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It's been good yer Ntil It's been, good yerrest ssured Ntilr, Associti rest workg ssured hrd r ensure Associti it stys workg wy hrdyers cnsure come. it stys re hve wybeen yers severl Legltive come. re Alerts hve been severl Associti Legltive hs sked Alerts membership Associti igh hs skcd by membership ctctg igh ir elected by ctctg ficils. Someir most elected recent ficils. hvesome been LEGISLATIVE most recent ALERT hve#11-21 been LEGISLATIVE 04 Ocber 2011: ALERTArmy # Ntil 04 Ocber 20Blck II: Army Hwk Ntil Modernizti-Approprit Blck HwkC ference, LEGISLATIVE C ALERT Modernizti-Approprit ference, #11-20LEGISLATIVE 29 September 2011: ALERT5,000 # signtures 29 September White 20 II: House 5,000 Onle signtures Petiti White give House Chief Onle Petiti Ntil give Chief set Jot Ntil Chiefs Stff set LEGISLATIVE Jot Chiefs ALERT Stff # LEGISLATlVE September 2011: ALERT White # House23 Onle Septembcr Petiti 20 II: -Give White House Chief Onle Ntil Petiti -Give set Chief Jot Ntil Chiefs Stff. 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We gurnteed will lcome "wow" mtcrowds. meetg We will will lcome be gld m t sign meetg m up s will members gld when sign y decide m up jo s our members rnks. when So, yenough dccide sid, jo our I look rnks. wrd So, enough seeg sid, ll I look sprg, wrd d't seeg get ll get out sprg, our bsite, d't get our Webmster get out Crl hs ourde bsite, spectculr our Webmster job help Crl keep hs de ll us spectculr fnedjob help keep ll ctive! us fned ctive! Submitted by President Submitted by President DEON A. FORD, Col, MNANG DEON A. FORD, Col, MNANG retiree group focused Holidy retiree group Dnerwhich focused willbe held t Holidy 1800Dner hourswhich Fridy, will be2 held December t hoursnfridy, Fort Snellg 2 December Officers 2011Club. t Fort guest Snellg speker will Officers be COL Club. Scott guest St. spekcr Suver, will Cmp be COL Ripley ScottCommer. St. Suver, All Cmp ficers Ripley re vited Commer. ttend. All ficers sheet re signvited up ttend. dner, cludg sheet where sign up send r dner, remittnce cludg where cluded send r th remittnce newsletter. In cluded dditi, 111re th newsletter. downlodble In dditi, PDF re NGAMN downlodble b site. PDF retiree group NGAMN will send b out site. ne-mil retiree group notificti will send ll out retirees n e-mil notificti e-mils file. ll If retirees re receivg e-mils thnewsletter, file. If do re receivg not receive thnnewsletter, e-mil, plese ctct do not receive BG (Ret) n e-mil, Timplese Kennedy ctct t SG tkcnnedy@nnst.com. (Ret) Tim Kennedy t tkcllllcdy(wwcllllst.colll. re retiree newsletter, sent out rebyjot retiree Forcenewsletter, Hedqurters, sent outthose by Jot ir Forcee-mil Hedqurters, lt. If those re not ir receivg e-mil th lt. If newsletter, re not plese receivg ctctth BG (Ret) newsletter, Tim Kennedy plese! ctct kennedy@nnst.com. SG (Ret) Tim Kennedy Th1 kennedycilnsl.com. good wy be kept Th fned bout goodwht wy gog be kept fomled Mnesot bout whtntil gog. Mnesot Ntil. I hd opportunity ttend I hdchnge opportunity Comm t ttend Regil Chnge Support Cun Group t Regil Deployment Support Ceremy Group 135 Deployment lh Agriculture Ceremy Development Tem 13S'h Agriculture Afghntn. Development Tem Afghntn.

2 retiree group cgrtultes Generl retiree Lng group h cgrtultes promoti Generl Mjor LngGenerl. h promoti We lso fer Mjor cgrtult Generl. We U.S. lsosenr fer Rod cgrtult Grms, Lt Col U.S. Jy Senr Beebe, RodChief Grms, WHnt Lt Col Officer Jy5 Richrd Beebe, Hthwy, Chief Wrrnt Chief Officer Wn-nt 5 Richrd Officer Hthwy, 5 Thoms ChiefMxll, WrmntComm Ofticer Sergent 5 Thoms Mjor Mxll, Robert Comm Boe Comm Sergent Mjor Sergent Robert Mjor Boe, Rld Comm Kness, Sergent Sergent Mjor Mjor Qun Rld Hdstrom Kness, Sergent (decesed), Mjor Qun Sergent Hdstrom Mjor(decesed), Michel Mettille Sergent (decesed) Mjor Michel ir ducti Mettille (decesed), Cmp Ripley ircourt ducti Hor 2 CmpOcber Ripley20Court I I. Hor 2 Ocber 20 I I. It not o erly be plnng It not 2012 o erly StteCference be plnng be held 2012 Duluth. Stte Cference retiredgroup be held will be Duluth. hostgtile dner retiredgroup dnce will be Fridy hostg eveng. dner dnce retired Fridy group eveng. respsible retired silent group ucti respsihle re lookg silent dted ucti items. We re hope lookg see ll dted re. items. We hope sec ll re. Submitted by President Retired Submitted Officers by President Retired Officers BG (Ret) Tim Kennedy BG (Ret) Tim Kennedy Officer Ntil come Officer ger ech Ntil yer mkecome plns ger future ech yer mke plns review future technology. Th yer rcview 133 rd technology. NGAUS Th cference yer ws 133"1 held NGAUS August cference t Milwukee, wswi. held rere August tl t Milwukee, SO WI. ttendnce re re tl Mnesot 80 cstg ttendnce members, Mnesot, guess, cstg spouses members, children. I guess, encourge spouses jo children. us Reno, r encourge Nevd jo I 34 th us cference Reno, Nevd September, 134'h cference J0-12 September, At our mthly Bord Meetg At our September, mthlymw Bord Meetg McDld ws September, selectedmw by Associti, McDld ws selected recipient, by Associti. receive s $500 recipicnt, scholrship. receive $500 scholrship. Membership our strength Membership Wshgn. IS We our re strength currently strtg Wshgn. our 20]2We Membership re currently drive. strtg Dues t our 20 both J2 Membership Stte Ntil drive. Dues rem t bothsme Stte s Ntil 20II. rem benefits sme recei.ve s 20 trm I I. benefits efts receive Associti. fr out-wy efts cost Associti our membership. fr out-wy You cncost enroll now our membership. -le t You cn enrollornow fill out -le tsend fn cluded