Rocky Mountain Navy Association Newsletter June 2017

Rocky Mountain Navy Association

News The Rocky Mountain Navy Association (RMNA) is a not-for-profit, organization to promote the United States Navy and the Naval Reserve in the local community. Specific out reach efforts have been extended to civic organizations, educational institutions, and the business community. RMNA also provides mission support to the local recruiting command and offers a wide variety of professional development assistance programs to the naval reserve community. Newsletter Contact: James Garrett, CAPT, USNR (Ret.), garrettj3745@yahoo.com This is an interactive newsletter so Click on underlined inks or photos for websites for more information or zoom the page.

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Reminding you of next monthly RMNA Luncheon at the American Legion Post, 5400 East Yale, Denver (southeast corner of I-25 and Yale), on Wednesday, July 5th, gathering around 11:30 a.m.

See You There!

Recap of our guest speaker, Dennis Koller at the June 7th Meeting The Rocky Mountain Navy Association hosted Silicon Valley Navy Leaguer and Author, Dennis Koller and his wife Sarah, (The Oath, The Custer Conspiracy, and Kissed By The Snow ). He spoke to the group about how ( the game of publishing) and why he wrote his books, especially The Oath, in which the story revolves around the shared experiences of two naval aviators as POW's and the Oath they took as officers to "defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic." A foreign enemy, they both would agree, is a no-brainer. The question asked in the novel is what constitutes a "domestic enemy." He also had books available for purchase.

This newsletter is posted online to our website at (www.navrescolorado.org) and Facebook page at (https://www.facebook.com/RockyMountainNavyAssociation/) Do you have an idea or a success story to share? Maybe you’ve heard of an upcoming event that we should all support. Send me your ideas @ garrettj3745@yahoo.com. garrettj3745@yahoo.com. There are so many interesting experiences and opportunities to learn and our newsletter is just one way that information can be shared.

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"The problem with being too busy to read is that you learn by experience (or by your men’s experience) — i.e., the hard way."- James Mattis

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Saturday July 22 RMN Summer Party.

At Ron Servis’s Place 11616 West Shaffer Place, Unit S-101 Littleton, Colorado 80127 Go to the Clubhouse (S-101) which is right next to unit 102, beside the American Flag.

Email Dick Young (dickyoung123@gmail.com if you are coming and how many coming including spouses, children, close friends, neighbors and Navy people you know to invite. He will need a head count from you as to whom you are inviting or bringing.

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Russia's Gigantic New Submarine Has Enormous "Wings"

The submarine will be twice as long as a jumbo jet. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a26612/russias-planned-scientific-research-submarine-isenormous/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=052417

Amazing Stories

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A gigantic new research submarine designed by Russia will travel underneath ice floes, mapping its underwater surroundings with a pair of huge plane-like wings. The sub will help Moscow exploit its Arctic frontier as it prepares to harvest previously untouchable natural resources.

The Arctic Research Submarine was designed by the famous Rubin Design Bureau, which was also responsible for the Typhoon-class missile submarines, the largest subs ever built. This vessel will weigh in at 13,280 tons, making easily the largest civilian research submersible ever built, and will be 442 feet long. The sub will have a maximum speed of 12.6 knots and a crew of 40.

The most striking detail is the presence of two sets of wing-like sonar receivers that give the sub a futuristic appearance. The "wings," which retract into the hull like the blade of a pocket knife, are meant to receive sonar signals broadcast from the ship's hull. This allows the Arctic Research Submarine to image its surroundings in all directions as it cruises along underwater at a leisurely 3 knots

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A Brief History of U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations in the South China Sea https://news.usni.org/2017/05/29/brief-history-us-freedom-navigation-operations-south-china-sea?

By: Cid Standifer May 29, 2017 11:11 AM • Updated: May 31, 2017 8:45 AM

A photo of Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy warships in 2014.

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The Origin of FON Ops 1979 China Taken to Court Jan. 22, 2013 Raising Islands 2014 Warning Shouts April 19, 2015 China Tiptoes Into Bering Strait Sept. 2, 2015 USS Lassen Buzzes Reefs Oct. 26, 2015 ‘Innocent’ Or ‘Irresponsible’ Jan. 29-30, 2016 Classify or Magnify?

April 28, 2016 Playing With Fire May 10, 2016 Hague Rules with Philippines July 12, 2016 Experts Recommend FON Ops Sept. 21, 2016 China Tails Decatur Oct. 21, 2016 FON OPs To Come April 26, 2017 More Mischief May 26, 2017

MercOver the past three years, the U.S. and China have been at odds over the status of Chinese artificial islands in the South China Sea and U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations. ..

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We are going to have an amazing panel of strong women Veterans/Service members who will be presenting. We will also be providing updates on the Sturm Specialty in Military Psychology and the Sturm Center.

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Who: Open to members of all branches of the military including spouses and friends;

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What: Rocky Mountain Navy Golf Outing - nine holes - best ball with hole contests at #3 - longest drive; #6 - closest to Ike's tree; and #9 - closest to the pin. Winners can take the money or donate it to a charity or to our Rocky Mountain Navy.

When: August 7, 2017 with an initial tee time of 1:00pm Where: Fitzsimons Golf Course 2323 Scranton Street Aurora, CO 80045 tel. (303) 364-8125 Why: to have fun, to enjoy the camaraderie, and to feel the warm summer breeze.

Denver Council Navy League June 6 at 3:48pm ¡

Governor Hickenlooper signed the Appropriations Bill for USS Colorado on June 5th flanked by members of the Commissioning Committee

https://coloradopolitics/uss-colorado-nsvy-dub/

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Inside the Book Flap 1 Sally Mott Freeman brings us THE JERSEY BROTHERS, an extraordinary, real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history—and save one of their own Click on picture for Ms Freeman’s YouTube video.

