Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Cool Jump off theback of a C-130J

Bright Star

Army Sgt. Maj. Peter Klundt jumps out of an Air Force C-130J Super Hercules over a designated landing zone during Bright Star in Alexandria, Egypt, Sept. 8, 2025. The exercise is designed to promote and enhance regional security and cooperation and improve interoperability in irregular warfare against hybrid threat scenarios.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Please join us at 1130 on September 20th for our chapter meeting

SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION

Chapter 76 - South Florida

“The Green Berets”

September 6, 2025

Hello Members and Friends of the Association,

Please join us at 1130 on September 20^th for our chapter meeting at American Legion Post 31, 7710 SW 59^th Avenue, South Miami just south of Sunset Drive across from Baptist Health South Miami Hospital.

Hot dogs, Hamburgers and Fries available.

(This venue is “Cash Only”)

7710 SW 59^th Avenue, South Miami, FL 33143

Joe Pruett on behalf of

Ed Pijuan

President

Chapter 76 Facebook Site: https://www.facebook.com/SFA-South-Florida-Chapter-76-111343950710574/

Chapter Blog is located at http://SFACH76.Blogspot.com/

Special Forces Association Online Teamhouse https://teamhousespecialforcesassociation.org

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ED PIJUAN

PRESIDENT

ROGER KIDDER

VICE PRESIDENT

AL HERNANDEZ

SECRETARY

JASON PSALTIDES

SECRETARY

JIM TRICE

TREASURER

TOM HOUSE

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS

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DAN POIRIER

CHAPTER 76 BLOGGER

ED BELLO

CHAPTER 76 WEBMASTER

JOE PRUETT

COMMUNICATIONS

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Obituaries

August 8, 2025

Hello Members and Friends of the Association,

Len Cummings is in the process of copying the obituaries from The Drop to the Documents section of Teamhouse. This is a cut and paste process and takes a bit of time. So far, I have completed all the obituaries from the 2019 issues of The Drop to the current one. Instructions on how to search the obituaries folder and how to upload obituaries are in the Teamhouse FAQ section ([Member Support] > FAQ). Please spread the word to your members.

When you check out the Obituaries section, you will see several subfolders. The subfolders are necessary because of a glitch in the Club Express software. When you get beyond 1,000 entries in a folder the sort function does not work.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Also

Joe Pruett on behalf of

Ed Pijuan

President

Chapter 76 Facebook Site: https://www.facebook.com/SFA-South-Florida-Chapter-76-111343950710574/

Chapter Blog is located at http://SFACH76.Blogspot.com/

Special Forces Association Online Teamhouse https://teamhousespecialforcesassociation.org

Please update your email address to prevent interruptions

ED PIJUAN

PRESIDENT

Possible Opportunities

August 7, 2025

Hello Members and Friends of the Association,

Possible opportunities.

The Special Operations Fund (SOFund) is offering Vocational, Technical, and Community College (VOTECH) Scholarships. These scholarships may be applied for in addition to VTF's TORCH Scholarship.

SOFund VOTECH Scholarships are $5,000 annually, limited to two years, and to be used for VOTECH studies. The VOTECH program selected can be either:

a career/technical school that results in a professional license, or
a community college course of study or program which results in a degree or license (A.A., A.S., LPN, etc.)

Selection is based on employment experience/volunteer service, demonstrated leadership, academic achievement (minimum 2.5 GPA), career interest, written goals, and recommendations. If the dependent has not attended school in over two years, the transcript requirement is waived.

More information and an application form can be found by clicking the button below. Please send all questions and completed applications to scholarship@vigilant-torch.org.

Note: Those awarded VOTECH Scholarships last year do not need to reapply for year two.

MORE INFO AND APPLICATION

Vigilant Torch | 5680 King Centre Drive, Suite 600 | Alexandria, VA 22315 US

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We Have Lost One Of Our Own

"We Have Lost One Of Our Own"

Special Forces Col(R) John Robert Calpini 81

DOB October 28, 1943 ~ DOD July 30, 2025

Hello All,

Sadly I am writing to you about the passing of Col (R) John Robert Calpini, of Lake Placid FL & Sylva N.C. John was commissioned an Infantry Officer

upon graduation from Officer Candidate School Class 5-64, 14 May 1964. His first duty assignment was as Executive Officer, Company A, 6th Battalion,

2nd Training Brigade, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Training Officer, Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 2nd Training Brigade, Fort Jackson, South Carolina; Unit Commander, U.S. Army Reserve Control Group, IV Corps, Birmingham, Alabama; Detachment Commander, Company C, 20th Special Forces Group, Florida Army National Guard, Miami, Florida; Executive Officer, Company C, 20th Special Forces Group, Florida Army National Guard, Miami, Florida; Detachment Commander, Company C, 20th Special Forces Group, Florida Army National Guard, Miami, Florida; Assistant Intelligence Officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 164th Field Artillery Group (AD), Florida Army National Guard, Miami, Florida; Assistant Intelligence Officer, Motor Officer, Assistant Intelligence Officer, Battery Commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 227th Field Artillery Group, Florida Army National Guard, Miami Florida; Race Relations/Equal Opportunity Operations Officer, Logistics Officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 227th Field Artillery Brigade, Miami, Florida; Human Resources/Equal Opportunity Officer, State Area Command, Florida Army National Guard (-), Saint Augustine, Florida; Budget Analyst, State Area Command, Florida Army National Guard (-), Saint Augustine, Florida; Commander, 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, Miami, Florida; Director, Personnel and Administration, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (-), 50th Area Support Group, Florida Army National Guard, Miami, Florida. | Colonel Calpini was working as Deputy Bureau Chief for the Department of Insurance Division of State Fire Marshall, Tallahassee, Florida, at the time of his induction.

RIP John,

William H. "Bill Eades

Sunday, July 27, 2025

National Board of Officers

SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION

Chapter 76 - South Florida

“The Green Berets”

July 13, 2025

Hello Members and Friends of the Association,

For those of you who did not catch the announcement on our Facebook SF Chapter 76 or C/3/20^th SFGA pages, here is the shortened announcement of our new SFA VP.

First off, I'd like to thank the five applicants that submitted resumes and interest in becoming the next SFA Vice President. All five brought different experiences and were qualified to serve in the position. After review, the National Board of Officers provided their ranking of the applicants to me for my consideration. There was one applicant that consistently was the top choice among the Officers.

I’d like to congratulate and welcome Lou Hoffman to the Board. We look forward to working with him as he moves up from a Regional Representative and previous Chapter President to hold the VP position of our Association.

v/r

Chris Wilkerson

SFA President

President@SFANBO.org

(910) 710-5110