy Hester,
Electronics Engineer, United States Army Missile Research, Development and
Engineering Center; Dr. Steven Messervy, General Manager NATO Medium
Extended Air Defense System Management Agency; Mr. Steve Pierce, Chief, Studies and Analysis Division, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command Future
Warfare Center; Mr. Dale Moore, Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Joint Program Office, Mr. Paul Bogosian, Program Executive Officer for Aviation, and Mr.
John Chapman, Executive Director of the Integrated Materiel Management Center.
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Each of the nominees received a plaque recognizing their exceptional performance and a Redstone-Huntsville Chapter coin by the Chapter President, Colonel
(Retired) Steve Taylor. After an inspirational acknowledgement of all of the nominees by Major General James Myles, Commanding General of the United States
Army Aviation and Missile Command, the winners in each category were
announced. Then the overall Chapter winner was announced and presented with
an impressive engraved bronze eagle statue. This year’s Chapter winner was Ms.
Lisha G. Adams, who then addressed the attendees. Event chairman, Colonel
(Retired) Jerry Hamilton noted that the 20 nominees were the largest number of
nominees since the event began. He also noted that about 290 people attended the
dinner, including many military and community leaders and many industry members from Chapter corporate sponsors.
The Chapter nominee will go on to compete for the AUSA Third Region (South-
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AUSA The Salute
On April 6th the Redstone-Huntsville Chapter of the Association of the United
States Army (AUSA) sponsored the Department of the Army Civilian of the Year
Award Dinner at the Von Braun Center, North Hall. This award and dinner recognized 20 local Department of the Army Civilians who have demonstrated exceptional performance as members of the Army team. The nominees were recognized
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Department of the Army Civilian of the Year Award Dinner
Corporate Spotlight
April 7, 2010
AUSA The Salute
nLogic, LLC
4901 Corporate Drive, Suite H, Huntsville, AL 35805
nLogic is an employee-owned, small business that supports
developmental prime contractors. nLogic does not provide
advisory and assistance services to the Government and thus has no Organizational Conflict of Interest issues. nLogic is projecting $10M in annual revenue for CY10 with
offices in Huntsville, AL; Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA; and Arnold Air Force Base,
TN. nLogic core competencies include system engineering and integration, software
development, modeling and simulation, test and evaluation, and information technologies. Proud to be an AUSA Corporate Member.
Magnolia River Services, Inc.
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customer-focused solutions in Energy Management, Horizontal Infrastructure, and Geographic Information Systems
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ASRC Research and Technology Solutions
350 Voyager Way, Huntsville, AL 35806
3 Years in Business
“To Enhance, Advance and Enable.” ARTS provides a broad
range of research, engineering and scientific services as well
as product development services to meet the needs of high technology consumers in
government and industry, including the aerospace, defense, energy, and transportation
sectors. An AUSA Sustaining and Corporate Member.
The U.S. Army 2nd Recruiting Brigade Command Group hosted a luncheon, Dec.
8. The meeting was an opportunity to introduce key players and discuss opportunities for shared support. Pictured left to right: COL (Ret.) Steve Taylor, COL Glenn
Richie, CSM Daniels, James Darden,John Rogers, and LTC Heather Garrett.
The ERC family salutes the Association of the
United States Army and the men and women
who dedicate their lives to protect our
freedom and the American way of life.
ERC
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Joe Durham, Senior
Vice President of Scientific Research Corporation, is presented
with a certificate of
longevity from Mike
Barefield, VP of Corporate Affairs, for
their 5 years of commitment as a corporate member of the
Redstone-Huntsville
Chapter. With over
1400 employees and
over $270 million in
2009 revenues, SRC
remains a cornerstone for Army testing, training, and system engineering in
Huntsville.
Portal Dynamics-Anniston
Portal Dynamics-Huntsville
Potts Marketing Group, LLC
PPG Industries, Inc.
PPT Solutions, Inc.
Professional Golf Shop
PVAC Preventive Vibration Analysis
Corp.
QinetiQ North America
QTEC Inc
Quadrus Corporation
Qualis Corporation
QuantiTech, Inc.
Radiance Technologies, Inc.
