U. S. Army Warrant Officers Association
USAWOA ONLINE
36th Annual Meeting of the Members
October 20 to 24, 2008
Holiday Inn
ABERDEEN-CHESAPEAKE HOUSE
1007 BEARDS HILL RD
ABERDEEN, MARYLAND 21001
Hotel Front Desk:
1-410-2728100 | Hotel Fax:
1-410-2721714
Annual Meeting Business Agenda
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Focus Group Topics:
1. What is USAWOA's
position on the 10 years of service requirement (verses 6 yrs)
to be eligible to retire as a WO? -
see report
2. Should military education be a requirement PRIOR to being
pinned at the higher grade? -
see report.
3. SGM are managed by the Enlisted Personnel Management
Division, GOs by GOMO, should CW5s be centrally managed? -
see report.
4. Formal delineation
and recognition of Warrant Officer Field Grade Status -
see report.
See Listing of
attendees
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Reports
presented included:
Foundation
Updates presented included:
Business Sessions
Minutes & Professional Development Agenda .
Results of the 2008 election of National Officers saw CW5
Gary Nisker as President, CW4 (Ret) Pete Hill as Vice
President, CW4 David Rocha as Secretary, CW5 (Ret) Russ
Brewer as Western Region Director, CW5 Phil Tackett as
Mid-Northern Director, CW3(P) Jim Davis as Mid-Southern
Region Director, CW3 (Ret) Gene Perrino as Southeastern
Region Director, and CW4 (Ret) Greg Gouty as Northeastern
Region Director. CW2 Natasha Veillard was reappointed
and sworn in as National Treasurer. More details and pictures
will be posted to the AMM 2008 page on this site over the next 15
days. Pictured below, Immediate
Past President Roy Valiant swears in the new National Officers.
(L-R) National Secretary David
Rocha, Northeastern Region Director Greg Gouty, Western Region
Director Russ Brewer, Southeastern Region Director
Gene Perrino, Mid-Northern Region Directory Phil Tackett, European
Region President Tony Rotti, National Vice
President Pete Hill, National President Gary Nisker, & Immediate
Past President Roy Valiant.
"I am the Warrant Officer"
historical presentation
was made during the course of the Annual Banquet. The slide show and
narrative was an initiative of and prepared by AMM General
Chairperson CW4 (Ret) Pete Hill. The presentation was introduced by
Pete Hill with narration by Don Hess, Dave Welsh, Frank Meeks, Gene
Perrino, Patrick Morris and Amy Bailey. A
ZIP file of the
music, slides and text of the narration is available for download
and viewing. Please be patient while downloading as this is a large
file. After downloading and extracting the ZIP file click on the AMM08-Hist-of-Corps.ppt
to view the show with
music and then open wohistory-PeteHill+10-24-08.doc to view the narrative.
Annual Awards
were presented to Chapters, Regions, and Individuals during the
meeting session and the Annual Banquet on Friday, October 24th -
see listing.
SAVE THE DATE
37th USAWOA
Annual Meeting of the Members
November 2 -
6, 2009
Quality Inn,
Salt Lake City, Utah
(More Information
as we get closer to the meeting)
The bid of the Redstone Arsenal
to hold the 38th AMM in Huntsville, AL in October 2010 was accepted.
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