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RAIDERS REUNION UPDATE!!! The older you get, the better you was!!! Come to the 1097th River Raiders Reunion on October 10, 2009 at Newport News Park shelter #17. The festivities begin nlt 11:00am. All Raiders are welcome, new and old alike. There is a campground at Newport News Park as well as a a few hotels close by.
(Tom)

As of 30 June 2009 there are about 40 former Raiders attending!

Keith Morrison needs a headcount for the chow. The price is $10 each or $20 couple/family. E-mail Keith
(Tom)

30 June 2009 UPDATE The River Raider Blog-Underway is up and ready for your input and comments. Check out the blog for updates on the upcoming reunion, river raider stories and keep up with your friends. I've also udated the River Raiders of the past! More pic's comming soon!
(Tom)

14 May 2009 Tom Formby is on board to assist with site updates. New pictures posted in Picture Galleries and you can contact either of us E-mail Sean or E-mail Tom

HOT HOT HOT 17 April 2009, I received an e-mail from Thom Kirkpatrick last week about there being a 1097th Reunion this coming October. After a few e-mails with John Crenshaw I have the basic details, 9-12 October 2009, Columbus Day Weekend in the Ft Eustis/Newport News area. I am planning on attending and would like to make a humble request, if anyone has any scanned copies of their pics from any era of the 1097th and would like to share them please give them to me and I will add them on the page. The longer I keep this page going them more I want it to by OUR page and not MY page. I will update with more details as I get them.

Something else that's been on my mind for a few years, contact information on the Raiders of the Past list. For a long time I have wanted to include contact information for those that wanted their contact information listed. Once down side to this is people who you don't want to have your contact information have a way to get it and pester you. The decision is 100% yours. If you want your e-mail or snail mail address listed under your profile in theRaiders of the Past let me know stating this and I will post as you desire. I would also like an updated profile if you so desire so I can also update this at the same time. It you want this please E-mail Sean or E-mail Tom.

20 Feb 2009 - I have been meaning to make an update on the site for awhile but just never seemed to find the time. I have retired from the Army since Oct 2008. I am working for a company called EDS which runs the intranet system for the entire Navy and Marine Corps. Libidia and I are still trying for a baby. Makayla is in the accelerated learning program in the 5th grade. Both Libidia and I are working full time and plan on staying in the Newport News area of Virginia until Makayla graduates from High School and after that we are thinking of moving to Wyoming. After a family vacation in Yellowstone in 2007 we both fell in love with the climate there. I guess that is all for now.

Pirata

PS: I also changed my bio and the raiders of the past links to be html pages instead of htm pages. I found not everyone can surf an htm page but pretty much everyone can surf an html page. I also plan on fixing many of the pic threads that I had to get rid of when I lost one of my servers. I will redo the entire pages and upload the pics. I am pretty sure I still have the scans of the original pics but if I do not I will have to scan them again and post them. No clue on a start date or a finish date for this but it's on my "to do" list.


If anyone has a better pic of the 1097th logo seen above please e-mail it to me. Hey old timers, I'd love to add your stuff as well so please send it to me. E-mail is fine or if you choose snail mail, I can deal with that too. I will start tracking down some of you former Raiders out there so that I can steal your pictures and add them to the page. Look out, I'm coming!


What's New
River Raiders Of the Past Index
NEW June 2009 Underway - The River Raider Blog
UPDATED Cinco De Mayo 2005
Documents on the 1097th, Updated 19 April 2000
Picture Galleries, Updated 19 July 2003
Here's A Bio On Me, NEW & IMPROVED 20 Feb 09
Here's a list of Panama Links


This page is dedicated to the former 1097th Transportation Company (Composite Watercraft). The unit was inactivated July 1999 after nearly 50 years of service, including combat tours in Vietnam and Panama.
Activated: 1 September 1953
Vietnam: 1965 - 1969
Relocated to Panama: 1977
Operation Just Cause: 1989 - 1990
Reorganized: 16 February 1991
Operation Safe Haven: 1994 - 1995
Relocated to Rodman Naval Station:1995
Inactivated: July 1999



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This page was last updated on 14 May 2009.

This page was started on 8 September 1999.



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