RAM Incorporated
Raytheon Company
RBC Bank
Redstone Arsenal Chapter-US Army
Warrant
Redstone Arsenal MWR
Redstone Federal Credit Union
Redstone Recognitions, Inc.
Redstone Village
Regions Bank
RMCI
Robbins-Gioia LLC
Rocket Harley-Davidson
Rousseau’s Sporting Goods Awards,
Inc.
Sanmina SCI Corp.
Science and Engineering Services, Inc.
Science Application Intl. Corp
Scientific Research Corporation
Scruggs Enterprises, Inc.
Secotec, Inc.
Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems US
Inc
Sensor Technologies Incorporated
Sentar,Inc.
ServisFirst Bank
Shearer & Associates
Sigma Services
Sigmatech, Inc.
Signature Research, Inc.
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
SimSTAFF Technical Services, Inc
Sirote & Permutt,P.C.
Slyman Construction Company, Inc.
The Solid Waste Disposal Authority
Somerset Group, Inc.
Southern Convention Services. Inc.
Southern Research Institute
SpecPro Environmental Services, LLC
Spirit Coach LLC
SRA
STAI-System Technology Associates,
Inc.
Kwajalein Range Services LLC
L-3 Communications, GS & ES
L-3 Wescam
L & J Support Systems, LLC dba
OSBO
L3 Communications Integrated Systems
Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne PC
Leadership Strategies, Inc (LSINC)
LESCO
The Lioce Group Inc.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
LogiCore Corporation
Lynn Layton Chevrolet
MACRO Industries Inc.
Madison County Commission
Magnacom, Inc.
Magnolia River Services, Inc.
Marie Imports Hallmark
Marriott Shoals Hotel & Spa
Maynard Cooper and Gale, PC
MEI Technologies
Mentor Enterprises Inc.
Mentor Publications
Miko Group
Millennium Systems Services, Inc.
Miltec Corporation
Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
Modis
Monterey Gifts & Collectibles
Moog, Inc.
Morgan Stanley
MortgageAmerica, Inc., Angelia Denney
MSB Analytics, Inc.
MTA Inc.
MTS Inc.
Navigator Development Group
NeXolve Corporation
nLogic, LLC
Noetic Strategic, Inc.
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Northrop Grumman Technical Services
Oak Ridge Partnership Office
OAR Corporation
OPDEC
Orbital Sciences Corporation
OTI
Paradigm Technologies, Inc.
The Patrick Wolffe Group, Inc.
Peduzzi Associates, Ltd.
Perkins Technical Services Inc
PhotoTelesis LP
Physitron, Inc.
Pinnacle Solutions Inc.
Polaris Systems, Inc
Port of Huntsville
Stanley Associates
Still Serving Veterans
System Studies & Simulation, Inc
Systems Development Corp.
Systems Products and Solutions, Inc.
TAOS Industries Inc
Tec-Masters, Inc.
Techni-Core Engineering
TecoLote Research Inc.
Teledyne Brown Engineering
Teledyne Solutions, Inc.
Ternion Corporation
Tetra Tech EMC
TMT Group, Inc.
Torch Technologies, Inc.
Total Solutions, Inc.
TRACE SYSTEMS INC.
Trideum Corporation
TSC/Phase IV Systems Operation
Turner Universal
Tyonek Fabrication Corporation
T&W Operations
UAS Project Office
United Space Alliance
Univ of Alabama in Huntsville
URS
U.S. Space & Rocket Center
Valley Hill Country Club
Van Valkenburgh & Wilkinson Properties
Venturi, Inc.
Von Braun Center
VT Aepco
Wachovia Bank
Walker Restaurant Group Inc. dba
Atlanta
WaveLink, Inc. (WLI)
Weichert Realtors,TEG
West Point Society of The TN Valley
The Westin Huntsville
The Westin-Executive Membership
Club
Westinghouse Anniston
Westwind Technologies, Inc.
Whitney, Bradley & Brown, Inc.
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Wildwood Electronics, Inc.
Wilks and Associates
Willbrook Solutions, Inc.
William Pedigo Associates, Inc.
Wilson Garage Door Co. of Huntsville
Woody Anderson Ford Inc.
