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Nominate Your TACAMO Shipmate for the TACAMO Hall of Fame
The TACAMO Hall of Fame was instituted in 2012. It was long overdue to recognize outstanding and enduring people that helped to develop, execute and sustain the TACAMO mission. TCVA categories of TACAMO Sailor, Industry Partner, Government Support, Posthumous, or Community Service.
Inception:
In the Summer of 2011, Commodore Chocko Baker, a true baseball fan, asked TCVA if we could create something to honor the best of the best in TACAMO. He had been to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Ohio and seen how the greats’ careers had been summarized and plaque or other display captured the information. Chocko, Buff Crowell and Vern Lochausen spent several hours in a conference determining what could done.
The list started with the Pioneers like, Walt Reese and Ron Carlson and extended past our beginnings to several other pioneers like our first Naval Air Systems Command Program Manager, Ed Hampshire and first Commodore Andy Riddile. Then the team decided a must to include TACAMOPAC Crew 4, who gave all for TACAMO. At the end of our planning, a list and plan to start the TACAMO Hall of Fame at the upcoming 2012 TACAMO Reunion in OKC was completed. At the reunion there were 29 inducted, 16 of them were TACAMOPAC Crew 4 into the TACAMO Hall of Fame Inductees.
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