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   2009 CONVENTION A CARNIVAL  CRUISE MAY 9 2009


 

For more information on the CARNIVAL CRUISE MAY 9 2009 Cleck Here

NMA Cruise Convention Registration

Although the cruise does not take place until May 9, 2009, you need to register and make a down-payment of $250 per person by July 31, 2008.

 

 You can call 1 866-721-3225 and give them our group number 1ZP280. Reservations can be cancelled with a full refund before February 22, 2009. 


Family and friends are welcomed! We need a count of how many will be attending ! 

 

Depending on the Ships Accommodations you chose the cost is 

Prices range according to interior, ocean view of balcony from $549 to $839.

Please mail or E-mail Your name and address to:

 

L. A. Orsini

305 Heather Moor Drive

Follansbee, WV 26037 

or E-mail at: LAOrsini@aol.com 

Or Call L. A. Orsini at 304 527-4154

or

William J. Kerr
330 E. Main St.. #315
Mesa, AZ 85213
Tel. (480) 832-7381
Fax (480) 807-2409

bbnma@aol.com

 

it is always a good idea to have insurance when traveling  out side of the U.S. call 1 800 331-2796 for more information.

 

ALL ABOARD !

 

 

U.S.S. PIRATE AM-275

Below is a copy of the painting of the USS Pirate AM275 "Hidden Death at Wonsan"  by Richard DeRosset

 

(Click on Photo to enlarge)

For More on Lost Minesweepers in Korea Click Here

 

 

Brief History of the Naval Minewarfare Association 

and 

Our Mission

 

The Naval Minewarfare Association was founded on December 5, 1982, in San Antonio, Texas, during the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association convention. Sixty-six sailors from 14 of the 24 minecraft at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, held their own mini-reunion for the purpose of establishing a minecraft organization that would hold its own reunions and stay in touch through a "newsletter." Before the meeting was over the group adopted the recommendation that the new group should encompass the entire spectrum of naval mine warfare and its personnel and not just the seagoing members of the naval mine warfare community. Many of the charter members were from the Oglala (CM 4), flagship of Mine Squadron One, which was damaged and sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The other ships represented at this reunion were the Breese, Boggs, Gamble, Montgomery, Perry, Preble, Pruitt, Rail, Ramsay, Tracy, Trover, Wasmuth, and Zane.


The NMA is a nationally recognized organization that today has about 1700 active members. Our membership consists of those men who served, or now serve, on one or more of the more than 700 ships and stations relating to mine warfare during the time frame of World War II and up to the present. They share one trait - they served, or now serve, their nation through some connection with sea mines. We welcome to membership all U.S. Navy and other Armed Forces members who served, or are now serving, in some facet of mine warfare utilizing naval mines. An Associate Membership is also offered to the families of our shipmates and to those persons with an interest in naval mine warfare.


The NMA publishes a quarterly newsletter -
The Silent Defenders, which in part keeps members updated on convention plans. Our annual convention is held in a different part of the continental U.S., which is roughly divided into three areas. Conventions began in 1983. For example, we met at Fort Mitchell in Northern Kentucky in 1998; San Antonio, TX, in 1999; San Jose, CA, in 2000; Buffalo, NY, in 2001; Denver, CO, in 2002; San Diego, CA, in 2003; Mobile, AL, in 2004; St Louis, MO, in 2005; and Seattle, WA, in 2006. We meet in Chattanooga, TN, in 2007.


The NMA thus represents a special group minecraft sailors may join. Even though our DMs and DMSs had been converted from destroyers, their crews did not consider themselves to be Tin-Can sailors. The many AM, YMS, AMc, AMS, and MSO sailors also had nothing to join, and the small size of all crews compounded the problem of getting together for a reunion of the kind we now enjoy as members of the Naval Minewarfare Association. (Updated January 2007).

 

Additional information may be obtained by contacting one of the following officers

 

MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN
Jim Minor
224 Angelus Drive
Salinas, CA 93906
Telephone: 831-449-535
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NATIONAL SECRETARY
Lib Orsini
305 Heather Moor Drive
Follansbee, WV 26037-2011
Telephone: 304-527-4154

Fax: 304-527-1009


A SPECIAL NOTICE:  The Naval Minewarfare Association is a nonprofit organization supported entirely by membership dues and donations from members and nonmembers. Please make all donation checks payable to the NMA and mail direct to: 

 

Mr. Ronald Swensen, 

3762 Cooper Road

Cincinnati, OH 45241-3325.

 

                                                          

 

   

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