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Five Stones Research Corporation
Fort McClellan Credit Union
Freedom Information Systems
Future Research Corporation
Gan Corporation
Ga. Tech Research Institute
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
Inc
General Dynamics-OTS
General Dynamics Arm & Tech Products
General Dynamics/Axsys Technologies
GeoLogics Corporation
Geotest-Marvin Test Systems,Inc.
Gleason Research Associates Inc.
Global Defense Associates LLC
Global Recruiters of Huntsville
Goodrich Corporation
GradKell Systems, Inc.
Gray Research, Inc.
Griffon Aerospace
Guesthouse Suites Plus
Harris Corporation
Hawk Enterprises, LLC
Heritage Club
Holiday Inn Downtown Huntsville
Huntsville Emergency Medical Services
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville Marriott
Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation
Inc
Huntsville Stars
The Huntsville Times
Huntsville/Madison Conv.Bureau
HVF LLC
Hyco International
Hyperspring Technical Services, LLC
ICF International
InfoPro Corporation
Intelligent Systems Research, Inc.
Intergraph Corporation
Intuitive Research and Technology
Corp.
Invariant Corporation
IronMountain Solutions Inc.
ISSI Unexploded Ordnance,Inc.
ITT Corporation
J Spencer Photography
J2 Technologies Inc.
Jacksonville State University
Jane C. Smith, Circuit Clrk
JAYA Corporation
JB Management, Inc.
Jean Porter Design Consultant
J. Smith Lanier & Co.
KLOS Diamond Center
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions,
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Brockwell Technologies, Inc.
BTC
Bullet Resistant Glass
B.R. Williams Trucking, Inc.
Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce
Camber Corporation
CB Commercial McLain Real Estate
CDO Technologies, Inc.
Century 21 Steele and Associates
CFI Global Solutions Inc.
CG Technologies
Chamber of Comm. Huntsville-Madison
Co.
Chandler / May, Inc.
Chugach MGMT Services
City of Madison
Civilian Marksmanship Program
CMC Defense Products
Cobham Analytical Services
CohesionForce Inc.
Coldwell Banker Premier
Cole Marie Austin LLC
COLSA Corporation
Compass Bank
Computer Sciences Corporation
Concurrent Technologies Corporation
Congressman Mike Rogers
Connected Logistics
Consolidated Publishing Company
Crestwood Medical Center
Crye-Leike Realtors - Madison
Dale Technical Services
Davidson Technologies Inc.
Dayton T Brown
DCS Corporation
deciBel Research, Inc.
Delta Research, Inc.
Delta Solutions & Strategies, LLC
DESE Research, Inc.
DHS Systems, LLC
Dick,Riggs,Miller & Stem, LLP
Digital Fusion Solutions Inc.
DMD, L.L.C.
Draper Laboratory
DRS Test & Energy Management
DTG AVN
Dynetics Inc.
Eagle Rehab, Inc.
Eagle Support Services Corporation
Eclipse Business Services
Eleit Technology Inc.
Enabling Technologies, Inc.
Enfinger Steele Development
EnGenius Consulting Group
ERC, Incorporated
Executive Leadership Skills Int’l
First Commerical Bank
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3D Research Corporation
5-D Systems Inc.
A-PMCS, Inc
AAR Brown International
AAR Mobility Systems
AC, Inc.
ADEX Machining Technologies
Advanced Federal Services Corporation
Advanced Optical Systems, Inc.
Advanced Systems Development, Inc.
Aegis Technologics Group Inc.
Aero Thermo Technology, Inc.
Aerodyne, Inc.
Aerojet
Agility Defense & Government Services
AI Signal Research, Inc.
Alabama Safety Products Inc.
Alabama Flag & Banner, Inc.
Alatec Inc.
ALOG Corporation
Alpha Beta Technologies Inc.
Altair
Altex Packaging, Inc.
Alutiiq LLC
Amanda Howard Real Estate
American Federation of Government
Employ
Analytical Services, Inc.
Anglin-Reichmann, Snellgrove &
Armstrong
Anniston Army Depot
Anniston Water Works
AOD Federal Credit Union
Applied Data Trends
ARES Corporation
ARINC Engineering Services LLC
ASRC Research and Technical Solutions
ATK - TP&C
Avion Inc.
AZ Technology Inc.
