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From: Rick Fredericksen
Date: July 16, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Tom, if you haven't already, check out afvnvets.net . It's our history and a lot more--hours of entertainment, pix and clips, etc. Welcome!
Rick Fredericksen
From: Joe Ciokon
Date: July 16, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Tom,
Echoing the welcomes here. Don’t mind Forrest. I’m not a Command Master Chief anymore and he’s not a green Lieutenant, either. Just Joe, ready to meet/greet/and tour USS MIDWAY if ever you’re in the vicinity.
Hooyah,
Joe
From: Tom Herlacher
Date: July 14, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Thanks for the welcome, Jim.
[Note: Tom sent similar messages to Dick, Ken and Forrest]
From: Ray Profeta
Date: July 16, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Welcome aboard, thanks for listening way back when.
Ray
From: Jim White
Date: July 14, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Tom,
Welcome to the AFVN Group.
As shown at the very bottom of this message, I'm the Webmaster for the AFVN@yahoogroups website. If you haven't found it already, then please take a look. Who knows, you might find something interesting. Also, if you have any photos or stories at all related to being an AFVN listener, please send them to me and I may be able to give you a page under "Photos and Stories."
Also, as noted under "Reunions" on our website, we are having a 2016 reunion in Raleigh, NC. We don't get a "listener" to these events very often, but I know you would warmly welcomed.
Best wishes,
Jim W
From: Ken Kalish
Date: July 16, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Welcome, Tom. Please don’t believe Forrest’s allegations. After all, as every Navy man knows, “A Chief does not drink. But …”
Ken (JOC)
From: Forrest Brandt
Date: July 15, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Welcome aboard, Tom. Watch out for Master Chief Joe C. and stay away from Ken’s paint locker.
Forrest
From: Dick Ellis
Date: July 15, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Welcome Tom! We are just a bunch of old broadcasters who ran a radio/TV network during the conflict then came home to sit in front of the mic's again at home. I think I read somewhere the other day there were only a few more than 2-thousand of us with that military occupation in all the services....or was it 2-thousand just in the Army with the broadcast MOS. Anyway, it was a privilege for a few of us to serve our military brothers "on the air."
Dickie in Raleigh
Saigon 67-68
From: Bob Morecook
Date: July 15, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Hi Gang We have a new member today. Let's welcome Tom Herlacher. His background info is below.
Best wishes
Bob M
From: Tom Herlacher
Date: July 15, 2015
Subject: Welcome to New AFVN Member
Hi, My name is Tom Herlacher. I'm a US Navy Vietnam vet. I was in country at NAF Cam Rahn Bay from June 1970 until October 1970. Then I was transferred to Light Attack Squadron Four (VAL-4) at NSA Binh Thuy until I returned to the states for discharge in January 1972. I saw some information about your group from a squadron buddy of mine named Bob Peetz and I was interested in joining the group. I live in Waterloo, Illinois and I'm kinda retired now.
I look forward to seeing some more information from the AFVN group. I remember listening to a lot of the AFVN broadcasts on the radio especially when I was in the office working night shifts. You guys did a good job.
Tom Herlacher
Welcome to Tom Herlacher
July 2015
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