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Two prospective Naval Academy Midshipmen get a photo op with retired Navy pilot Captain Jim Coopersmith, USNA Class of ’62, at a prior year Army-Navy Football Game Watch Party. Both young men graduated from USNA this past May 2022. Dinner with Warriors formalizes this contact with retired career officers in the area.
What: 23 Apr (Sunday):Dinner with Warriors: This event is for only potential candidates for any of our military academies: Navy Academy, West Point, Air Force Academy, and Coast Guard Academy. But we need your help in advertising it. Retired officers from each of the services will be there discussing their military careers and will be able to answer questions of what midshipmen and cadets can expect in terms of challenges and career experiences in today’s United States armed forces.
Location: Hallbrook Country Club, 11200 Overbrook Rd., Leawood, KS 66211
Details: The deadline for registration is this weekend April 15-16; thus this is an urgent call as we still have available reservations. If you know a 9th, 10th or 11th grader whose academics and other qualities qualifies them for an appointment, by all means give them the attached invitation ASAP and urge them to come with a parent to this dinner. We currently have 13 academy grads who will be discussing their academy and military experiences. The US Marine Corps will be there too. This event is rare but it is a great incentive for kids to apply to our academies, any of them. Applications are seriously down this year so we all have a duty to ensure we have great candidates to fill our future ranks of the Armed Services. It only takes two minutes to give a student a call (or their parents) that may change their life. Call your friends and see if their high school students might go. Again,the deadline is this weekend. (See the registration link below) Thanks to retired Air Force pilot, LTCOL Greg Shuey, USAFA ’68, for organization of this annual dinner in April each year. He serves as the President of the local Kansas City Air Force Academy Association of Graduates.
Link and Deadline: Reservations: By KC Air Force Association of Graduates (AOG) Website at https://cvent.me/40Rx3O. Registration Deadline is 16 April 2023.
The October All Service Academy Alumni KC Happy Hour/Networking event will be on Thursday, Oct 14 at the Tavern at Mission Farms at 10681 Mission Rd, Leawood, KS 66206. We’ll be there from 5-7 pm! Thanks to Brad Johnson ’97 West Point who sets these events up monthly for the benefit of all KC Service Academy Alumni.
The annual West Point Society of Greater Kansas City Sporting KC (MLS Soccer) Match and Networking Event is scheduled for Sunday, November 7th at The Bud Light Landing located in Children’s Mercy Park, Kansas City, Kansas. Match is against Real Salt Lake. Celebrate Veterans day by joining fellow alum for premier seating, food, drinks, and a chance to cheer on Sporting KC during their final home match of the season! This event is in lieu of our November monthly Happy Hour, usually scheduled 2nd Thursday of each month, so don’t miss this chance to see everyone in November prior to the Holidays and Army vs. Navy! USNA Alumni are also cordially invited.
RSVP: First come, first serve – by Oct 6!! to Sam Sinclair West Point ’03 at sam.sinclair@edwardjones.com. Tickets are limited. You must RSVP to reserve tickets and commit payment for the day of.
Where: Children’s Mercy Park, 1 Sporting Way, Kansas City, KS 66111.
Time: 5 pm match start – 3:30 pm landing opens, food and drink available.
Cost: $80.00 for each ticket. Includes food and drink for the duration of the game and entry to the Bud Light Landing where you‘ll view the match from a high top with friends and family. Seating is first come first serve so come early and find Sam Sinclair at the main entrance to the Bud Light Landing to pay – cash or check made payable to the WPSGKC, no credit cards accepted.
If you are going please also Navy RSVP to me Bob Culler at bculler@sbcglobal.net or text to 913 488-6319.
Invitation to Celebrate Our Heroe
Saturday, 12 June 2021 – 1800 – American Legion Post 370
The graduate associations of Air Force Academy, Annapolis, and West Point and F.I.S.H. (Friends in Service of Heroes) invite you to a dinner with heroes honoring some very special guests, veterans of World War II. This year, because our annual celebration at Union Station was cancelled due to COVID, we are holding a combined Founders’ Day, Memorial Day, and D-Day dinner celebration to honor American veterans and the Fallen.
Our special guest speaker will be Col. John Clarke, USAF, who was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton for six years. Also in attendance will be a number of our good friends who are veterans of the Great War, WWII Special videos will also be presented by Sean Winn, producer of Patriot Features.
Featured guest will be artist Kermit Dyer whose military artwork will be on display including the painting of Col. John Clark’s aircraft.
Location: American Legion Post 370, 7500 W. 75h St., Overland Park, KS 66204
Date/Time: Saturday, 12 June 2021, 1800 (6:00 pm) Meet-and-Greet/Cash Bar; 1900 (7:00 pm) Opening ceremony and dinner
Menu:
Brisket, Chicken Breasts, Pork Tenderloin
Salad, Baked Beans, Potatoes Au Grain, Green Beans
Dessert
Beverage
Dress: Business casual (Note: Military veterans are encouraged to wearing their uniforms in honor of our guests)
Cost: $20/plate (taxes and gratuities included)
Reservations: Please make online reservations early but NLT 7 June at: Dinner with Heroes or
(https://web.cvent.com/event/5be6279e-92a8-4268-9af7-5479bc49c184/summary)
This dinner is open to all veterans, supporters of our U.S. Military, and their spouses. Bring a friend and enjoy our first major event in a year.