BAE Systems
BAE Systems Ground Systems-Anniston
Bama Jammer Inc.
Battelle Memorial Inst. Huntsville
BD Consulting,LLC
Beason & Nalley, P.C.
Bell Helicopter Textron
Belzon, Inc.
Berney Office Solutions
BFA Systems Inc.
Boeing
Bonham Technologies, Inc
Booz Allen Hamilton
Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP
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and Arkansas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S.
Virgin Islands. About 2,400 Soldiers
and Civilians are assigned to “Team
Eagle,” as Richie calls the brigade, providing opportunities to and recruiting
the best and brightest new Soldiers for
the active Army and Army Reserves.
In Fiscal Year 2009, about 24,000
new Soldiers joined the active Army
and about 6,000 new Soldiers joined the
Army Reserves in 2nd Recruiting
Brigade’s area. Team Eagle achieved
over 110 percent mission accomplishment. So far in FY 2010, Team Eagle is
again on track to accomplish both the
active Army and Army Reserve mission,
having already recruited more than
12,000 new Soldiers. Richie attributes
the success to several factors, including: high propensity in the Southeast,
somewhat driven by the number of mil-
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of the economy and high unemployment
rates; and mostly, the hard work and
dedication of the Soldiers on recruiting
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But the brigade’s success does not
come without challenges, Richie said.
“Recruiting for America’s Army is not
just a mission for this brigade or our
command,” he said, “but a mission for
the entire nation.” He encourages
everyone to be involved in recruiting
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best way to do that is “by telling your
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local MCEC Steering Committee. The
objectives of this program are certainly in
line with other AUSA initiatives, and I am
sure you will be hearing and reading more
as this worthwhile program takes root in
our communities.
One of many testimonials which I
would like to share, one that I think epitomizes MCEC, was written by a 6th Grade
student in Louisiana:
I serve too, I’m a Military child,
I stay strong when my Dad goes away.
If there is a war and my Dad is detached,
I will help him fight back.
With my braveness and courage I can
stay strong,
My family’s support helps me carry on.
Whenever we move, I start over again,
I have to go to a new school, and make
new friends.
Even though people think I am a Military
Brat,
I just don’t quite see it like that.
My Daddy helps defend our country,
So we can live in peace and harmony.
So all the Military children help our
Mothers and Fathers,
Because we serve too, we’re the Sons and
Daughers!!
I think that “SAYS IT ALL!!” Our Redstone-Huntsville Chapter, AUSA, is committed to participate in all levels of MCEC
in Huntsville and North Alabama. For more
information on MCEC, please contact Jim
Rountree, VP for Family Programs on our
Chapter website (www.ausaredstone.org).
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What’s MCEC, you ask. The Military
Child Education Coalition (MCEC) is a
nation-wide program to support children of
active duty, Reserve, and National Guard
soldiers during their transition into new
schools due to their parent’s transfer of duty
location. This program is a nonprofit organization that promotes partnerships and provides for networking of military installations and their supporting school districts
and communities. Its focus is to address
transition and other educational issues
related to the military-connected child.
With membership world-wide, MCEC
serves the almost 2 million military-connected children through a network of
school systems and military installations.
It includes: workshops to assist parents;
institutes to train counselors; training to
enable students to support each other;
technical equipment to provide on-line
virtual audio-video counseling centers;
and publications to cover all facets of the
program. Support is provided from preKindergarten through High School to
address the unique and sometimes challenging transitions of the military-connected child. Throughout the process,
community awareness of this program and
the student assistance that it provides is
promoted in order to spread the word.
Representatives from the RedstoneHuntsville Chapter met with some 75 military and community leaders on 10 March
for a day-long Public Engagement Workshop to attempt to organize support for the
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Industry Changes
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley appointed
Phoenix CEO Bryan Dodson to the
State Rehabilitation Council, a 28member body which advises the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services on issues that affect people with
disabilities and vocational rehabilitation services. Phoenix, a private nonprofit agency serves nearly 900 persons
with disabilities, providing them with
jobs through its plant or contract services, job placement and other services
designed to help them be self supporting.
The Q-Track Corp. selected Stephen
A. Werner as chief operating officer.
Werner assumed responsibilities for
business development, project management and operations. He has 25+ years
of defense and aviation industry experience and most recently was vice president and general manager for AAR
Summa Technology.
