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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.

September 16 @Dub’s Dread Golf Course, Army Edges Navy

Posted: 10/12/2017

Navy Team #2 -8: Larry Baker USS J.Daniels Vietnam, Knute Rosche USMC Helo Pilot, Scott Porter ’84, Jackson Porter Central Missouri Univ.

Air Force Academy Alumni. golfers. LtCol Greg Shuey right President. Their two foursomes were -14 and +12. Major Maria Gronning, former USAFA golfer was on the -14 threesome, featured some active duty golfers from Ft. Leavenworth.

5 of the 11 West Point golfers. Their three foursomes averaged -4.33 under par, edging Navy by 1 stoke overall.

Navy Team #1: +2 Chuck Stevens ’73, Jack Rush ’73, Dr. Don Cole (son ’08), and Travis Hogan ’04

Navy Team #3 -6: Eric Carlson ’74, Kyle Martin ’74, Jeff Kranz ’74, Bob Culler ’74

The tournament was well attended with three Army, three Navy, and two Air Force foursomes participating. A total of 30 golfers played. Army narrowly won net average score of -4.3 under par, and Navy finished just one shot behind with a net average score of -4 under par. Air Force net average score was -2 under par. All three Navy foursomes scores were averaged to get -4.

The KC Commander and “Chiefs” Cup. It is a traveling trophy like the real CIC Trophy. Army owns the trophy until the next competition.

Cost was $46 per individual which includes the cart and green fee. This is the military discount weekend rate. Lunch is on your own.

See the attached bulletin for tee times, names of players in each foursome, and foursome captains in bold. The trophy presentation should happen around 1:15-1:30 PM after the completion in the bar at Dub’s Dread.

Please contact me Bob Culler bob.culler@1974.usna.com or bculler@sbcglobal.net 913 488-6319 (cell phone) with questions, changes, or last minute appeals.

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October 7 Combined Navy – Air Force Watch Party–Coaches O.P.

Posted: 10/8/2017

Read this article on the game. It may be the best all time Navy Air Force game, in terms of a Navy win.

Washington Post John Feinstein article on game

Update we had quite a few USNA alumni attend the watch party. Navy 48 Air Force 45 in what has to be an all time thriller of a game, with Navy blowing a 21 point lead in the 2nd half and giving up the lead to score a winning touchdown with 15 seconds on the game clock remaining. Navy alumni attending were: Stu ’84 and Paula McArthur, John O’Neal ’65 and wife, Irwin Gray ’97, George Jackson ’79, Bob Culler ’74, Eric Carlson ’74, Ed Chapline ’48, Bill Culpepper ’01 and wife, Mike Gochis ’90, Jim ’62 and Antoinette Coopersmith. Navy is ranked #25 and #24 now in the AP and Coaches polls, also Navy is #1 in rushing yards per game in the nation. QB Zach Abey is #4 in the nation in rushing, with over 200 yards against Air Force. “In Zach we trust.”

We had 10 USNA and 8 Air Force Academy Alumni attend with family members.

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What: Navy versus Air Force Televised Football Game, CBSSN

When: Saturday, October 7, 2017; Kickoff Time is 2:30 PM Central

Where: Coaches Bar and Grill, http://www.coach-s.com

9089 W. 135^th Street, Overland Park, KS 66223

(913) 897-7070 (near the Scheels Soccer Complex)

Lunch: Lunch is on your own off Coach’s menu but recommend arrival at 1:00-1:30 PM to get your food/drink order in before kickoff.

http://www.coach-s.com/food.html

Attire: Navy or Air Force Spirit Wear

Who: USNA Alumni, USAFA Alumni, USNA Parents, USAFA Parents, Family Members

RSVP: The private room reserved (upper right picture in attached bulletin) will hold 42. RSVP by October 2 please.

Navy: Bob Culler email: bob.culler@1974.usna.com

Air Force: Greg Shuey: gshuey@tensortech.com

Sept 30 Navy @ Tulsa Football

Posted: 10/2/2017

Classmates: Steve Barnes ’74 OK City, Bob Culler ’74 KC, Frank Semple ’74 Denver, Forrest Kirk ’74 Muskogee OK at Tailgate

VADM Ted Carter Superintendent of the Navy Academy in Tulsa at the Tulsa Country Club Friday evening talking to USNA Alumni

Navy – Tulsa game Saturday, September 30 Kickoff at 2:30 PM (Central Time)

UPDATE: NAVY 31 TULSA 21 FINAL. Local Chapter folks attending were: The Fee’s ’77, the McArthur’s’84, the Culler’s ’74, the Cottrell’s’93, the Hogan’s (both USNA alumni) ’04/’05, the (Tony) Mitchell’s ’67, Ed Chapline ’48, Chuck Stevens ’73, Jack Rush ’73, Lance Heyen ’04. So 11 K.C. alumni plus family members. So we brought over 25 from Kansas City Chapter to the Tulsa game.

