Bulletin Board

Meet the New

TCC President

for 2010-2011

Major Ed Stone

USA (Ret)

Edwin (Ed) S. Stone, III, hails from Freeport, Texas, of a pioneering family of professionals. Following graduation from The Citadel in 1964, he spent the next 15 years knocking around the Army in the US, Vietnam, and Germany. In Vietnam, Ed served on a Team in II Military Region as a District Intelligence and Operations Coordinating Center Advisor participating in active ground combat operations. Additional assignments include command at Battery level, 4x separate commands, in HAWK missile battalions in the US and Germany along with being an Operations Officer, Adjutant at both Battalion and Group, and a battalion S4 of a Chaparral/Vulcan unit...with all of the accompanying obligatory military schooling at the appropriate levels. Somewhere along the way, he picked up a Masters in Education from the University of Southern California and a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. With a little more than fifteen years of active service, he was struck down by a kid driving a pickup truck while crossing a street in east El Paso and medically retired as a Major.

Offices held in the El Paso Chapter: 2004, Database Chair; 2005, Database Chair and Editor of The Border Bulletin; 2006, President; 2007, President, Editor, Advertising Manager, and Webmaster; 2008, Immediate Past President, Editor, Advertising Manager, and Webmaster; and, 2009, Immediate Past President, Editor, Advertising Manager, and Webmaster.

MOAA achievements: participated in six of the seven sequential annual chapter Five – Star Achievement Awards, recognized by national for communications efforts and innovation at chapter level, and recruited over 400 members for national under the Give Me Ten Program.

Reason for being a MOAA member: To be a part of a calling by actively putting forward "...military personnel matters and especially proposed legislation affecting the career force, the retired community, and veterans of the uniformed services..."- Especially, to advance the condition of those of the uniformed services who are least likely to be able to help themselves, children, surviving spouses, and the disabled.
2010 – 2011 Goals: Recruiting and maintaining members, strengthening chapters, supporting national's legislative efforts, and building off the success of prior Texas Council of Chapters Presidents' State legislative initiatives.

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