MEI Technologies appointed Vic
Walczak as the chief operating officer,
federal sector. He will be based at corporate headquarters in Houston. Since
2006, Walczak was general manager,
military programs, in Huntsville.
Before joining MEI, Walczak served 20
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In January The enGenius Consulting
Group named Technical Task Leader
Rick Kircher as Huntsville employee of
the year (2009).
Michael Kirkpatrick was named
president of DESE Research. He joined
DESE in 1994 and was a corporate officer for 12 years and executive vice
president for the past four years. He
succeeded Fred Chiverton who
announced his retirement after 22 years
of service with DESE.
The Oak Ridge-Huntsville Partnership Office named Vance Sales as director. He leads efforts to establish strategic partnerships and cultivate relationships between the two communities.
Sales, a retired Army colonel, previously was the director of Aviation and
Aerospace Operations in the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory’s National Security Directorate in Huntsville.
Teledyne Brown Engineering promoted Scott Hudson to vice president of
administration. He will be responsible
for facilities, human resources, information technology, media services and
security. Hudson, a 20-year TBE
employee, was director of business
development and marketing for aerospace systems for the last two years.
Mike Stanfield, president of Miltec,
a Ducommun company, in Huntsville
was also named president of Joint Venture Applied Science and Technology, a
joint venture between Miltec and Five
Stones Research of Huntsville formed
to provide management and technical
support to the space and missile defense
community.
Dr. James “Mitch” Stevison joined
Lockheed Martin Space Systems as
director of the Targets and Countermeasures Program. This program provides
the MDA with target missiles to test the
BMD system. Stevison was the vice
president of programs, and later operations, for Miltec Systems Division. He
retired from the Army in 2005 after a
20-year military career.
Scott Howell has joined Freedom
Information Systems to lead the Freedom teams supporting Marshall Space
Flight Center. Howell has over 21 years
of contractor experience developing
software, designing databases and managing projects for NASA and the DoD.
Belzon added several new personnel
in the first quarter: Stuart Hartwell and
Jeff Lang to provide support to the
Armed Scout Helicopter program office
as logistics analysts; Jim Owens was
added to provide support to the Army
Prepositioned Stock program as a logistics analyst and Rosemary Bishop came
on to provide support to the Joint Cargo
Aircraft Business Case Analysis program as an editor.
Rick Turner has joined LogiCore as
vice president of Operations and Strategy based in Huntsville. Turner has
more than 33 years of experience and
recently retired as executive director,
Army Test, Measurement & Diagnostic
Equipment Activity, AMCOM.
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years ion the Army where his assignments were in field artillery
Dynetics has added five new
employees to its business development
department to identify, pursue and support growth opportunities in various
technical areas. Z. Kevin Reece was
lead for the Integrated Systems and
Special Programs Operating Unit. He
has worked with Dynetics for 27 years.
Todd C. Burwell was named lead for
the Hardware and Intelligence Operating Unit. He has worked with Dynetics
for eight years. Philip S. Freeze joined
Dynetics as a manager responsible for
aviation and missile markets. He has
spent 20 years as a senior business
development manager with DRS TEM,
BAE and Texas Instruments, all in
Huntsville. Darren E. Gero joined
Dynetics as a manager to support
Dynetics’ move into space-based markets. He previously was a business
development manager for Teledyne
Brown Engineering. Garry Waggoner
joined Dynetics as a manager in the
Information Technology and Cyber
domain. He previously worked at Teledyne and General Dynamics IT.
Debbie King joined MTS as director
of business solutions. She previously
had led the economic and business
analysis team at Booz Allen Hamilton.
King has 20 years of NASA experience
in business management and program
planning and control, and was director
of business and administration at NASA
Shared Services Center in Mississippi.
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Barry Pike was promoted in January
to be the deputy program executive
officer for the Program Executive
Office for Missiles and Space.
Throughout his 20-year career with the
Army, Pike has been chief of staff for
the PEO M&S and held key leadership
positions in the Army National Missile
Defense Ground Based Elements Program.
Col. Jeffrey Hager accepted his certificate from Brig. Gen. Tim Crosby
during Hager’s promotion ceremony
Feb. 1 at the Bob Jones Auditorium.
