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| RECIPIENT LIST SUPPRESSED This is a BLIND CC sent to the entire POC LIST ================================================================= USSVI POC Broadcast 05-016 Date: 17 July, 2005 From: Greg "Gunner" Stitz - webmaster@ussvi.org TO: POC LIST For distribution USSVI Convention 2005 http://www.ussvi.org/2005_Conv/2005conv.htm Base & Nat'l Officers Forum http://www.ussvi.org/o-forum.htm The COMPLETE POC LIST http://www.ussvi.org/poc-cmbo.htm All BROADCASTS http://www.ussvi.org/webmastr/brdcasts.htm 2005 BROADCAST LISTINGS http://www.ussvi.org/webmastr/2005.htm This BROADCAST http://www.ussvi.org/webmastr/2005/05-016.htm Item 01 .... REMINDER - USSVI Webmaster is Moving Item 02 .... Passing of Louis Patrick Gray Item 03 .... Veterans News Item 04 .... Boat Sponsorship Payments Overdue Item 05 .... Green Moutain Base Annual Joint Picnic ================================================================= Item 01 .... REMINDER - USSVI Webmaster is Moving ================================================================= Submitted by: Greg "Gunner" Stitz, USSVI Webmaster ================================================================= I am moving in just a few days. In fact, my computer will be turned off and unplugged shortly after I send this POC Broadcast (since the movers will be here in the morning to pack it up...) I will not be available for website updates or POC Broadcasts until 01 August. Please continue to send me ROUTINE items, as I have 400MB of internet-based storage for e-mails and attachments. Please send urgent items to Pat Householder, NJVC for distribution. ================================================================= Item 02 .... Passing of Louis Patrick Gray ================================================================= L Patrick Gray died of complications of Pancreatic Cancer on July 6, 2005 Louis Patrick Gray III is probably best known as the acting FBI Director during the Watergate period in 1972-3, but he also was a Submariner in WWII and the Korean Conflict. Although not a member of USSVI, he was instrumental in the incorporation of our SubVets organization. In 1963 he did the legal work to get USSVI chartered in the state of CT for Joe Negri and the early formation group. Born in St. Louis in 1916, Gray left Rice University in 1936 to enter the U.S. Naval Academy. He graduated from the academy in 1940 and was commissioned as a line officer. His first station was IDAHO (BB33) at Pearl. After sub school in 1942, "Pat" participated in five successful submarine combat patrols against the Japanese. After hospitalization for ruptured appendix in 1945, he rejoined the Pacific Fleet as XO on CAIMAN (SS 323). After CAIMAN, Pat entered law school at George Washington University graduating in 1949. Next came duty as ComSubForPac Flag Secretary and Force Legal Officer. During the Korean War, Pat made three patrols in command of TIRU (SS 416). After Armed Forces Staff College, he returned to sea in 1955 as XO FULTON (AS 11) in New London. He then served as ComSubDiv 101 (six fast attack submarines), followed by duty with ComSubForLant, as TacTra Officer, and Polaris Project Officer. In October, 1958, he was selected for duty as Military Assistant to the Chairman, JCS, and Special Assistant to SecDef. He retired from the Navy 1960, as a Captain. The Information above comes from various sources, including online obituary & news articles, John Peters, John Carcioppolo, Ron Martini and postings on Rontini BBS. Patrick Householder NJVC ================================================================= Item 03 .... Veterans News ================================================================= Submitted by: John Dudas ================================================================= House Passes Financial Protection Bill On 28 June 2005, the House passed the Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act (H.R. 458) by a vote of 405-2. The bill seeks to protect service members from the sale of questionable financial products, curb abusive sales practices on military installations, and ensure regulatory oversight of financial services sales on bases. http://www.ussvi.org/veterans/vet-2005/050709c.htm Plan to Raise Vet Fees Hits Opposition WASHINGTON - Don Hogenson served four years in the Navy during the Korean War and emerged healthy nearly a half-century ago. Now 71, the retired president of an aerospace company gets his three monthly medications from a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Fargo, N.D. His co-payment: $7 per prescription. http://www.ussvi.org/veterans/vet-2005/050709b.htm Free Viagra at Risk; BRAC to Cut On-Base Inpatients 6% More than 128,000 military beneficiaries taking Viagra or Cialis for erectile dysfunction likely will have to switch this fall to Levitra or face higher co-payments on their prescriptions. http://www.ussvi.org/veterans/vet-2005/050709a.htm USSVI Web Pages Updated: http://www.ussvi.org/veterans/top.htm ================================================================= Item 04 .... Boat Sponsorship Payments Overdue ================================================================= Submitted by, John Robinson, Boat Sponsorship Program Manager, jrobinson4560@comcast.net ================================================================= As we head into the second half of 2005, two-thirds of boat sponsors have not yet paid for this year. I'm trying to cross reference sponsors with their email addresses and will send out an electronic reminder this summer. I'm trying to keep costs and labor down by not snail-mailing out reminder notices. Until then if you are an American Submariner sponsor please send payment made out to USSVI/BSP as soon as possible to me. Any questions can be sent via email. John Robinson Boat Sponsorship Program Manager 49 Comstock Trail East Hampton, CT 06424 ================================================================= Item 05 .... Green Moutain Base Annual Joint Picnic ================================================================= Submitted by: Steven Lee, CDR, Green Moutain Base ================================================================= Green Mountain Base is having their annual joint picnic between the Flyer Chapter WWII Submarine Veterans and the Green Mountain Base USSVI. Date: August 20th Time: Noon Location: Barre Recreation Park For more information contact: Steven Lee Green Mountain Base 2692 S. Brownell Rd. Williston, VT 05495 USS Tigrone AGSS419, Uss Will Rogers SSBN 659 (Gold) E-Mail AGSS419@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/gmtbase/ Home Phone(802) 660-8260 ================================================================= |