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Friday Night's Dinner
Crusader pilot, Rick Roll was Friday evening's MC He began the festivities by introducing his co-host and some guests of honor.
Reunion Co-hosts, Cindy & War Wagon pilot Don Callison
Recognizing our former Reunion Hosts, Kim and War Wagon pilot Bill King
As we honored the 50th anniversary of the Troop's deployment to Vietnam we recognized the Troop's first commanding officer Bill Kaler and his wife Shirley.
Then Rick recognized the FNGs. First time attendees.
New Guy, Long Knife CE, Mike Wysocki
Long Knife Pilot, Larry Hudson
Crusader Pilot, Kevin Kelly
Crusader Pilot, George Anderson
POL Handler, Randy Yarbrough
Crusader Pilot, Don Matthews
On Friday Morning the Troop held a Golf Tournament. Organized this year by Fred Lechner
There are actually two Light Horse Tournaments held each year.
There is one in the Fall in Kentucky at Bull Frog's "Veterans Get Together."
The Golfers
Eloy Garcia, Pat Will, ?? , Midget, Tom Tolar, Fred Lechner, George Bloodworth, John Sorensen
Led Symmes took the photo.
It is traditional to have the Tournament organizer to tally the scores and call upon the losing team to blow the Troop Bugle
and to have their names added to the list which is kept on the horn.
Fred Lechner read the scores and announced this year's musical performers.
Midget spent so much time in traps he was given a "commemorative" bag of sand.
To all our delight, Tom Tolar and Midget demonstrated their musical talent.
Moving right along.
Dinner was announced and everyone got in line for the buffet.
Long Knife Pilot Gary Clark meets Crew Chief Mike Wysocki for the first time in 47 years.
Seen in this photo: Larry Sprader, Eloy Garcia, Michele Howard, Irene Guzema
Bill King, Gayle & Bullfrog Vanburen
Long Knife pilot Fred Lechner with sons his Landon and Logan
Jim Burch, George Bloodworth, Dave Riley & friend Cheryl, Rex Gooch,Led Symmes
Lots of folks here, but center is Tom Egleston, to the right is Crusader pilot Mike Rasbury and his wife Connie.
After dinner, Rick talked about the Troop Coffee cups the Max Bradley had made and were for sale.
Then Rick invited a couple of fellows who wished to say a few words to the Troop.
LRRP and Doughboy leader Rick Stetson told us about his tour with D Troop
Manuel Rico talked about his activities in Senior Olympics. We wished him luck in upcoming event.
Introducing War Wagon pilot, Larry Little
Larry entertained us with a couple of stories.
Randy King & Larry Sprader in the foreground.
Rocky Bull on the chair working on getting that perfect "shot."
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