or fill out th sue send NGAMN, fn cluded 3530 E. Medice th suelk Boulevrd, NGAMN, Plymouth, 3530 E. Medice MN LK Boulevrd, Plymouth, MN Note: In order mt our Note: dtbse In order keep it mt current, Iour would dtbse pprecite keep rilp, cllrrent, bothj would ctive pprecite retirees. r Plese help, updte both ctive us new retirees. Plese updte us new ddress, telephe numbers e ddress, mils. telephe numbers e mils. Come jo us 2 December t ComeFort josnellg us 2Officers December Club t Fort Annul SnellgOfficers' OfficersHolidy Club Prty. You Annul willofficers' fd Holidy reservti Prty. myou th will sue fd reservti Vikng m Newsletter thor suele t Vikng Newsletter orholidy le t Prty both ctiveholidy retired Prtymember both ctive ssociti. retired members ssociti. Mrk r clendrs now mke Mrkplns r clendrs ttend our now nnul cference mke plnswhich ttend will our be nnul held cference Duluth, MN, whichekend will be held Duluth, April, MN, ekend 14S th FW27-29 workg April, hrd it I 148'11gurntee FW workg w't hrd be dppoted. it I gurntee Once gw't th yer, be dppoted. re holdg OnceSilent g th Aucti yer, re reholdg lookg Silent items Aucti it. rc lookg items it. Representtive Aust Jenks will Representtive ttend our Aust next Bord lenks meetg will ttendnovember our next 15 Bord t FOlt Snellg meetg Officers November Club. He 15 t will Fort give Snellg n depth Officers benefit Club. briefg He willgive Insurnce. depth benefit briefg Insurnce. I would like tke th opportunity I would thnk likeour tke pst th Bord opportunity Members & thnkpresent our pst Bord Bord Members Members & ir Present dedicti Bord Members hrd work ir mkg dedicti ssociti hrd work, successful. mkg Any suggest ssociti orsuccessful. ides Any how suggest improve orides Bord how re lwys improve lcome. Edirils Bord my re belwys wrded lcome. Executive Edirils Direcr my be wrded publicti Executive Vikng Direcr Newsletter. publicti Vikng Newsletter. With Holidys just round Withcorner, Holidys I wnt just whround everye sfe corner, J hppy wnt Holidy wh everye ses. sfe hppy Holidy ses. Submitted by: Executive Direcr Submitted NGAMN by: Executive Direcr NGAMN CW5 (Bvt) Wlter D. Schulz CWS (Bvt) Wlter D. Schulz Milwukee, WI NGAUS 2011 Milwukee, CferenceWI Article NGAUS 2011 Cference Article I hd opportunity ttend I hdntil opportunity Associti ttend Ntil United Sttes Associti (NGAUS) ntil thc United cference Sttes (NGAUS) Milwukee, ntil WI. I've cference been ctive Milwukee, NGAUS WI. couple I've beenyers, ctiveso my NGAUS tent ws couple ttend yers, lern so my more tent bout ws orgnizti ttend lernwhy moreitbout ws lwys orgnizti stressed my why membership it ws lwys stressed orgnizti my ws membership so importnt, which orgnizti ws surews shed so importnt, some light which why wsi sure ws receivg shed so somemny light emils why I wsvote receivg so sues. mnyattendg emils th vote cference sues. certly Attendg did justth. cference certly did just. NGAUS voice Ntil NGAUS when voiceworkg Ntil our when workg our nti's politicl leders. While t nti's cference politicl leders. I ws Whilegiven t cference opportunity J ws represent given MNNG opportunity durg represent resoluti fomm. MNNG Durg durg th sessi resoluti I wsum. troduced Durg th complex sessi, Jnture ws troduced busess tkes complex plcenture regrd busess policy equipment tkes plcerequests regrd policy. equipment improvement, requests replcement, llocti improvement, re replcement, sent our nti's llocti cpitl. I re bd no sent ide our nti's our orgnizti cpitl. I hd plyed no such ide n importnt our orgnizti prt plyed how' such ", n importnt, ply prt huge how role "", how, sust ply prcticlly huge role every how focus our sust efts. prcticlly Initilly, everyi focus ws under our efts. impressi Initilly, I wsgot under everyqueue impressi 'Big Army". got I quickly every queue found ws "Bigfr Army". I quickly tmth. found ws fr truth. I ws lso impressed fd I wsntil lso impressed t fdhighest levels Ntil supports NGAUS. t highest Gen. Norn levels A. supports Schwrtz NGAUS. (Chief Gen. Stff, NornU.S. A. Air Schwrtz Force) (Chief ADM Stff, Jmes U.S. A. Wnefeld Air Force) Jr. (Vice ADMChnn, Jmes A. Jot Wnefeld Chiefs Jr. (Vice Stff) Chhmn, re mg Jot Chiefs some Stff), spekers re I mg hd privilege some herg spekers. I hd y privi spoke legeherg combed. ppreciti TIley spoke efts combed ll ppreciti members NG, efts ctued ll members importnce NG, NG's ctued support importnce ment mjssi NG's support wr ment eft. msi wr eft. I will rem grteful I will opportunity remi hd grteful represent 34 th opportunity InfntryI hd Divi represent Stte 34'11 Infntry Mnesot. DiviTh cference Sttegve me Mnesot. muchth sight cference s wht gve NGAUS me so much ll sight bout s wht why NGAUS it's such n ll bout importnt orgnizti why it's such ll Ntil n importnt orgnizti Officers be ll prt Ntil. I m lookg Ofticerswrd be prt. nexti myer's lookg cference wrd Reno, next Nevd yer's s I cference ctue Reno, become Nevd more s volved J ctue more become eductedmore bout volved NGAUS, I fully more expect eductedevery bout cference NGAUS, I be fullymore expect rewrdg every cference thn lst! be more rewrdg thn lst! Respectfully, Respcctfully, 1LT Richrd A. Hymn II 1LT DHHBN, Richrd A. 34Hymn th ID IJ DHHBN, MN Army 34'11 10Ntil MN Army Ntil Dclimer. " Vikng Dclimer. Newsletter " publhed Vikng Ncwslcttcl" members publhcd Mnesot members Ntil Mnesot Associti. It Ntil not n ficil Associti. publicti. It not n Op ficilexpressed publicti. do not Op necessrily expressed represent do notthose necessrily Adjutnt rep,"esent Generl, those Mnesot Adjutnt Ntil Generl, ormnesot Stte Ntil Mnesot." or Stte Mnesot."

