NEXT MEETING WILL BE 5 AUGUST 2014 SOCIALIZE AT 11 am,

MEETING STARTS AT 11:45 AM AT TREA 39, 15821 CENTRETECH

CIRCLE, AURORA, CO 80011. Please remember to RSVP for the

Luncheon to Paul Turner 303-366-6770, cost is $12.00. LUNCHEONS

ARE NOW EVERY MONTH. CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE

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Phone Numbers

140th Phone #’s

Casualty Assist

720-847-6946

Family Support

720-847-9116

460th Phone #’s

RAO (Retired Activities

Office)

720-847-6693

Legal

720-847-6444

Other Phone #’s

CODMVA

303-343-1268

www.colorado.gov

Deputy Director

CODMVA

Mickey Hunt

720-250-1510

303-249-0146(c)

michael.hunt@

dmva.state.gov

TRICARE (UNITED

HEALTHCARE-WEST

1-877-988-9378

TRICARE for Life

1-866-773-0404

Social Security

1-800-772-1213

TREA 39

303-340-3939

COUGAR TALES;

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JUNE 2014 –JULY 2014

O S O T M G N E W S

VOLUME 7 ISSUE 4

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JUNE 2014 MINUTES

The meeting opened with a tribute poem to the American Flag by Joe

Broom followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by DO Neary.

Col Dunston was the guest speaker. The F-16s will be at DIA until July 15

due to the repair of Buckley’s runway. DIA have been great hosts for our

Wing, but the airplanes sit outside and received some damage from recent

hail storms. The new AEF(Air Expenditionary Force) deployment will find the

entire 140 FW deploying as a complete unit to the Pacific theater. The first

deployment in the Jan will be to Kunson, Korea for 3 months. F-16s are

scheduled for mods with larger HUD screens after this deployment. Our jets

are vintage 1986-1987 aircraft and probably won’t be replaced until 2027.

Our state partnership is currently with the country of Jordan with participa-

tion in the Falcon meet in that country. Future partnership with Slovenia with

support of their Army Security forces. Another deployment includes helping

an African country build a range. Domestic agreements now exist with other

state governments for disaster assistance. The last ORI/ORE inspection was

in 2012 and now the new inspection system is looking at a more realistic lo-

cally driven inspection system. The Air Force will now evaluate how units in-

spect their own operational functions. This is a new paradigm for the Air

Force. General Welsh, Chief of Staff visited the unit and suggested that we

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*Contribution Checks should be made payable to “OSOTMG” can be mailed to

Paul Turner at 1945 Ensenada St., Aurora, CO 80011-5353.

Committee Members:

Jan Love Bill & Joan Pickens Dan Gay osotmg@comcast.net, 303-693-7538 Bill.pickens@q.com,303-699-4647 Daniel.gay0954@gmail.com

Paul and Linda Turner Colorado.kid@q.com 303-755-7350

paullinda@comcast.net,303-366-6770 D.O. & Neysa Neary

Dewey Hicks donandneysa@q.com,303-695-8940

dewster44@comcast.net, 303-695-8423

Daniel.gay0954@gmail.com

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get rid of needless procedures such as the form 100 for inspecting vehicles since no one re-

ally checks all of the items on the form. And he said to get rid of things that are not really

used for operational functions. The budget is currently a tough situation with not much mon-

ey. Their will be 2 furloughs and 20 percent cut in flying hours. This is because Iraq and

Afghanistan wars are winding down and the need for fighter aircraft is diminishing . Hope-

fully the 140 FW will receive F-35s but that is somewhere around 2027. Sick call is Spike

Boyle. Taps is Jim Hall.

First timer was Bill Miller.

The Buckley Retiree Appreciation Day is June 14th at the Community Center, Bldg 1032 with

35 Booths. Dewey Hicks, Joe Broom, and Judy Pock will staff our OSOTMG booth.

BGen Jim Hall’s Howdy Duty will be in the next issue of the newsletter.

Birthdays present were Stan Minarsky, Judy Pock and Paul Turner.

We closed and the next meeting will be July 1st at TREA 39.

140 FW F-16s DEPLOYED TO DENVER INTERNATION-

AL AIRPORT JUNE 2014 DUE TO RUNWAY RESURFAC-

ING AT BUCKLEY– FRONTIER CAPT JOHN CONROY IS

IN “SAL” THE COUGAR, FRONTIER TAIL #208

JULY 2014 MINUTES

DO Neary opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag

and Sonja Broom said the prayer.

Joyce said that the EANGUS conference in 9 August in Phoenix and the

NGAUS conference is after that. The current lobbying is the possible take

away of 4 UTAs for one two day weekend. So, we need to support these

organizations with our membership and dues.

