The Military Order of the World Wars
GREATER BOSTON CHAPTER
P.O. Box 290102
Boston, Massachusetts 02129
March 2017 Meeting Notice AND February BULLETIN
OFFICERS:Chapter Commander
LCDR David W. Graham, USN (Ret.)
; ;
Sr. Vice Commander
CAPT Paul E. Mawn, USN (Ret.)
2nd Vice Commander,
2LTJason A. Sokolov, USA,( Fmr) (also
Asst. Adjutant and Chapter Bulletin Editor & Publisher) ;
Finance Officer
LTC Walter G. Opanasets, USA, ( Ret.)
m;
Asst. F/O CAPT Paul P. Daley, USN (Ret.)
Adjutant
COL (MA) Lawrence A. Willwerth, USA, Ret.)
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Webmaster
CPT William J. Maloney, USA ( Fmr)
;
Judge Advocate
CAPT John F. Carey, USN
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Marshal
COL James R. Littleton, USA, ( Ret.)
Immediate Past Commander
LTC Frederick J. Maguire, USA, ( Ret.)
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Agenda:
1200-1230 Social Half Hour
1220 Select Seats
1230 Call to Order, Invocation and moment of silence for deceased companions, pledge of al7egiance, recitation of MOWW Preamble
Welcome by Chapter Commander,
Introduction of Guests ,Minutes of Last Meeting, Reports by Commander, Adjutant, Finance Officer, and Committees
Old and New Business
Introduction of Speaker and adjournment.
Remarks: RSVPs requested for lunch head count to . Note your food selection: Entrée: tenderloin tips or pan-seared haddock. Soup: chowder or soup of the day. If you are unable to RSVP, don’t let that stop you from joining us. / Next Meeting:: / Tuesday, 7 March 2017
TIME: / 1200 Social (Half Hour)
1220 Select Seats
1230 Call to Order
PLACE: / Union Oyster House
41 Union Street
Boston, MA
Parcel 7 Garage
Congress Street, Boston, MA
(1/2 block from restaurant)
($3.00 validated by restaurant cashier)
RESERVATIONS: / Not Required
COST: / $35.00
SPEAKERS:
Directions to Union Oyster House, 41 Union Street, Boston, MA – Tel. (617) 227-2750
Public Transportation by the “T” is approximately one block from the restaurant if you use either the Haymarket Square or Government Center Stations: Haymarket Square Station services the Green and Orange lines. Government Center Station services the Green and Blue lines.
If you are driving: The Parcel 7 Garage is about a half block from the restaurant on Congress Street. Be sure to have your parking ticket validated. With validation, the cost is $3.00 for up to 3 hours. The Union Oyster House cashier validates tickets. For orientation purposes note that Faneuil Hall is one block from the restaurant / Tuesday, 7 March: COL Raoul Acala, USA (Ret.), author and authority on national security issues. LTC Paul Whitmore, USAF, Professor of Air Science at Boston University and a cadet from his program will join us.
Tuesday, 4 April: CAPT Kevin C. Kiefer, USCG, Chief of Staff, First Coast Guard District.
Tuesday, 2 May: BG Francis B. Mcgurn, II, US Army NG, MAARNG, Assistant Adjutant General (Army), MA National Guard
Tuesday, 13 June: TBA
Region I Website: www.region-1-moww.org
National Website: www.militaryorder.net
Note: Region I Annual Meeting, Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, MA, Saturday, 3 June. The Order’s CINC, COL Clay LeGrande, Jr. and VCINC LTC John Hollywood are expected to attend. The call to order will be at 0930.
OUR CHAPTER’S 98th YEAR
Among the perpetual members of our Chapter, from left: General of the Armies John J. Pershing, Major General George S. Patton, Lieutenant General L. Scott Rice, Adjutant General of Massachusetts and Director of the Air National Guard, President John F. Kennedy, Governor and Senator Leverett Saltonstall, former Chapter Commander and Acting Adjutant General of the Massachusetts National Guard, Brigadier General John H. Sherburne
MEETINGS AND SPEAKERS
Tuesday, 7 March: Companion, author and distinguished authority on national security issues, COL Raoul Henri Acala will be our speaker. RAOUL HENRI (ROY) ALCALA heads a consulting firm, Alcala Enterprises, which specializes in national security and foreign policy issues. He retired from the Army in 1991 after four years in charge of the Army Chief of Staff’s Assessment and Initiatives Group. As a White House Fellow during the Ford and Carter administrations, he served as a special assistant to the Federal Energy Administrator and to the Presidentâl National Security Advisor. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he holds masters degrees from Yale University in international relations and political science. His most recent publications include a policy paper for The Atlantic Council of the United States: The United States, NATO, and Security Relations with Central and Eastern Europe; studies for the RAND Corporation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Science Applications International Corporation on military strategy, technology, doctrine, training, and force structure, and on Persian Gulf lessons learned. He is a Senior Fellow of Business Executives for National Security.
