COAST GUARD
INVESTIGATIVE
ASSOCIATION
SPRING – 2012
NEWSLETTER
President’s Message
Greetings and I hope this finds you doing
well!
The 2012 CGIA Reunion is scheduled for
18-21 September in Phoenix, Arizona. To
date planning and working with the hotel are
on schedule, thanks to Gus Oviedo! Our
scheduled Guest Speaker is CDR Mike
Bennett, USCG, a published author of many
books regarding Coast Guard history. He is
a much sought-after speaker. As a side bar,
CDR Bennett is assisting Jack Pressler with
his research on the history of CGI/CGIS. .
Additionally, we are expecting a WWII
Medal of Honor recipient to attend our
meeting/dinner and perhaps share some of
his experiences. He is the Father in Law of
our Executive Secretary, Jeff Kilpatrick.
Although Admiral Costello has indicated he
would love to attend, unfortunately he is
involved in a Change of Command around
the time of our meeting. He is being
reassigned from Commander, Eleventh
Coast Guard District to Deputy Commander,
Pacific Area. Congratulations to him on his
new assignment.
This year is also the time to elect the new
leadership for CGIA. I am Acting Chair of
the Election Committee and expect to mail
out the election ballots around the first week
in June. If you do not receive one by end of
June please contact me and I will see that
you get one. Ballots will remain sealed until
the Reunion Business Meeting on 19
September. I cannot over emphasize the
importance attached to this election! If you
have questions or need clarification
regarding this election, please contact me!
Also please contact me if you are interested
in running for one of the CGIA elected
officer position (President, Vice-President,
Executive Secretary or Treasurer), or wish
to nominate a member for one of these
positions. If you're considering running for
office don't hesitate to contact members
currently holding the position(s) for a
position responsibilities briefing.
I am looking forward to our meeting in
Phoenix this September and visiting with the
members and guests that can attend.
Fraternally,
Howard Giblin, President, CGIA
Vice President’s Message
Treasurer's Corner
I hope everyone has had a great year. We
have come a long way since our meeting in
Charleston. I’m looking forward to seeing
as many of our members as possible in
Phoenix in September. This is an election
year and we have a lot of other business to
be conducted. We need your input to make
it successful.
Hello! I hope this finds all of you doing
very well!
We
now
have
a
web
page,
http://www.coastguardinvestigativeassociati
on.org , compliments of Ken Brandal. He
has done an excellent job in putting this
together and I personally want to commend
him for his efforts. If you haven’t checked it
out yet you need to do so.
Please send your check or money order for
dues made out to "CGIA" to me at 4465
Westmont Blvd., Copley, OH 44321-1229.
Questions: Please contact me at (330) 8071754 or via email at jdpressler@gmail.com.
And, of course, you may prefer to opt for
CGIA Lifetime Membership rather than
submitting dues annually.
If you are
interested, please contact me.
Woodie Clookie provided me with contact
information for NCISA, our counterpart. I
spoke with Blair Gluba, President, and
picked his brain on their organization. He
sent me a copy of their magazine and put me
on their email list. I am receiving a lot of
good information about world events, job
opportunities, etc. I asked about sharing
some of that information with our members
and he said that could be done. I noted in
their emails that they send birthday greetings
and death notices and encourage members to
stay in contact and support one another
through this means. I would like for us to
do something similar, but we need to have
everyone’s support in using their addresses
and email addresses. Hopefully, we can
discuss this in Phoenix and get it started.
This would be a good way to stay in touch.
See you in Phoenix… Don
With the upcoming 2012 Conference in
Phoenix, AZ from 18-21 September, annual
dues of $17.50 become a very important part
of our ability to "pay the bills". If you have
yet to pay your dues for 2012, please do so
no later than 31 July.