Hager was promoted to the rank of
Colonel and now serves as the Product
Director for Integrations within the
Utility Helicopters Project Office. He
previously served as the Apache Longbow Block III Product Manager
George J. Mitchell became the product director for TMDE and succeeds
Steven Linger who left to become the
chief of the engineering support division at AMRDEC. Mitchell previously
served as a program manager at MDA.
CWO4 Lawrence Bonkoski and
CWO4 Richard French were saluted at
their retirement ceremonies in January
by family friends and coworkers.
Richard Manley. LOGSA chief,
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Richard Manley pinned the Legion of
Merit on each officer. Both planned to
stay in the local area.
The last 3-1/2 years as commander
of the Logistics Support Agency
(LOGSA) capped the 30-year Army
career of Col. James Rentz who retired
in February. He will be hard to replace;
but until that happens, deputy director
Geoffrey Embrey is serving as acting
commander.
Dr. Tom Pieplow has retired from his
position as director of AMCOM’s
Security Assistance Management
Directorate following 32 years of service.
Sigmatech has appointed Major
General Joseph L. Bergantz (USA Ret.)
as the company’s chief executive officer. Bergantz previously served as vice
president and general manager for the
Huntsville-based ManTech Nexolve
business unit.
Brigadier General William D. Frink,
Jr., United States Army Reserve, was
nominated for promotion to the grade
of major general and assignment as
Commanding General, 79th United
States Army Reserve Sustainment Support Command, Los Alamitos, California. He is currently serving as Commander, 311th Sustainment Command
(Expeditionary), Los Angeles, California.
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REDSTONE/HUNTSVILLE AUSA CHAPTER
East Hall
12TH ANNUAL TACTICAL MISSILE CONFERENCE
Huntsville, AL
“Evolving Missiles and Fires into the New Decade”
The purpose of the symposium is to provide an open forum for the presentation of
current and future Army tactical missile
programs in a collaborative government
and industry environment. The forum provides senior government and industry program managers and their staffs with many
opportunities to meet and interact with
their counterparts. In addition, the forum
will allow industry leaders an opportunity
to assess their IRAD programs in light of
current and future program directions with
an eye toward win/win collaboration with
their government customers.
The conference is a one-day, unclassified event. The morning session will begin
with a Team Redstone Overview by the
AMCOM Commanding General, MG
James Myles, followed in the afternoon
with a State-of-the-PEO briefing by BG(P)
Genaro J. Dellarocco. During the morning,
we have invited Army Senior Leaders from
the Army Staff, HQ TRADOC, The Missile Defense Agency, and the Commanding
Generals from all tactical missile User
Centers to speak on their Tactical Missile
perspectives. The sit down luncheon with a
special luncheon presentation will be followed by afternoon presentations by all of
the Project Managers of PEO Missiles and
Space-managed programs.
The conference will take place on Tues-
day, 4 May, in the East Hall of the Von
Braun Center. Preceding the conference on
Monday, 3 May, is an optional golf tournament at Valley Hill Country Club followed
by an icebreaker social at The Summit at
Big Spring in Downtown Huntsville at
5:00 p.m. Registration and details regarding the conference events can be found at
http://www.onlineeventsregistration.com/.
Conference Sponsorships available:
Silver Sponsorship ($250) will be a projection of corporate message** at the icebreaker reception and at the conference.
Gold Sponsorship ($750) will include
sponsorship of a golf hole, recognition at the
icebreaker reception and conference, projection of a corporate message** at the conference, and one conference registration
included.
Platinum Sponsorship ($1250) will
include sponsorship of a golf hole, recognition at the icebreaker reception and conference, projection of a corporate message** at
the conference, and one conference registration. In addition, Platinum Sponsors will
receive recognition at breakfast and lunch
and golf tournament registration for four
players.
