El Paso Chapter
Military Officers Association of America

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE: June 2026 - August 2026

I hope those who aended the March luncheon enjoyed our guest speaker, CAPT Marvin Heinze, MOAA naonal First Vice Chairman!!! Our 70th Anniversary is encouraging and full of hope. Our 70th Anniversary of our Chapter will be the focus of the whole year! I ask you to talk to your friends and Family to let them know we made this milestone and invite them to aend our luncheons or any other events we may have this year.

In June, we will have the Garrison Commander, COL Michael Soyka. Ms Gail Joyce, a Gold Star Mother and MOAA Board member will join us in September to tell her story and will be especially focused on our spouses. I hope to get the Ft Bliss Spouses organizaon to join us in September. We are planning to have a panel discussion on surviving-spouses topic of seng up a bale plan just in case. It’s a tough topic but one that is beneficial if the bad stuff happens. Please plan on attending September 12th and please invite Family and Friends. 

Folks, we need your connued effort to build membership and help us grow into the future. Please help our organization continue to be a viable and important part of Ft Bliss and the El Paso community. We need your help. Please let me know if you are interested in helping us as a member of the board and other posions. My two years as president will be up in December, so we need to be searching for a volunteer to become our next president. Also, Lennie has taken on the presidency of the outreach and we need someone to take that over  as well next year.  Read More