I posted this on the Arrival/Departure page under comments.
This might come in VERY handy for someone.

I have added a new TAB for VP40 members only.

I will be sending an email to all current VP40 members.

If you do not have an email I will send you a snailmail letter.

This will provide you with the infomation needed to login to

our site and access the Members pages.

This is restricted to VP40 members only.

The rest of our site is available to the general public.

I received an email today with this youtube link. Please watch it, I found it very moving.

Viet Nam POWs – 40 years later
 
No matter what one thinks of Nixon now – watch this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=LemllfcAY8A&sns=em

Guy Fisk

thanks to Roland Edmunds for lending me his VP40 1956-1957 Cruisebook. I have scanned it and posted it on our web site.

You can find it under the PLAN of the DAY TAB , look on the right side under LINKS.

It is in PDF format. It is also a large file so be patient, it may take a minute or 2 to load for you.

enjoy it. If anyone has other cruisebooks I have not posted on our web site, let me know and either send them to me digitized or send me the book.

I would like to have ALL of VP40’s Seaplane ERA cruisebooks on our web site.

I will return your book to you.

Guy Fisk

For those of you who are retired from the Military/Gov.

Retirees and Annuitants,

You will continue to receive your pay on time during this government shutdown.

Military retirees and annuitants are not paid from Continuing Resolution Act (CRA) appropriations. Therefore, your payments are not affected by this shutdown.

For more information, please visit

http://www.dfas.mil/pressroom/govtshutdown.html

Government Shutdown: Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.dfas.mil/pressroom/govtshutdown/crafaq

Kevin Hart
Deputy Director, Retired and Annuitant Pay
_________________________________________________
Delivered by Defense Finance and Accounting Service

I received an email and pictures from Tony Lazzaretti and I posted them on the PICTURES VIDEO  & MORE/MISC PHOTO’S tab.

If anyone can correct the names with their picture placement please let me know.

Guy

I am sending out this plea to ALL VP40 members.

We have been able to keep our active roster above board, (more new members than deceased members) for a long while,

BUT as of now 9/2013 we have more members dying  than we have new members joining. I realize that we are getting a bit older,

but we as a group will have to concentrate on recuiting new members or we will cease to exist as a group, and our reunions will be held in the back seat of a minivan.

I am sure that we can all remember a few people who served with us in VP40, just write their names down

and try and find out where they are presently, and recruit them to join our group. The internet is a GREAT way to do this. Also call your former shipmates

and let them help in your search. We are now below 300 active members, so I know there are a lot of shipmates that could join us if they know of our exsistance

and are contacted. If you cannot contact them , please call me (828-654-7812), email me (ggfisk@vp40.com) or leave a comment on our web site , so that someone can help you in your search.

I thank you in advance for your efforts in this endeavor.

Guy Fisk

I was informed by Herb Montgomery that another member pased away.

Leon Peachie  passed away on 9/23/2013. He was an AO1 and in VP40 from 1952-1953.

I will post his obituary when I receive it.

September 11,2001  is a day that most Americans remember where they were when the terrorists attacked us.

I was in the BOS ARTCC (the FAA long range radar facility ) located in Nashua, NH. We were having our morning regional outage report telcom.  The Air Traffic Controller supervisor

for that airspace sector came up and asked for the key to the “tape room” (the FAA records ALL radio conversations both ground and airborne ). He thought there was a HiJacking taking place over New York.

It turns out he was correct and then ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. It was a very busy day from that moment on.

It is like the day when John F. Kennedy got shot. Most people remember where they were then also. I was  in VP40 at Sangley Point when it happened.

It was nighttime over there.

Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance – September 11
We would like to take a moment to send our thoughts and prayers to the many families & friends who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks. They will be remembered always.
We additionally would like to express our deepest respect and gratitude to the Courage, Bravery and Patriotism of all our Veterans, active Military, firefighter & police heroes. We thank & salute you for all that you have done to protect the American people & our great nation.

Let Patriotism prevail and our American Eagle fly free and graceful. To our fallen brothers and sisters, and 9/11 victims, we give a moment of silence.

Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance – September 11
Since the first Patriot Day on September 11, 2002, Patriot Day, now titled: Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance honors & remembers the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our nation on September 11, 2001.

On October 25, 2001 – a vote of 407-0 approved U.S. House Joint Resolution 71 – which stated that the President designate September 11 of each year as “Patriot Day.” President George W. Bush signed the resolution into law on December 18, 2001 (as Public Law 107-89). Patriot Day is a discretionary day of remembrance. On April 21, 2009, (Public Law 111-13) was approved where September 11 is annually recognized as a “National Day of Service and Remembrance.” On September 10, 2012, President Obama issued a proclamation renaming the day as Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance.

In Memory
On this day, the President directs that the flag of the United States be flown at half-staff and displayed from individual American homes, at the White House, and on all U.S. government buildings and establishments, home and abroad.
The President also asks Americans to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Time).

Fatalities
In total, 2,977 fatalities have been reported as a result of the attacks: 2,606 in New York City in the towers and on the ground; 125 at the Pentagon; and 246 on the four planes.

Survivors
According to the 9/11 Commission, approximately 16,000 people were below the impact zones in the World Trade Center complex at the time of the attacks. A large majority of those below the impact areas survived, evacuating before the towers collapsed.

VP40  sends our prayers to all who sacrificed, both past and present, living and deceased.

Thank You U.S. Veterans and Military, along with our firefighters and police. On this Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance – please join us in remembering all who lost their lives on 9/11, along with our many heroes who have and are fighting the War on Terror.