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Next Meeting: Saturday, October 18, 2025

Menu: Hot Dogs/Brats, Baked Beans

Guest Speaker:

American Legion Post #17

1901 N. Harlan St.

Edgewater, CO 80214

Lunch/Social Hour 1100

Meeting 1200

Park behind the post building and go thru the double doors on the back of the building.

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Rocky Mountain Submarine Veterans Memorial Brick Project Update

Hey All,

We finally got all our ducks in a row. So, click the button below for the order form for the engraved bricks. We want to move this project forward as fast as we can to meet our March 30, 2026, due date for getting the bricks ordered, so we can have the project completed by June 30, 2026.

Commemorative Purpose is to:

• Recognize Rocky Mountain Submarine Veterans who are on Eternal Patrol
• Recognize Veteran Family members who are on Eternal Patrol from Previous Wars (i.e. Father, Mother, Children, Brother, Sister, Grand Father, Grand Mother)
• Recognize current veterans who are supporters of the USS Grayling (SS 209) Memorial Plaza

There are two options to order the bricks -- Tax deductible and non-tax deductible. 

1. If you chose Non-tax deductible, you have two options:
2. 1. Send a check and order form to Grant. The check MUST be made out to USSVI-RMB and sent to RMB C/O Grant Day, 7608 Upham St., Arvada, CO, 80003-2231. OR 2. You can send the money via ZELLE. You must have a ZELLE account thru your Bank or Credit Union. You will also need to scan and email to Grant the order form Base's Zelle account is
3. ops.treas@rockymountainsubvets.com
4. . You MUST add into the comments section who it is from. Grant's email address is grantdaycdt@hotmail.com.
5. 2. If you chose Tax Deductible Donation, you MUST send a check and order form to Grant using : RMB C/O Grant Day, 7608 Upham St., Arvada, CO, 80003-2231. The check MUST be made out to USSVCF and write "Credit to Rocky Mountain Memorial Fund" in the description area of your check.

Some notes to remember:

1. If you get a 4" by 8" brick, you have two options -- one with clip art and one without clip art. There are seven possible clip arts. See form for selections. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO USE THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN CLIP ART ON THIS SIZE BRICK. If you use clip art you have three lines of 18 characters and this includes spaces and punctuation. With no clip art you have three lines with 23 characters. Cost $50 per brick.
2. If you get a 8" by 8" brick you have the same options as above. With clip art you have four lines of 23 characters and without clip art you have five lines of 23 characters. Cost $100 per brick.
3. When you place an order, you can also get a 4" by 4" replica coaster for $10. If you wish, you can order additional Replicas for $10 each. Just indicate the total number that you wish to purchase. Examples are shown on the order form.
4. If you have any questions, please contact Grant at his email address: grantdaycdt@hotmail.com or by Cell # 720-271-6761, please leave a voice mail if he doesn’t answer and he will return your call as soon as possible. 
5. You can also bring the Completed Order Form and Donation Check to the Base Meetings and we can address any questions at that time.

Thanks

Paul

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Update From September 27th Meeting

Morning All,

We had a disappointing turn out on Saturday, only 15 members with 18 total. I did have eight members tell me that they would not be able to make it due to multiple reasons. So that would have brought us up to our normal total. We did have one bright moment -- the return of Jimmy Alfaro. He is doing well and will be staying in the US.

Our speaker failed to show up. He is the editor of the Veterans Life Magazine. He was wanting an article in the magazine about submarine veterans. I introduced him to Robert Williscroft. In talking with Robert, he said that the article should be out in this month's magazine. If anyone gets a copy please bring it to our next meeting. Robert will be our speaker for the Oct 18th meeting. He will be giving a talk about his time above the Arctic Circle on a research vessel.

Now for the big event, we formed a committee to recognize and submit several of our members for USSVI National awards. One of our members won the National Robert Link award. As far as national is concerned, they project the award as equivalent to the Navy's Commendation Metal. And a well deserved individual won this award -- Grant Day. Please see photo below. We caught him totally by surprise.

Now for the rest:

1. We had a good turn out and time at our K4Ks event at Children's Hospital. Our next one is December 4th at 1800, Ronald McDonald House. Details to follow
2. Registration is open for WRR at Las Vegas on April 16th thru 19th 2026. We have four people signed up for the event already. Please think about joining us.
3. PLEASE ORDER YOUR BRICKS.
4. A few Challenge Coins are not paid for, please do so by contacting Tami. Also Tami is taking orders for 2026 Submarine Calendars. Please contact her, tamara5810@gmail.com 
5. The reason that we were unable to attend the Broomfield parade was that they filled up so fast that they closed registration three weeks before their deadline. Next year we will sign up two months early. There are the parades that we will shoot for next year -- Estes Park, Littleton, Longmont, Broomfield and Sheridan. 
6. The Rocky Mountain Honor flight and Channel 9 telethon went very good. They raised almost $200,000. We had six members attend and it was a rewarding time for all. One member got interviewed -- Mike Dugan. They are having another one in April. Please think about joining us for this one.
7. The new USSVI website should be up and running in late 2025 or early 2026. It will be USSVI.org. 
8. The USSVI Charitable Foundation teamed up with a company called My Legacy and they will do free wills. Please take advantage of this offer if you do not have a will.
9. Next Bingo is October 15th at 1000. PLEASE THINK ABOUT ATTENDING SOMETIME, WE NEED THE HELP.

That should do it.

Thanks

Paul

USSVI and RMB award annual scholarships!



Click on the link below for scholarship information:

National and Base Scholarship Submissions:   2025 - 2026

Asbestos Alert!

Written by T. Michael Bircumshaw and is in the last publication of the American Submariner on pg. 29.  It is important enough to be read to the members as they may have missed it.  “If you served any time between years 1900 and 2000 and did any time at sea or at certain Military installations, then you have been exposed to Asbestos.  Please get at least a high definition, no contrast needed, cat scan of your lungs.  Do it with a civilian pulmonologist, not the VA, and ask them to specifically look for pleural plaques and interstitial scarring in your lungs.  Once you have finally done that, call me at 951-775-4549.  Call me to tell me the results and we are hoping that your lungs are clean.  But, if like me, you have pleural plaques or/and asbestosis, then I can offer you some guidance on what to do about it.  It cannot be cured, but it can be compensated for, call me.  Don’t make me repeat myself, because I will.  Please do this for you and your family.”



  For more information about " Mesothelioma Plural Plaques " Click on the Red Link

Here are the links of how to make a claim to VA on PACT Act issues.

The first one is off the VA website and it is the actual form to make a claim. It does require you to be registered with the VA health System. The second one is a link to a VFW website to ask for help on applying for a claim. They do step by step instructions. The phone number is the VA hot line to ask VA help in filing a claim. The last is a YouTube on all this information. He is an ex-marine with info on all the agent orange and toxic exposure acts. Good info.

https://www.va.gov/disability/file-disability-claim-form-21-526ez/introduction

https://www.vfw.org/assistance/va-claims-separation-benefits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNkMWTmOc8

1-800-MY-VA-411 (1-800-698-2411).