Tulsa President Harry Rouse ’77 and K.C. President Bob Culler ’74 were interviewed live on the Navy radio pre-game radio show on WNAV from the Tailgate at the Reynolds Center alongside Chapman Stadium in Tulsa.

Beat Tulsa Tailgate:
When: Saturday, 30 September- Time 11:30 AM. Tailgate opens 3 hours before kick-off.
Where: University of Tulsa Campus—Reynolds Center – see Location MAP

Menu: Barbecue buffet with pasta salad and chips. Ticket price includes beer for those 21 and above from Bitter Sisters Brewery. Water, iced tea and lemonade will also be provided.

Hosts: Naval Academy Parent Club of Oklahoma

Registration: Tulsa Tailgate
Deadline: Online Registration will close at 4:00 p.m. Friday, 22 September. Walk-in registration will be available but prices will be higher at the door.

Welcome to Tulsa Dinner

When: Friday, 29 September: Cash cocktail bar opens at 6:30 p.m. Dinner begins at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Tulsa Country Club, 701 N Union Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74127

Menu: Wedge salad, beef and seafood duo, vegetables, bread, dessert, water, iced tea, red and white wine and coffee included.

Registration: Tulsa Dinner

Deadline: Registration will close at 4:00 p.m. Friday, 22 September.

Game Info:

Who: Navy Midshipmen vs. University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane
When: Saturday, 30 September

Kick-Off: 2:30 PM (Central)

Coverage: ESPNU / Navy Radio Network (Radio)

Parking Information: From Harry Rouse ’77 President of the Tulsa USNA Alumni Association

The Reynolds Center is on the same side of the stadium as the visitor tickets. It’s about a 50 yard walk from the Tailgate to the entrance for Section 107. Right next to each other. The entrance for the Tailgater is on the side by the football stadium..

Parking-Well, it’s just not very friendly for a game that draws only about 20,000. Most of the university lots are reserved for “booster” parking. No cash lots, at least not in the recent past. But, 1) on street parking south of 11th street 2) on street parking East of Harvard or 3) Park for $5 or $10 at University Methodist Church, 2915 E 5th-about 8 blocks from the Reynolds Center. Early arrival for the tailgate should solve many problems.

I would avoid parking in the neighborhood west of the track complex/soccer complex/softball field. Too far away and not such a great neighborhood. That’s west of Delaware. So park east and south of the stadium/Reynolds.

Tickets:Football Game (AAC Conference Game)—Tickets can be purchased now at $30 each at

http://www.navysports.com/tickets and select tickets at top in the gold border, then order

tickets on-line and select football road games. Tickets can be picked up at this date at the

Will Call at Chapman Stadium. The game will not be a sellout (stadium predicted to be half full)

so tickets can be bought on the game day as well at the stadium.

Navy – Memphis Saturday October 14 @ Memphis

Posted: 10/1/2017

It is a seven hour drive from Kansas City to Memphis FYI.

Bob Culler “74

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Watching Navy on the road against Memphis? Check out the information below on the game, welcome meet and greet and tailgate.

Welcome to Memphis Meet and Greet

When: Friday, 13 October: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: Charlie Vergas Rendezvous; 52 South 2nd Street, Memphis, TN 38103

Menu: Buffet to include cheese, sausage, pickles & peppers, ribs, pork shoulder, chicken breasts, beans, slaw, and rolls with unlimited soft drinks, tea and draft beer.

Registration: Memphis Social

Deadline: Registration will close at 4 p.m. Friday, 6 October.

Beat Memphis Tailgate:
When: Saturday, 14 October- Time TBD. Tailgate opens 3 hours before kick-off.
Where: University of Memphis—Liberty Bowl – see Location MAP

Menu: Memphis pulled pork, smoked chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, rolls and buns, banana pudding, cookies. Ticket price includes beer for those 21 and above from High Cotton Brewery Company. Water, iced tea and lemonade will also be provided.

Hosts: Naval Academy Parent Club of the Mid-South, detailed information here.

Registration: Memphis Tailgate
Deadline: Online Registration will close at 4 p.m. Friday, 6 October.

THANK YOU to our generous sponsors for their support for the
Navy at Memphis Tailgate

Please visit www.usna.com/tailgates for more information on away football events, including Temple, Notre Dame and Houston!

September 23 All Service Academies Family Picnic/Wine Country

Posted: 9/14/2017

All Academies Fall Family Wine Country Picnic

Families are invited to a new type of event for us. Don’t miss this fun time to get to know each other.

Date: Saturday, 23 September 2017

Time: 1200 hrs (Noon) until closing

Location: KCWineCo Winery at 13875 South Gardner Rd, Olathe, KS 66061 (on Gardner Rd between 135th and 151 St)

Details:

1) Bring your own picnic basket for your family.

2) Huge Smores, soft drinks, water and KCWineCo wine are available for purchase on site.

3) Picnic tables will be available; however, lawn blankets should be brought just in case we run short of tables.

3) The Vineyard Olympics yard games for the family and kids will be available; AF-Army-Navy competition is welcomed.

