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9th Annual Memorial Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament Saturday, September 12, 2009 Turquoise Valley Golf & RV Park Naco, AZ Fyler & Registration (Deadline:  1 Sep) Committee Letter - Getting the word out

Chapter President Message - WELCOME! I am CW3 (Ret) Joe Gill, the president of the Arizona Silver USAWOA Chapter here in the historic and beautiful Southeastern Arizona. Thank you for visiting our website; you are most welcome to surf it to find out about us. Our Chapter was chartered by the United States Warrant Officers Association (USAWOA) on November 1, 1972 as the Arizona Chapter. Subsequently, USAWOA determined to recognize those chapters chartered in their founding year as Silver chapters. Our chapter, here in the shadow of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County, is made up of active, reserve and retired warrant officers with our regular attendees ranging from WO1 to CW5. On the third Tuesday of each month, we hold our Award Winning Warrant Officer Professional Development luncheon covering topics to include, pending legislation affecting the military active, reserve, guard, retired and their families both national and state, briefings by military and local civilian officials, and other timely topics of interest. Every year we hold a pancake breakfast, a charity golf tournament to raise the funds to make scholarships and other charity donations possible. We actively support the Buena High School Junior Army ROTC Battalion and annually recognize the outstanding cadet in each class. We also sell specially designed memorabilia – golf shirts, hats, jackets, challenge coins – just to name a few. USAWOA provides a variety of member benefits and services which I encourage you to take a look at. They include an Affinity VISA Credit Card, National USAWOA scholarships, other educational services, discounts on Army Times subscriptions, auto rental discounts, a 10-10-Dial-around discount service, and more. Again, please visit our member benefits and services page for details on these and other programs we enter into in the future. Again, thank you for coming and I hope your journey through our website will be enjoyable and educational. We look forward to welcoming you at an upcoming WOPD luncheon. CW3 (RET) Joe Gill

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Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever was our guest speaker and spoke to us at length about border security issues.   Chapter Treasurer CW5 (Ret) Dave James helps with the installation of our chapter's welcome sign on 7 Oct 08. We are the latest member organization to place their sign on the Joint Service Clubs of Greater Sierra Vista's Signboard on Buffalo Soldier Trail.       Arizona Silver Chapter Vice President CW4 Kevin Gorski carried the Chapter Colors at the Memorial Day Service conducted at the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Sierra Vista AZ. USAWOA was just one of some 20 veterans' groups participating with the honored guests including Fort Huachuca Commander Maj. Gen. John Custer, local mayors, and some 300 hundred guests.  The guest speaker was U. S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford who said afterwards that she was on her way to Houston, TX and Cape Canaveral, FL to see her husband Mission Commander Mark Kelly blast off into space on Saturday's Discovery Mission STS-124.

Chapters supporting Chapters.  At the 2007 Ft Lowell-Apache Scholarship Golf Tournament the Second Place Team included Shawn O'Rourke, Elmo Long, Annie Reynolds and Ron Wilson.   This was a last minute ‘scratch team’ but they plan to do better this year on 07 June.

L-R USAWOA Arizona Silver Chapter President CW3 (RET) Joe Gill, Cadet MAJ Steven Wilson Cadet 1LT Ariana Dildine, Cadet MSG Amanda Wheat, Cadet CPL Brittany Vowell, CW3 (RET) Walter Horlick, ROTC Medal Committee Chairman All four cadets received a USAWOA Citation for Distinguished Service signed by Roy Valiant and a $100.00 US Savings Bond.  On 24 April 2008, the USAWOA Arizona Silver Chapter awarded the USAWOA ROTC medal for outstanding achievement and leadership to the most outstanding cadet in each LET year group. The medal recipients were selected by a USAWOA officer board on the basis of meritorious achievement, exceptional leadership and superior knowledge in the areas of general military knowledge and current events. These fine JROTC cadets exemplify the Warrant Officer traits of soldiering, leadership, and technical ability (Soldier, Leader, Technician). Membership Forms Use them to Join, Rejoin, Renew, Change Address or other data, to Affiliate or non-affiliate with Chapters. Your privacy is important to us. No data is saved on this website.