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50th Anniversary Convention
United States Special Forces
1952 - 2002

Fort Bragg/Fayetteville, North Carolina
17 - 24 June 2002

Larry A. Thorne Memorial Chapter XXXIII

17 - 24 June 2002

The Chapter 33 Summer Meeting was held in conjunction with the annual SFGA Convention and since we checked out of the motel on Saturday morning I didn't get to make it. Hope it went great and if anyone (Matt, Bob, Mitch) has any photos of that meeting that they would like to share with everyone else send them to me and I'll insert them somewhere on this page. For now, you're going to have to make do with the pictures I took. I bought a new camera and so if some of the pictures are not up to the professional class they should be---grin and bear it.

This convention was celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Special Forces and honoring Colonel Aaron Banks, considered the Father of Special Forces. Yes,fellow members, 50 years ago this week, Colonel Banks convinced an otherwise skeptical high command that the US Army should have a clandestine and unconventional warfare capability to use against the growing threat of the Soviet Union. Now ain't we glad the United States Army did have someone with vision serving in it's ranks.

And now you can wonder through the display of some really professional looking people!

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The Larry Alan Thorne Special Forces
Memorial Chapter XXXIII Summer Meeting
was created 4 July 2002
and last update 3 April 2008