Week One of the Second Year

And what a week it has been!  Of course, not traveling yet, but that has not stopped the hours of daily virtual meetings and preparations for the future.  Travel is just one small part of how we get the mission accomplished:  The mission of the VFW never stops!

In anticipation of COVID-19 restrictions lifting one of these days [months?], the Chair Officers and senior leaders met via a special multi-hour Zoom to start the travel planning.  There are a lot of moving parts to determine who will go where, at what time, to what event, to fulfill this mission.  While we worked through a potential March end date, I can only say it could all go up in smoke if 2020 decides to throw us yet another curve ball!  In fact, DURING our meeting we received a cancellation notice for an assignment that we were at that time working to fill!  All I can say is that we are doing our best to create and maintain a travel schedule so that we can jump in as soon as things start sorting themselves out.

And, in the spirit of getting information to all of our stakeholders, the Chair officers continue to reach out to our state counterparts [for me it would be Department Senior Vice Commanders] to ensure a continual transparent flow so they know what's going on.

It would be easy to just sit back and do nothing, claiming the pandemic has tied our hands.  Dear readers, I can assure you NOTHING is further from the truth!