Thank You!
The Rattler/Firebird Association would like to thank those who helped make the 2006 reunion so special. The list includes the following people and we apologize if we missed anyone. Please feel free to let us know if we did. The descriptions of what these people did is necessarily brief, but the work they did was certainly not. Last, but not least, we’d like to thank all of those who attended the reunion. Without all of you there would be no point in having reunions. Thanks!
- National Director:
- Ron Seabolt (EM 66-67) for more things than we can begin to list here
- Secretary/Treasurer:
- Chuck Carlock (WO 67-68) for untold work and for amassing our display material that included a Rattler slick and a Firebird gunship
- Reunion Committee Chairman:
- Vic Bandini (WO 68-69)
- Guest Speaker:
- Joe Galloway
- Singer:
- Christy Phillips for the National Anthem
- Donations:
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- Bill DiDio’s (EM 68-69) LZNam for all of his donations especially the “Remembrance Statue” for the drawing
- Tony Jones for donated t-shirts
- Butch Meche for a complete tail rotor chain
- AirTrans Airways for airline tickets
- Joe Kline Aviation Art, Prints (and for ongoing support through the years)
- Memorial Service:
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- Eric Kilmer (WO 69-70)
- Col. Whiz Broome (WO 69)
- Buck Crouch
- Security:
- Doug Womack (WO 70-71)
- Drivers for moving the helicopters and displays:
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- Chuck Carlock
- Mike Rogers
- Daniel Patterson
- Ron Seabolt
- Dewayne Williams
- Photographer:
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- Wilkie Boyd (Ron’s brother-in-law)
- Joe Schenke for sharing his photos
- Company Store:
- Kay Seabolt (Ron’s wife)
- Outgoing member of the board of directors:
- Jim Jobson
- New member of the board of directors:
- James Malone