Sick call is Spike Boyle and Maxine Merten. Maxine is in Harvard Square

and has some memory problems.

Taps– Sheryln Costigan(John Costigan’s wife) and Jean Bradley(Chuck

Bradley’s wife)

Birthdays present were Mike Rowan, Mike Schnurstein, and Ken Forrest.

The big function coming up is the CAMANA Club Reunion on August 1-2,

2014 at TREA 39 with a pig roast. Friday will be cocktail night and steak

dinner for $12.Saturday will be 1600 with the Pig Roast dinner for $7 in

the evening with the Chief’s council hosting a talk.

Meeting closed with the next meeting on August 5th, 2014.

JUNE 2014 ATTENDANCE *1ST TIMER DO NEARY

MIKE ROWAN BILL NEUENS

MICHELLE ROWAN ANN NEUENS

JOE BROOM JOYCE SAITTA

SONJA BROOM STAN MINARSKY

PAUL TURNER DEWEY HICKS

LINDA TURNER TONY BURCZYK

DALE BRISTOL MIKE SCHNURSTEIN

CHUCK HOFFMAN SUSAN SCHNURSTEIN

JUDY POCK WOODY GLASER

MONROE MATHIAS COL FLOYD DUNSTON

DOUG TEASDALE * BILL MILLER

JOHN MORRIS

KENNETH FORREST

DON PIPKIN

MONA BURKETT

MAXINE MERTEN

JAN LOVE

BOB BEABOUT

JUDY POCK

PAGE 3 OSOTMG NEWS VOLUME 7 ISSUE 4

DATE BOOK 2014 August 2014

1st-2nd– CAMANA CLUB REUNION AT TREA 39

2nd– Declaration of Independence Signed

5th-OSOTMG MEETING AND LUNCHEON

September 2014

1st– Labor Day

7th– OSOTMG MEETING AND LUNCHEON

8th– Air Force Birthday(1947)

October 2014

7th– OSOTMG MEETING AND LUNCHEON

13th– Columbus Day and U.S. Navy Birthday(1775)