4) Bring your own yard games (i.e. Badminton, etc.) as well.

5) Bring cameras and bug spray – it is the country.

6) KCWineco is owned and operated by fellow USAFA graduate Kirk Berggren (’86) and his family. Kirk is making a special effort for this event on behalf of our service academy associations. Make sure you enjoy a bottle of one of the many wines KCWineco is now producing.

Invitees: Members of the associations of graduates from all service academies, former military veterans and military members, members of the parents’ club of cadets, and family members. Don’t forget the kids too. Parents of prospective midshipmen (cadets) are also invited as well as the candidate him/herself.

Cautionary Note: The winery and vineyards are open for viewing but this is a working operations. It does have barbed wire, poison ivy and an unfenced pond outside of the customer area. So monitoring of children is absolutely mandatory to prevent them from getting into areas that are off limits and not safe.

RSVP: Please send a count of those in your family to gshuey@tensortech by Wednesday, 20 September. Navy please copy bob.culler@1974.usna.com

See You there.

Gregory N. Shuey

President, Kansas City Association of Graduates of the Air Force Academy

Sept 11–Supporting the Texas Flood Victims

Posted: 9/11/2017

USNA Alumni Association <USNAAlumniAssociation@usna.com>
Today at 11:18 AM

To: Robert D. Culler

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Dear Class and Chapter Leaders:

As we all know, the Houston area and the greater Gulf region continues to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, while the Caribbean U.S. Territories, Florida and much of the Southeast U.S. are being impacted by Hurricane Irma.

Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by these destructive hurricanes, and with those who are lending their efforts and personal resources to rescue and recovery operations.

Our Alumni Association staff has reached out to chapters and clubs in the affected areas and will continue to support their efforts. The Texas Gulf Coast Chapter and Foundation has been particularly engaged with outreach programs in that area, especially those focused on veterans, service members and their families. Additional information on how to lend your support to those initiatives is available here.

We will continue to use our website and social media tools to share information and connect our alumni, members and friends. Additionally, we will use our communications tools, including Shipmate magazine, to share stories of our active duty and volunteer alumni who have worked in recovery efforts. We encourage you to read the Letter from the President from the September-October issue which went to press recently and will be delivered at the end of this month.

The Navy, Marine Corps and Naval Academy family is a global one, and natural disasters in any part of the world hit close to home. We will continue to monitor conditions and developments in regions affected by these storms and look for ways to connect alumni and other members of our community eager to help. We encourage you, your classmates and members to lend a hand when possible to those communities in need, and to let us know about related initiatives your classes and chapters are supporting.

Sincerely,

ADM Robert J. Natter ’67, USN (Ret.)
Chairman
U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trustees

Byron F. Marchant ’78
President and CEO
U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation

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July 15 USNA Alumni Support AFWMF at Dub’s Dread Golf Tournament

Posted: 7/15/2017

Golfers L to R: Bob Culler ’74, Jack Rush ’73, Chuck Stevens ’73, and Jim Dorthy, oil industry executive.

American Fallen Warriors Memorial Foundation

On July 15 at Dub’s Dread Golf Club in Kansas City, KS, the USNA Alumni Association, Greater KC Metro Chapter, showed support for the American Fallen Warrior Memorial Foundation in Kansas City, MO. AFWMF is attempting to get support and funding for a national memorial to be built for fallen soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines from the War on Terror and Gulf War.

July 16 @ Top Golf Navy Family Fun in Overland Park 4:00-6:00 PM

Posted: 6/28/2017

All of the Area USNA Blue & Gold Officers (correctly titled Naval Academy Information Officers) are receiving their annual training at Top Golf Facility Conference Room from 1:00 – 4:00 PM on Sunday, July 16. But after the training there is a Chapter Event open to USNA alumni and families from 4:00 – 6:00 PM. So bring your family out and play at Top Golf, 10611 Nall AvenueOverland Park, KS 66207. It is not what you think, go visit their website below to know what Top Golf is all about. Event was well attended and fun time by all.

Please RSVP to Bob Culler bob.culler@1974.usna.com

June 23 @ St. Andrews, Inter Service Academy Alumni Golf–Navy Wins

Posted: 6/23/2017

Winning team members at St. Andrews: Jeff Kranz ’74, Larry Baker, Bob Culler ’74, Eric Carlson ’74 holding the trophy, Knute Rosche, and Chuck Stevens ’73. Not pictured were Scott Porter ’84 and David Martisak.

As the host at St. Andrews Golf Club in Overland Park, KS, Navy was compelled to welcome Army with a flag at the starter shed to get their round off with bang.

The KC Commander and “Chiefs” Cup. It is a traveling trophy like the real CIC Trophy. Navy owns it for now.

NAVY Wins the June 2017 Commander & Chief’s golf competition. Navy edged Army by just 2.5 strokes as scores of both foursomes per side were averaged. Navy averaged -9.5 under par and Army averaged -7 under par. Air Force was -3 under par, in a scramble format, with no mulligans.

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