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The Official Newsletter of theNavy League of the United States • Greater Austin Council

September – Octobe r 2010 • Ci t izens in Suppor t o f the Sea Se r v i c e s • www.navy leagueaus t in .o rg

COUNCIL OFFICERSRandy Patterson

PresidentBruce Byron

Immediate Past PresidentJeanie Coffey

Vice President for Legislative AffairsRandy Patterson

Vice President for EducationKathy Pillmore

Vice President for CommunicationsBruce Byron

Vice President for AdministrationStephen Smith

Vice President for Business PartnershipsRay Roark

Vice President for FinanceLee Hagan

Vice President for Youth ProgramsJim Brotherton

Vice President for Military AffairsBrian Colfack

SecretaryKaye JohansonAssistant Secretary

Michael MurrayJudge AdvocateTom Griffy

Chaplain

NATIONAL DIRECTORS Glenn Looney Max Miller

Jack Ritter

BOARD OF DIRECTORSMax Miller, Chairman

Jim Brotherton Bruce Byron Jeanie Coffey Glenn Looney Jack Mayo Kathy Pillmore Jack Ritter Steve Smith Randy Patterson (Ex Officio)

LIAISONSBrian Colfack

Military Services CoalitionSteve SmithMarine CorpsJack RitterUT NROTC

CAPT Daniel N. Dixon, USNCO UT NROTC

LCDR Mike Evans USNCO Naval Operations Support Center

Lee HaganNavy & Marine Corps JROTC

Jack MayoCommissionings

TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2010

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Dr. Friedman is the Chief Executive Officer of STRATFOR, a company he founded in 1996 that is

now a leader in the field of global intelligence. In addition to his responsibilities as CEO, Friedman guides STRAT-

FOR’s strategic vision and oversees the development and training of the company’s intel-ligence unit.

Dr. Friedman is the author of the New York Times best seller “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century,” as well as other books on warfare and intelligence, including “America’s Secret War,” “The Future of War” and “The Intelligence Edge.” The hardcover of “The Next 100 Years” was translated into 19 languages, and Dr. Friedman is frequently invited by governments and major corporations to speak in countries such as Turkey, Germany, Poland, Azerbaijan, Australia and New Zealand. A very popular keynote speaker, Dr. Friedman is in high demand at numerous conferences and industry-specific events for major financial firms such as JP Morgan, Citibank, Ernst & Young and many Fortune 500 companies. In addition he has briefed the Australian Command and Staff College, Eglin Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College and many other military and government organizations.

Dr. George FriedmanFounder and Chief Executive Officer

STRATFOR Global Intelligence

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President’s Message

Randy

Friedman, Continued from page 1

Randy PattersonPresident, Greater Austin Council

Bob Gates has a tough job. In addition to oversee-

ing one of the largest bureau-cracies in the world, with the Pentagon's deserved reputa-tion for infighting and politi-cal shenanigans, he has had to deal recently with a Washing-ton establishment that seems focused on matters other than the defense of the country.

If those challenges weren't enough to try his patience and managerial talents, he doesn't have control over many of the tasks and budgets in which he has a major stake. Home-land Defense is not his to manage; much of the intelligence community is not his to direct; he competes for dollars and resources, scarce in the best of times, with many in the con-gress that have their own ideas as to how he should behave; and finally, there are numerous groups (the press, service and veterans organizations, plus quite a few armchair quarter-backs) that seem never to be pleased.

Of course, the SECDEF is not the only person that has to balance such challenges – it just seems that his job is more intense than others in the government – and if he (or she) makes a bad policy mistake, it may come back to haunt all of us in a future war.

The next few years will not be any easier by the looks of things, either for Mr. Gates or his successors. To bring things closer to our own interests, there will be extremely difficult balancing feats dealing with the sea services. Shipbuilding needs for maintaining Navy superiority and deterrence in an uncertain future; personnel matters that cover those now serving and those that may yet be called to duty, and a large number of folks who have served their country and their Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, and now remain concerned as to what lies ahead for themselves, their chil-dren and grandchildren.