November 2014

4th– OSOTMG MEETING AND LUNCHEON

5th– VETERANS’ SALUTE AT WINGS MUSEUM

11th– VETERANS’ DAY

27th– Thanksgiving

December 2014

2nd– OSOTMG MEETING AND LUNCHEON

7th– Pearl Harbor Day

25TH– CHRISTMAS

Wayland(Spike) Boyle

Maxine Merten

Jim Hall

Jean Bradley

Sherlyn Costigan

Taps

PAGE 3 OSOTMG NEWS VOLUME 7 ISSUE 4 PAGE 4

Sick Call

Birthdays JAN ALLEN

MIKE BERTZ

JEANNE BROWN

PAT BROWN

CHRIS CHANEY

DAVE CHATMAN

VERNON CLARK

BEN FAGEN

DONALD FORD

ROBIN FOSS

CAROLE FRANCE

JOHN FRARY

CURTIS GRESS

VIRGINIA LOVE

JOYCE MASON

ANN MCCAULEY

PAT MCHENRY

STANLEY MINARSKY

RICHARD OELKERS

STEVE PAHS

RAY PANAGUITON

JOAN PICKENS

WILLIAM PICKENS

JUDY POCK

KATHY SANDER

JUNE 2014 JULY 2014

ED MCCLANAHAN

RUSS MCFARLAND

GARY MEIS

LYNETTE MEIS

CAROL MIELKE

BILL MILLER

MARY LOU MISKEN

THOMAS MOERMOND

FRANK MULLINS

DON PIPKIN

JOHN PITTMAN

BECKY PRICE

MICHAEL ROWAN

MIKE SCHUNERSTEIN

JANE SCHOMBER

VIVIAN SCHULTZ

LARRY SELL

TONY SKARIE

BOBBIE TERROUX

GILL THOMPSON

EILEEN TRIOLO

STEPHEN UPTON

LARRY WEIR

HAROLD ZIMMERMAN

SHIRLEY ZIMMERMAN

LARRY ASHER

ELTON BAGGETT

GEORGE BLACKWELL

BUCK BUCKINGHAM

DEB BURLACE

TERRY BURNS

RONALD CAMPBELL

PAT CHRISTOPHER

ANN DARVEAU

RANDY DOLAN

CHRIS FABER

DICK FARMER

DENNIS FITZGERALD

CATHY FORREST

KENNETH FORREST

MARILYN FOUTS

GEORGE FRANZEN

THOMAS GUNNING

JOHN HADLEY

JOE HARNKE

TRISH HOUSLEY

DAVID KNIPPRATH

DARRELL KOENIG

LARRY LANTZ

SAM LOVELL

MARVIN MCCASH

DALE SEILER

TOM SHULTZ

ALLAN SKARIE

WILLIAM SPESSHARDT

BOB STACK

BEN STEFFEY

BILL SWEDELL

DAVID THISTLEHAWK

JIM THURMOND

PAUL TURNER

ALMA VALDEZ

BILL VANDEEST

MATT WRAY

JULY 2014 ATTENDANCE 1st Timer* DEWEY HICKS JAY GATES

BILL NEUENS BILL FRAZIER

ANN NEUENS PAUL TURNER

DO NEARY LINDA TURNER

FRANK MULLINS ARLO SORHEIM

KENNETH FORREST JUDY POCK

PEGGY KLAP MONROE MATHIAS

HERMAN KLAP JOYCE SAITTA

MIKE SCHNURSTEIN MONA BURKETT

SUSAN SCHNURSTEIN

JACK DARVEAU

JAN LOVE

SONJA BROOM

JOE BROOM

JOHN MORRIS

HARRY WALES

DALE BRISTOL

DAN HEINZ

AUGUST 5 LUNCHEON

The JUNE meeting will be catered by

Golden Sherman. The meal is LASA-

GNA AND COSTS $12.00 per person.

No dessert will be served. Bring a

dessert to share for the group.

RSVP with your check or cash at the

meeting or mail your check made paya-

ble to “OSOTMG” and send it to Paul

Turner, 1945 Ensenada St., Aurora,

CO 80011-5353.

“HOWDY DUTY” STORY ONE OF A KIND

A biography of General James “Jim” Hall by:

Jack G. Powell – Mile High Chapter Air Force Association

Dewey Hicks – Other Side of the Mountain Gang

Retired Brigadier General James C. Hall brings us a lifetime of adventures and experiences

that have made him “One of a kind”. Born on 14 April 1926 in Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania, at the

age of 17, he joined the United States Army serving as a gunner on a B-17. His military career

spanned the U.S. Army Air Corps and the U.S. Air force. (The U.S. Army Air Corps became

the U.S. Air Force on September 8, 1947)

General Hall’s military duties included flight engineer or radio operator on the B-17, B-24, B-

25, B-29, C-46, C-47, and C-54 including crew member on numerous Air Force air craft. He

has been an Air Force Association Chapter President and Colorado State President. He was the

Director of Information and Protocol for the 140th Wing Buckley Base from 1970 – 1981. He

was also a member of the Other Side of the Mountain Gang.

He is known for his work with the zero-zero F-106 ejection seat test. He was the first per-

son to ride a rocket at ground level and eject himself before it slammed into the barrier.

General Hall received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico and is a grad-

uate of the Army Parachute School at Fort Benning, GA, the Advanced School at Fort Bragg,

NC, and U.S. Forest Service Smoke Jumper’s School.

Throughout 36 years of military service and the rest of his civilian life, he became a pioneer

in parachuting. General Hall is a Master Parachutist with more than 1800 jumps. He started the

parachuting program at the United States Air Force Academy which is the safest program of all

similar service schools. In 1959 General Hall and a partner organized the first professional par-

achuting firm in the world which led to many innovative advances in its field.

His hit show “Ripcord” has been noted as starting the modern conception of parachuting as a

sport. General Hall pioneered the “Buddy System” for free fall training and the innovative “4-

line-cut” for emergencies in parachuting enabling a jumper to have control over the direction and

speed of his chute. General Hall has been honored and cited numerous times. He has received

such accolades as the AFA Medal of Merit, the Citation of Honor for his MIA/POW program,

the AFA Exceptional Service Plaque, the AFA Presidential Citation, the AFA Colorado Man of

the Year, Leo Stevens parachute medal, and the AFA Colorado Meritorious Service Medal. As a

founding member of Colorado’s Wright Brothers Memorial Foundation, he was inducted into the

Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame in 1985.

General Hall’s final jump was on June 1, 2014, into the Hands Of God.

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WednesdayNovember 5

2014

All Cougars Call

Where:

TREA Chapter 39 15821 E Centretech Cir

Aurora CO 80011

303 -344-8236

When: 01-02 August 2014

Time: 1700 - Close

Why: Celebrate our COANG Heritage both Past and Present! Camana Club Reunion

Bring Your Great COANG Stories

Friday, 01 August 2014: 1700L

Social Mixer and Dinner ($12)

Saturday, 02 August 2014: 1630L

Cocktails and Pig Roast ($7)

Drinks: 12oz Draw $2.50 Pitchers $7 Well Cocktails $3