The Lone Star Military Vehicle Preservation Association
Date: 11 June, 2016 Location: Lockhart, Texas Our line up this year consisted of 4 vehicles but we still scored a 1st. Place Grand Prize blue ribbon. Parade long time organizer Kenneth Sneed (and our biggest fan) stopped to personally extend his well wishes to us and thank us for being there. He also let
Date: June, 2016 Location: Normandy, France Matthew W celebrated his birthday in June 2016 by visiting the D-Day beaches with Dr. Tomas M. Hatfield, retired UT professor and internationally known scholar in the field of military history. They stayed at Chateau de Canisy near St. Lo, and on day one: (1) visited Sainte Mere Eglise,
30 May 2016 Smithville Veterans Memorial Park The Smithville Veterans Memorial Park located behind the Smithville Community center hosted LSMVPA members to support for a wreath laying and salute to all fallen Veterans of all wars. The Memorial has the names of all Bastrop County persons who served in the wars from Texas intendance to
14 May 2016 Event: Smithville Airport Fly-In Location: Smithville, Texas The 2016 Smithville Fly-in was a first time event for the Lone Star MVPA. The event was Saturday, May 14th, 10:00am – 2:00pm. We arrived at 08:00 and were set up by 10:00. Lone Star members provided 4 vehicles and two large military displays. We
DATE: 6-8 May 2016 Event: Central Texas Airshow Date: Friday May 6th-Sunday May 8th Location: Temple, Texas Our annual 3-day event at the Temple airshow. On Friday and Saturday, it was sunny, warm, but windy. The actual airshow was better than last year, and it seemed the crowd was bigger. We set out a good
Date: 30 April, 2016 Location: Liberty Hill, Texas Event: 4th Annual Show and Shine car show Despite heavy rains in the past 24 hours, the word was passed at 0600 that the show was on. The grounds, in fact, were quite solid and no mud issues effected the show. Military vehicle participation was limited to
Date: 16-17 April, 2016 Location: Camp Mabry, Texas Muster Day at Camp Mabry was held on 16-17 April. The weather was rainy and lerd to the cancellation of most activities on Sunday 17 April. Saturday was mostly dry with an occasional rain. Most of the schedules activities went as scheduled. We had a good turn
Date: 9 April, 2016 Location: Smithville, Texas The Smithville Jamboree was held on April 9th. We had 6 vehicles and 7 members participate in the parade including Madison H., Jim H., Rick H., Rory C., Charlir S., James H., and Dan C. We arrived at 1100 in the ariport parking lot and convoyed into Smithville
DATE: 23 March 2016 Visit to Moving Wall Memorial re names of Fallen Military personnel of Vietnam War Evening Folks; Just a note with photos to mark my visit to the subject memorial on March 23rd. The memorial happened to be set up in Gonzales Texas located about 50 miles south of our location. Gonzales
DATE: 5 March 2016 Event: Texas Independence Day Parade Date: Saturday, March 5th 0930 Location: Congress Ave, Austin One never knows what weather we will have for this event. Last year it was 32*, past years have been warm, or cold and wet, but today was dry, and t-shirt weather. This year’s parade was a
Date: 21 February, 2016 Location: Austin, Texas Event: Touch-a-Truck We were asked to bring vehicles for a fund raising event to benefit children. Attending were Barry F with his Servicar and display, Panda in the M1009, Scott P and Kelly in the M35A2 with M105A2 trailer, and Rory C in the M931A2. Also in attendance
Date: 6 February, 2016 Location: Austin, Texas The Scout Parade was on 6 February. Photo’s Pending