Rocky Mountain Submarine Veterans

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Video Dissertation by   Clay Decker   click and download desired files!

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Robert G. Williscroft Collection

IMPORTANT!!!

2027 dues are due by Dec 25, 2026.

Total Annual Dues $55.00 Nat'l=$40 + Base=$15

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Announcements

Next Meeting: Saturday, Nov 28, 2026

Menu: Buffet Breakfast $11

scrambled eggs, bacon or sausage, biscuits and gravy, hash browns and toast

American Legion Post #178

 1655 Simms Street, Lakewood, CO 80215

Buffet Breakfast/Social Hour 0900

Meeting 0930

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October 25, 2026 Update

Morning All,

We had a great meeting and turn out yesterday with 39 total people and 29 base members. We even had the Base Commander and his wife of the Southern Colorado Base present. It was a good time by all. The speakers did not do too well. I believe he got stage fright and had to leave. So we are going to try it again early next year.

Items discussed:

1. We have a new Video Manager, Patrick Krause. He has all the equipment now and next meeting we will restart our meeting videos for YouTube.
2. VERY IMPORTANT!! On November 2nd at 0900 I will send out an email that will start our HundredX program to get a donation of up to $5000 for the Base. This email will have a link where you can register for the program to do surveys. We get $1.60 per survey. You MUST register for your surveys to count with one email address per person. Your address will NOT be sold to anyone. Send this email to as many people as possible. If we get 50 people doing 50 surveys in the 30 day period we only get $4000. So you see that we need people to participate. This company has donated $39 million in the last six years to non profit organizations. There are thousands of items you can survey. Go with something you have used or done in the last six months. Each survey takes about a minute to do. If you have any questions please let me know.
3. Veteran Salute put on by the City of Aurora is November 12th at 5:30 to 8:30 located at the "Wings over the Rockies" museum. We have 22 members going and tickets are still available. If you want to go let me know. I can send you a link to buy tickets, $20.
4. Ed Tomlinson's project to "Ask a Submariner" did not go over too well. Went out to thousands of people but we got no questions. Not sure what Ed wants to do.
5. We have a new Co-Ambassador for the national charitable foundation, Mark Northcott. Thanks Mark.
6. Next K4Ks event is tentatively Dec 15th at 1100 to 1300. We will set up starting at 1030. More details to follow.
7. Wreaths Across America is Dec 19th. We have 25 wreaths for our members on Eternal Patrol at Ft Logan. More details to follow.
8. Cherry Creek school district is having a Veterans Luncheon in Nov 6th (correction on what was put out at the meeting) at 14603 E Fremont Ave in Centennial. Time is 1130. No RSVP required.
9. Nancy Bradford's service is on Nov 6th at 1030 at the Drinkwine Mortuary with burial in Ft Logan at 1230. Several of us are going to the Ft Logan Service. If you attend please wear your vest.
10. Our next meeting is going to be Nov 28th which is Thanksgiving weekend. Post will support us with breakfast. The Dec meeting is Dec 26th. The post said that they will support us with breakfast. No one at the meeting had any objections.
11. Our annual picnic has been changed to May 16th at 1200 which is a Sunday. The Post's backyard will be set up better by then.
12. The Broomfield Veterans Museum is having the annual Veterans Day event on Nov 11th. It is a really good event/show with a guest speaker. I highly recommend that if you can please attend.
13. I have a few qual boat challenge coins for our display. Please get me a coin of your qual boat, only $25 at silentservicechallengecoins.com.
14. When I find out the date for the Rocky Mountain Honor Flight's telethon I will let you know. We have supported them on the last two telethons. Tom Cayo just completed his honor flight about two weeks ago and he got the honor of laying the wreath at the Unknown Soldiers Tomb.

That is about 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).