Current CGIA Treasurer's Report:
Checking account balance as of 09/30/2011
(Prior to 2011 Reunion): $11,884.88
2011 Reunion - Charleston, SC balance as
of 10/31/2011 (Post CGIA 2011 Reunion):
$11,068.54
Checking account balance as of 11/30/2011
(All 2011 Reunion Bills Paid): $10,837.26
Initial Deposit Check - 2012 Reunion Crowne Plaza Hotel, Phoenix, AZ
(4/1/2012)
$ 250.00
Checking account balance as of 05 May
2012:
$11,308.00
Hope to see you this September in Phoenix!
Jack Pressler
CGIA Treasurer
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY REPORT
Greetings from hot and sunny central
Florida where the snow birds and other less
hardy folks have left as we settle into the hot
and humid dog days of summer. These hot
and humid afternoons are the perfect
opportunity to do indoor projects.
Reserve CGI Agents.
Let’s work on
recruiting each and every one of them to join
us in Arizona. May God bless each of you
and your families and I look forward to
seeing everyone in Arizona later this year.
Your slightly off-center and perpetually
optimistic secretary.
By this time all of the members should have
received their plastic membership card. If
you have not received your plastic
membership card or if you no longer know
the location of your card (notice I didn’t
suggest anyone night have lost their card)
send me an email jhkcgret@comcast.net and
I will make you a new one. Please make
certain you include your name and current
mailing address.
Jeff Kilpatrick
One of my duties as the secretary of your
organization is keeping the membership list
current and up to date. In an effort to
accomplish this task, I really need your help.
When you move, when your telephone
number changes or when you get a new
email account, please let me know. Once
again, updates and changes to your
membership can be accomplished by
sending me a quick email. If you don’t have
email or if you prefer other methods of
communication, you can either send me a
note with your updates via snail mail to 549
Lake Drive, Ocala, FL, 34472-5050 or you
can call me on my cell phone 352-239-0491.
Editor’s Note:
If memory serves me
correctly, Mike was involved in planning
my “going away” luncheon when I
transferred from CCGDONE(oil) to CGI
R/A New London in 1976.
If his
outstanding planning skills are still in place,
we’ll have a good time, narrowly miss
General Court Martial action, avoid
international incidents involving monarchs
by a slim margin, and generally have a good
time.
I would like to challenge each of you, to
enlist a new member between now and the
Conference in Arizona. We as members of
this organization need to be the salesmen for
our organization. During my time in CGIS,
on the west coast, there were a lot of
Regional News
Mike Ferrick, Northeast Regional Director
advises that planning is underway for the
2013 reunion. By our Phoenix Reunion this
September, we'll have a specific location
locked in -- those attending will be the first
to know! Stay tuned for more.
Mike says, “Call me if you need me” at
liammurf@comcast.net
Home: 978-462-9804
Cell: 978-390-2500
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Chaplain’s Report
by Bruce Shiels
The numerical structure of the Bible has
been studied closely, being the subject of
numerous volumes in the past. But none
have been more provocative than the works
of Dr. Ivan Panin (DEC 1855-OCT 1942),
about whose work we explored in Part 1 of
this writer's 'investigative study' of Biblical
Scripture. In 1890 he discovered some of the
phenomenal
mathematical
designs
underlying both the Greek text of the New
Testament and the Hebrew text of the Old
Testament.
The recurrence of the number 7 -- or an
exact multiple of 7 -- is found throughout
the Bible and is widely recognized. The
Sabbath on the 7th day; the 7 years of plenty
and the 7 years of famine in Egypt; the 7
priests and the 7 trumpets marching around
Jerico for 7 days; the Sabbath Year of the
land; Solomon's building of the Temple in 7
years; Naaman's washing in the river 7
times; the 7 churches & 7 lamp stands, 7
seals, 7 trumpets, 7 bowls, 7 stars, & so on
in the Book of Revelation, all show the
consistent use of the number 7. There are
scores of such examples which show up on
the 'surface' of Scripture, and always appear
to be significant. Furthermore, careful
students have often been amazed to find this
number always appearing in unexpected
ways.