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4 NGAUS Trip Report NCA US Trip Report If sked me wht NGAUS ws Jnury 2011, I would hve given If sked me wht NGAUS ws Jnury respse 2011, 1 would equivlent hve given wht would hve received if wcre respse equivlent wht would skg hve reccived sme questi if wcre ripe cntloupe two round eyes skg sme questi lipe mouth shrpie'd it. I didn't hve cntloupe two round eyes clue. I hd herd bout it sure. I'd mouth shrpie'd it. I didn't hve clue. even I hd received hcrd bout emils it, sure. ['d ficers mentig I should probbly jo even received emils ficers mentig it, but never I should hd I ctully probbly ched jo those ides ny length time lg it, but never hd 1 ctully ched those enough ides ny tke length lep. time My lg thought enough process tke ws lg lep. My les thought "I'm o busy put myself roster process ws lg les "I'm yet nor ssociti no o busy put myself roster prticulr res or thn people yet nor ssociti no tellg me I should". I ssume my prticulr res or thn pcople experience my be mirrored by or tellg me I should". I ssume my ficers Mnesot, experience my be mirrored by or untuntely. It now Ocber ficers Milmesot, untuntely s I write It th, now Ocbcr I cn tell best usg fmous words Jke 2011 s I write th, I cn tell Blues Bror... "1 HAVE SEEN best usg thc fmous words Jke THE LIGHT!" Blues Bror... "1 HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!" light cme up me rr unexcitg wy. I ws sked by CPT light cme up me rr unexcitg Chr wy. Kle I ws sked be h by CPT lternte Chr Divi Kle Representtive be h lternte e dy t work which I greed. I ttended Divi Representtivc e dy t Bord Meetg him t work, which I greed. I ttended Fort Snellg Officer's Club, Bord Meetg him t pot, I ws hooked. I ws Fort Snellg Officer's Club, privileged be llod see firsth ner workgs trusted pot, I ws hooked. 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[f sck d't gurd tke hs dvntge right now, fter sck fightg gurd 10 yers hs right wrs, now, it's fter ly fightg mtter 10 yers time wrs. beeit'sly re relegted mtter bck time bee purely re domestic relegted role bck ce hd, purely fundg domestic cut role ce lukewnn hd, fundg ntil cut, ccept gurd lukewrm ntil 1990's ccept returns ce. gurd You literlly 1990's cn returns ffect th ce. process, You right literlly now. cn ffect first step th process, become right now. member first NGAMN. step become secd member step NGAMN. become volved secd step orgnizti. become And volved third step orgnizti. sty volved. And If third cn step do, sty volved. will help our If Ntil cn do, positi will itself help our ret Ntil hrd-fought positi respect itself ret deserve fter hrd-fought 10 lg respect yers provg deserve our fter fightg 10 lg yers ce provg p-notch, our lightg solidifyg ce p-notch, fct solidifyg cstently do more fct less thn ctive compent. cstently do more less thn ctive compent. And flly, e thg cn do And right flly, now e sign thg White cn do House right petiti now sign put White Ntil House petiti ficer put Jot Ntil Chiefs Stff t ficer Jot Chiefs Stff t Keep up fight! Keep up fight! Submitted by: CPT Br Morgn Submitted by: CPT Br Morgn Annul NGAUS Cference ws Annul Milwukee, NGAUSWI Cference th yer ws it Milwukee, beg my WI ecd thtime yerttendg, it it hs begnot my secd filed time let ttendg, me down. it hs not filed progrm, people let me down. prties re ll progrm, worthpeople trip wherever prties y re ll hold worthcference. trip wherever y hold cference. Th yer's Hot Topics re: Th yer's Hot Topics re: Suicide. Resilience Suicide trg no. joke Resilience it beg trg mired no t joke every level it beg comm. mired Eycs t re every level th sue, comm. Eyes President, re th sue, ChiefNtil President, Bureu, Chief Ntil Adjutnt Generls; Bureu, y re leng Adjutnt Generls; First Le y Leders re leng led fight. First Resilience Le Leders trg led needs fight. strtresilience erly, like s trg soneeds s recruits strtsr erly,, like resilience s so needs s recn/its be sr tught, resilience RSP. needslst be yertught th sme time, RSP. gurd Lst lost yer74th Soldiers sme time, suicide, gurd th yer lost 74 Soldiers re t 59. suicide, As Mjor th yer Generl Crpenter sid; H... re t 59. As Mjor thnk Generl Crpenter wht 're sid;" gog. thnk I'd sk just whtredouble 're gog. r efts.' I'd sk just redouble r efts." ARFORGEN Predictbility. ARFORGEN ccern Predictbility. comes tble ccern stg comes up units deploy, tble n stg up60units dys deployg, deploy, n y re ld 60 dys st deployg, down. se y Soldiers re ld hve st left ir down. jobs, se dropped Soldiers out hveclsses, left ir rented jobs, outdropped ir homes; out th clsses, not rented ok, out need ir homes; tkethcre not Soldiers, ok, fmilies need tke employers! cre Soldiers, fmilies employersi Downsizg Force. Generl Downsizg Vvl; sid it Force. best; Generl " Anny Vvl; Ntil sid it best; "TIle ce Armyfully Ntil deployed our re ce operti, fidly deployed homel. our re sme operti, ce bttle homel. tested, sme ll ce equipped bttle testcd, overses ll fight equipped should needre, overses truly fight best should vlue need Americ. re, We trulyshould best not vlue rushameric. reduce Wesize, should structure not rush or cpbility reduce size, A.m1Y structure Ntil or cpbility out significnt Army Ntil nlys thorough out significnt deliberti. I nlys believe thorough Anny Ntil deliberti. [ believe bestanny vluentil Americ. Force structure best vlue militly Americ. por Force cn be structure susted militry Am1Y powcr Ntil cn be susted s n opertil Army Ntil ce frcti s nopertil regulr cost." ce frcti regulr cost" Gg set t Jot Chiefs Gg Stff. setgurd ctues Jot Chiefs beused Stff. every gurdcflict ctues be opertil used every ctgency. cflict If 're not opertil prt ctgency. pln s If 're drw down not prt overscs, pln s will drwbe down pigeholed overses, bck strtegic will bereserve. pigeholed Ntil bck strtegic lmost reserve. hlf Ntil milli men lmost women w1der hlf nns. milli Justmen give women under nns. Just give

