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

NEXT MEETING
Our next chapter dinner meeting will be Thursday, 8 February 2024, 6PM at Hardscrabble Country Club, 5211 Cliff Drive in Ft Smith. Our speaker will be MOAA National Board Member COL Ted Janosko, USA (Ret). He currently serves as Chairman, Council and Chapter Affairs Committee. A buffet dinner will be served, cost is $30 per person payable at the door. Please RSVP NLT 2 February '24 to Keith Greene via email at [email protected] or text at (479) 459-8032.
Please bring your spouse/significant other. 
​Dress is business casual per usual.
  • Meal cost $30/person, payable at the door. 
  •                                                                  Please RSVP NLT 2Feb24 to:                                                                                        
    • Keith Greene          Chapter Membership Committee Chairman  [email protected]  (479) 459-8032
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                Attention, Hot Topics!
Darby Legislative Committee Chair John Posey wants to implore everyone to contact the Governor’s Office and request that she place the 100% Disabled Veteran State Sales Tax Exemption at the Point of Sale in her budget. District 51 State Representative Cindy Crawford filed the bill in the 2023 General Assembly, but it failed to make it out of the House Revenue and Taxation Committee. Rep Crawford is determined to re-introduce her bill in the 2025 General Assembly, but we need to lobby Governor Sanders to place this issue as a budget priority and on the agenda for any Special Session(s) she may call to deal with future state surpluses. In the last few years, the state of Arkansas has consistently had budget surpluses in the billions of dollars so this issue isn't a matter of whether the state can afford to give this benefit to 100% Disabled Veterans - it's a matter Priorities.

Please reach out to your State Rep’s & Sen.’s and ask them to make this law in the next General Assembly or any future Special Sessions that may be called. Also PLEASE ASE CALL THE ARKANSAS GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND ASK HER TO PLACE THE 100% DISABLED VETERAN SALES TAX EXEMPTION ISSUE ON HER BUDGET AS WELL AS ON THE AGENDA IF SHE 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
Click the button below to find out more about the Darby MOAA Chapter
Chapter Secretary, John Posey, LTC (Ret), US Army
Click the button(s) below for Darby Chapter Info
Membership Committee, Keith Greene Committee Chair
Click the button below for a Darby MOAA Chapter Membership Form
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
Click the button(s) below for Darby MOAA Fred Cousins Distinguished Patriotic Achievement Award Recipients
Western Arkansas Veterans Coalition (formerly the Sebastian County Veterans Coalition & the River Valley Veterans Coalition)
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