We expect to have LTC Paul Whitmore, USAF, Professor of Aerospace Studies at Boston University and a cadet from that program joining us. LTC Whitmore’s biography is below.
Lieutenant Colonel Whitmore is the Professor of Aerospace Studies and Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Studies at Boston University. He is also the Commander of Air Force ROTC Detachment 355, comprised of approximately 60 cadets from as many as 15 major universities in the Boston area. Lt Col Whitmore entered the Air Force through the Air Force ROTC program at the Virginia Military Institute, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. A graduate of Undergraduate Missile Training, he is a core Space Officer (13S) and has held a wide variety of space and missile operations, flight combat training, officer training/education, mission support, unit instructor, and MAJCOM and Joint HQ assignments. Immediately prior to coming to BU, Lt Col Whitmore served at US Strategic Command’s Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC SPACE) at Vandenberg AFB, CA. His primary duty was as the Deputy Director for Plans and Programs, conducting management of 16 personnel working deliberate planning, financial management, requirements development, and policy review. He was also the Air Force Element Section Commander, holding administrative command for assigned Air Force personnel.
Lt Colonel Whitmore assumed his current position in July 2014. He received his bachelor of arts in history at the Virginia Military Institute in 1994, a master of science in space studies at the University of North Dakota. He also graduated the Academic Instructor School at Maxwell AFB, the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, the Air Command and Staff College, the Joint Professional Military Education-II, NSA Hampton Roads, Norfolk, VA, and the Air War College.
His assignments include:
1994 – 1995 392d Training Squadron, 381st Training Group, Vandenberg AFB, CA
Student, Minuteman III (CDB-B) Undergraduate Missile Training
1995 – 1998 321st Missile Group, Grand Forks AFB, ND
Missile Combat Crew Commander & Missile Procedures Trainer Operations
1998 – 2001 Air Force Officer and Accessions Training Schools (AFOATS), Maxwell AFB, AL
OTS Flight Training Officer & Field Leadership Curriculum Area Manager
2001 – 2004 22d Space Operations Squadron, 50th Space Wing, Schriever AFB, CO
Operations Support Flight Commander
2004 – 2007 353d Combat Training Squadron, 354th Fighter Wing, Eielson AFB, AK
Chief, Space and Information Operations Section
2007 – 2011 Launch, Ranges & Networks Division, HQ AF Space Command, Peterson AFB, CO
Deputy Division Chief
2011 – 2014 Plans and Programs Directorate, JFCC SPACE, Vandenberg AFB, CA
Deputy Director &Air Force Element Section Commander
2014 – Pres Division of Military Education, Boston University, Boston, MA
Professor and Chairman, Department of Aerospace Studies and
Commander, Air Force ROTC Detachment 355
Tuesday, 4 April: Captain Kevin C. Kiefer serves as Chief of Staff for the First District in Boston, Massachusetts under the District Commander to oversee all
Coast Guard missions across eight Northeast states executed by 11,000 active duty, reserve, civilian and auxiliary personnel, along with 30 cutters, 200 boats, and 8 aircraft. He was previously the Coast Guard Sector Commander of Baltimore,
Maryland where his area of responsibility included all Coast Guard missions throughout the state and the National Capitol Region (NCR). In this role, he served as Captain of the Port, Federal Maritime Security Coordinator, Officer in Charge of Marine Inspection, and the region’s Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator. He was also the maritime lead for the Joint Force Headquarters NCR Executive Team, a single-point central office of the five military branches and NORAD for planning, coordination and execution of operational military service missions in the NCR.