But (as we saw in Part 1) an example of
Jesus' genealogy in the first 17 verses of the
Book of Matthew, there turns out to be
MUCH more BELOW the surface. An even
more riveting feature remains: The number
of words found in Matthew, NOT found in
any other New Testament Book, displays an
elaborate numeric design. HOW did
Matthew know that he had used words that
would NOT be used in any of the other 26
N/T books? He would have to have before
him ALL the other 25 books, and would
have had to have written his LAST. It so
happens, however, that EACH of the other
books shows the same phenomena! Which
poses
a
'curious'
and
improbable
proposition: Did each writer write LAST? IF
not, then is each writer a mind-reader as
well as a literary and mathematical artist
never equaled and hardly even conceivable!
Panin proceeded to prove by numerics that
every book in our Bible carries such
features, that each one is necessary to cause
the numerical scheme of the entire Bible to
work out correct and that nothing can be
added or subtracted from the Bible (as
we have it) without spoiling these features.
From the first verse of Genesis to the last
verse of Revelation these divine evidences
are found. These are not only intriguing to
discover, they also demonstrate an intricacy
of design which testifies to a supernatural
origin! Some 40 authors/writers over
thousands of years penned the Bible, but the
TRUE author (operating outside of time &
space) has placed His imprimatur on the
total volume of work.
.
We must remember, however, that Panin's
work deals NOT with "translations" but
Hebrew & Greek. One is foolish who
attempts to maintain THIS verbal
‘inspiration’ applied to ANY modern
version of Scripture (although this writer
prefers the KJV) as translation difficulties
have been tremendous and the constant
hanging of attempts at 'modern speech' have
rendered something far different from the
"original." Also, HOW, one might ask, did
Panin get back to 'reliable' originals? The
answer is that the comparison of hundreds of
manuscripts over 50 years showed
eventually a uniformity that proved a
common source.
We are indebted to the painstaking
examinations and lifetime commitment
of Dr. Ivan Panin for uncovering these
amazing insights.
Hangin' Out (In the Ozarks),
Bruce
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COAST GUARD INVESTIGATIVE
ASSOCIATION APPAREL
Here is the scoop (prices include shipping)
Polo Shirts -“Dejon & Jones” brand in Navy
blue with embroidered logo – good quality
stuff! Small, Medium & Large = $32, XL
= $34, and XXL = $36
Hats – “Port Authority” brand in Navy blue
with embroidered logo – one size fits all $24 each.
Tee-Shirts –“Beefy Tee” brand (pre-shrunk)
in Navy blue with silk screen logo – Small,
Medium, Large & XL = $20, XXL = $23.
If you are interested, please send a check or
money order made out to CGIA in care of
George Finch, 21560 S. Clearview Court,
Oregon City, Oregon 97045. His e-mail is
geofinch@bctonline.com and his cell is 503705-7134. See the web page apparel tab!
Coast Guard Investigative Association.
Org Web Site
Hello, I'm Ken Brandal, the webmaster for
the CGIA Web Site. I'm adding this article
to the Newsletter sort of as a redundancy
posting. I developed the site as a way to
better establish communication with our
memberships, and also to act as an archive
location for Organization related items i.e:
photos, newsletters, reunion minutes,
memberships lists, etc. so that you don't
have to keep your own hard copies. They
should always be available on line and you
won't have to go searching for them
somewhere in the house. Just click,
read/view, and print if needed.
The Website helps get the word out quickly
and if members use it we can save monies
on not having to mail items in the snail mail.
Forms for registration, membership, apparel,
comments, survey can be available on line
where they can be filled out and mailed, and
in some cases sent via e-mail. Don Roark
assists me greatly by making the forms in
PDF professional format for posting and
use.
Just like the newsletter editor, I am always
looking for something to add to the site. I
have room for additional pages if anyone
has a suggestion for one. Maybe a “do you
remember when” page where posts could be
made of maybe some memorable events that
took place, or when maybe something funny
happened in an office or to an agent they
would be good to share. If you have any
photos of anything Organization related, or
of agents doing their job, that might be
interesting to members send to me for
posting. Even if a hard copy as I can scan
and post then return.
