WHAT: Presentation, Aviation Museum of Kentucky WHEN: noon (social 11:30), Friday, Sept. 27 WHERE: Equestrian Woods Country Club HOW MUCH: $17 for lunch buffet with the usual fixin’s RSVP: Pat Jones (contact info, p. 2), NLT Friday, Sept. 20

After a long summer hiatus, the Blue-grass Chapter will resume its 2019 meetings with a presentation on the premier salute to the history of aviation in the Commonwealth. The Aviation Museum of Kentucky has 25,000 square feet of display area, a fully equipped shop for aviation restora-tion projects, an office, a library/archive and a gift shop. Since opening in 1995, The museum has welcomed guests from all 50 states and from more than 80 foreign coun-tries. The facility is a dynamic entity which includes not only older restored aircraft and memorabilia, but also air-worthy, flyable aircraft for the public to enjoy. The museum has grown to contribute to the public understanding of and en-thusiasm for aviation - an industry that in 2000 contributed $10.3 billion to Kentucky's economy and supported 129,000 Kentucky jobs. Marty Schadler, museum board sec-retary will provide the presentation. The talk will also focus on Walton, KY, native John Leeland Atwood who de-veloped the P-51 Mustang during World War II, the F-100 jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and oversaw the Apollo program.

AVIATION MUSEUM OF KENTUCKY 4029 Airport Road, Blue Grass Airport

Lexington, KY 40510

859-231-1219

HOURS

For the Months April 1 to December

Tuesday to Saturday - 10am to 5pm

Sunday 1pm to 5pm.

ADMISSION FEE

Children (0-5 years) Free

Children/Youth (6-16 years) - $5.00

Adults (17-59 years) - $10.00

Seniors (60+ years) - $6.00

Veterans or Active Duty - $6.00

Family (up to 4 people in same family) - $25

TOURS

Museum docents can provide guided tour. Self-

guided tours are available with volunteer do-

cents located throughout the Museum. Please

allow approximately 1-2 hours for your visit.

UK Athletics will honor all

active and reserve members of

the armed forces along with

police, firefighters and first

responders on Heroes' Day at

the home football game vs.

Eastern Michigan on Sept. 7.

Among the tentative plans for

Heroes' Day are a football-field

sized American flag for the

national anthem, which will be

presented by the UK Air Force

ROTC and UK Army ROTC, The

Wildcat Marching Band will

also perform at halftime ac-

companied by pyrotechnics,

paying special tribute to mili-

tary.

Through a new partnership

with GovX, UK Athletics will

offer members of Heroes' Day

groups one complimentary

ticket to the game in addition to

specially priced guest tickets by

purchasing at UKathlet-

ics.com/GovX, while supplies

last. Please note, this offer is

exclusively available online

through GovX in advance of

game day. UK Athletics will

continue to honor these groups

throughout the 2019 season by

extending specially priced tick-

et offers through GovX to most

home football games, while

supplies last.

Every time I sit down to write my column this summer, something changes, and I am left to restart with a different twist. The media have certainly given me lots of topics; senior leader indiscretions at the flag officer level, environ-mental problems in family housing and mold in recruits’ dormitories (how that happens with all the pine smelling cleaner I’ll never know). Then there is the excitement of pushing the repeal of the “Widows Tax” through as a rider to the National defense Authorization Act. Suf-fice it to say that our military family and our nation are being challenged on every side. But for this column, I want to talk about things clos-er to home, our own Bluegrass chapter. When it comes to these national issues, we here in the Bluegrass have an active role to play by writing to our representatives and speaking to support groups whenever we can. However, on our local front, there is a role for each of us to take. November is our annual meeting and election of officers. As you may know, John Shotwell is reducing his time as a result of taking on fulltime employment. This leaves us with only four officers. Our bylaws can be accessed on our website for you to review the duties and if any of you are interested, please step forward and stand for election. Additionally, I recognize that not everyone is suited for or interested in taking an official board position, but in that case, I have a deal for you as well. Jack Whitney and Bob Bellman have taken on our ROTC support. This is a focused area of interest and believe me, it helps a great deal. There is an opportunity for an additional person to take on the UK pro-grams in this effort as well. Additionally, we could use help in organizing programs for our meetings or working on our membership roster. There is also an opportuni-

