Given the well-intended messaging we read and hear about “one Army,” the inequities between the active and reserve components persist.Recently, we learned from an Army Reserve official about one such inequity, likely dating – as many of these outrages do – from the...
Col. David Borden, USAFR, led the revitalization efforts in May and June, with a successful icebreaker event on June 6. This was the first attempt at revitalizing Chapter 63 after the pandemic. Bolden said the success of the event was due to the preparation done by...
ROA Chapter 39 President, retired Lt. Col. Hugh Shown along with retired Col. John Raschke at the Illinois Springfield State Fair sharing the mission of ROA and its benefits. Visiting their booth is a state fair walk-around, the reflective tin man who “made a good...
ROA expresses its appreciation to the late Maj. Gen. John D. Jones, U.S. Army Reserve, and his beloved wife of nearly thirty years, Dolphine, who in their 1998 trust bequeathed to ROA $50,000.“On behalf of the members of ROA, in whose ranks General Jones stood tall,...
Air Force Reserve CommandAir Education and Training Command: The US Air Force’s T-1A Jayhawk made its final flight with the 99th Flying Training Squadron, soaring from Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.The journey marks the end of an era...
Members of the Minnesota Flying Viking chapter attended a local family day August 3, of the 934th Airlift Wing in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Pictured in front from left to right are Marilyn Chambers, Col. Gia Wilson-McKay, Flying Viking ROA chapter president; and pictured...