For information, contact Greg Shuey at: gshuey@tensortech.com or 913-579-8886.
Gregory N. Shuey
President, KC Association of Graduates of the US Air Force Academy
Our own Treasurer Jack Rush ’73 has planned the early evening of Thursday April 18th for a social event co-hosted by the Navy League Greater Kansas City Council, Association of Naval Aviation (ANA), Marine Corps Business Network (MCBN), and US Naval Academy Alumni Association KC Chapter to be held from 4-7 p.m. now changed to the StageCoach Tavern.
Date: Thursday, April 18th, 2019
Food and Drink: Available on individual tab basis (very good Food)
Time : 4 – 7 p.m. (1600-1900)
Location: Stagecoach Tavern, Overland Park
Address: 9617 W. 87th Street, Overland Park, KS 66212
There will be no guest speakers however each organization will be given a brief opportunity to provide a short overview summary of their organization, missions and goals. Please come by spend a few minutes or hours enjoying the company and meeting new Sea Services friends. Not restricted to veterans or active duty. All individuals supporting our sea services are welcome. Do not hesitate to invite friends and family members.
Update RADM Jeffrey Penfield, USN, Ret. (2015), who is a former F-18 SuperHornet pilot, and Navy fleet readiness expert, will be there talking about the challenges facing the sea services in the next decade and how our respective fraternal organizations can help influence younger Americans to serve, as military personnel needs continue to increase.
Please respond to me to RSVP your attendance so I can print you a name tag. Bob Culler bculler@sbcglobal.net
- KCAOG is holding its spring kickoff event on Sunday, 11 March at 1730 at Cinzetti’s Italian Market (Buffet) Restaurant.
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Our special guest and speaker is US Marine Special Forces member Farhad Zarif who was born and raised in Afghanistan by Afghan parents, fought as an Afghan Army soldier against the Russian forces who captured and held him as a POW in 1987, immigrated to the United States where he eventually joined the U.S. Marines Special Forces as a linguist, and fought in Desert Storm during 1991. His speech will include interesting historic perspectives of the ancient and modern day Afghanistan and surrounding Middle East regions, his personal background as an Afghani who immigrated to the US and became both a US Marine and a staunch advocate of democracy as an American citizen, and his experience in fighting the Russians and the Iraq forces of Saddam Hussein.
- This event is open to members of KCAOG, the West Point Society, the Greater KC Metro Chapter of the US Naval Academy Alumni Association, military veterans and supporters and their spouses.
- Dinner is pay-as-your go. HOWEVER, DUE TO LIMITED SEATING, PLEASE MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR YOUR PARTY AT THE EARLIEST TO: gshuey@tensortech.com. Include your name, rank, class, and number in your party. Reservations are first come, first served.
- Cinzetti’s is located on the West side of Metcalf at 7201 W. 91st, Overland Park, KS 66212 (913) 642-0101). It has a very wide buffet menu selection including various vegetarian dishes. The menu is available at: http://www.cinzzettis.com/kansas/foodmenu/ )
The USNA Alumni Association, Greater Kansas City Metro Chapter, fully endorses this joint event. Please contact LtCol Greg Shuey, USAF Ret., via email ASAP if you plan to attend. Direct any questions to me.
Bob Culler ’74 President
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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.
Kansas City’s Max DeWeese, a 96 year old Marine Corps veteran of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian is from the “greatest generation.” He shoots his age in golf. He started off while talking to Naval Academy and Air Force Academy alumni on March 31 by asking what the number 35,103 meant to them? There were puzzled looks. He said it was the number of days he has been alive.
Max DeWeese, Marine Corps WWII Veteran addresses the Kansas City Air Force Academy Assoc. of Graduates and the KC USNA Alumni Chapter.
Mr. DeWeese’s message of “freedom isn’t free” pointed to the sacrifices that veterans made in the Pacific in WWII, landing on islands with Japanese defenders entrenched in caves and fortifications. The Japanese were willing to fight to the death and would not surrender in most cases. It took well executed military planning and strategy and cooperation between the Navy, Marine Corps, and Army (& Army Air Corps) to win the war in the Pacific.
He further told us he spends time in local high schools talking about WWII history through an organization called Voice of a Generation, headed by Charles Cottitta in nearby Liberty, MO.
Air Force Academy Sponsored Dinner (Navy/Marines invited) A Voice of a Generation: In addition to a presentation by Marine Veteran Max DeWeese, age 96 of his experience during the invasion of Guadalcanal which happened 75 years ago, we will also be given a presentation by Charles Cottita, founder of A Voice of a Generation. This is a great opportunity to bring your kids (or grandkids) and let them see and shake hands with history. And if you have friends or neighbors who support our military, invite them to come as well. As always, we need to get confirmations of attendees as soon as possible, before March 26, so we can guarantee the room.
Date: Friday, 31 March 2017, 7:00 PM
Place: Cinzetti’s Italian Restaurant, 7201 W. 91st St, Overland Park, KS 66212
Dinner: Extensive Italian buffet
Cost: Pay as you go
Speaker: Marine Max DeWeese, survivor of the Guadalcanal Marine landing and invasion in 1942
RSVP: to Lt.Col Greg Shuey, President of the Air Force Academy Assoc. of Graduates in KC: gshuey@tensortech.com