The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astounding feat of heroism—and faith.

As water gushed through a hole made by a German torpedo, four chaplains—members of different faiths but linked by bonds of friendship and devotion—moved quietly among the men onboard. Preaching bravery, the chaplains distributed life jackets, including their own. In the end, these four men went down with the ship, their arms linked in spiritual solidarity, their voices raised in prayer. In this spellbinding narrative, award-winning author and journalist Dan Kurzman tells the story of these heroes and the faith—in God and in country—that they shared.

They were about as different as four American clergymen could be. George Lansing Fox (Methodist), wounded and decorated in World War I, loved his family and his Vermont congregation—yet he re-enlisted as soon as he heard about Pearl Harbor. Rabbi Alex Goode was an athlete, an intellectual, and an adoring new father—yet he too knew, the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, that he would serve. Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed), the son a famous radio evangelist, left for war begging his father to pray that he would never be a coward. Father John Washington (Catholic), a scrappy Irish street fighter, had dedicated himself to the church after a childhood brush with death. Chance brought the chaplains together at a Massachusetts training camp, but each was convinced that God had a reason for placing them together aboard the Dorchester.

Drawing on extensive interviews with the chaplains’ families and the crews of both the Dorchester and the German submarine that fired the fatal torpedo, Kurzman re-creates the intimate circumstances and great historic events that culminated in that terrible night. The final hours unfold with the electrifying clarity of nightmare—the chaplains taking charge of the dwindling supply of life jackets, the panic of the crew, the overcrowded lifeboats, the prayers that ring out over the chaos, and the tight circle that the four chaplains form as the inevitable draws near.

In No Greater Glory, Dan Kurzman tells how four extraordinary men left their mark on a single night of war— and forever changed the lives of those they saved. Riveting and inspiring, this is a true story of heroism, of goodness in the face of disaster, and of faith that transfigures even the horror of war.

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The extraordinary, real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history—and save one of their own.

They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war’s most crucial moments. Bill is picked by Roosevelt to run his first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and anti-aircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only carriers to escape Pearl Harbor and by the end of 1942 the last one left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest and least distinguished of the three, is shuffled off to the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm’s way.

But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-inaction after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to find and rescue him.

Based on ten years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and primary sources including diaries, unpublished memoirs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers is a remarkable story of agony and triumph—from the home front to Roosevelt’s White House, and Bio...

Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan. It is the story, written with intimate, novelistic detail, of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the Japanese do everything short of killing him. And it is, above all, a story of brotherly love: of three men finding their loyalty to each other tested under the tortures of war—and knowing that their success or failure to save their youngest brother will shape their family forever.

Inside the Book Flap 2 “I searched for the ravine where my father was shot. As I struggled through the dense vegetation, fighting the enervating tropical heat and humidity, cutting myself on the sharp limestone, I saw my father, not alone anymore but as one of all the fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers on Saipan. I knew then that telling his story would be telling their story too.”

In her opening words to a most carefully researched and moving book The Measure of a Man, My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan, published by the Naval Institute Press in 2013, Kathleen Broome Williams recounts the journey she made to Saipan on the 60thanniversary of the landings on Saipan. For almost half a year after his wounding in July 1944, Major Roger G. B. Broome III had struggled with operations and amputations. She had been born the day after he had been returned to a hospital in the United States. He died in Bethesda in January 1945.

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Earlier in her life, she had read all the 250 letters the father she had never known had written to her mother. Now she was bringing closure. “Death does not end with the dying,” she wrote. “Its shadow moves on from generation to generation, affecting those who come after in incalculable ways because loss is hard to grasp and even harder to measure.”

The Colorado Rockies Baseball Club would like to show its appreciation to Veterans and Active Duty Military by giving them a free ticket to the game July 9th at 1:10PM versus the Chicago White Sox. Family and friends of Veterans or Active Duty can get additional tickets for only $15. These are far more expensive seats than fans purchase game day. Ticket orders MUST be submitted via the attached order form to ensure all seats are together with the service member or veteran!!!

Please see the attached flyer and Military/Veteran ticket order form. A military ID, active, reserve, retired or DD214 may be required when picking up tickets at the Will Call window on game day.

We have 60 Navy personnel in uniform on the field for a pregame giant flag unfurling, AND a Sailor being recognized on Home Plate during the 7th inning stretch.

Come on out and support your Navy and your Ball Team!

From Dan Puleio

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MILITARY APPRECIATION DAY AT COORS FIELD Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 1:10 PM Game Date

Sun, July 9th @ 1:10 PM vs.

Chicago White Sox

Complimentary tickets for Military Personnel & Veterans __________ # tickets Complimentary

Additional tickets for Family & Friends

Total Due

_______ $ 15 Additional Tickets _______ $ 15 Lot B Parking Pass

No Refunds or Exchanges Name:________________________________ Address:_______________________________ City, ST, Zip:____________________________ Phone:________________________________

All orders will be placed at Will Call for pick up. Please bring a Military ID or a copy of DD 214 to claim your ticket order.

Email:_________________________________ Fax orders to 303-312-2219. Email orders to militarytix@coloradorockies.com.

Mail orders to CRBC, Attn: Military Appreciation, 2001 Blake St, Denver, CO 80205.

Call Ky Carlsen 303-312-2441 or Liz Woessner 303-312-2438 with questions or to order by phone.

DUE DATE: Friday, June 30th, 2017 PAYMENT INFORMATION

Cardholder Name:______________________ Circle one: Visa MC Disc AmEx Card Number:_________________________ Exp Date: ___________________ Authorization Signature:_________________________