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October 22 Dinner on Plaza with Air Force

Posted: 10/14/2017
Attention Greater KC Metro Area USNA Alumni:
There are still openings here for those interested just indicate you want to attend this VERY NICE PLAZA DINNER (cost $45) on Sunday, October 22. From time to time we get invited to the other service academies events and I always enjoy “going behind enemy lines” as our comrades in arms are from the same DNA as us. As you will recall I invited them to our USNA Alumni Breakfast with RADM Penfield speaker back in April and some West Point and Air Force attended. LTCOL Greg Shuey the AFA AOG President for KC is also trying to get us (joint service academy) a future guided tour of nearby Whiteman AFB in Missouri to see the B1’s. You will also recall that LTCOL Shuey also got us upfront VIP FREE seating at the Memorial Day Celebration at the Station back in May 2017. Navy please let me know if you are attending (bob.culler@1974.usna.com). I will be there.
Go Navy Beat Memphis!
Bob Culler ’74
 
FALL/ WINTER CALENDAR
 
Cooper’s Hawk Wine Tasting and Dinner – Sunday, 22 October/ 1630 Wine Tasting (Optional) / 1800 Dinner:  
 
Members of the graduate associations of West Point and Annapolis are cordially invited to join Air Force Academy grads in this special event.
Guest Speaker: LTC Hugh Mills is one of the most decorated Army pilots of the Vietnam War. He served three tours in the war as a pilot in OH-6 (Scout) and AH-1G (Gunship) helicopters and was awarded 3 Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 3 Bronze Stars (one for ground combat, a rarity for pilots), 3 Purple Hearts, the Meritorious Service Medal with 3 OLCs, 68 Air Medals (6 with V for valor), and many more. He has over 9,000 hours in rotary aircraft and 3,000 hours in fixed wing aircraft. He was responsible for changing hunter-killer tactics by putting XM-27 mini-guns on his birds and making them flying attack planes. This reduced aircraft losses and increased enemy KIA numbers. He was also involved in several large rescue operations of downed Air Force pilots and was himself shot down and rescued but only after providing cover for his injured co-pilot while he himself was severely injured. He is the author of Low Level Hell, a Scout Pilot in the Big Red One.  LTC Mills has had an extraordinary career and will be telling our audience of one of his most harrowing experiences.  Don’t miss this evening. This will be one of our best events to date.
Schedule: Wine tasting for those wishing to join us begins at 1630. (Note: Sunday evenings are busy nights at Cooper’s Hawk. While one can get through the flight of wines within an hour, getting served and enjoying the wines with good conversations with other grads is difficult in one hour. Thus the suggested start time.)  Call to Dinner will be a 1800 on the upper floor in the private dining room. Wine tasting is not included in the event cost.
Door Prize:  Make sure you get your door prize ticket (one per couple) for a bottle of Cooper’s Hawk wine to be given at the end of dinner.
Cost:  $45 per person which includes a four-course family-style dinner, taxes, gratuities and the door prize ticket. (Libations are not included.) 
Reservations: To make reservations, go to: http://www.cvent.com/d/rtq9dp , go to the Fee menu item (top of the website and register.
 
Notice:  Due to the venue, seating is very limited.  If available reservations are full, contact Greg Shuey at: gshuey@tensortech.com to be placed on a waiting list for cancellations.

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