The AIG, Reunion Registration and events, Update 8/2/21

Published: Mon, 08/02/21

PJ Association.com

"Once a PJ, Always a PJ"

REGISTRATION is here for the 2021 PJ Reunion

GET it done now, we will have to cut it off soon, don't miss out.

Make the Ice Breaker Opening October 27th

Better get in the Painting with Friends or Mama is going to be mad.

Reunion dates are Oct 27th-30th, 2021

Register for the event today before its to late...

https://cvent.me/5x5aeg

As always, there are many things to do during the week, some free time so you dont have to here the same stories more than once, HA

Reach out to the Hotel for things to do in the area as there are so many...

JW Marriott

Our Marriott property has sold out all of rooms at our rate.

Historic hotel Congress, 14 miles away

USE THIS LINK TO RESERVE YOUR ROOM, some may come open

Best to do online

https://book.passkey.com/go/Pararescue2021

If you have to call, use Pararescue 2021 when calling 520-792-3500, #1

So Many things to do in the area and the Hotel, lots of Relaxing time...

MITAKUYE OYASIN (MEE-TAH-KAY AWE-SIN)

The Pima Air & Space Museum

Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum

Join us each morning on the
Salud Terrace to participate in a traditional Native American ceremony and unique Sonoran Desert experience. Welcoming a higher perspective into your life should be on everyone's list of important things to do.

The Pima Air and Space Museum is one of the largest aviation Museums in the world..

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952.

TEQUILA TOAST

Every evening at sunset we welcome you to gather on the Salud Terrace to watch the sunset and experience our nightly tradition - the Tequila toast. Join us for this unique experience where we feature one of our more than 150 artisan tequilas and a complimentary toast: "Arriba, Abajo, al Centro, al Dentro, Salud!" (Up, down, out and in).

"Please share with your network so everyone is signed up for the AIG, we are stronger in numbers"

https://cvent.me/5x5aeg

PJ Reunion and Banquet is a Pararescue Association Sanction Event

Steps to Complete registration, start the primary person first, then add your guest if one is attending.

If you are attending the Reunion and any other events, then Please register, as a PJ / CRO / Friends of or a Sponsor and support your Organization, we are Stronger in numbers...

If not a member, do the same, it makes us all stronger.

Once you add your information, select Add a guest first before picking your guests shirts size, it will bring you back to that again.

If your adding more than one guest, log out and start a new Registration, with any website, DO NOT use the same email address for guest, it doesn't work... leave blank if needed...

Add a guest - before you pick their shirt size

Then you can select your guests shirt size

email : kenhowk2021pjreunion@gmail.com if you have any issues

Don't miss out on one of the most attended events at a reunion, the Painting with friends is a limited event, sign up, if you missed it the first time, Log back in and Modify your Registration. This event is a blast. Same with the Poker Night, get in while you can...

We are out of rooms at Our rate, and some nights are completely sold out.

There may be some cancelations, we are asking anyone with a room not able to attend to please let us know so we can put back into the tool Box.

We will add information on a suggested hotel in the area soon,

October 27th-30th, 2021

31st being a Travel day home

Get there before the show starts at 1700 on Wednesday

Sponsors can e-mail us now to reserve your spot.

bill.watson@pjassociation.com

USE THIS LINK TO RESERVE YOUR ROOM NOW

https://book.passkey.com/go/Pararescue2021

If you have to call, use Pararescue 2021 when calling in 520-792-3500, #8

Oct 27th / Wednesday
Everyone Registers, Activities and Social Events, Dues Must be Current
   •   1200 – 1600   Open Registration - VA Assistance Table, others TBD, Memorabilia Room/Raffle Sales
   •   1730               Tequila Toast on the Deck nightly
   •   1700-2100      Don't be late for this one, Opening Ceremony Icebreaker / CSAR
                                Demonstration, Meecha / Plunge
   •   2130 – 2400 PJA Hospitality Social Rm
Oct 28th/ Thursday
   •   0800 -1400     Golf at Catalina
   •   0830 -1000     Dr’s Galloway – Group Hike,
   •   1000 -1200     Health and Wealth Seminar
   •   1200 -1300     Dr Rush, PJ medical Updates
   •   1200 -1500     Reunion Registration, Memorabilia Room/ Raffle Sales
   •   1200 -1300     VA Assistance Table / Briefings
   •   1300 - 1600    Open for briefings and Lectures
   •   1700 -1900     Sponsors Social Event, SLWG*
   •   1900 - 2400 Hospitality Suite,
   •   1930 - 2200 Art Mixer, Painting with a Friend

