President's Letter: December 2025—February 2026

Holidays are here!!! I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!!! 2025 is coming to a close. Our MOAA Family have had some highlights but some very sobering losses of great members! Please keep them all in your prayers. Please take extra time with your Family and friends as our days are short so fill them with joy and love.

We have a huge year ahead of us with our 70th Anniversary year. We are currently looking at having MOAA National President LTG Kelly join us for our luncheon in March. Also, the Elpaso Mayor will attend our March luncheon with a special presentation surprise. 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 organization to join us in September. We are still looking for some big names for our June luncheon.

Back to this coming luncheon on December 6th; we will have officers inducted. We are looking for volunteers to take on open positions. 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 positions.

I’ve said it before but we really need more members and need to get your help to make this happen. Remember, for two new members your annual dues will be paid by me. Any ideas on how to increase our membership is greatly appreciated. I believe the spouses and especially surviving spouses are a population we could direct attention to with your
help. We need your help to make every effort and focus on continuing the life of our organization.

I again want to reiterate my vision for the El Paso Chapter of MOAA which are three main lines of effort:

• Develop a fund raising conceptual plan that will not only provide funds for the organization to continue but also to support the outreach program. – no movement
• Improve the membership program to not only give you as a current members a positive experience but to increase new membership. – tell me how we doing??
• Increase the visibility of the El Paso Chapter of MOAA in the El Paso community by educating the officers living in the area and community organizations supporting our military about the benefits of MOAA and the importance of supporting MOAA locally as well as nationally. - we have expanded our community connections with AFYMCA, met with the WBAMC Commander and making efforts to implement a way to recognize junior and field grade officers.

These three focus areas will keep the organization alive in my opinion. In order to get these areas in motion, the BOD is working details and recommendations under each area. We continue to need your feedback and support.

Finally, national MOAA is working hard for the overall organization by having the first national conference called TotalForce+. I attended and it was a great success. It was about people and offering ways to help our service members from Artificial Intelligence to complete resumes to ways to approach suicide awareness. Also, the national MOAA annual awards nominations open up December 1st.

Again, I thank you for your confidence in me and our BOD Team, and thank you for being a member of the El Paso Chapter of MOAA.
 
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