SERVICE ACADEMY APPOINTEES “SEND-OFF” DINNER 18 JUNE 2015

For the past ten years MOAA's Southern Nevada Chapter has invited new Service Academy Appointees to a dinner meeting to congratulate them and give them a MOAA and community “send off.” The “Send-Off” dinner with the Service Academy Appointees and Service Academy Parents Club is scheduled for 18 June at the Palace Station Hotel. USAFA AOG members and spouses are invited to come and meet the appointees and their parents and help with the send off.

The dinner is scheduled for 18 June at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino, 2nd Floor Ballroom: 6 PM sign in and social hour, 7 PM Dinner, 8 PM Speaker. Dinner choices: Salmon or Chicken and the cost is $35. Appointees are free. Please call in your reservations no later than Monday, 15 June to LTC Tommy Thompson at 914-1844. We would like your members to assist as Table Hosts for the candidates, so they can meet and interface with a veteran/graduate. MOAA also invites West Point, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine and Naval Academy Grads to meet the candidates for their schools. The Speaker is yet to be determined.

A Cadet Forum consisting of current cadets and graduates will be at 8:30. We had over 130 attending the dinner last year. Come and meet the candidates and their parents and give the candidates a warm send-off. The purpose of the dinner is to:

Invite the Appointees to a dinner to celebrate their selection to one of the service academies.

Demonstrate to the young candidates that they are about to become part of a larger tradition of trained officers for the leadership of the US Military Forces.

Give Parents Club members and Appointee parents an opportunity to meet veterans/graduates who have been educated at the service academies, and/or have served in the US military forces.

Demonstrate to the parents that candidates will receive a great education at the service academies, and join a long line of career officers who have dedicated their careers to the service & defense of the country.

The purpose of the Parents Club is to provide an organization to support their cadets at the service academies during their 4 years of study. The Southern Nevada Chapter will continue to support the effort to send these young candidates to the academies with the strongest MOAA, parental and community support possible.