Speaker and Meeting Recap: This month’s speaker was Mr. Sibley Cooley. He spoke about an exciting new program of the Houston Military Affairs Committee. Mr. Cooley is HMAC’s lead on producing a Military and Veterans TV program on Houston Media Source (a public TV entity). He explained the program and what we can do to […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker was LtCol. Gerry W. Leonard, Inspector – Instructor, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines. He updated us on what our Houston Marines were doing during the summer AT period. The Battalion went in many different directions as they provided optemp relief for the active forces in various exercises worldwide. The hope […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker for this meeting was LtCol Robert Heidenreich. He was the Plans and Operations Officer, RCT-7, 1st Marine Division during the battle for Fallujah. LtCol Heidenreich just recently completed a tour of duty as the Inspector-Instructor, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division here in Houston.
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker was CSM Lawrence Wilson, who was a member of the team that caught Saddam Hussein in 2004. He is assigned to the Operation Test Command (OTC), the Army’s only independent test organization. OTC tests all equipment before it gets into the hands of the warfighter in realistic environments to […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker for this meeting was Captain Larry Watson, USN, Professor of Naval Science and Associate Professor at Rice University as well as the Commanding Officer, Naval ROTC Houston Consortium. His Executive Officer gave the presentation and told us all about the new generation of men and women who are learning […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our usual May meeting was a joint meeting with The Navy League of the United States and the Naval Order of the United States. The Honorable Donald C. Winter, Secretary of the Navy, was the guest of honor at a dinner event on May 12, 2006.
Speaker and Meeting Recap: The speaker for our April meeting was Mike McReaken of the Texas Veterans Land Board. He brought us up to date on developments at TVLB, how to get low cost loans for new home loans and home improvements, Texas Veterans Homes, and other valuable benefit information.
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Col (sel) David Davenport, USMC, was our speaker for the March meeting. He served in various intelligence billets in his 21 years in the Corps including 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines and 4th Reconnaissance Battalion. He has a Master’s Degree in Strategic Intelligence from DIA. A SME on North Korea, Iran, Counter-Terrorism, […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: The Houston Military Affairs Committee joined with the Houston Forum to hear Lieutenant General Russel Honore, Commanding General, First Army who spoke about his mission in Joint Task Force Katrina. Louisiana’s native son came off the helicopter chomping his cigar and cussin’, said New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin. People started moving. […]
Speaker and Meeting Recap: Our speaker was LCDR (Sel) Joe Leonard, USCG. He gave an informative talk about his duties as the Incident Commander at the Astrodome during Hurricane Katrina. His efforts were well recognized on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace when he was singled out by Mayor White and was the Person of […]