Monday, May 3, 2010
AUSA Golf Tournament (4-Person
Scramble) ~ Valley Hill Country Club
0700 Registration
0830 Tournament Begins ~ Shotgun Start
Lunch/Awards Follow
Reception/Icebreaker ~ The Summit at
Big Spring (100 Church Street, Eighth
Floor, Huntsville, AL 35801)
1700 – 1930 (For Conference Attendees)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 ~ EAST HALL,
Von Braun Center, Huntsville, AL
0700 – 0800 Registration and Continental
Breakfast
0800 – 0815 Opening Remarks/Welcome
AUSA
0815 – 1400 Army Senior Leadership Perspectives
Mr. Steve Cornelius, AMRDEC Missile
S&T Overview (ACCEPTED)
MG James Myles, Commander, Aviation
and Missile Command (INVITED)
LTG Michael Vane, Deputy Commanding
General, Futures/Director, Army Capabilities Integration Center, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (INVITED)
LTG Patrick O’Reilly, Director, Missile
Defense Agency (INVITED)
LTG Robert Lennox, Deputy Chief of
Staff, G-8 (INVITED)
LTG James Pillsbury, Deputy Commander, US Army Material Command KEYNOTE Speaker (ACCEPTED)
MG Michael Ferriter, Commander of Fort
Benning and the U.S. Army Infantry Center (INVITED)
MG David D. Halverson, Commanding
General, U.S. Fires Center of Excellence
and Fort Sill (ACCEPTED)
MG James O. Barclay III, Commander,
U.S. Army Aviation Center for Excellence
and Fort Rucker (INVITED)
BG Roger Mathews, Chief of Air Defense
Artillery (INVITED)
PEO/PROJECT MANAGERS’ OVERVIEWS
1400 – 1430 State of PEO Missiles &
Space – BG(P) Genaro J. Dellarocco
1430 – 1450 Joint Attack Munitions Systems – COL Michael Cavalier
1450 – 1510 Close Combat Weapon Systems – Mr. William Ruta
1510 – 1530 Non-Line of Sight Launch
System – COL Douglas A. Dever
1530 – 1600 BREAK
1600 – 1620 Precision Fires Rocket and
Missile Systems – COL David J. Rice
1620 – 1640 Lower Tier Project Office –
Mr. Darryl J. Colvin
1640 – 1700 Cruise Missile Defense Systems – COL Warren O’Donell
1700 – 1720 Integrated Air and Missile
Defense – Mr. Robert L. Thomas
1720 – 1740 Upper Tier Project Office –
COL Michael R. Steves
1740 – 1800 Closing Remarks/Adjourn –
BG(P) Genaro J. Dellarocco
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share of at least 28 percent of the
Department of Defense total.
• Developing the Future Force
for the transforming Army.
• Providing pay and benefits for
Reserve Component personnel
and their families that are
commensurate with their Active
Duty counterparts.
• Reducing the age for Reserve
retirement benefits to age 55.
You can be sure that the Redstone-Huntsville Chapter is an active
participant in the Resolutions
process. We provide recommendations based on input from our membership and our Army community,
and send a representative to serve on
the Resolutions Committee. LTC
(USA-Ret) Marc Jacobson, the
Chapter VP for Legislative Affairs,
assembles and refines local issues
and serves on the AUSA Resolutions
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promise to be the Voice for the Army
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legislation that will benefit our
membership. The 2010 Resolutions
address numerous issues. Here are
a few:
• Accelerating recent progress in
closing the pay gap between the
military and civilian sectors.
• Full concurrent receipt for all
disabled retirees.
• Ending the Survivor Benefit
Plan / Dependency and Indemnity
Compensation offset for
survivors.
• Preventing increases in
TRICARE fees/deductibles.
• Increasing funding for Army
end strength: Active - 700,000,
Army National Guard - 371,000,
Army Reserve - 215,000.
• Increasing funding for spare
parts, maintenance, and training.
• Support for reconstituting and
resetting the Current Force.
• Rebalancing Army capabilities
to strengthen readiness.
• Increasing defense spending to
at least 5 percent of GDP; Army
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members are appointed by the
Board of Trustees. This Committee
begins a staffing process the week
prior to the AUSA National Convention.
The work begins with a full day
of briefings by the Army Staff, and
continues with a complete review of
all the information collected from
the Chapters. The Committee then
spends three days reviewing, editing, and developing a comprehensive set of concepts that are refined,
and are ultimately voted on by the
Chapters. Given a consistent message from year to year, members of
Congress are able to use the Resolutions booklet as a checklist to
track those issues AUSA believes
are important to the Army.
