AFA/AEF National Report

摘要

At the Alamo Chapter's Joe Kellogg Blue-Suit Awards banquet in March, Air Force Association National President Robert E. "Bob" Largent met the San Antonio area's finest—50 military and civilian personnel honored for superb job performance and support of the Air Force and AFA mission. Largent addressed the gathering and helped Chapter President Andy Nodine present awards during the ceremonies. Ticket sales for this Blue-Suit Awards banquet had exceeded the chapter planners' expectations, so they put their heads together with the hotel staff to figure out how to accommodate more guests.Theirsolution: Some attendees were served dinner in the hotel's restaurant. During the intermission that followed, several tables in the main ballroom were cleared and chairs set up for the overflow crowd. Then the organizers opened the sliding doors and combined the AFA audience with party-goers at an Air Force retirement celebration next door. Suddenly a Texas-size crowd of 500 was on hand to toast the Blue-Suiters.