Oct 29th / Friday
    •    0830-1100 –   Mystery Games Final Competition Competitors / PJA Members - 1 per Competitor
    •    0900 - 1600 Discussions TBA
    •    0800 - 1100 STAR Vendor Set-up
    •    1100 - 1300    Reunion Registration
    •    1100 - 1600 STAR Vendor Tread Show for Registered Vendors, JW Marriott, Unit Static Display,
    •   1600 - 1700 Competitor Rehearsals, 1700 SLWGroup and VIP Sponsors /Photos
    •    1800-2000      Rodeo Award Ceremony - Call to Seating, Announcements, Guest Speakers / Sponsors Recognition / Open to all Visitors / Cash Bar / reserved seating Pararescue Association Members
    •    2100 – Poker Night

Oct 31st, Travel day home

The Teams and Units are hard at work,,,

Some of the guys who made it to TJ Bruce Service this week.

A note for Pete Harding

I was an ART PJ in the 302nd ARRS at Luke AFB, AZ. My NCOIC was MSgt Raleigh D. Curtis, one of the first ten WWII Army Paratroopers to become PJs.

We had a PT run every noon for 45-60 minutes around the Base. Each day our run took us past the Base Hospital. The first part of the hospital was the Flight Surgeon's Office. As we passed we saw the same enlisted guy in whites sitting on the steps with a sack lunch and he just stared at us for five minutes every day.

After watching us for about five weeks, he jumped up one day and streaked out to the road and stopped us. He had black hair, appeared to be about 5' 10", and 175. He said,"WHO are you guys?? You run past here every day! R.D. told him we were PJs from the Air Rescue Unit down the street. TJ said, "Man, I wish I could get into that outfit but it would never happen." When we asked why, he said because he was in TAC and they would turn him down. R.D. told him we would test him on the run and the swim at the Base Pool. And so we did. He was not far off from the minimums, so R.D. called Walther at HQS and told him we have a great acquisition ready for the pipeline if you can get him out of TAC.

It took about six weeks for that to happen. TJ was ecstatic over the opportunity to

become a PJ. He not only passed everything but was superior. One day, this lean, mean young PJ showed up in our office. He kept saying it all started when he wondered about these two guys who ran past him every day.

About three years later R.D. and I were at Eglin for something to do with Doc Buckley's area, I think it was Advanced Medical Course. Late one afternoon, we were sitting on the steps of the BAQ having a brewski. All of a sudden this Air Force bus came across the parking lot and we could see that there were about 20 PJs on the bus. The first one off was TJ and he sprinted over to us and we had a great reunion.

Pete Long

PJ Rodeo

October 24th - 29th, 2021

Next Graduation Date August 12th, 2021

Its back on after to long, PJ / CRO graduation. Join us in making this one of the biggest and best for them after Covid lock down for more than a year. We will be putting on the Family, Student and Staff Barbecue day again.

Special thanks to our sponsor and members that help make the PJ / CRO Graduations and the Family day a great success. Without them, we could not pull this off. The families, Staff and Graduates proudly share their thanks.

See the link below to donate...

Special Thanks to our Corporate Level Donors as well as our

Individual donors;

Brian Hicks

Janet and Ray “CZ” Colon-Lopez

Wayne and Angie Fisk

Adam Pope

Allen Stanek

Rod Alne and The PEAK

Make a donation here!

Some are here... and some Coming Soon,

Keep your eyes on the Pararescue Association Store, the only place that really supports your Organization, we don't have to say we make a donation to... we are the Pararescue Association !!!