ty for someone to work with me on our State Legislative issues, col-lating the information that comes from the Joint Executive Com-mittee on Veterans Organizations (JECVO) and the data that is compiled through the State Chapter. We are also looking for help in publicizing our chapter and as-sembling the Bugle and managing our website. Finally, if there is any-thing that you would like to work on, on behalf of the Chapter, just let me know and I will see to it that you are looped into that topic area; you don’t have to be a board member to contribute. I am very proud of the work that our chapter continues to do, but I feel that there is a higher goal for us to attain. As your Board, we want to identify more areas of community support for us to get the MOAA message out to the commu-nity and to build a better process to work with our elected leaders in solving issues on behalf of all Guard, Reserve and Active Duty members and their families. We also need to be front and center in sup-porting our veterans as they transition into ci-vilian life and/or deal with finding the services they need. Finally, I want our chapter to repre-sent the goals and objectives of all our mem-bers. I appreciate your support over these past three years and look forward to continuing to represent you. Please consider stepping for-ward for a board position or identify an area of special interest toward which you will direct your time and talent.

President Col. (Ret.) Tom Peters

(859) 329-7320 thomas.peters03@gmail.com

First Vice President COL (Ret.) Tom Little

(859) 338-3301 tlittlelex@gmail.com

Second Vice President Vacant

Secretary Vacant

Treasurer Mrs. Pat Jones

(859) 271-2606 ppatcatfan@aol.com

Sergeant-at-Arms COL (Ret.) Chris Dolt

(859) 494-3452 christopher.dolt@morganstaley.com

Webmaster COL (Ret.) John Shotwell

(859) 420-2105 jmshot0@g.uky.edu

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MOAA, including the Kentucky Council and the Bluegrass Chap-ter, is an independent, nonprofit, politically nonpartisan organization. dedicated to maintaining a strong national defense and ensuring our nation keeps its commitments to currently serving, retired and former members of the unformed services and their families and survivors. Membership is open to those who hold or have ever held a warrant or commission in any com-ponent of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Service or NOAA and their surviving spouses.

NEVER STOP SERVING The MOAA Bluegrass Chapter is

a Sect. 501(c )(19) tax-exempt veterans organization

Thomas Peters Col., USAF (Ret.)

President, Bluegrass Chapter

Kentucky native pioneered WWII combat aviation, then put men on the moon

John Leland (“Lee”) Atwood, who will be the focus of our September

meeting’s presentation on the Aviation Museum of Kentucky, has been de-

scribed as "the chief engineer of chief engineers."

Among the aircraft he designed were the P-51 Mustang, which achieved particularly impressive results in the air warfare of WWII, the bomber B-25

Mitchell, used by Jimmy Doolittle and 79 airmen in the famous Doolittle Raid

and the T-6 Texan, on which almost all American and British airmen were

trained.

He is shown at left as he appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine on

Dec. 21, 1964. Atwood was elected to the International Air & Space Hall of

Fame in 1984.

Atwood was born in Walton, KY, in 1904. He died in 1999.

by Patricia Kime, military.com As the military services each roll out new policies regarding hemp-derived products like cannabidiol, or CBD, the Defense Department is not mincing words. "It's completely forbidden for use by any service member in any of the services at this point of time," said Patricia Deuster, director of the Hu-man Performance Laboratory at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. The warning, along with the policies issued recently by the Air Force, Coast Guard and Department of the Navy, comes as CBD is becom-ing increasingly ubiquitous across the country in many forms, from coffee additives and vaping liquids to tinctures, candies and other foods, carry-ing promises of health benefits ranging from pain and anxiety relief to sleeping aids and inflammation reduction. Hemp was removed from the federal government's list of controlled substances under the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, which passed last December. By law, hemp that contains less than .3 percent THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive ingredient in mari-juana, is legal.

