Please join us for our next FAO Association Distinguished Speaker Luncheon:

 

“Building Partnership Capacity through Foreign Military Advising: 

the Ground and Air Perspective”

 

Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 1100-1315

Ft. McNair O’Club, Washington DC

 

REGISTER HERE

 

** Cutoff for Registration 20 June **

 

Featured Speakers

 

LTC Al Ramos, USA, from the US Army FAO proponent office, will speak to the role of FAOs in the 162nd, training Army Advisor, Combat, and Security Force Assistance Skills to provide Army and Joint Force Commanders with trained personnel and units to build partner nation security capacity.

 

162nd Infantry Bgde website

 

Colonel John “Oly” Holm, USAF, Commandant of the US Air Force Air Advisor Academy (AAA), will brief on the mission of the AAA in providing preparatory training to USAF’s air advisors, Airmen applying specialized aviation expertise to assess, train, advise, assist and equip foreign personnel in the development and application of aviation resources to meet that nation's security and defense needs in support of U.S. interests.

 

Colonel Holm bio

Air Advisor Memorial Fund

 

 

Many Thanks to the event's

Corporate Sponsors:

 

 

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LETTER FROM THE FAOA PRESIDENT

On behalf of the FAOA Board of Governors, I want to thank you for being a part of the Foreign Area Officer Association professional community.  If you were with us for the FAO Association’s recent 8th Annual Black Tie Dinner on 25 April,  I think you will agree it was a true gala affair.  We enjoyed the new Army Navy Country Club clubhouse, and its beautiful ballroom and outdoor decks  as well as our excellent guest speaker, entertainment, special presentations, and open bar reception and night cap.  We saw a lot of old friends and colleagues and met many new ones. If you were not able to make it this year, we do hope you can join us for our policy luncheons and also next year's Annual Dinner.

Below you will find link to the survey on the event which includes questions for those who attended and also were not able to attend, which we hope you will take a moment to complete in order to help us make our event even better next year and in the future:  

TAKE THE SURVEY

Also, we were pleased to have had our first-ever winner of the FAOA Scholarship for Academic Excellence in International Affairs attend the event.  We are nearing the completion of our benefits drive for the 2013/2014 FAOA Scholarship Fund, which is hosted by the Military Officers’ Association of America (MOAA).   You have the additional opportunity to make a donation to the scholarship fund by clicking on the below link:

SUPPORT THE FAOA SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Again, thank you for being a member or friend of the FAO Association and thank you for attending our big annual event.  Please mark your calendars
for our next FAOA Distinguished Luncheon Speaker on Thursday, 27 June at Ft. McNair.

 

Warm regards,

Kurt

KURT M. MARISA, Colonel, USAF (ret.)

President, FAO Association

president@faoa.org   /   http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kurt-marisa/11/7b3/5b6

 

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