Prior to his time in Baltimore, Captain Kiefer held the position of Chief, Office of Port and Facility
Compliance at Coast Guard Headquarters where responsibilities included the Maritime Transportation
Security Act; port resiliency; and strategy for the protection of dangerous cargoes, critical infrastructure,
and high value assets. He was also a delegate to the International Maritime Organization where he worked
on port and global supply chain security and maritime trade recovery. During the 2010 Deepwater
Horizon Spill of National Significance oil spill response, Captain Kiefer served as Staff Director/Current
Plans at the National Incident Command (NIC). Captain Kiefer served as Commanding Officer of Marine Safety Unit Huntington, WV and Executive Officer of Marine Safety Office (MSO) Corpus Christi, TX, during which time he was the lead planner for the nation’s largest military outload operation in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Other field tours included MSO Tampa, FL and the Coast Guard Cutter VALIANT.
Captain Kiefer graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Marine Engineering in 1989. He earned a Master of Science degree in Engineering (Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering) and a Master of Engineering degree (Manufacturing) from the University of
Michigan.
Tuesday, 2 May: Brigadier General Magurn is the Assistant Adjutant General – Army, Massachusetts National Guard. He serves as the Adjutant General’s principle advisor on Army issues. He is responsible for liaison with external partners, to include the state, local, and federal interagency, non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), National Guard Bureau and the Department of the Army. He has oversight of Army Facility Construction and Stationing and is a voting member of the State Retired List Board. He chairs the State Partnership Program with the Republic of Paraguay, the Risk Reduction, Resiliency, and Suicide Prevention (R3SP) Council and Joint Diversity Executive Council. He is president of the Academic Board and Senior Service College Selection Board. He is responsible for supporting and shaping the force. Brigadier General Magurn serves as a Joint Task Force Commander and/or Contingency Dual Status Commander in domestic response operations as required. He was born and raised in Concord. He joined the MAARNG in 1980 and served three years as an M48A5 Tank crewman. He received his commission as a second Lieutenant in Armor in September 1983 from the Massachusetts Military Academy Officer Candidate School class 50. He has served in various command and staff assignments including Mortar Platoon Leader, Troop Executive Officer, Cavalry Troop Commander, Infantry Battalion S-3, Infantry Battalion XO, Infantry Brigade S-3, Special Troops Battalion Commander and J-3/Chief of the Massachusetts National Guard Training Division. In 2003, he deployed to Guantanamo Bay Cuba as the Executive Officer of Task Force Powderhorn, Joint Task Force GTMO which oversaw base security of the installation and detention facilities. He has a master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Massachusetts and is National Security Fellow from Harvard University. He resides in Littleton Mass. with his wife Joni. He is the proud father of Cadet Franco Magurn, Montana National Guard and Pfc. Brian Magurn, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army and daughter Kate, a student at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Brigadier General Magurn received his commission through the Massachusetts Military Academy. He has served as a commander at company, battalion, and brigade levels. He is a 2010 graduate of the United States Army War College National Security Fellowship Program. Brigadier General Magurn recently returned to traditional M-Day status after 21 years on AGR and 7 years as a Federal Technician. Brigadier General Magurn was appointed by Governor Patrick as Assistant Adjutant General in the Military Division of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security in May 2014. Once again this year we expect to have LTC Tim Ferguson, USA, the Professor of Military Science at Northeastern University and commander of the Liberty Battalion (NU, Boston College, Suffolk University and other colleges) to join us with a cadet from that unit.
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Other Future Events: Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, 13 June: Speaker to be announced, at the Union Oyster House. Officers please note: the next staff meeeting is scheduled for 15 March at 1630 at the Coast Guard Base Boston.
*****************************************************************************************************************Also importantly, our national commander, CINC COL Clay LeGrande, USA (Ret.) (shown at left) has indicated that he and Mrs. LeGrande will attend the Region I regional meeting on 3 June in company with Vice CINC LTC John Hollywood, USA (Ret.) and Mrs. Hollywood. This meeting, with Region I Commander LTC Dennis Christo, USA (Ret.), is an opportunity to join the leaders and companions of other New England chapters in relaxed discussions of the challenges facing the MOWW both locally and nationally. There will be detailed information circulated to all companions concerning the meeting later in this year, however, the meeting is scheduled at the Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, MA, with the call to order at 0930. All companions and their spouses/significant others are invited to attend. It is an important opportunity to discuss with the Order’s leaders the issues facing operations on a national, regional and local basis in a cordial and relaxed atmosphere. The hotel venue, in itself is interesting. Please consider joining us for this always-enjoyable event.