But while the legislation re-moved cannabidi-ol from the Schedule I list of illicit substances, it did not neces-sarily legalize all CBD products. And since the products are unregulated and untested, there's no way to tell exactly what a person is buying or using, Deuster told reporters in a phone call from the Military Health System Research Symposium on Tuesday. Troops could find themselves testing positive for marijuana use if the CBD product they use contains too much THC, she said. The only Food and Drug Agency-approved CBD product is Epidiolex, a medication used to control epileptic seizures. Both the Air Force di-rective, released April 30, and the Navy regulation, issued Aug. 7, allow service members to be prescribed the medication.

Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton

addresses Bluegrass Chapter

MOAA attendees at the May 23, 2019, joint meeting with AUSA included, from left), LTC (Ret.) George Wilson, Mrs. Doris Benson, LCDR (Ret.) Byron Romanowitz and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Da-vid Carter.

Mayor Gorton is shown above at our May 2019 meeting with her husband, MG (Ret.) Charles Gorton.

The May meeting featuring Mayor Gorton was co-hosted by the CPL Bill McMillan Chapter of the Association of the U.S. Army.

KDVA partners with South Korea Republic to issue war veterans “Ambassador for Peace” Medallions

Ceremony set for Sept. 20 The Kentucky Department of Veterans Af-fairs and the Republic of South Korea are issuing Korean War Veterans “Ambassador for Peace”

Medallions and Certificates. To honor the service of Korean War Veterans, the KDVA will sponsor a Korean War Commem-oration ceremony at 11 am on Sept. 20, 2019, at the Wellman Armory, Boone National Guard Center, in Frankfort. This event will pay tribute to Korean War Veterans and their families. The Ambassador of Peace medallion and certificate

will be presented to Korean War Veterans (or next of kin) making application prior to Aug. 15, 2019. Applications received after Aug, 15 or applicants una-ble to attend the commemoration, will receive Am-bassador of Peace Medallion and certificate at a later date by mail. Instructions on how to obtain the medallion and accompanying certificate, along with links to applica-tion forms and eligibility criteria, may be found on the KDVA Webpage. For more information contact April Brown at KDVA 502-564-9203 or kyvets@ky.gov

Kentucky AG’s Office ramps up efforts to

fight scammers who target military/vets [Thanks to member COL (Ret.) Larry

Arnett for alerting us to this report.]

The Kentucky Attorney General’s office

has expanded its effort reverse statistics

reported in an AARP study that found

veterans are more likely to be tar-

geted by scammers and twice as like-

ly to fall victim to fraud when com-

pared to nonveterans.

This year, the AG’s office has received

more than 20 scam complaints from vet-

erans in 18 counties including Fayette,

Franklin, Hardin, Jefferson, Kenton, Madi-

son and Ohio counties.

According to the Federal Trade Com-

mission (FTC) imposter

scams are the number one

type of scam reported

across the U.S. and in

Kentucky in 2018 and so

far this year. The top

veteran-specific im-

poster scams include:

Charitable Donation

Imposters

Scam: Con artists lie and

claim to be veterans or

service members collecting charitable do-

nations to support other veterans and

veteran causes.

Tip: Verify charities before making dona-

tions and never send cash, wire money,

pay in gift cards or use other untraceable

methods of payment. Donors who are not

familiar with a charitable organization can

verify official organizations on CharityNav-

igator.org.

U.S. Soldier Impersonation

Scam: When a scammer pretends to be a

U.S. soldier and claims they need financial

help or are looking to sell goods or ser-

vices for a cheap price. The con artist may

even go as far as opening up fake social

media accounts and using stolen names

and photos of real U.S. soldiers.

Tip: Soldiers should search social media

sites to see if scammers are using their

information. Soldiers should also conduct

a Google image search of their social me-

dia profile pictures and, if necessary, fol-

low online U.S. Army tips on how to re-

port and stop fake profiles.

