Colonel Rett Benedict The MOAA Catalina Mountains Satellite Chapter met April 16, 2016, at the MountainView Club in SaddleBrooke. Brigadier General (USAF retired) David Patton spoke about the U-2 High Altitude Reconnaissance program and his experiences flying the Dragon Lady. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 until 1984 and was a command…
Colonel Rett Benedict The MOAA Catalina Mountains Satellite Chapter met March 19, 2016, at the MountainView Club in SaddleBrooke. The speaker was Lieutenant Colonel Rick Felker from the Pima Air and Space Museum. Lieutenant Colonel Felker served in Vietnam as a Forward Air Controller, in Cambodia as an Assistant Air Attaché and had a final…
Colonel Rett Benedict The MOAA Catalina Mountains Satellite Chapter met February 20, 2016, at the Splendido at Rancho Vistoso. The speaker was General John A. Wickham (U.S. Army retired), a graduate of West Point, who was the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army under President Reagan. During his 37 year career he served in…
Rett Benedict The Catalina Mountains Satellite Chapter met on January 16, 2016, at the MountainView Clubhouse in SaddleBrooke. The speaker was Colonel Marge Humphrey (USAF Retired) telling our members and spouses about the Titan II Ballistic Missile System and Museum south of Tucson. Colonel Humphrey served 30 years in the Air Force in a variety…
Rett Benedict The Catalina Mountains Satellite Chapter met on November 21 at the MountainView Clubhouse in SaddleBrooke. The speaker was Sheriff Paul Babeu, Pinal County Sheriff since 2008. He also served over 20 years in the Army National Guard, retiring as a Major. His service included Iraq and Commander of Operation Jump Start, a Southwest…
Rett Benedict The Catalina Mountains Satellite Chapter met on October 17, 2015, at the MountainView Clubhouse in SaddleBrooke. The speaker was Lieutenant Colonel Randall (Randy) Olson, Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam and an Air Force T-37 and A-10 pilot and retired in 2000 with 28 years of service and over 6500 flying hours. His presentation…
Rett Benedict The Catalina Mountains Satellite of the Tucson Chapter of MOAA met in SaddleBrooke on March 14, 2015. The highlight of the meeting was a talk by Vince Leach, Arizona State Representative of Legislative District 11. Vince is a Vietnam era veteran and has over thirty five years of experience in the national and…
Rett Benedict The Tucson Chapter of MOAA held a meeting recently in SaddleBrooke and local members moved forward to establish their own MOAA satellite chapter – the Catalina Mountains Satellite. The Satellite held its first meeting on February 14 and the highlight was a talk by Lieutenant Colonel John Lytle, U.S. Army Air Force (USAA),…
Mitch Steinberg The Tucson Chapter of MOAA held a meeting on February 14 in SaddleBrooke and local members moved forward to establish their own MOAA satellite chapter. The new satellite will be named Catalina Mountains. This Chapter will encompass Northwest Tucson to include Catalina, Oracle, parts of Oro Valley and Marana, SaddleBrooke and Sun City.…
Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is a nonprofit veterans’ service association dedicated to maintaining a strong national defense and to preserve the earned entitlements of members of the uniformed services and their families and survivors. MOAA is the current Co-Chair of The Military Coalition (TMC) which is a consortium of 33 influential military and…