5 n illustrti, Mre Corps n illustrti, 240,000 strg, Mre cludg Corps ir 240,000 reserves, strg, but y cludg hve set ir reserves, Jotbut Chiefs y hve Stff. set yhve five, Jotfour-str Chiefs Generls. Stff. y We hve five, lost n four-str opportunity Generls. We lost Combtnt n opp0rl1mity Commer positi. Combtnt re no Commer res positi. should re hve been no denied res puttg should smn hve been denied s puttg NORTHCOM smn Commer. s NORTHCOM missi COlluner. NORTHCOM msi protectg NORTHCOM homel, IS core protectg competency homel, Ntil core. competency We re 22 percent Ntil. Air Force We re 22receive percent6 percent AirForce Air Force's receive budget, 6 percentbut mt Air 36 Force's percent budget, Air but Forcemt fighter 36 tnker percent cpcity. Air Force We fighter re lrger tnker thn cpcity. MreWeCorps, re lrger thn Nvy. Those Mre compents Corps, re t Nvy. tble. Those Why not compents? re t We're tble. perfng Why not 30 percent? We're Army permg Air 30 Force's percent msi Army ny given Airdy, Force's so why msi hven't ny given beendy, successfl.1 so whyi hven't chievg been set t successful big tble? As chievg Generl set McKley t sid; big tble? "If 're As not Generl t McJ(jnley Tble, 're sid; "If 're menu!" not t Tble, 're menu!" If hve ny doubts bout wht If Associti hve ny doubts does bout, wht ll I sk Associti does ttend, e ll cference I sk y will ttend be ersed. e cference You get ctul y policy will be ersed. writers You get ctul progrm policyimplementers writers ledg progrmse implementers dcuss ledg re very willg se dcuss lten r re ccerns very willg nsr ltenr r quest. ccerns One exmple nsr r new quest. ititiveone exmple push ll mry new ititive DA requirements pushll three mry yer cycle DA requirements verses n Annul three requirement yer cycles verses nownannul open uprequirement our trg clendrs. s now open up our trg clendrs. One cn ly imge networkg One possibilities cn ly imge fct networkg get possibilities engge Soldiers fct ger engge 54 sttessoldiers terriries, howor cn 54 sttes fdnot terriries, tke dvntge how cn such fdnnot opportunity? tke dvntge Anor bus such ll n opportunity? vendorsanor prticipte bus ll t vendors cference. You prticipte get tryt nest cference. trg You get novti, try nest simulrs, trg novti, new equipment; simulrs, brg new idesnew home equipment; give r brgtrg new ides schedules home give depth r r trg Soldiers schedules deserve. thc depth r Soldiers deserve. As cn see, I truly enjoyed myself As cn see, opportunity I truly enjoyed myself ttend th event, opportunity beg Hrley ttend rider, th mde it event, even beg little Hrley seter rider, sce mde ithd evenfreedom little seter Ride sce Governor's hd Freedom Recepti Ride ws held Governor's t Hrley Recepti Dvids wsmuscum, held t which Hrley got Dvids free dmsi. Muscum, Next which yer gotreno, free dmsi. Divi Officers, Next yer see me Reno, detils! Divi Officers, see mc detils' Chrpher P. Kle Divi Chrpher Representtive, P. Kle NGAMN Divi Representtive, NGAMN 133 rd NGAUS Generl 133 rd Cference NGAUSTkewys: Generl Cference Article Submitted Tkewys: by CPT Dvid W. Article Adms, Submitted 834 th by CPT Aviti DvidSupport W. Adms, Bttli 834 lb (34Aviti th CAB) Support Bttli (34 th CAB) I hd plesure ttendg I hd133 rd plesure NGAUS Generl ttendg Cference 133 m NGAUS Generl August Cference It ws gret 27-29experience August much It like ws 2009 gretcference experience much Nshville. like 2009 For Cference compny grde Nshville. ficersfor th compny experience grde ficers n vluble th experience opportunity g n behd--scenes vluble opportunity sight gyour behd--scenes Ntil, sight meet YOUR network Ntil ( hve, n meetfun) network r ( peers hve ndifferent fun) brnches, r peers s ll different s develop brnches, relthips s ll some s develop key relthips leders Mnesot's some key ce. leders Mnesot's ce. spekers vrious sess t spekers cferencc vrious fered sess numerous t vluble cferencctkewys. fered numerous CCMSGT vluble Jelski-Hll tkewys. ( 's CCMSGTSenior Jelski-Hll Enlted Leder), ( 's who hppened Senior Enlted menti Leder), importnce who hppened gettg menti know importnce rnks ourgettg ster ces, knowiric rnks becuse our I cnnot ster ces, remember iricwht becuse her rnk I cnnot ctullyremember or thn wht CCMSGT, her rnk ctully hd some or gretthn sights CCMSGT, workg hd some gret our sights enlted temmtes. workg A kerpot enlted she mde temmtes. ws 'Know A key r pot people". she mde Her two ws "Know prioritiesr people". # I Hersuccessful two priorities ccomplhment # I successful msi #2 ccomplhment lfre r msi people both #2cme lfre bck knowg r people r both people. cme To bck ccompli knowg h our r mpeople. i To hve ccomplh know ours msi outs hve ourtems. knowwht s motivtes outsech our dividul tems. Whtwht motivtes mkesech members dividul r tem wht shut mkes down members importnt rfnti tem shut when down ledg importnt r people. mti It's lso whenimportnt ledg r, ifpeople. possible, It's notlso scrifice importnt, lfre if possible, r not scrifice people ccomplh lfre r msi. people You re ir ccomplh leder, tke msi. cre You m. re You thcir hve leder, herited tke cre r people's m. You tmst hve herited trust r ir people's friends trust fmily trust ir will protect friends ir fmily helth llbeg protect irbest helth r wcll bility. will begtht's nbest importnt r bility. serious Tht's respsibility, n imp0l1nt I wouldserious dd if respsibility, 're not comtble I would dd if 're perhps not it comtble would be best not st perhps up it would led Soldiers. be best not st up Icd Soldiers. A few or impol1nt pots fered A fewbyor CCMSGT importnt Jelski-Hll pots fered (ok, I hve