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Psychological Operations
Veterans' Association (POVA)

2004 Reunion
Fayetteville & Fort Bragg, NC

14 - 17 JULY 2004

In addition to companionship, swapping war stories, reunion attendees enjoyed guided tours of the new PSYOP Media Center,  the 3rd Battalion Training Group, and the 4th Psychological Operations Group at Fort Bragg.  POVA members also took time to remember their fallen comrades by placing a wreath at the Special Operations Wall Memorial and conducting a remembrance Rose Ceremony. Attendees also made a visit to the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, NC.

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United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center

4th Psychological Operations Group Media Center Tour

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4th PSYOP Group Loudspeaker Team

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Media Center Transportable Presses

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Live Satellite broadcast from IRAQ

3rd Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group Tour

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POVA Members Visit with a 37F (PSYOP) Class

POVA Dinner

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POVA President Joe Rosenberg

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Chaplain Meeker gave the invocation

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Col Summe and LTC Boyd were Guest Speakers

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Mike Charleton Presents a POVA Plaque to LTC Boyd.

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LTC Boyd presents a Commander's Coin to Mike Charleton

 

Rose Remembrance Ceremony

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A Rose Ceremony was conducted in which POVA members presented a rose in remembrance of those who died in past military campaigns from W.W.II to the present.

 

Special Operations Wall Memorial

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POVA members visited the new Special Operations Wall Memorial. Pictured above a POVA member finds the name of Sp4 James J. Pastore, Jr., who was killed in action on April 9th, 1970

 

Wreath Ceremony

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POVA members lay a wreath at the base of the Green Beret Memorial on behalf of all POVA Members.

 

Airborne and Special Operations Museum

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POVA members visit the Airborne and Special Operations Museum