News – Page 22 – Ballard Eagleson Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3063

Post and Auxiliary Officers Installed During May Meeting

Post 3063 2017-2018 officers were installed during the May business meeting May 4, 2017. The following individuals were installed as post leadership:

Induction speech — Ballard Eagleson Auxiliary President, Margaret Philips; and incoming Post 3063 Commander, Pete Krawitz, watch as installing officer and state junior vice commander Linda Fairbank, and outgoing commander, Nestor Tamayao, take turns addressing the audience during the installation ceremony May 4.

Commander: Pete Krawitz

Sr. Vice Commander: Joe Tiffany

Jr. Vice Commander: Joe Fitzgerald

Chaplain: Bill Griffith

Quartermaster: Harold Rodenberger

1-Year Trustee: James Williams

2-Year Trustee: Aaron Stoltz

3-Year Trustee: Russ Seelig

1-Year House Committee: Gail Engler

2-Year House Committee: Doug Maines

3-Year House Committee: Jordan Houghton

The following members were installed as auxiliary leadership:

President: Margaret Philips

Secretary: Jo Ann Anderson

Treasurer: Marge Hestad

Trustees: Alice Voyce, Agnes Demyanovich, and Karen Flynn

First nominations were made in March, followed by second nominations and an election in April. Installation happened in May but officers do not take office until the department commander is installed. The installation of the state officers is usually the last weekend in June so Post 3063 (and district) officers take over July 1.

Oath — Incoming officers take their oath during the installation ceremony May 4.

District 2 election and installation of officers was held at Post 3063 in May. The new officers were installed by Linda Fairbank, our state junior vice commander who will be serving as senior vice commander next year.

Yoga: New Instructor, New Time

The post has resumed one-hour yoga classes on Wednesday mornings at 9:30 a.m. Classes are free to veterans and their families. Please wear loose clothing and bring your yoga mat and a blanket to cushion your knees, if desired.

Alicia Brill is our new instructor and is a veteran of the United States Army, having enlisted as an Intelligence Analyst for the Army Reserves and the Montana Army National Guard. Alicia first began practicing yoga on a deployment with the Army. While the military taught her discipline, yoga provided her with a sense of discipline plus honoring one’s self exactly where you are.

Since getting out of the military in 2007, Alicia has admired the sense of camaraderie she felt in the military and has sought ways to be of continued service to other military veterans. Alicia became a certified yoga teacher with 8 Limbs Yoga Centers in April 2017 and completed Level One training with Veterans Yoga Project in January 2017. Her concentration has been on Yoga for Trauma Healing and Yoga for PTSD.

Veteran Resource Fair at the Tacoma Dome

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Members Away From Home: Georgia Warrix

Member Away — Post member, Georgia Warrix, is currently stationed in Baton Rouge, La.

The 1190 Transportation Surface Brigade, located in Baton Rouge, La., is my current duty assignment. The unit is an Army Reserve unit administratively controlled under the Deployment Support Command to sustain the current affiliation within the Army Reserve component. Operational control remains with the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC); the Brigade’s Active component affiliation.

The 1190 Transportation Surface Brigade’s current mission command consist of three battalions and 14 detachments. During Presidential and Congressional Call-Up, the brigade itself would assume mission command of all active component battalions aligned in the Gulfport states currently operating under SDDC. Their mission is to manage and oversee all port operations within these area vessel ports. Just one of the gulf vessel ports during Operation Enduring Freedom moved approximately 330 vessels toward the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

This year, the 1190 Transportation Surface Brigade has personnel deploying to various areas in the Middle East, participating in port operations in Texas and maintaining their evaluated training markers in Army Reserve exercises.