by CCMSGT it now Jelski-Hll Comm (ok, Chief I hve Mster it now Sergent.. Comm..t lest ChicfI Mster thk so) Sergent....t lest I thk so) cluded: Shre r philosophy cluded: r Shrc people. r Wht philosophy do st, r wht people. do Wht expect, do st wht, cn wht r do people expect, expect wht? cnif r d't people hve expect ledership/comm? If d'tphilosophy hve it ledership/comm cn be n timidtg philosophy tsk it crete. cn beit doesn't n timidtg hve be, it tsk should crete. beitshort doesn't hve cce. be, it To get should strted be short philosophy cce. Togoget strted leder philosophy hd, or gopeer who lederdmire hd, or ledership peer whostpot, dmire sk ledership irs. stpot, D't copy it sk verbtim, irs. but dpt D't it copy suit it. verbtim, Anor butpot, dptkeep it expectt suit. high Anor ll pot, time Keep (not expectt just spect). high ll Not time ly (not will just r people spect). meet r Not ly high will expectt, r people y meet will r exceed high m expectt, do ny mzg willjob. excecd m Akey dopot n mzg CCMSGT job. hd ws A key"know pot r CCMSGT enltedhd development". ws "ImowWhen r enlted counsel, development". be ble cite Whenprgrph counsel, #'s stright be ble cite ficil prgrph militry #'spublict. stright SHOW ficil r militry NCOs publict. how develop SHOW s leders. r It NCOswill howgive vlue develop r s leders. counselg It will give credibility vlue r counselg s leder credibility menr. And s be hest, leder need menr. credibility And sbe compny hest, grde need ficers. credibility resre compny enoughgrde ficers ficers. who tlk reugh re enough hveficers high expectt, who tlk yet ughnever hve ctully high LEAD expectt, or DEVELOP yet neverir ctully subordtes. LEAD orgive DEVELOP r people ir cler subordtes. expectt Give r people vluble cler cochg expectt will vluble estblh cochg rself s vluble will estblh leder worth rself followg s vluble supportg. leder worth followg supportg. One Mjor Generls (Admirl One Mueller's Mjor p Generls ide, I couldn't (Admirl her or Mueller's see h pnme...cut ide, I couldn't me some herslck or I'm see h old) nme hd...cut some me''trgets'' some slckwhich I'm old) should hd some be 'Trgets" wre. which Amg h shouldtrgets, be wre ftrst ws. Amg current h fcl trgets, cr first ourws nti current experiencg. fcl A crkey our compent nti experiencg. A cr key compent fcg us m threts cr py fcg us benefits. m By threts % py benefits. Defense Budget By 2020 will70% be csumed by Dcfense pybudget benefits, will becludg csumedretirement by py benefits. benefits, Acludg very relretirement thret benefits. ctiveamilitry very rel members thret ( clude ctiveagr militry members federl technic ( cludetypes) AGRwill be federl fcgtechnic more types) like will retirement be fcg pln more where y will like hve retirement wit pln until where ge 60 ywill drwhve benefits. wit until MGgespekg 60 drw stted benefits. while MG th ws spekg not stted good thg, while it's very th ws difficult not good imge thg, future it's very which difficult pful imge cuts will not future hve which be mde. pful Th cutswill enot pot hve which beshould mde. drive Th home e pot which importnce should drive beg homevolved importnce NGAUS, which beg THE volved MOST NGAUS, proctive which orgnizti THE MOSTlobbyg proctive behlf orgnizti Ntil lobbyg members! behlf Ntil members!

6 He lso tlked bout "strtegic He flecti". lso tlkedasbout leders"strtegic must be flecti". engged As leders knowledgeble must bout be our engged current knowledgeble perstent enemy, bout our t current sme time perstent cnnot enemy, sp t lookg smewrds time possible cnnot stte sp enemies lookg such s wrds Irn, possible N. Kore stte enemies such resurgent s [rn, pors N. Kore Ch resurgent Russi. We pors must lso Ch be prepred Russi. rect We must"strtegic lso be prepred surpres". rect NO ONE "strtegic predicted sw-pres". two recent NO revolts, ONELiby predicted (violent) two recent Egypt revolts, (peceful). Liby We do (violent) not know Egypt wht's (peceful). We horiz do not know se two wht's cotmtries or horiz or prts se twoworld. countries North Kore's or prts ggressive world. ct North (skg Kore's S. Koren ggressive wrship, ct (skg bombg S. Koren S. Koren wrship, Isl) gst bombg South S. Kore Koren COULD Isl) result gst South South Kore Kore COULD retlitg result South significntly Kore retlitg violent fshi. significntly Somethg violent like th could fshi. hve Somethg extremelylike fr th rechg could csequences hve extremely our fr country rechg csequences our nned ces. our As country leders must our tr rmedour ces. people As leders both del must tr current our people enemy s both ll del s mt current our bility enemy s fight ll more s mt cventil our bility bttle fight gst more"regulr" cventil enemybttlc ce. gst "regulr" Oh, enemy hve ce. tr our people Oh, do th hve while tr meetg our people multiple do th dems while hed meetg down multiple "Big dems Anny", hed checkg down ll our boxes "Big Anny", briefgs checkg ll extr our trg boxes levied briefgs us extr everye trg levied higher us hedqurters everye highest higher levels hedqurters our ledership. highest Our levels ledership our ledership. Wshgn Our ll ledership wre Wshgn mry ll trg wre requirements mry levied trg us higher requirements simply n levied unresble us higher expectti, simply designed n unresble implemented expectti, designed ctive compent. implemented Mjor ctive Generl compent. spekg stted Mjor should Generl see spekg lesseng stted some should our see trg lesseng dtrcters, somc exmple our movg trg yerly dtrcters, trg requirements exmple movg mny yerly items trg requirements n nnul requirement mny items n every n luml three yer requirement cycle. Th n ws everyexcitg three yer news cycle. her Th s ws full-time excitg bttli newstrg herficer. s full-time bttli trg ficer. re ws so much more