well it is that time of year again.
Timevar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} for the annual arse whipping of Army………………
Go Navy

I have fixed our webvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} site. I am now able to post some of the pictures from our 2014var link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} reunion. Look under REUNIONS/2014 Reunion @ Pensacola FL. TAB.
I will be adding more in the near future so be sure to check often. Also did you know that the GROUP Pictures are available direct from the photo studio. Here is the link to his site.
https://timludphoto.smugmug.com/VP40-Reunion-Group-Photos
I will be posting info about our 2016 Reunion soon.

Our web site is having problems with showing pictures.

I am working to resolve thisvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} problem. I will post the 2014 reunion pictures and video when it is fixed.

Also I have not done much since the reunion as I am very busy working with the Federal Gov. Annual requirements from me. I am also dealing with family health issues. I will get caught up soon.

Guyvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} Fisk

Here is the web site for you to preview and order the group photos from the reunion in Pensacola this year.
You can order your pictures direct from this sitevar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} andvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} he will mail them to you.
Price is $20 for 8 X 10
and $8 for 5 X 7

https://timludphoto.smugmug.com/VP40-Reunion-Group-Photos

Those members who attended the 2014 reunion voted while there and it was decided that the 2016 reunion sitevar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} will be
San Diego, CA. probably invar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} October but I do not have the exact dates yet.

I am back home from the 2014 Reunion. Judging by the comments evervar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} yone had a GREAT time.
The Hotel was great, and the rekindling of past friends was great.
I heard a few stories I had not heard before.
I will start posting pictures etc. up here this weekend.
VP30 didvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} fly a P8-A over and we got to tour the inside and take pictures of it.
A litle different than the P5 and a hell of a lot cleaner……
If you were unable to attend you missed a good one. Hope you can make the next one, which BTW will be
at San Diego in Oct 2016. I will post the date when it is firmed up.
see ya all there
Guy

I will be arriving in Pensacola tomorrow, so thisvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} will be the final
head count for the reunion.
We have 81 members and 133 total people attending the reunion this year.
GREAT turn out.WE will have a ball and I feel bad for those who could not make it for one reason or another.
I will have pictures , stories etc. to post when Ivar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} get back home.

herevar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttributevar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} ('href');} is a web site for things to do while in Pensacola for our reunion
https://www.visitpensacola.com/listings/1745/?event_id=27203#event_27203

and here is the weather forcast for next week.
https://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/32502?config=SZ=300×250*WX=FHW*LNK=TRVL*UNT=F*BGI=sunset*MAP=null|null*DN=www.visitpensacola.com*TIER=0*PID=1239489048*MD5=43621d3b50c73bdfd9c59818556896ee&par=WOWs0_1239489048&site=300×250&cm_ven=WOWs0&cm_cat=300×250&code=link&promo=10day&cm_ite=link&cm_pla=10day

1. Two Pay and Benefits Bills for Disabled Vets to Watch
By Kellie Lunney
September 17, 2014
Congress has been working on some important legislation recently that will benefit the country’s service-disabled veterans.
The 2014 Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act (S. 2258) now heads to President Obama for his signature, after the House passed the bill on Tuesday. The legislation increases the COLA for vets’ disability benefits starting Dec. 1, 2014. The rate of the increase will be the same as the cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security recipients. The annual COLA legislation, which the Senate approved last week, also affects the disability payments and compensation for vets’ surviving spouses and children.
And on Wednesday afternoon, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved bipartisan legislation that would give disabled vets hired as federal employees access to their full year’s sick leave immediately upon starting their jobs.
Full-time federal workers in their first year on the job have no sick leave when they start, and accrue four hours of such leave per pay period. That amounts to a balance of 104 hours at the end of their first year. But disabled vets, who must attend regular medical appointments to take care of their health, and also to continue receiving their veterans’ benefits, quickly burn up their sick leave, according to the Federal Managers Association, which lobbied for the legislation. Many vets also have to travel far to reach the nearest VA facility to receive treatment, which can eat up leave time.
“FMA members have seen first-hand the stress thisvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} creates in the work environment, as both managers and employees try to meet congressionally-mandated missions and goals,” said FMA President Patricia Niehaus in a statement. “As these disabled veterans served their country on and off the battlefield, it is only right that the federal government provide this much needed leave.”
The 2014 Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act would apply to first-year federal employees with a service-connected disability rating of at least 30 percent. During their first year on the job, the veterans would still accumulate their normal sick leave. The employees would only be able to use their extra sick leave for treatments directly related to their service and would not be able to carry over the one-time “wounded warrior leave” after the first 12 months on the job.
Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., sponsored the bill, along with Reps. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C.; Elijah Cummings, D-Md.; Blake Farenthold, R-Texas; and Walter Jones, R-N.C.; and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.
Twenty-one percent of disabled vets applied for disability compensation benefits; of those who applied, 73 percent received a disability rating from VA, according to VA’s 2012 National Survey of Veterans. The federal government is the largest employer of military veterans. “The Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act will ensure that federal agencies’ and departments' missions and goals will be met while treating our disabled veteran first-year federal employees with the treatment they deserve, and ensuring the federal government is a model employer,” Niehaus said. The American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union also support the legislation.
Veterans and the management of the VA have been front and center these last few months because of the controversy over reports of secret waiting lists for medical appointments and thevar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} major reform effort launched by new VA Secretary Bob McDonald. The spotlight on the quality of veterans’ care might be new, but problems with access to care are not.

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By Kellie Lunney
September 17, 2014
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/pay-benefits-watch/2014/09/two-pay-and-benefits-bills-disabled-vets-watch/94403/

I am pleased to announce a newvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} member to our group,
Thomas W. McLees. Thomas was in VP40 from May 1953- August 1954. He was an AT3. WELCOMEvar link = document.getElementById('link2736');link.onclick = function(){document.location = link.getAttribute('href');} ABOARD Thomas.
He lives in Rocester, MN, and he will be attending our upcoming reunion in Oct. He should be the oldest member at the reunion. (Do I hear a challenge??)
You can find his info on our MEMBERS ONLY page. If you remember him or just want to say welcome aboard, give him a shout.