Pensacola Area - The Goat Locker (USN/USCG)



MC: “GOOD EVENING FELLOW CHIEFS AND GUESTS WELCOME TO THE 2005 PENSACOLA AREA CHIEF PETTY OFFICER’S KHAKI BALL.

MY NAME IS SENIOR CHIEF JEFF LOVELL AND I WILL BE YOUR MASTER OF CEREMONY FOR THIS EVENING.”

MC: “PLEASE RISE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF COLORS AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.”

MC: “COLORS WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY, CORRY STATION”

MC: “PARADE THE COLORS!”

(COLOR GUARD PARADE COLORS AND PRESENT COLORS)

(CHOIR WILL SING NATIONAL ANTHEM)

MC: “RETIRE THE COLORS!”

(COLOR GUARD EXECUTE AN ABOUT FACE AND EXIT THE ROOM)

MC: “PLEASE BE SEATED. I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU SOME INFORMATION ON THE HISTORY OF THE KHAKI BALL…..AND WHY WE ARE HERE TONIGHT.”

“THE KHAKI BALL IS HISTORICALLY HELD EACH YEAR TO WELCOME NEWLY PINNED CHIEFS AND THEIR SPOUSES/SIGNIFICANT OTHERS INTO THE CHIEFS MESS. ONE OF THE PROUDEST DAYS IN AN ENLISTED’S LIFE IS THE DATE IN WHICH THEY DON THE KHAKI UNIFORM, MOST OF US KNOW THIS DATE AS 16 SEPTEMBER AND IT BRINGS BACK LOTS OF FOND MEMORIES TO EACH OF US WEARING THE KHAKI UNIFORM AND ANCHORS.

AT THIS TIME WILL ALL FY06 CHIEFS STAND TO BE RECOGNIZED! (CLAP)

THIS YEAR IS ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT AS LAST YEAR WE HAD TO DELAY THE KHAKI BALL DUE TO HURRICANE IVAN AND BY THE TIME THE EVENT WAS HELD MANY OF THE NEW CHIEFS HAD TRANSFERRED. THIS YEAR WE MOVED THE BALL OUT TO THE BEACH AS IT’S THE ONLY PLACE IN TOWN ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE SO MANY CHIEFS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. NEW CHIEFS WELCOME TO OUR CPO MESS AND ENJOY THIS PARTY YOU HAVE SO GRACIOUSLY EARNED! THE CHIEF COMMUNITY WELCOMES YOU ALONG WITH WELCOMING THE CHIEFS FROM GULPORT AREA WHO HAVE JOINED IN OUR CELEBRATION!”

DIM THE LIGHTS-----SPOTLIGHT ON THE POW TABLE (DAWN OR GREG)

MC: “AS YOU ENTERED THE DINING ROOM THIS EVENING, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED A TABLE IN A PLACE OF HONOR NEAR THE ENTRANCE… . THIS SYMBOLIZES, THAT SOME MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION OF ARMS ARE ABSENT FROM OUR

MIDST. THEY ARE COMMONLY CALLED POW’S AND MIA’S. REMEMBER!

SOME HERE TONIGHT WERE TOO YOUNG WHEN THE VIETNAM WAR BEGAN; HOWEVER, ALL AMERICANS SHOULD NEVER FORGET OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ANSWERED OUR NATION’S CALL AND SERVED THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM IN A SPECIAL WAY. REMEMBER!

THE TABLE IS ROUND… TO SHOW OUR EVERLASTING CONCERN FOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN STILL MISSING… REMEMBER!

THE TABLECLOTH IS WHITE…SYMBOLIZING THE PURITY OF THEIR MOTIVES WHEN ANSWERING THE CALL TO DUTY…REMEMBER!

THE SINGLE ROSE DISPLAYED IN A VASE REMINDS US OF THE FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES OF OUR COMRADES-IN-ARMS WHO KEEP THE FAITH AWAITING THEIR SAFE RETURN… REMEMBER!

THE RED RIBBON TIED PROMINENTLY TO THE VASE IS REMINISCENT OF THE RED RIBBON WORN UPON THE LAPEL AND BREAST OF THOUSANDS WHO BEAR WITNESS TO THEIR UNYIELDING DETERMINATION TO DEMAND A PROPER ACCOUNTING OF OUR MISSING… REMEMBER!