gret re fnti ws so much be shred, more but gret best wy be exposed it ttend mti be shred, but best wy NGAUS be exposed Ntil it Cference. ttend NGAUS Busess Ntil meetgs Cfcrence. OPDs re Busess hrdly meetgs ly worthwhile OPDs port re hrdly cference. ly worthwhile Socil port events re cference. bundnt Socil gret time! events We re ured bundnt Hrley-Dvids gret time! Museum We ured (privte Hrley-Dvids ur ly NGAUS) Museum (privte three ur different ly food NGAUS) res, live music threc different chnce food res, w live cusm music Hrley. chnce hospitlity w cusm night cluded Hrley. multiple hospitlity excitg night venues cluded where multiple everythg excitg venues lerng where dnce everythg Sls lerng dnce Sls Puer Ricns live b Kroke Puer Ricns "SEC live Sttes'. b Kroke And yes, MN "SEC delegti Sttes". And ROCKED yes, MN Kroke! delegti ROCKED Kroke' I hd privilege ttendg I hd 133 rd privilege NGAUS ttendg cference 133'd Milwukee, NGAUS WI cference th yer. It ws n III Milwukee, mzg WI experience th yer. It filled ws n mzg networkg experience cross filled sttes, thought networkg provokg cross spekers, sttes, thought fun culturl provokg events. spekers, Here quickfun snpshot culturl events. mzg Here events quick ( snpshot ress why mzg should events ttend ( next ress yer), why s ll s shouid wht ttend I found next most yer), terestg s ll s durg wht I found pressil most terestg development durg sess. pressil development sess. cference kicked f Fridy cference Compny kicked Grde f Officer Fridy mixer t Compny resturnt Grde Cost, Officer f mixer shores t thc resturnt Lke Cost, Michign. f re shores ws delicious Lke Michign. food, free drks, re live wsb delicious plenty food, free outdoor drks, setg live b, enjoy plenty eveng. outdoor It ws setg gret wy enjoy eveng. CO grde It ws ficers gret mix wy mgle CO grde t strt ficers fntstic mix ekend. mgle t strt fntstic ekend. Sturdy begn terestg Sturdy spekers. begn pics cluded terestg NGAUS spekers. 10 I, updtes pics cluded NGAUS NGAUS-LL 101, (Legltive updtes Li), NGAUS-LL htoly (Legltive NG. Li), For lunch, hry hd plesurc NG. For lunch, lteng hd Generl plcsurc McKley, lteng Chief, Ntil Generl McKley, Bureu. Chief, It ws Ntil terctive s he Bureu. encourged It ws terctive udience s he sk encourged quest udience ddress ccerns sk quest re ddress most pressg ccerns t compny re most grde pressg level. t rest compny fterno grde level. csted rest first fterno buse sessi csted which strted first busess very sessi motivg which speech strted by MG Frnk very Vvl, motivg Chirmn speech by MG Frnk Bord, Vvl, NGAUS. Chirmn Bord, right NGAUS. Americ! It ws strt right hevily All/eric' med It ws cference strt hevily gettg med Ntil cference representti gettg Ntil Jot Chiefs representti Stff- "If 're not t Jot Chiefs tble, 're menu." 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(Ret) Ann Cgrtult Johns, MN Col member, (Ret) Ann beg Johns, runner MN up member, Senior beg Mutemn runner wrd up th yer. Senior rest Mutemn morng wrd th csted yer. reports rest morng tresurer, csted enlted reports ssociti, tresurer, TAG enlted ssociti, ssociti, executive direcr TAG ssociti ssociti, executive ors. direcr Untuntely, ssociti, du~ ors. Hurricne Untuntely, Irene, re due re some Hurricne guest spekers Irene, re who re re not some ble guest mke spekers it, who hover re not GEN ble Nortn mke Schwrtz, it, hover Chief GEN Stff, Nortn U.S. Air Schwrtz, Force Chief ws ble Stff, send U.S. video Air Force Adm ws ble Jmes send Wnefeld video Vice Adm Chnn, Jmes Jot Wnefeld, Chiefs Stff Vice ws Chirmn, ble Jot ttend Chiefs pers. Stff Inspirtil ws ble spekers! ttend We pers. n elected Inspirtil our Anny spekers! AreV We Co n Grde elected rep, herd our ArnlY MG AreV Crpenter, Co Grde rep, ttended herd tsk MG ce Crpenter, Homel ttended Security tsk ce jot opert. Homel re Security ws big jot push opert. jot opert re ws beten big push Anny jot Air opert beten predicti Army jot Air opert predicti will become more jot opert more criticl will become durg more future our more ce. criticl durg eveng future ended our ce. Hospitlity evenll1g night where ended did Hospitlity sls night Puer where Rico, did rocked out sls Nevd, Puer Rico, enjoyed rocked live out b kroke Nevd, enjoyed South live b Estern kroke Cference sttes. South Estern Cference sttes. Mdy begn g more Mdy terestg begn spekers. g One terestg more terestg stttic spekers. ws One thrown terestg round ws less thn 18% United Stte stttic ws thrown round ws less eligible thn 18% jo United Armed Sttes Forces. eligible Feel proud jo be Armed member Forces. such n Feel elite proud orgnizti! be member re such ws n lso elite lot orgnizti tlk bout budget I re ws lso lot pendg tlk bout cuts gog budget t Wshgn. pendg First cuts gog current t Wshgn. budget i First, unsustble. current Secd, budget mny unsustble. politics re Secd, syg mny U.S. politics cnnot re fd syg n opertil U.S. ce, cnnot hover fd n rgument opertil NGAUS ce, United Sttes cnnot fd hover rgument NGAUS NOT Unikd hve Sttes n opertil cnnot fd ce. We re pproximtely third cost NOT hve n opertil ce. 