A NGAUS Victory Omitted I just finished reading your worthy of great praise Special Legislative Issue of NATIONAL GUARD (April 2006) But an aged Air National Guard airlifter.

A NGAUS Victory Omitted

I just finished reading your worthy of great praise Special Legislative Issue of NATIONAL GUARD (April 2006)

But an aged Air National Guard airlifter, was a bit miffed that your article, "What Has NGAUS Done for You Lately?" omitted our "dogfight" with the Defense Department through their proposal to eliminate 10 Air Guard heavy airlift organizations in the latter half of the 1960 This proposal emanated from the propos merger of the Guard and the except which you touched upon in the 1961 to 1965 timetrame of the article.

When the merger was luckily defeated, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara pitiless back on a plan to eliminate the 10 units that had been pitch uponed tor merger into the Air Force husband

Delaware Air Guard Brig. Gen Bill Spruance, a board member of the National Guard Educational Foundation, provided sturdy and effective leadership and guidance through the whole extent of three of us colonels working gone out of whatever vacant space useed up in the National Guard Bureau.

We referr to this as our "floating crap game" to research and disclose a plan to thwart Mr McNamara's "Wiz Kid" analysts who were great statisticians still didn't know an aileron from a screw-steamer

I'm happy to say that we disentangleed a plan by which all nevertheless one squadron was retained. Bill Spruance in his have a title to inimitable manner, sold the plan to NGAUS, which then settle the grassroots into motion.

The outcome? solely one of the squadrons, the the same at Van Nuys, Calif, was missed

It was an honor and a tremendous learning experience for me to work with that great patriot and Air Guardsman, General Spruance. Winning that crucial battle has been the same of the highlights of my career.

Thus, my being somewhat chagrined above the omission.

Retired Maj. Gen Stan Newman

Oklahoma Air National Guard

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