Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker for this month was Staff Sergeant Danial LISARELLI, Public Affairs Specialist, USAR. Present Assignment: 1st Brigade, 75th BCT Division, Houston, TX. He spoke about his book, The Last Prison, The Untold Story of Camp Groce CSA, Universal Publishers, 1999. When Lisarelli discovered that Union prisoners of war from the […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker was Petty Officer First Class John Stone, a Houston Naval Reservist, who recently did a tour of duty in Iraq. In civilian life, he is a professional photographer which gave him a uniquely bifurcated view of the Global War on Terror, GWOT, and drew him into many ad hoc […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker was LTC Keith Sylvia, LG, USA, Commander, Defense Logistics Agency Americas East, Houston, TX. LTC Sylvia is a Colonel Select and has been selected for Senior College. LG is his branch -Logistics Branch.
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our meeting featured representatives of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force recruiting commands who spoke about recruiting efforts in the Greater Houston Area. We learned the typical recruit’s qualifications, what specialties the services need, and the answers all those questions you wished you asked your recruiter. […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: There was no meeting scheduled for November 2010.
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speakers for this meeting were MAJ Jose Rivera, Executive Officer for the 72nd IBCT and LTC John Laing, Chaplain for the 72nd IBCT. Both were part of the unit’s just-completed deployment to Iraq. MAJ Rivera presented the overall background information on the unit (including a summary of the units just […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker was Sibley Cooley who talked about Military and Veterans Television. Working with the Houston Military Affairs Committee Mr. Cooley films events and conducts interviews of military personnel and veterans. Recently he was in Washington, DC to work on Operation Dragoon (WWII). Mr. Cooley will show some excerpts of his […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: There was no meeting scheduled for August 2010.
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker was Jonathan Sandys, the great grandson of Winston Churchill who provided historical insights on the Prime Minister and World War II.
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker was John Martinec, Director, Ellington Field Task Force. You may have seen the construction taking place at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base. Mr. Martinec will give you an update on Ellington Field JRB and future plans for the base.