DARBY MOAA CHAPTER
PO Box 180755, Fort Smith, AR 72918

NEXT MEETING
Our next chapter dinner meeting will be Thurs, 9 February 2023, 6PM at Hardscrabble Country Club, 5211 Cliff Drive in Ft Smith. Our speaker will be our very own Tom Smith. Tom is a retired Colonel (USAF), former Chaplain of the 188th Air Wing, a Pastor and spent many years as a Missionary overseas. Additionally, Tom is a gifted singer so it should be a very enjoyable night. Please bring your spouse/significant other since its close to Valentine's Day. 
​Dress is business casual per usual.
  • Meal cost $25/person, payable at the door. 
  •                                                                  Please RSVP ASAP to:                                                                                        
  •                                      John Posey          Chapter Secretary    jposey10@cox.net    (479) 650-5663
  • ​Also, as a reminder please pay your 2023 chapter dues if you haven't done so ($35/year - with $5 of each dues paid going to our MOAA Scholarship for ROTC Cadets at UAFS).  You should have received a dues card (bill) in the mail from membership Committee Chairman Keith Greene. Please fill it out & mail your dues to Chapter Treasurer Larry Todd at the Chapter's mailing address - return envelope included).  Thank you.  
    As per usual spouse/guests/significant others are always welcome. 
  • ​We will hold the next Chapter Committee Chair planning meeting on Tues, 14 March 2023 at 5:00 PM at Bruce-Terri Drive In, 1102 Fort Street in Barling. All members are invited to attend and get involved in the Chapter's work that goes on 'behind the scenes'.
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  • See below for info on our 8 Dec 2022 meeting:​ 
  • For the December meeting we had dinner and met at Hardscrabble Country Club, 5211 Cliff Drive in Fort Smith. Our speaker was Major General (USAF - Ret) Robert Rego. He gave an outstanding speech including how today's Space Force came into existence that was interesting to all. Additionally, Pastor Don Hutchings from Evangel Temple in Ft Smith delivered an entertaining Christmas Prayer and our own Ricky Young and his band Bajer Lite provided musical entertainment. This year's recipient of the Fred Cousins Distinguished Patriotic Achievement Award was Col Jeremiah Gentry, Commander of the 188th Air Wing. We also welcomed the newest Honorary Member of the Darby MOAA Chapter, Mr. Ben Shipley. Ben's Father Harry was one of the first recipients of the Darby Distinguished Patriotic Achievement Award (now called the Fred Cousins Distinguished Patriotic Achievement Award).​​​
 

                Attention, Hot Topics!
Darby Legislative Committee Chair John Posey wants to implore everyone to contact the Governor’s Office and request that he place the 100% Disabled Veteran State Sales Tax Exemption at the Point of Sale on his agenda for a Special Legislative Session if he calls one. We are making a big push to get a State Law passed in the 2023 General Assembly Exempting all 100% Disabled Veterans from paying State Sales Tax at the Point of Sale but with the breaking news that the State might be facing a $1 billion budget surplus Plan A is to pass this law in a Special Session. Plan B will be to reach out to your State Rep’s & Sen.’s and ask them to make this law in the 2023 General Assembly if we fail to get it in the Special Session. SO PLEASE CALL THE ARKANSAS GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND ASK HIM TO PLACE THE 100% DISABLED VETERAN SALES TAX EXEMPTION ISSUE ON THE AGENDA IF HE CALLS A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION! Thank You 
1: Click the button below to view the Arkansas Veterans Coalition's (AVC) Press Release expressing unanimous support for a new State law exempting 100% Disabled Veteran Sales from Sales Tax at the Point of Sale.
2: Click the button below for the Darby MOAA Chapter's call for support of an Initiative for 100% Disabled Veterans Sales tax Exemption at the Point of Sale.
3: Click the button below for the Darby MOAA Chapter's Proclamation on respect for our nation's flag.
4: Click the button below for the Veterans and Military Coalition of the Ozarks' position paper urging everyone to stand and show the proper respect for our US Flag and the national Anthem. 
5: Click the button below for the link to the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs Flag Education Program. 

Chapter President Roger Rickard, CMDR (Ret), US Navy
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Chapter Secretary, John Posey, LTC (Ret), US Army
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Membership Committee, Keith Greene Committee Chair
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Legislative Committee, John Posey, LTC (Ret), US Army Committee Chair
Committee Members: Jerry Oliver, Bill Vines, Jesse Lewis
Click the button(s) below for the Darby MOAA Chapter's 2018-2019 Legislative Agenda
Program Committee, ______________ Committee Chair
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Awards Committee, Al Whitson, Maj (Ret), USAF Committee Chair
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Western Arkansas Veterans Coalition (formerly the Sebastian County Veterans Coalition & the River Valley Veterans Coalition)
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