Thus, when articles appear that decry or praise the end-ing of this or that hardware program, or result in the shuf-fling or dis-establishment of large commands, or seem to cut your favorite perk, have a bit of sympathy for the guy at the top. He has my support, and should have the support of all of us. I have faith that he really will do his best…after all, he is an (adopted) Texan and Aggie!

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We have made a couple of announcements about the plans for NAVY WEEK, which will take place in Austin and San Antonio from 19-26 March 2011, and there is some more information elsewhere in this issue. There is a lot go-ing on around in Austin at that time – SXSW, the rodeo, high school basketball, and the like. We are working hard to fit all this in so that our members can participate in as many of these events as they wish, without neglecting to show their support for the Navy.

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Please take a minute to check on the status of your Navy League membership and renew when the time comes – only by keeping our member numbers up can we con-tinue to support the mission of the national and local Navy League.

Major television and radio networks such as CNN, Fox News, and NPR regularly invite Dr. Friedman to ap-pear as an international affairs intelligence expert. He and STRATFOR were also featured in cover stories in Barron’s and in the UK’s New Statesman. He has been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, and is frequently quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune and many other domestic and international publications.

Prior to joining the private sector, Friedman was Director at the Center for Geopolitical Studies which he co-founded at Louisiana State University in 1994. He spent the previous twenty years as a professor of political sci-ence and taught political philosophy and military strategy at several universities and colleges in the northeast United States. During this time he consulted with government agencies, developed computerized war gaming projects and regularly briefed senior commanders in the armed services on national security and defense matters.

He received his bachelor’s degree from the City Col-lege of the City University of New York and holds a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University.

STRATFOR is a privately-owned global intelligence company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Friedman’s areas of expertise include: Intelligence is-sues, Geopolitical forecasting, U.S. foreign policy, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East.

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NLUS PRESIDENT ISSUES

MEMBERSHIP CHALLENGE

Daniel Branch, PresidentNavy League United States

Navy League US President Daniel Branch has issued a challenge to local NL members with the po-tential to put $500 in your pocket for the holidays. Simply sponsor or give a Navy League member-ship to a friend or family member this Holiday Season, and be en-

tered into a drawing for $500! Each membership you sub-mit between 10/01/2010 and 12/31/2010 using the special membership form on the NLUS website’s membership page, or online using PRIORITY CODE 4Q2010, will count as one contest entry. You could even use an application that you currently have and just write the code along the top! The winner will be announced in February 2011’s Council Alert and President’s message. (P.S. Word on the street is that there may be more prizes added to this contest to sweeten the pot – we’ll let you know soon!) Good luck!

To be eligible for the contest you must:

1. Be a member of the Navy League2. Use the official contest form or write the Priority

code 4Q20101 on an application you already have; or3. Submit an online application and fill in the Priority

Code field with 4Q20104. Complete the sponsor information section5. Submit the application after October 1, 2010, and on

or before December 31, 2010. Applications must be postmarked or received electronically by 12/31/10.

Navy Week ...bringing America’s Navy Home

March 19–26, 2011AUSTIN • SAN ANTONIO

Navy Weeks are designed to tell the Navy’s story: what we do, why it is important and what opportunities exist in today’s Navy. These events consist of community visits by Admirals and hometown connections.

Jesse CarilloLouis DeCuirCol. Conrad

DerdeynPat Luckett

Roger & Charlene Mendoza

Rudy MendozaBen MorelandEmily & Eric

MorelandLiz Rait

Ross Snyder

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DistinguishedSpeakerProgram&DinnerSnapshots from the September 16th, 2010

photos courtesy of Max Miller & Kathy Pillmore

GAC President Randy Patterson thanks our guest speaker ADM Bobby Inman, USN Ret. for his insights into the status of global relations.

Recently retired UT NROTC CO Mike “Trapper” Spence (l) welcomes his replacement Dan Dixon and wife Becky to their first GAC dinner. They’re joined by Gen. Jefferson “Beak” Howell (r).

