FUND RAISING
FOR A SUPER CARRIER
AN APPEAL TO OUR BASE
The Ranger Foundation has a short
period of time to put together a NAVSEA Phase II application. The Business / Financial
Plan includes two important parts that can only be done by a
professional firm with qualifications / expertise in environmental and
engineering services. These studies will be site specific to our proposed
location both in the Willamette River and the shore side facilities required
for mooring, providing utilities and other construction for support of
Ranger.
While we will seek
contributions from many sources we must appeal to large numbers of
individuals, specifically those who have trapped aboard aircraft carriers. Therefore we
have created THE BAGGERS CLUB. While
this an appeal directed toward Naval Aviators and Aircrew everyone is encouraged to
join as a friend in donating to the Foundation's fund raising to SAVE A SUPER CARRIER. 99 Tailhookers is a collective call sign
for all those have landed aboard.
Check-in NOW!
Peter W. Ogle, Captain USN (Ret)
President and CEO
peter.ogle@ussranger.org
BAGGERS
CLUB
How many times at 3/4 of a mile, in a
rain squall on a dark night and a pitching deck with fuel for one more pass
before trick or treat, have you felt confident knowing your approach is to a
Big Deck Super Carrier? Probably saved your butt on numerous occasions!
Now is the time to return the favor and save a Super
Carrier.
Our immediate problem is quite clear.
We need funds to support Phase II of our application to NAVSEA. I am
appealing to our base, those of you who have been there and done that! There is
no stronger advocate for Carrier Aviation than those of you who have flown off
and trapped aboard. So here is what we
propose.
Join the USS Ranger
Foundation's...
Baggers Club
It is easy to join. Donate a buck for each trap. This is
not about Ranger. It is about saving a Super Carrier class as a Historic Naval
Ship. It is Navy policy that only non-nuclear vessels are eligible for donation. So we must save one of the
seven remaining Forrestal or Kitty Hawk class carriers as a Museum Ship and
Memorial, otherwise a very important period of Naval History, 1955 to the
future, will be lost forever. Supporting our effort supports the active duty
Navy in keeping the importance of carrier aviation in the public view, now and
in the future.
To be eligible for membership in The
Baggers Club, you must have made a carrier landing as a naval aviator or naval
flight officer, air crewman or equivalent service exchange aviator or air
crewman. Retired, active duty and former members may join as well as civilian
pilots or CIA aviators. Yes, the CIA U2s carrier qualified on Ranger and
America. So break out your log books and check books or if you are like me you
know exactly how many traps you made without looking. It doesn't matter the
class of carrier, straight or angle deck or with an allied Navy. A trap is a
trap, even if it is in the barrier.
A Buck a Trap
is a small price to save Naval Carrier Aviation History.
You may join by clicking here  or by going to the Ranger Foundation
site and looking for The Baggers Club and following on
screen instructions using PayPal or mail your check marked "Baggers Club" to:
USS Ranger Foundation
1505 SE Gideon Street
Suite 650
Portland, OR 97202
For you "Super Baggers"
you can pledge, if your high number of traps cuts into your beer fund. Include your name, rank or rate and how you
want your name to appear on a recognition plaque aboard
USS Ranger (CV 61) once
she is opened as a Museum and Memorial to all of you.
If we don't save her the
plaque will likely be in the Pacific Ocean.
We are an IRS 501 (c) (3)
organization. Consult your own tax advisor as it applies to your own situation.
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About USS Ranger Foundation
A registered, non-profit corporation established March 5, 2001. Organized
for the purpose of securing, maintaining and operating the
decommissioned super carrier USS RANGER CV-61 as an educational center,
museum and Military Memorial.
1505 SE Gideon Street
Portland, Oregon 97202
USS Ranger Foundation
503-558-8519
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