Thursday, December 12, 2024

Joint Coronado Military Officers Association of America and Navy League Meeting

The Silver Strand Chapters of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) and Navy League will hold the second of their six annual dinner meetings on Monday 17 April, at 6:00pm, at the Coronado Yacht Club. This event, hosted by MOAA will recognize the Mar Vista and Coronado High School graduating seniors who have accepted Service Academy appointments and ROTC scholarships to many of the best universities in the country.

Phil PresselThe featured speaker for the event will be Mr. Phil Pressel, who was the project engineer in charge of the design of the camera system used in the formerly top secret Hexagon Program’s KH-9 spy satellite. The CIA’s Hexagon Program began in 1965, and was declassified in September 2011. Mr. Pressel and the Hexagon Satellite Program were featured on the CNN program “Declassified” which aired in September 2016. He has also written a book about this once highly classified program called Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite. Publication of Mr. Pressel’s book was approved by both the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the CIA.

As seating is limited it is suggested that MOAA and NL members make reservations early.

For more information or to make a reservation, email [email protected] and use Subject line: “MOAA/NL April Dinner Meeting Reservation.”



Managing Editor
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Originally from upstate New York, Dani Schwartz has lived in Coronado since 1996. She is happy to call Coronado home and to have raised her children here. In her free time she enjoys reading, exercising, trying new restaurants, and just walking her dog around the "island." Have news to share? Send tips or story ideas to: [email protected]

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