Lt. Sorenson (l), a Navy officer recruiter, shares stories with Travis County Judge Mike McNamara and Lone Star Region President Glenn Looney

Charlene Mendoza (l) and Roger Mendoza (r) owners of Antonio’s Mexican Restaurant, are presented with Community Affiliate plaque by Steve Smith, GAC VP for business partnerships.

Sue and Dick Beal owners of DHR International accept their Community Affiliate plaque from Smith.

Jerry Arnold, Don Jones and Joe Gathright were eager to hear what Adm. Inman had to say about world affairs.

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A Message from the Chaplainby Tom Griffey

photos courtesy of Max Miller & Kathy Pillmore

Capt. Wayne Guzman accepts a Navy League Certificate of Appreciate on behalf of his Georgetown High School NJROTC

Renna Darby (r) and friend Kathy stake out good seats for the presentation.

Fred Fisher (l) and Milton Felger enjoyed Inman’s remarks and each other’s company.

LCDR Cynthia Banks accepts a Navy League U. S. proclamation on behalf of the William B. Travis Division of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps presented by President Patterson.

The security of this country is threatened by radical Islamic terrorists. This threat is real and should be resisted with all the might we can bring to bear. However, a greater threat to the freedoms we enjoy is the resultant growing anti-Muslim fervor we find reported in the news media and in our email inboxes. Religious strife has the power to destroy countries and many of the world’s most vicious and inhumane conflicts have been fought over religious differences: The Crusades; The Inquisition; The Thirty Years War; The Holocaust; the conflict in Northern Ireland and the recent Balkan war to name only a few exam-ples. Many of these conflicts were precipitated when a radical fringe group of one religion tried to impose its views on others. Those threatened viewed the radical group as representative of the entire religion and a major conflict ensued. We can’t let this happen here.

Despite of what your emails say, in spite of the quotes from

the Quran, taken out of context*, you have received; it is not the Islamic faith that is a threat to this nation. Islam, along with Juda-ism and Christianity is one of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions. It shares the same patriarchs and the same prophets. The importance of these faiths living peacefully together in this country was emphasized in a letter from George Washington when he wrote “May the children of the stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be no one to make him afraid.”

Remember next time you watch the news and read your email, it is the Islamic terrorists who threaten us, not all those of the Muslim faith.

*It is altogether too easy to distort the meaning of a sacred text by quoting it out of context, for example the Holy Bible clearly says “there is no God.” (Psalm 14:1)

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Artist’s Renderings of the new UT College of Liberal Arts Building

James Mulva is not a familiar name, but it’s a name that the UT NROTC Battalion will long remember.

James J. Mulva was born in 1946 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Tex-as with a bachelor’s degree in 1968 and a master’s degree in business administra-tion finance in 1969. Immediately after graduation he served as a U. S. Navy offi-cer until 1973 when he began a career with ConocoPhillips. Today, Mulva is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ConocoPhillips.

“I went through ROTC — that’s the only way I could attend UT— so I really want to support ROTC students,” said Mulva who was a Naval ROTC graduate. “For these young men and women, it’s not about making money. It’s all about service to the country. They’re very dedicated and bright students.”

And support ROTC he does.

In 2007, the UT Midshipmans Foundation honored Mulva with an Outstanding Alumnus award. Since that time he has offered to match do-nations to the Foundation’s ROTC scholarship fund up to $50,000 each year. In the fall of 2009, then NROTC CO Capt. Mike Spence learned that Steinham Hall, the long time home of the ROTC program, was going to be torn down to make way for a new College of Liberal Arts building. Spence also learned that there were no short or long-term plans made for the ROTC

UT ROTC FINDS AN ANGELprogram so when the Battalion moved to temporary quarters in the spring their future looked bleak.

Enter James and Miriam Mulva.

