COMMANDER’S CORNER
Hello Springtime!! The warmer weather is a great relief and mother nature is offering up gentle spring rains as well. We hope the weather is not too warm too long or we get flower/fruit tree blooms that inevitably get frozen in late frosts.
The Post enjoyed a robust Membership meeting on the 3rd of March. We hosted Melanie Crossfield (a Danville city planner) who talked to us about the coming military parade on 4 July 2026 (our country’s 250th Anniversary). Our veterans were encouraged to provide pictures and data for themselves for display banners for the public to view in appreciation of their service and our freedoms. Our Auxiliary is in charge of building our Post 46 float. They are really excited and have some very exciting plans.
Our Radio club continues to be active on weekends. Sr. Vice Miller is working with them and the Burgin High School to establish an Amateur Radio class and club. They are running practical radio sessions in class and preparing the facility for an outside antenna. Harold is also generating a class for seniors to avoid scams. Watch our Post schedule for their scheduled presentations. Great work!!
In the last several Commander’s Corners, I’ve spot lighted our Post officers. While having gratefully served as your Post Commander for some 13 years, I remain a bit of a mystery as my time at the Post is limited by Asthma and family concerns. I have received several requests to share more of myself with you in this forum. I was born and raised in western Nebraska by parents who both worked my entire childhood. I worked on farms and followed the wheat harvests in the summer times. I pretested with the Air Force before enlisting and was assigned to an electronics school in Denver. Subsequently, I was assigned to a Satellite Tracking station in NH which started a 40-year progressive career in DOD space operations. As a member of the station’s pistol shooting team, I travelled all over New England earning NRA’s lifetime master ratings. I also met my wife during this assignment, and we just celebrated 60 years of marriage and 3 sons. I was transferred to the Satellite tracking station in Vandenberg AFB in Calif. There, I concluded my second enlistment with an associate’s degree from Alan Hancock College in Santa Maria. I joined Ford Aerospace, worked at the Guam Satellite Tracking station, and was transferred back to the New Hampshire station. While in NH, I earned my Advanced Amateur Radio Class License and a Bachelor of Science degree (mgt) (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern New Hampshire. That degree enabled a position for a 27-year career with Lockheed Missiles and Space at the DOD Mission Control Center in Sunnyvale, CA (the last 18 years being in Colorado Springs & Denver Colorado). During this Colorado time, Virginia’s James Madison University awarded me the Certified Professional Manager designation (In management, the rough equivalent of a CPA in the Accounting world). Note: While working in Mission Control in Sunnyvale, I realized my dream of earning a private pilot’s license. California was the perfect recreational flying location!! I retired in 2003 and moved to N. Garrard County, Ky. Post 46 Commander Earl Belcher recruited me from the Post 200 list.
The next membership meeting is on 7 April 2026 at 7 PM. It will start the Post Officer elections process.
Respectfully,
Tony A. Cromwell
Post Commander kypost46@gmail.com