In addition to providing codified
Resolutions, AUSA offers testimony, makes visits to members of
Congress, and joins with 34 other
organizations in The Military
Coalition to make our voice for the
soldier heard in the halls of the
Capitol.
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Each year, AUSA publishes a set
of Resolutions that encompass the
collective desires of the membership, as they pertain to the Army.
The booklet is entitled “America’s
Army : The Strength of the Nation”,
and contains the Resolutions AUSA
takes to the halls of Congress on
behalf of the American soldier, military families, DA Civilians, and
veterans.
The Resolutions process begins
with each AUSA Chapter, as the
legislative committees solicit input
from various sources. At RedstoneHuntsville, the Commands and
offices consulted were AMCOM,
PEO Missiles and Space, PEO Aviation, SMDC, MDA, AMRDEC, U.S.
Army Garrison, and AMC. Military
commanders and agency directors
provided significant contributions.
Much of the information consisted
of updates to the 2009 Resolutions.
The Chapters’ inputs are provided to the AUSA Directorate for
Government Affairs and held for
the Resolutions Committee, whose
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It must be Spring because the College
Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
and High School Junior ROTC (JROTC)
Award Ceremonies are starting to rack up in
the queue. Every year, our RedstoneHuntsville Chapter assists in recognizing
various cadets selected from our State’s
ROTC and JROTC programs for their Leadership and academic achievements. As our
Chapter’s area of responsibility covers from
the 5 southernmost counties in Tennessee
south through Alabama down to and in some
cases, past Tuscaloosa and Montgomery;
border to border – there are a LOT of High
Chapter Board Member Tom Economy presents the JROTC Medal and
Chapter coin to Cadet Casey Varvaet of Huntsville’s Columbia High
School.
Schools for us to communicate with. As a
result, we have compiled a list of schools
where our Chapter members present AUSA
awards including the AUSA Medal and ribbon set; a personalized Certificate; a oneyear complimentary AUSA membership; a
Chapter Coin and a cash award.
If your school’s ROTC/JROTC program
would like to participate in this long-standing tradition recognizing excellence, please
give me a shout. I can be reached at my cell
phone 256.508.2417 or via e-mail at [email protected]. Looking forward to talking with you.
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Duty, Army Reserve and Army National Guard categories. The final
activity of the evening will be the election of Chapter officers and
board members by the general membership. The Executive
Vice President, Paul Elliott, is appointed Chairman of the
Nominating Committee with the responsibility for proposing a slate of officers for the new AUSA year
beginning 1 July. Our Chapter by-laws allow for the
nomination of candidates to the Nominating Committee by the membership, but the cut-off for such
nominations is the first week in May to allow the
slate to be finalized for timely approval. Should
any member have a nominee (must be an active
member of the Redstone-Huntsville Chapter), you
should forward the name to Paul for his committee’s consideration. As a reminder, our board
membership is 100% voluntary, and we expect our
board members to all be workers, ready to actively
support the many activities of the Chapter.
So, mark the date on your calendars for this important
event on June 9. Details on how to sponsor tables or purchase individual seats for this event will be posted on our
Chapter website at www.ausaredstone.org as they are finalized.
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Each year, the Redstone-Huntsville Chapter celebrates the Army Birthday with a dinner and ceremonial cutting of the Army Birthday
Cake.
This year is no different, as we make plans to celebrate
the Army’s 235th Birthday on Wednesday evening,
June 9 at the Redstone Officers and Civilians Club.
Although we will be celebrating a little before the
actual birthday of 14 June, we do so to avoid conflicting with Armed Forces Week activities which
kick off beginning on Monday, 14 June.
We always enjoy active participation from the
Soldiers from the 59th Ordnance Brigade at this
event, and this year will be special because it
marks the last year these Soldiers will be at Redstone as a result of the relocation of the Ordnance
Munitions and Electronic Maintenance School
(OMEMS) to Ft Lee in 2011.
After dinner and an intermission to allow the
return of the Soldiers to their barracks, we will transition into our Chapter’s General Membership Meeting, during which we will recognize the Sergeant John Ordway Leadership Award winners, honoring First Sergeants from the Active
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General Membership Meeting
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