The Foundation along with the ROTC units and alumni wrote, called and emailed everyone they could think of about the ROTC program’s dilemma. According to Max Miller a Founda-tion board member, “James Mulva is on our distribution list and he found out about the problem of no home for ROTC. He asked his secretary to get (UT) President Powers on the phone and the rest is history.”

The Mulvas donated a massive $15 million to the University of Texas to help construct the new Liberal Arts building with one caveat — a full floor for the ROTC program. “I think our UT NROTC alumni played a key role in bringing this issue to frui-tion,” says Miller. “We had been in contact with James Mulva since 2005 and he was keenly aware of the needs of the ROTC students at UT.”

In addition to the space for the ROTC programs, the six-story building will include 30 classrooms, study areas and meeting rooms, along with laboratories

and offices for faculty. When it is finished in 2013, it will house Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Linguistics, Plan II and Lib-eral Arts Honors among other departments and programs.

James J. Mulva, Chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips

The University of Texas Midshipmans Foundation has created a scholarship named for Rear Admiral Robert M. Moore. When donations earmarked for the Admiral Moore Scholarship Fund reach $25,000.00, a scholarship will be given annually to a UT NROTC Midshipman.

RADM Robert M. Moore, USN (SC), the 38th Chief of the Supply Corps, who served with distinc-tion until his retirement in 1996, was a graduate of UT NROTC. In 2009 RADM Moore’s shipmates selected him as the recipient of the Navy Supply Corps Lifetime Achievement Award for his continued support of the Supply Corps Community. He passed away October 4, 2009.

The University of Texas Midshipmans Foundation was estab-lished to finance scholarships, swords for honor gradu-ates, and additional professional development for mid-shipmen and officer candidates at the U T NROTC unit. The Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit chari-table organization. The Greater Austin Council finan-cially supports the UT NROTC Midshipmen annually.

Additional information will be available at our next Navy League meeting for anyone interested in mak-ing a contribution to the Rear Admiral Robert M. Moore Scholarship Fund. Or contact Max Miller (maxk@aus-tin.rr.com) for more details.

RADM Robert M. Moore, USN

University of Texas Midshipmans Foundation creates RADM Robert Moore Scholarship

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GAC Calendar

26 Oct Distinguished Speaker Program George Friedman, President CEO of

STRATFOR

11 Nov VETERANS DAY

2 Dec Distinguished Speaker Program & Annual Meeting/Awards

RADM William R. Kiser, Commandant, Medical Education & Training Campus, Ft. Sam Houston

~2011~

25 Jan Distinguished Speaker Program Jim Hornfischer, author of NEPTUNE’S

INFERNO: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

22 Feb Distinguished Speaker Program Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell

19 - 26 Mar NAVY WEEK

21 Apr Distinguished Speaker Program Speaker TBA

16 Jun Distinguished Speaker Program Tom Hatfield, senior research fellow at

the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin; and director of the Center’s Military History Institute.

18 Aug Distinguished Speaker Program Speaker TBA

Dates are subject to change to accommodate the speaker. For calendar updates go to www.navyleagueaustin.org

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Navy and Marine JROTC and Sea Cadet programs

Contribute Now!Send your contributions toGreater Austin Council NLUS

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George T. Jones, 1926-2003

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will be added for individuals with out a reservation.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Greater Austin CouncilFinancial Update

Year-to-Date

Total Income (all sources) . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,365Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,003Net Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$362

Jones Scholarship Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,462Operating Funds on Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,109

Chisholm Trail Middle School, 500 Oakridge Drive, Round Rock. For more information call Sharon Nobles at 428-2512.

YOU ARE INVITEDChisholm Trail Veterans Day Celebration ~ November 12

The day begins at 7:00 am with a breakfast for all veterans followed by a patriotic concert and veterans recogni-tion in the gym. After the concert, all veterans are invited to observe the Civil War Re-en-actment group on the football field. If you hear a loud ‘BOOM’ during the concert, that will be the civil war cannon being fired!

Throughout the day veterans will be sharing their per-sonal stories in the classrooms, and there will be presenta-tions on the history of both the US and Texas flags.

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