behind the emblem will not be lost. —Lt. Col. C.L. Cole, USA (Ret)
Life Member, Chattanooga (Tenn.) Chapter via email
In the late 1980s, a small group of reserve officers and enlisted [sail- ors] stood up … a new Navy Avia- tion Logistics Squadron at N.A.S. Norfolk, Va. We designed a new insignia/patch for our unit. We sent the design — basically a donkey with mail bags on its back — to the Pen- tagon for official approval. We were disapproved, the reason was “it had the appearance of a Disney charac- ter.” I believe we used it anyway. —Cmdr. P.D. Fitzpatrick, USN (Ret) Life Member via email
COLA Wars [In “COLA Perspectives,” Your Views, February 2017, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Louis J. Malucci] states that the “CPI was unduly in- fluenced by the low cost of gas,” and that the COLA goes mostly to “veterans, citizens on Social Secu- rity, and the disabled.” He says this group no longer commute or take distant vacations, not consuming gas no matter how inexpensive. I consider myself to be an average American in this regard. I am one of the group he mentions. I am an old ([born in] November 1928) veteran on Social Security. However, I am not a “stay-at-home” person. Last September, my wife and I drove to Las Vegas to attend the reunion of the unit I went to Vietnam with the first time. Over the last few years, we have driven to Seattle, North Dakota, Minnesota, Boston (twice —
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once touring all of the New England area), Florida, Ohio, and others. —CW4 Marvin D. Timm Sr., USA (Ret)
Life Member Augusta, Ga.
Errata As a transient, [Col. Michael Kilroy, USAF (Ret)] might not be expected to know the spelling of Andersen AFB, Guam [Lessons Learned, Feb- ruary 2017]. However, I do expect MOAA to get it right. Having spent three of my 28 years of Air Force ser- vice at Andersen AFB, I remain sen- sitive to this common mistake. —Lt. Col. W.F. Thompson, USAF (Ret) Life Member via email
Just wanted to note an error on page 24 in “Blood Pressure Facts” [Health Notes, February 2017]. The first sentence [reads], “Blood pres- sure — also referred to as hyperten- sion — is the force of blood pushing against artery walls, which carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body.”
This sentence would be accurate
if “also referred to as hypertension” [were] not in the sentence. Everyone has a blood pressure, but it needs to be over 140/90 in most cases to be diagnosed as hypertension. —Lt. Cmdr. Jesse Schonau, USN, M.D. Life Member via email
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