Top Issues

The New Hampshire members have identified the following Top Issues for the state:

• Community Partner Program
  We have kicked off our Community Partner program for the year. This is a program by which businesses can help us with our educational goals by sponsoring the scholarships and events that we execute. We are looking to raise about $6000 for this purpose this year through the Community Partner Program. If you know of a business that would like to help, let me know and I'll contact them directly.
  View the Community Partner's page this way »
   
• Air Force History Project
  We have also launched an Air Force History Project which will complement the memorial. We and the AFSA have put together a video history of the USAF history in New Hampshire. We want to tell the story of our service in this state and the stories of people like Harl Pease, Harry Thing and the others who not only defended our country and our state, but made lasting contributions to us and to the Air Force. We need help with this.
  First we need interested historians to help with research, documentation, production and distribution. Second we need interesting stories from any era. Pictures would be welcome, movies or video would be great. The project is being chaired by John Symington, President of the Air Force Sergeants Association. If you want to help in any way, contact me at 880-8191. I'll connect you.
• Aerospace Education
  The Annual Aerospace Education Teachers Workshop is now in the works. We are very proud of our educational outreach. If you read the papers at all you know that our state is in the throes of trying to come to a consensus on education funding. The key issue is "what is the definition of an adequate education". We are forming a subcommittee to get the word out to the community, to our lawmakers and to our educators. It's a matter of national security. So if you would like to help. Let me know and I'll hook you up with Dan Caron our education point man.
     Education is on our top ten list for advocacy. The AFA is not interested in getting involved in the politics of this matter, but we definitely have an opinion on what an adequate education ought to look like. Here is part of the policy statement:
• Education and Technology Gap:
  The Air Force's overpowering capabilities are not the result of happenstance. They are the product of an American educational infrastructure that has produced researchers, innovators, engineers, operators, and maintenance personnel who are capable of designing, operating, and supporting high technology hardware. It is clear that the new threat environment will demand an even higher level of basic education and an increasing percentage of individuals with skills in science, technology, engineering, and math-known collectively as STEM.

-- Louis