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7 speker I found most terestg speker ws I Air found Force most Chief terestg Mster Sergent ws AirDene ForceJelski-Hll, Chief Mster Sergent Senior Enlted Dene Jelski-Hll, Advor Senior Chief, Ntil Enlted Advor Bureu. She Chief, Ntil f1[st Air Force Bureu. hold She positi, first Air first Force femle hold hold positi, positi, first femle she ws hold born positi, red Mnesot. she ws born She hd two red very good Mirulesot. pots: She first hd focusg two very resiliency good pots: first secd focusg beg resiliency good leder. Her secd first pot beg ws never good leder. leve r Her first bttle pot buddy, ws never relly leveknow r r bttlepeople. buddy, Without relly knowg know r r people, people. Without my not knowg know r whenpeople, y need help. my not Her know secdwhen poty ws need help. re Her not secd re pot be ws friends r re not Service remembers, friends re re r be Service ir Members, leder. She lso re re focused be ir word leder. rech: She Rech lso focused up fd menr word rech: sk Rech pressil up fd development. menr sk Rech down pressil pull development. up those beneth Rech ; down be ir pull menr up those ir beneth techer. ; Rech be ir out menr terct ir techer. Rech community. out terct And rech community. understandr rechstrengths underst knesses r improve strengthsup m. knesses She ws n extremely improve up motivtg m. She ws cptivtg n extremely speker. motivtg cptivtg speker. cference ended spectculr cferenceevent- ended Sttes Dner. spectculr With eventeverye Sttes dressed Dner. ir With militry everye best, dressed re ws credible ir militry food best, delicious redrks, ws credible hilrious food, set delicious by comed drks, Jenne hilrious Roberts. set by Defitely comed Jenne gr Roberts. fmle n Defitely mzg ekend! gr fle I hope see next yer 134 th n mzg ekend' I hope see NGAUS next cference yer Reno, 134'11 Nevd! NGAUS cference Reno, Nevd! Submitted by: CPT Krly Mngen Submitted OPD NGAUS by: CPTReport Krly Mngen OPD NGAUS Report NGAMN Legltive Report NGAMN Legltive Report NGAUS Annul Cference As e NGAUS Annul ttendees Cference As Milwukee e ttendees lte August, I picked Milwukee up two lte recurrg August, mes I picked up keytwo leders recurrg spekers mes re. key leders spekers re. me number e ws, "Ntil me, number Righne ws, Americ,' "Ntil referrg, Right Ntil Americ," 's referrg cost effectiveness Ntil s n's opertil costce effectiveness support s n opertil ctive duty rce SUPP0I1 light our current ctiveer duty government lightspendg our current defense er govenunent budget cuts. As spendg re growth defense rr budget thncuts. cuts: As re growth rr thn cuts: Army Ntil (ARNG) Army Ntil provides 45% (ARNG) provides Army's 45% opertil support ArnlY's ly opertil I I % support rmy's ly budget 11% nny's budget Air Ntil (ANG) Air Ntil provides 36% (ANG) Airprovides Force's 36% opertil Air support Force's ly opertil 6% support Air Force's ly budget 6% Air Force's verge budgetnnul cost vergentil nnul cost soldier/irmn Ntil $47,000 s soldier/irmn opposed ir $47,000 ctive s duty opposed counterprt ir ctive costg duty over counterprt $100, 000costg nnullyover $) 00, 000 nnully It's not hrd see It's Ntil not hrd seefers gret Ntil vlue tx fers pyer. gret vlue tx pyer. secd recurrg me t th secd yer's recurrg cference mews t th push yer's cference give Ntil ws pushset give Ntil Jot Chiefs Stff set (JCS). Jot Chiefs Ntil Stff (JCS). 470,000 Ntil members strg 470,000 ly members four-str generl strg billet ly rgubly four-str no generl direct billet representti rgubly no JCS. direct representti We re over two times JCS. lrger We re thnover two Mre timescorps lrger(pproximtely thn Mre 200,000 Corps strg (pproximtely four 200,000 four-str strg billets) four lmost four-str ten times billets) lrger thn lmost ten Cost times lrger ( thn e four-str Cost billet). ( e four-str billet). Ntil Empnent Act Ntil (S.1 025) Emporment leglti movg Act (S.l through 025) Sente leglti, ccordg movg through NGAUS, Sente would, uthorize ccordg 's NGAUS, senior would ficer uthorize chief 's senior Ntil ficer, Bureu, chief set Ntil Jot ChiefsBureu, Stff. set At lst count, Jotsixty-four Chiefs U.S. Stff. Senrs At lsthve count, signed sixty-four s co-spsors. U.S. SenrsIfhve pssed, signed th will sbeco-spsors. yet nor If pssed, th mumentl will be chievement yet nor Ntil mumentl chievement recent yers. Ntil recent yers. I would encourge show r I would support encourge th leglti showbyr signg support White th leglti House petiti by signg it currently White Houseunder petiti wy it t: currently under wy t: Fl thoughts - strg ssociti Flmembership thoughts - strg equlsssociti strg membership legltive voice equls Cpil strg Hill. Be legltive membership voice dvocte Cpil Hill. r Be fellow membership service members. dvocte Sty rmed fellow by service signg members. up Sty legltive fned updtes by t signg up legltive sty updtes volved t by communictg sty volved r by elected communictg ficils vi r Cp Wiz elected ol ficils vi Cp Wiz ol Respectfully submitted, Respectfully Br C. submitted, Wter Br Vice President - Legltive Affirs C. Wter Vice President - Legltive Affirs 34 th Combt Aviti Brigde 34 th Combt Aviti Brigde recent Pgmi wildfire BWCA recent dded Pgmims wildtire n lredy BWCA busydded end ms summer n lredy viti busybrigde. end summer Four UH-60s, four viti ircrews, brigde. refuel Four tnker UH-60s, four support ircrews, persnel refuel deployed tnker stte support ctive persolmel duty deployed support civil stte uthorities ctive duty Ely, MN support 10civil dys uthorities mid-september. Ely, MN All 10 units dys mid-september. brigde ctributed All unitsircrew ground brigdecrew ctributed members ircrew support ground fire crewspottg members fire support suppressi fire ms. spottg tire 18 suppressi ms ms. dumped over 404, ms gllsdumped wter ovcr lrgest 404,000 wildfire glls hit wter rrowhed lrgest re wildfire yers. hit rrowhed re yers. 