On the membership page I will gladly post
the obituary notices of former and current
members or anyone who was connected with
“oil or GOIS”, if I am notified. Just use the
comment form on the WEB SITE home
page. I just need to know the name if a
member and Town where they lived if not a
member. With today’s computer world I can
get most obituaries on line.
When you visit the web site you will see
some missing items, newsletters, reunion
minutes, and photos. If you have any of
these and could provide them I would like to
have the missing items. If you have them in
hard copy send and I will scan, post and
return.
I am looking forward to seeing everyone in
Phoenix and I will have a special “gift” for
everyone who attends. And I might be
politicking to get next year’s Reunion in
Colonial Williamsburg, Va. If you are
unable to get to Phoenix and would like to
see next year’s Reunion in Williamsburg, let
your area rep know or send me a e-mail
(kenbpoq@yahoo.com) with your vote.
FROM THE EDITOR
I hope this finds you all well. After the
publication of the Fall 2011 Newsletter via
e-mail and snail mail, considering the cost,
combined with the creation of the CGIA
Website, the leadership decided to have this
edition of the newsletter published within
the web-site. This will help keep down
mailing and printing costs (thus keeping
dues to a minimum) and avoid people
having to download large files. Let’s hope
this works! I’ve signed up for the Phoenix
reunion and I hope as many of you as
possible can make it out there. For the
organization to truly represent the desires of
the membership, we need to have good
representation from across the board.
However, if you just can’t make it, I urge
you to contact your regional director and
share your views so your voice is heard. If
you’ll recall, topics which may come up this
year include adding a Central Region and
switching to reunions every other year rather
than annual events. WE are actually that
mysterious group known as “THEY” who
always get the blame (or credit, but to a
lesser extent) so our organization is only as
good as we make it.
My personal thoughts are that if nation-wide
reunions are to be held every other year, that
doesn’t prevent smaller, informal “regional”
reunions on the off years - those are of
course, decisions to be made on a local
level.
Back to the CGIA Web Page - MANY
SINCERE THANKS to our Webmaster,
Ken Brandal - his massive effort to put up a
very informative and functional web page is
much appreciated. He did an outstanding
job much to the benefit of the organization.
BZ Ken!
On a separate note - the following is an idea
I recently sent to my Washington based
Senators and Representatives from Maine.
It speaks to the frauds being committed by
crooks that while claiming to be helping
veterans, are actually using a large
percentage of donations to line their own
pockets. If you want, feel free to pass the
same information onto your representatives.
We owe it to our newest generation of
fighting men and women who have
sacrificed so much for our freedoms.
“I am aware that the Congress is
looking into the misuse of charity
status by organizations claiming
to help our veterans when in fact
they are misusing that status to
the detriment of the vets and the
American taxpayers. Let me suggest
a fix to put these cheats out of
business:
Step
One:
Charities
claiming to help vets should have
to CLEARLY post their overhead
rates and show the percent of each
dollar donated that goes to the
vets versus the costs of running
the charities (many use most of
the
monies
collected
to
pay
themselves). Step Two: Change the
tax
code
to
allow
only
the
deduction/credit for that portion
of the donation that actually goes
to the charitable cause - not that
percent that goes to overhead.
This should (a) eventually put the
scam artists out of business or
make them change their ways (b)
actually increase the amount of
taxes due to the US Treasury but
NOT (c) decrease the amount of
donations to worthwhile, well run
charities, as well intended people
making donations will not mind
only getting 95 Cents deduction on
their $1 donation.”
If you have any questions or comments
about the newsletter, please don’t hesitate to
get in touch with me via any means
available.
Thanks for listening.
Steve Little, Editor
My contact info follows:
PSU301CO@MYFAIRPOINT.NET or
CGIANEWSLETTER@GMAIL.COM
Cell: 207-232-3219
Home: 207-766-2130
Snail Mail:
PO Box 78, Cliff Island, ME 04019
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informational document for the members of
the Coast Guard Investigative Association.
The information contained herein does not
represent the views or opinions of the US
Coast Guard, Department of Homeland
Security or any U.S. Government entity.