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Military Officers Association of America - Maryland Council (MD MOAA)

 

 

Update on BRAC Activity: The Maryland Department of Transportation has a new electronic newsletter documenting recent transportation-related activity around the area military bases. Click here for the latest issue. (20 Nov 2011)

 

Sign up for Email from Md Dept of Veterans Affairs

 

The Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs sends out e-mails on a weekly basis with information that is very helpful to Maryland veterans. Updates on benefits, job postings, and information about veteran related events are just a few examples of items that are sent out in their e-mails. If you would like to be added to their e-mail list, please click on the following link: Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs, or call the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs at 410-260-3838. You can also text MDVETERANS to 22828 to receive the updates on your phone.

(2 May 2012)

 

 

Contact Your State Senator or Delegate

 

There are two web-based methods you can use to contact your State Legislators:

 

The Maryland Legislature maintains a Web Site that you can use to contact your Senator or Delegate. To use it, visit http://mlis.state.md.us/mgaweb/mail32.aspx, and select the legislator’s name from the drop-down list. If the legislator accepts e-mail (I hope most of them do today), you will get a link to send them e-mail. Click on that link. If you normally use Microsoft Outlook, it will pop up ready to send the email. On the other hand, if you use some other mail system (I use gmail.com), you have more work to do. You will have to copy the legislator’s address from the Outlook message, dismiss that window, open your email tool or web page, and paste the address into a new message. Then you can enter the text you want to send to the legislator. From time to time, we will suggest messages we would like Maryland members to send to Annapolis on upcoming bills of interest to all of us (such as SB 28 and HB 315 this year).

 

The other method is to visit http://mdelect.net/. This site, run by the Maryland State Archives allows you to enter your address, and it will tell you who your Federal and State legislators are. There are links to their web sites. Some have e-mail tools built in, others will link into Outlook, as above.

  (5 Feb 2012)

 

The Council has published a set of Goals for the current (2011-2012 term). Please take a look at them here.

 

 

General Information

Council Minutes - Feb 2012

Past Council Minutes

Council Goals – 2011-2012

Congratulations to the following 2010 Level of Excellence Award Winners:

-       Fort Meade – Five Star

-       Southern Maryland – Five Star

-       Upper Potomac – Five Star

-       Montgomery County – Four Star

Maryland Chapters

  AnnapolisChapter Web Site

  Ft Meade

  Baltimore

  General Smallwood

  Montgomery CountyChapter Site at MOAA

  Prince Georges County

  Southern Maryland

  SusquehannaChapter Site at MOAA

  Upper Eastern Shore

  Upper PotomacChapter Site at MOAA

2011-2012 Maryland Council Leadership

President - CAPT Norm Taylor, USN, Ret normhenrytaylor@aol.com

1st Vice President - Maj John Whitman, USAF, Ret jwhitmanth@verizon.net

2nd Vice President – Lt Col Gunter Finkenauer, USAF, Ret gfinken1@comcast.net

Treasurer - CDR Greg Dalke, USN, Ret dalke@olg.com

Secretary - Maj Jim Pede, USAF, Ret jpede@verizon.net

Webmaster - Maj Jim Shiffrin, USAF, Ret Jim.Shiffrin@gmail.com

Immediate Past President - LTC Jack Fringer, USA, Ret jackfringer@chesapeake.net

Maryland Retired Veterans Task Force Liaison - LTC Jack Fringer, USA, Ret jackfringer@chesapeake.net

TOPS Liasion – Jim Dittbrenner jimditt@verizon.net

Features

Interested in meeting World War II Veterans? Check out the Honor Flight program.

Want to meet combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? Visit Operation Welcome Home Maryland for details, then come out to BWI.

Visit the TOPS Corner for Career Information

Read the 2010 Storming the Hill After Action Report.

Maryland Council ByLaws - 2008.

If you are an American Indian Veteran, or know one, please read this article about a tax rebate.

Read about a University of Maryland scholarship for active service members and veterans.


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