American Legion Post 50 SAL 50 New York USA
November 2, 2010
WVOX 1460 AM "West Point Football Report" By Sons of the American Legion Radio with Ken Kraetzer John Chuhran and Jack McGuirk
Special Guest:
Brigadier General
Anthony J. Tata
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The "Sons of the American Legion Radio Report" can be heard live on WVOX 1460
AM in Westchester County and "Around the World" on WVOX.com. The show is
regularly held on every Monday from 2:30 to 3:00 PM.
The "West Point Football Report" also produced by Sons of the American legion and
WVOX Radio in New Rochelle, NY can be heard every Tuesday night at 5:30 PM
during the season starting on August 31st. The show can be heard in Westchester
County New York on 1460 AM and "Worldwide" on the internet on WVOX.com.
Sponsors are being sought for "The West Point Football Show", please contact Ken
Kraetzer at 914-450-9554 or kgk914@aol.com
The host of these programs is Kenneth G. Kraetzer, Commander of Sons of the
American Legion in Pelham, NY; Vice Commander for Westchester County, and former
Vice Commander for New York State.
The co-host on this segment was John Chuhran, a New Rochelle based PR executive
and Sons of the American Legion member.
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Ken Kraetzer is the producer of Sons of the American Legion Radio and the
"West Point Football Report". Commander of Squadron 50 Pelham, his father
was a WWII US Army Officer who served in Italy with the 91st Infantry.
Sons of the American Legion Radio and the West Point Radio Report
Appreciate the Sponsors who allow us to tell the story of the military and West Point:
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Bob Hyland's Sports Page Pub, 200 Hamilton Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601
West Point Band, Free Nov. 14th Veterans Concert at Eisenhower Hall
Frank Barbieri, 187 Realty Corp., 587east 187th Street, Bronx, NY 1-646-533-0187
The Florence Lahey and Sol Ollinger Foundation, both WWII Veterans
Sons of American Legion, Detachment of New York
Sons of American Legion, White Plains, NY Squadron
Our continued best wishes and prayers to Rutgers
Eric LeGrand and his family for his recovery.
Ken Kraetzer John Chuhran Jack McGuirk
Brigadier General (R) Anthony J. Tata graduated from the United States Military
Academy in 1981 and retired after 28 years of uniformed service on 1 June 2009
as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army.
Among his many assignments as a paratrooper and combat infantryman, Tony
commanded a paratrooper battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division and an air
assault brigade in the 101st Airborne Division. Most recently he was the deputy
commanding general of the 10th Mountain Division and Combined/Joint Task
Force-76 in Afghanistan. BG Tata has deployed on combat missions and
operations in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia, Panama and the
Philippines. He has been awarded the Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star, is a
Master Parachutist and graduate of the U.S. Army's Ranger School.
Anthony served as a National Security Fellow at Harvard University's JFK School of
Government, has an M.A. in International Relations from the Catholic University of
America, and earned a Master of Military Art and Science from the Army's School
of Advanced Military Studies. Notably, he is listed as a distinguished member of the
502nd, 504th, and 505th Parachute Infantry Regiments. Tony is currently serving
as a Broad Superintendent’s Academy Fellow with the Eli Broad Foundation, which
focuses on training leaders around the country for service as superintendents in
large urban school districts. After a career serving his country in uniform, Tony is
finding his second calling in education reform in America.
The author of the critically acclaimed Threat Series fiction novels featuring the
Garrett Brothers, Tony donates 100% of his Sudden Threat book proceeds, so far
$27,000, to the USO Metro Hospital Services fund for Wounded Warriors at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. BG
Tata's story has garnered national attention with appearances on FoxNews' The
O'Reilly Factor, America's Newsroom, Fox and Friends Weekday and Weekend
Editions, The WB's Daily Buzz with Andy Campbell, NBC's South Florida Today
Show, local television stations around the country, and scores of nationally
syndicated and local station radio interviews.
The second novel in the Garrett Brothers Threat Series, Rogue Threat, will be
released on November 15 2009 following the recent release of the Sudden Threat
mass-market paperback in September 2009.