chaptersinaction Levels of Excellence Award Winners
After reviewing each entry, a panel of judges determined 76 MOAA chapters earned five-star awards for outstand- ing performance and 24 chapters earned four-star awards for excellent performance in 2009. Congratulations!
Large Category (600-plus members) Five-Star Chapters Alamo (Texas) Ark-La-Tex (La.) Cape Canaveral (Fla.) El Paso (Texas) Military Officers Association of Sarasota (Fla.) Inc.
New Hampshire Pikes Peak (Colo.) Richmond (Va.) Area Tampa (Fla.)
Category I (400-599 members) Five-Star Chapters Charleston (S.C.) Hampton Roads (Va.) Heart of America (Mo.) Montgomery Area (Ala.) Mount Vernon (Va.) Northwest Florida Military Officers Association Inc.
Riverside March Field (Calif.) Spokane (Wash.) Virginia Peninsula
Four-Star Chapters Central Florida Sacramento (Calif.)
Category II (300-399 members) Five-Star Chapters Atlanta Cape Fear (N.C.) Luke (Ariz.) Mile High (Colo.) Military Officers Association of Albuquerque (N.M.) Military Officers Club of Central Ohio
Pensacola (Fla.) Sandhills (N.C.) St. Petersburg (Fla.) Area Tucson (Ariz.)
members have undertaken to help servicemembers and their families.
Maintaining level funding In 2010, VCOC and JLC members joined forces again and lobbied the state legislature to maintain level funding for the VWWP in the amount of $2 million a year for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. In fact, obtain- ing level funding for the VWWP was one of the primary legislative objec-
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Four-Star Chapter MOAA, Southwest Virginia
Category III (200-299 members) Five-Star Chapters Alta (Calif.) Arizona Coronado (Ariz.) Fort Knox (Ky.) Fort Rucker (Ala.) Heartland of America (Neb.) Hilton Head (S.C.) Kaw Valley (Kan.) Kingdom of the Sun (Fla.) Lone Star (Texas) Officers Club Mayport (Fla.) Miramar (Calif.) MOAA Memphis (Tenn.) Monterey County (Calif.) New Jersey Lakes and Pines North Shore and Chicago Northeast Florida Portland (Ore.) Silver Strand (Calif.) Southern Nevada Wichita (Kan.)
Four-Star Chapters Central Oregon Emerald Empire (Ore.) Lake Area (Fla.) Palm Beach-Martin Counties (Fla.) Pittsburgh Savannah (Ga.) South Jersey
Category IV (120-199 members) Five-Star Chapters Calusa (Fla.) Columbia River (Wash.) Fort George G. Meade (Md.) George C. Marshall (Va.) Green Valley (Ariz.) Jayhawk (Kan.)
tives of the VCOC, and members conveyed that message earlier this year when they met face-to-face with their state representatives during the council’s annual “Storming the Hill” session in Richmond. The combined lobbying efforts of
the VCOC and JLC paid off. Before the general assembly adjourned, legislation was passed to provide level funding for the VWWP for 2011 and 2012.
Northeast Arkansas Olympia Area (Wash.) Orange Empire (Calif.) Rose Capital (Texas) Santa Fe Trail (Kan.) Southern Maryland Southern Tier (N.Y.) Southside Virginia Ventura County (Calif.) Western Colorado
Montgomery County (Md.) Mount Rainier (Wash.) North Dallas/Fort Worth Military Officers Association
Four-Star Chapters Clearwater (Fla.) MOAA, Citrus County (Fla.) Northern New Jersey Superstition Mountain (Ariz.) White River (Ind.)
Category V (fewer than 120 members) Five-Star Chapters Gen. William Smallwood (Md.) Lake Tahoe (Nev.) Los Alamitos (Calif.) Area Northwest Arkansas Potomac (Va.) South Georgia Southeast Arkansas Sweetwater Chapter (Calif.)
Four-Star Chapters Athens (Ga.) Flint Hills (Kan.) Heritage Hunt (Va.) MOAA-Blue Ridge Mountains (Ga.)
Suncoast (Fla.) Suwannee River Valley (Fla.) Upper Potomac (Md.) Venice (Fla.) Yuma (Ariz.)
“MOAA [chapters have] really led
the way on this one, and they com- mand respect with the legislators,” says Galanti. “Now if people come back [after a deployment], and they’re hurting, we can get them help and steer them in the right direction.”
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— Contributors are Col. Lee Lange II, USMC-Ret., director; Col. Barry Wright, USA-Ret., deputy director, Council and Chapter Affairs; and Kris Ann Hegle. For submission information, see page 18.
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