U.S. Department of

Veterans Affairs (VA)

Imposters

Scam: A call, email or social

media communication from

someone claiming to be an

employee of the VA. The

scammer may pretend they

need to update military rec-

ords or offer special pro-

grams, services or discounts.

Tip: If you did not initiate contact with the

VA and suddenly receive a call, email or

text from someone saying he or she is a

VA employee, it is most likely a scam. In-

dependently verify and contact the actual

VA and never provide personal, medical

or financial information to an untrusted

caller.

Kentuckians are asked to report

scams to the AG’s office by filing an

online consumer complaint. The AG’s

Office of Senior Protection also provides

mediation services and assistance to any-

one who falls victim to a scam. Online

resources provided include a website ded-

icated to protections for military person-

nel, and includes a Consumer Protection

Guide for Military Service Members.

The FTC provides comprehensive

information to protect veterans from

identity theft at IdentityTheft.gov. Veter-

ans can now also take advantage of

the FTC’s new Free Electronic Cred-

it Monitoring for Active Duty Military

Rule, which implements a 2018 law that

requires the nationwide consumer report-

ing agencies to provide free electronic

credit monitoring services for active duty

military consumers.

Veterans can also sign up to re-

ceive Scam Alerts, a messaging service

to immediately alert Kentuckians when

con artists are on the attack, from the

AG’s office by visiting ag.ky.gov or

texting the words KYOAG SCAM to

GOV311. For more information on how

to spot and stop more veteran-specific

scams, visit the AG’s official website at

www.ag.ky.gov.

KDVA Commissioner BG Benjamin F. Adams III congratu-

lates new VAMC Lexington Director Greg Goins after his

induction ceremony Aug. 5

Greg Goins, Fellow, American Col-lege of Health Care Executives (FACHE), assumed duties as the new director of the Lexington VA Medi-cal Center on Aug. 5. Goins will oversee the center’s delivery of health care services to more than 38,000 Veterans and an operating budget of more than $426 million. Goins served previously as Associ-ate Director for the Cincinnati VA Medical Center. Goins is a 10-year Navy Veteran, serving as a Hospital Corpsman and a Medical Service

Corps Officer; he served at Camp Stone, Herat Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Lexington center has two pri-mary campuses — the Troy Bowling Campus on Veterans Drive and the Franklin R. Sousley Campus on Leestown Road. It also operates four community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) in Berea, Somerset, More-head, and Hazard to provide primary care services to veterans located out-side the Lexington area.

It may be a bit of a drive (about 3 1/2 hours from Lexington), but for a total veteran immersion experience, travel

southwest to Clarksville, TN, just across the state line from Fort Campbell on Sept. 18-22 to celebrate the service and

sacrifice of veterans from across the years, miles and conflicts. This is a time of reflection, remembrance and reunion.

This annual veterans recognition extravaganza draws tens of thousands of veterans and families from across the

country. For a complete schedule of events, got to the veterans celebration page on the Visit Clarksville Website

at https://www.welcomehomeveteranscelebration.com/schedule.

Exhibits slated for 2019 include:

9/11 Never Forget Mobile Exhibit: A tribute to all those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. The memorial provides interactive education; including artifacts such as steel beams from the towers, documentary videos, and recordings of first responder radio transmissions. Interactive guided tours are carried out by FDNY firefighters who provide firsthand accounts of the day and its aftermath.

American Traveling Tribute Wall: An 80-percent scale version of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, that contains every name that is etched on the original monument.

Traveling Korean War Memorial: 19 soldiers walking through a Korean rice paddy and three soldiers off to the side setting up a campfire.

Field of Honor – Veterans Tribute flag display is part of a nationally recognized community program that demonstrates the strength and unity of Americans.

Lee Greenwood Concert: Enjoy this American music legend in a free outdoor concert. Sing with him his immortal anthem, “I’m Proud to be an American.”

See all exhibits and the Lee Greenwood concert at the Beachaven Vineyards & Winery, 1100

Dunlop Lane, Clarksville.

Mrs. Pat Jones

1660 Atoma Drive

Lexington, KY 40511

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