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Commer, Big promoti, MG Elicerio Divi received h Commer, secd str MGElicerio August. received A big Hoo-h, h secd our strnew August. full timers A big Hoo-h, promot! our new full timers promot' In order crete unity cun In order efficiencies crete unity comm MN Anny efficiencies Ntil, witll MN84th ArmyTroop Ntil Comm, 84th 347thTroop Regil Comm SupportGroup 347th hve been Regil ligned Support undergroup 34th hveinfntry been Divi ligned under cun 34th Infntry ctroldivi s 1 OCT 11. comm Th willctrol ese synchrizti s I OCT II. Th strdizti will ese synchrizti efts llow strdizti better use efts llow resources. better use resources. Divi's next big exerce will Divi's hppen next Jnury big exerce where will select hppen number Jnury persnel whereget select trvel number Jpn persnel order get support trvel trg Jpnexerce order Ym support Skur trg 61 (YS61). exerce YS61Ym 29th Skur iterti 61 (YS61). Jpn YS61bsed series 29th iterti exerces designed Jpn bsedimprove series US/Jpn exercescombt designedredess Improve US/Jpn teroperbility combt while redess enhncg teroperbility while enhncg Security relt. Prticulr gs Security chieved relt. Ym Prticulr Skur 61 gs (YS61). chieved YS61 Ym iterti Skur 61 (YS61). Jpn YS61 bsed series iterti exerces designed Jpn bsed Improve series US/Jpn exerces combt designed redess Improve teroperbility US/Jpn combt while redess enhncg Security teroperbility relt. while Prticulr enhncg gs Security chieved relt. Ym Ptiiculr Skur gs re chieved exchnge Ym ides Skur Force re structure, exchnge doctre, ides ctued Force stmcture, improvement doctre, bilterl ctued improvement Interoperbility. bilterl Interoperbility. Remember, re ly s strg s Remember, our membership, re ly plese s strg csider s our renewg membcrship, rs if plese hven't csider lredy. renewg rs if hven't lredy. Submitted by: Chrpher P. Kle Submitted by: Chrpher P. Kle Divi Representtive Divi Representtive UPCOMING GENERAL UPCOMING CONFERENCES GENERAL CONFERENCES 134th Generl Cference 134th Sept. Generl 10-12,2012 Cference Reno Sept. Hosted 10-12,2012 by Nevd Reno Hosted Ntil by Nevd Ntil 135th Generl Cference 135th SepGenerl 20-23, 2013 Cference Holulu SepHosted 20-23, by 2013 Hwii Holulu Ntil Hosted by Hwii Ntil 136th Generl Cference 136th AugGenerl 22-25, 2014 Cference Chicgo AugHosted 22-25, by2014 Illo Chicgo Ntil Hosted by Illo Ntil 137 th Generl Cference 137Sep. th Generl 10-13,2015 Cference Nshville Sep. 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Moore, Officer 2ndLt, MNANG Executive 133 rd Mtennce Officer Group 133'd Mtennce Group Bord Members Bord Members President - Col De Ford President - Col De Ford Pst President - MAl Kent Porter Pst President - MAl Kent Porter v-president Air - LtCol Loren Hubert V- President Air - LlCol Loren Hubert V -President Army MAJ Kip V-President Fdrick Army MAJ Kip Fdrick Executive Direcr - CW5 (Bvt)(Ret) Executive Wlter Direcr D. Schulz - CW5 (Bvt)(Ret) Wlter D. Schulz Secretry - LtCol Dld Dhlqut Secretry - LlCol Dld Dhlqut Tresurer - COL (Ret) AI Tun Tresurer - COL (Ret) Al Timm Webmster -MAl (Ret) Crl Mdsen Webmster -MAJ (Ret) Crl Mdsen Co Grde Rep Army - CPT Jeff Co Grde GrdnerRep Anny - CPT Jeff Grdner Co Grde Rep Air - ILt Kurt Co Stemetz Grde Rep Air - III Kurt Stemetz Alternte Co Grde Rep Air - Cpt Alternte Js Co HullGrde Rep Air - Cpt Js Hull Brigde Rep - CPT Niels Gott Brigde Rep - CPT Niels Gott Alternte Rep - llt Kev Snow Alternte Rep - ILT Kev Snow RSG Rep- 2LT Cory Johns RSG Rep- 2LT Cory Johns Alternte Rep - CPT Krly Mngen Alternte Rep - CPT Krly Mngen Alternte Rep - 1 LT Joseph Stuber Altemte Rep - 1 LT Joseph Stuher Divi/Seprtes Rep-CPT Chr Divi/Seprtes Kle Rep-CPT Chr Kle Alternte Rep-CPT Br Morgn Alternte Rep-CPT Br Morgn 133 Aw/HQ Rep-Cpt Kev 133 Cmpbell Aw/HQ Rep-Cpt Kev Cmpbell Alternte Rep-Mj Michel Dt Alternte Rep-Mj Michel Dt 148 FW Rep-Cpt Chrpher Rogge 148 FW Rep-Cpt Chrpher Rogge Alternte Rep-l Lt Troy Hendricks Altemte Rep-I Lt Troy Hendricks JFHQ Rep-MAl Joseph 1. Shrkey JFHQ Rep-MAl Joseph 1. Shrkey Aviti Rep-MAl Ptrici Bker Aviti Rep-MAJ Ptrici Bker Alternte Rep-CPT Dvid Adms Alternte Rep-CPT Dvid Adms Troop Comm Rep-CPT Benjm Troop Schmitz Comm Rep-CPT Benjm Schmitz Alternte Rep-CPT Scott Hwks Alternte Rep-CPT Scott Hwks Wn-nt Officer Rep-CW5 Peter Wrrnt Pnos Officer Rep-CW5 Peter Pnos Alternte Rep-CW2 Keith Schitzer Alternte Rep-CW2 Keith Schitzer Retired Officers Pres-BG (Ret) Retired TimOfficers Kennedy Pres-BG (Ret) Tim Kennedy Alternte Rep-Col (Ret) Lrry Burd Altemte Rep-Col (Ret) Lrry Burd Legltive Reps- Mj Br C. Legltive Wter Reps- Mj Br C. Wter MAJ (Ret) Crl Mdsen MAJ (Ret) Crl Mdsen LTC Mrk Weber LTC Mrk Weber Chnge Inmti Form Chnge Inmti Form Rnk Rnk. Nme Nme, Address Address. City City Stte.Zip Stte Zip H-Phe B-Ph H-Phe. B-Ph, E-mil E-mil Send :NGAMN, 3530 E Medice SendLK :NGAMN, Blvd, Plymouth, 3530 MN E Medice LK Blvd, Plymouth, MN 55441

12 2012 Membership Enrollment Form Ntil Associti Mnesot 3530 Est Medice Lke Boulevrd Plymouth, MN Phe: Fx: NGAMN.ORG NmeRnk Address CityStte Zip Home Phe Work Phe Cell Unit Assignment Group Rep E- mil Amount Due (See tble below) Mke check pyble NGAMN send ddress bove To py by credit crd, fill out followg: Check credit crd type: Mster Crd [ ] V [ ] Account Number: Exp Dte: WO1 CW2 CW3 CW4 CW5 Stte $15 $15 $20 $30 $35 $35 $40 $40 $15 $15 $20 $30 $30 Ntil $30 $45 $59 $72 $85 $108 $123 $139 $26 $35 $46 $59 $73 TOTAL: $45 $60 $79 $102 $120 $143 $163 $179 $41 $50 $66 $89 $103 Associte Member: $25 Newly Commsied Officer Wrrnt Officers receive free membership period e yer ny porti yer which ppoted. Active Life NGAUS Membership: e lump sum pyment $1, or over two yers four $250 stllments. Active Stte Life Membership: e lump sum pyment $250 For Retired Officers: NGAUS Life Member $125 Stte Life Member $50 GROUP REPS 1 st Brigde CPT Niels Gott/1LT Kev Snow RSG 2LT Cory Johns/CPT Krly Mngen/1LT Joseph Stuber Divi/Seprtes CPT Chr Kle/CPT Br Morgn 133 AW/HQ Cpt Chr Cmpbell/Mj Michel Dt 148 FW Cpt Chrpher Rogge JFHQ MAJ Joseph J. Shrkey Aviti MAJ Ptrici Bker/CPT Dvid Adms Wrrnt Officer CW4 Peter Pnos/CW2 Keith Schitzer Troop Comm CPT Benjm Schmitz/CPT Scott Hwks Retired Officers BG (ret) Tim Kennedy/Col (ret) Lrry Burd

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