SOAR 47th Las Vegas 2023 Cập Nhật

 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR SOAR SPECIAL EVENTS This years SOAR includes four special events: SOA Early Bird Fun Shoot, "The Beatles Love" show, Prayer Breakfast, and the CCS Breakfast.  Special events require a separate registration and additional fees beyond the normal registration cost.  *BEATLES LOVE and the Early Bird Fun Shoot events are subject to cancellation. If  an event is cancelled, all monies will be refunded. REGISTER FOR ONE (OR MORE) OF THE INDIVIDUAL EVENTS ATTENTION KHE SAHN AND MAI LOC PERSONNEL If you are attending SOAR this year, and were assigned to CCN at Khe Sanh and/or Mai Loc, you are encouraged to register for the SOA inaugural 2023 Prayer Breakfast.   All CCN members are welcome.  This may be our last chance to get this group together, so don't delay, get signed up soon.  The link is on our website. The Prayer Breakfast is scheduled as follows: Tuesday 17 Oct 2023 8-9:30am Cost is $35 per person Sign up today so we can make a plan. Questions? Contact: Ray Frovarp, rmfrovarp@gmail.com; 910 850-6023 SOAR XLVII UPDATES Early Bird Fun Shoot: The deadline to sign up for the early birth shooting event has been extended to October 1, 2023. The deadline for room reservations at the group rate at the Orleans has been extended to 25 September 2023. Our friend and vendor Brad Davis of Pop Smoke coffee can't join us at SOAR this year.  Fear not coffee drinkers, John Vislosky has sweet talked Frontier Coffee into filling the void. The company was founded by a Special Forces operator.  For those at risk, try to get your flu shot and the new RSV Vaccine with time for them to take effect before arriving in Las Vegas.

FOCUS ON SOAR XLVIII - Ghost Soliders of El Salvador On Thursday morning at this year's SOAR Mr. Greg Walker will be sharing a one-hour presentation on the role MACV SOG soldiers played in the ten-year counter-insurgency in El Salvador. Titled "Ghost Soldiers", the presentation will offer the history of only the second successful U.S. counter-insurgency campaign to have been conducted by American military forces in modern times. Walker, himself a veteran of the war in El Salvador, is one of the co-founders of the Veterans of Special Operations El Salvador (VSO-ES), the organization that after a decade-long grassroots political campaign saw full combat recognition, honors, and benefits authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1996. Greg, himself a Life member of the SOA, will discuss the contributions former SOG / MIKE Force and RECONDA soldiers made during the course of the war in El Salvador to include comments and observations from Major Generals Eldon Bargewell and Ken Bowra. Mr. Walker has dedicated his presentation to the memory of  Spider Parks. Parks served as battalion Sergeant Major of the 3/7th Special Forces Group (ABN) in Panama in the early 1980s. Any SOA members who served in El Salvador will be invited to stand and be recognized at the conclusion of Walker's symposium.   NEW MEMBERS John Welgos Dominic J. Gutierrez  SOA TAPS WOODBURY, James R., SOA Mem# 3017, passed away September 8, 2023. MOLLICA, Leonard C., SOA Mem# 48, passed away on September 3, 2023. DANIELS, Thomas M. III, SOA Mem# 584, passed away on August 29, 2023 ROUGEAU, James L., SOA Mem# 2134, passed away on August 26, 2023.

SEPTEMBER: 2023 Calendar of Events 18-23 Sep: 5th Group Legion Week & Reunion, Fort Campbell, Click here for more information 20-24 Sep: 2023 Air Rescue Association Reunion, Las Vegas NV  Click here for more information 25 Sep: Deadline for SOAR XLVII Hotel Reservations (block rooms) 30 Sep: Completed SOA Election ballots returned to the Tally Committee must be postmarked no later than 30 September 2023. Questions? Comments? Contact us. Newsletter Editor:  Bonnie Cooper SOA President: Doug Godshall Visit the Special Operations Association Website Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list