2006

16th December 2006 December 16th was delivery day for the Austin Police Department’s Blue Santa program, and LSMVPA was there to help. Blue Santa is a program where toys and frozen turkeys are donated to the Department by businesses and citizens in Austin to provide a Christmas to thousands of our less fortunate families. Similar

November 11, 2006 Veterans Day Parade Location: Austin, Texas If you don’t attend a Veterans Day event, shame on you. And if you do, the Austin parade up Congress Ave is a good one! The club had a lot of vehicles and members out for 2006. We’re getting to the point of these events as

November 10, 2006 Hutto Veterans Day Location: Hutto, Texas Hutto ISD requested that we again put on a Veteran’s Day display for the kids. This was set for the Friday the 10th, since the 11th was a Saturday this year. Due to scheduling issues, we only had the Cold War display this time. On Thursday,

November 4-5, 2006 Lackland AFB Airshow Location: San Antonio, Texas The Lackland AFB airshow was a two day event held November 7th and 8th in San Antonio. Early on Saturday, those members with sensibly sized vehicles trailered them down to Lackland- John K with his MB, Toby C with his MB, Clint D with his

October 20-22, 2006 John Lu with Best of USA Marketing requested help from LSMVPA with troop transport for a charity event to be held on Fort Hood to benefit the USMC Reserve unit in Dallas. This comprised an urban combat exercise for civilian airsoft war-gamers. Early on the Friday the trucks were convoyed up to

October 10, 2006 For over 30 years now, Gonzales has hosted the “Come and Take It” parade through the streets of this wonderfully historic city. This was about my 3rd or 4th time for this event, and I can assure you – I’ll keep coming back. The club was expecting a good-sized turnout for this

September 30, 2006 As I’ve always said, the Driftwood parade is probably the shortest parade we do next to McDade or possibly Manor. However, that doesn’t diminish from what a good time we have. Danny and Madison both trailered their M37’s over to the Albertsons at the “Y” in Oak Hill and were unloading about

September 9, 2006 By: Scott S. I think we have a new club event that must be the smallest number of entries in total. This year that honor has to go to Manor for their annual Lions Festival parade. I made my way over to Manor about 8:30am or so and much to my delight,

September 8, 2006 By: Scott S. After finishing the Manor parade, I swung by to help the Plane-Girls who were sponsoring a charity carwash for Angel Flight. For those of you that don’t know, the Plane-Girls are women interested in aviation and either have their pilots license or are working toward receiving one. Angel Flight

August 12, 2006 By: Scott S. The annual club convoy combined with the monthly meeting was held on a beautiful Saturday. For several days prior, Events Coordinator Danny was cleaning and prepping his place we affectionately call “Kaiserville” for the onslaught of historic military vehicles. In fine fashion, starting early Saturday morning the vehicles began

7-14-06 This event was scheduled for Friday evening from 6:30-8:30pm as the ‘finale’ for the Vision of Hope Church’s weeklong bible camp for local kids. The theme of the camp was “God’s Army”, thus the military vehicle connection. The LSMVPA participants arrived shortly before the scheduled time- Danny K in his M37, Fred H in

July 8, 2006 AAR by Jeff L: A hot and Humid day Maddison arrived first with his M37 on his new trailer, I arrived just in time to help him off load it. We arrived in the parade line up and started decking out the vehicles with the Americas and Texas flags. Claude arrived shortly

July 4, 2006 This is like the 33rd year for the annual Farwest Blvd neighborhood parade. Each year, the parade participants have increased. In the beginning, the parade started at Waterline and then ran down to Doss Elementary school. Well, the parade still finishes at Doss, but the line goes clear back to Far Hills

July 4, 2006 This was a typical July 4th parade at Lakeway minus the usual rain, although it did look line rain for a while. Humidity was very high but fortunately we kept the cloud cover. Most participants arrived around 7:00 at Scott Swenson’s business parking lot. From there we convoyed to the staging area

June 10th 2006 Waiting for after action report

May 29, 2006 Another beautiful ceremony hosted by the Cook-Walden Memorial Park, the Texas Association of Vietnam Veterans (TAVV), VFW District 28 and the Salvation Army. Under heavy mist early in the morning, I trailered up the ’53 M38A1 and headed over to Herb’s place a mile away where we loaded up his ’44 GPW.

May 5, 2006 Buc Days Location: Corpus Christi, Texas Members of the Lone Star MVPA, Jim Scoggins and J.D. Hofer Jr., attended the 2006 Buc Days illuminated Night Parade which was held in Corpus-Christi, Texas, May 5th. The 71 year old parade is held at night and brings in floats and marching bands from Houston

May 5-7, 2006 Central Texas Airshow Location: Temple, Texas True to form, the Temple Air Show was one day of rain and one day of no rain. The only good part this year was the rain came during the night! Club members began arriving mid-day on Friday. After getting the vehicles into place we settled

April 8, 2006 Scott S was an early arrival at 6:45am and began to set up his newly built BBQ pit for it’s inaugural run with the club. This year, we were bumped from under the big shade tree to a spot without any shade. This didn’t make too many happy campers with the club.

April 1-2, 2006 During the two-day Muster event on April 1-2, 2006, volunteers from the Lone Star Military Vehicle Preservation Association, augmented by jeep owners from reenacting organizations, moved the public from the museum area down to the battlefield and back. For lack of a better name, this aspect of the Muster was dubbed the