A SLICE OF LEMON IS ON THE BREAD PLATE TO REMIND US OF THE BITTER FATE OF THOSE CAPTURED AND MISSING IN A FOREIGN LAND… REMEMBER!

THERE IS SALT POURED UPON THE BREAD PLATE, SYMBOLIC OF THE FAMILY’S TEARS AS THEY WAIT… REMEMBER!

THE GLASSES ARE INVERTED…TO SYMBOLIZE THEIR INABILITY TO SHARE THIS EVENING’S TOAST…REMEMBER!

THE CHAIRS ARE EMPTY… THEY ARE NOT HERE WITH US TONIGHT… REMEMBER!

REMEMBER… ALL OF US WHO SERVED WITH THEM AND CALLED THEM COMRADES… WHO DEPENDED UPON THEIR AID… WHO RELIED ON THEM… SURELY THEY HAVE NOT FORSAKEN US. REMEMBER!

MC: “RPCS ALFONSO VELASCO WILL NOW GIVE THE INVOCATION”

(AL TAKES THE PODIUM…….AMEN)

MC: “DINNER IS SERVED” (Sit down meal)

MC: (AFTER DINNER)….INTRODUCE THE KEY NOTE SPEAKER.

“THE KEY NOTE SPEAKER FOR THIS EVENING IS

RETIRED MASTERCHIEF HANK DOUSHARM”

(15 MINUTE SPEECH)

MC: INTRODUCE THE GUEST SPEAKER

“THE GUEST SPEAKER FOR THE EVENING IS RETIRED MASTERCHIEF, MIKE DRISCOLL”

SEE BIO/REMARKS PREPARED BY BILL ELLIS

GUEST SPEAKER: REMARKS (15-20 MINUTES)

MC: “THANK YOU MASTERCHIEF DRISCOLL. THE FY 06 CHIEFS WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A PRESENTATION TO OUR TWO SPEAKERS TODAY.” (HANK AND MIKE). (CHIEFS CRAWLEY, FOSTER, HANSEN, MEISSNER PRESENT GIFTS)

MC: INTRODUCE THE TRANSITION COMMITTEE CHAIRS.

“I WOULD NOW LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE FY06 TRANSITION COMMITTEE CHAIRS ATCS ERIC STOFFERS AND PNC PHYLLIS SIDEL”

CHAIRS: REMARKS.

RECOGNIZE EACH COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

CHAIRS: PRESENT THE NEW CHIEFS.

(ALL NEW CHIEFSASSEMBLE BEHIND THE PODIUM)

CHIEFS BAXTER AND MCCRAY : PRESENT THE GUIDE ON TO THE CPOA. MIKE YARCK WILL ACCEPT THE GUIDE ON.

MC: “CPOA PRESIDENT CHIEF MIKE YARCK PLEASE STEP FORWARD TO ACCEPT THE GUIDE ON FROM THE FYO6 CHIEF PETTY OFFICERS”

Chief Ruff: “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE RISE, CHARGE YOUR GLASSES AND JOIN ME IN A TOAST.”

(WAIT FOR EVERYONE TO STAND….)

Chief Ruff : “FELLOW CHIEF PETTY OFFICER’S, I PROPOSE A TOAST TO THE UNITED STATES NAVY CHIEF PETTY OFFICER.”

ALL: “TO THE CHIEF PETTY OFFICERS!”

(CHIEFS BEHIND THE PODIUM SING THE COMPANY SONG).

MC: “PLEASE BE SEATED.”

MC: “WE WILL CONDUCT OUR FIRST DOORPIZE AT THIS TIME, HMC GREG FALL PLEASE COME FORWARD TO KICK THE DOOR PRIZES OFF!”

“THE FLOOR IS NOW OPEN FOR DANCING. OUR DJ

FOR THE EVENING IS DJ “POW WOW”, EVERYONE

HAVE A GOOD EVENING AND DRIVE SAFELY. DO

NOT DRINK AND DRIVE! MANY OF US HAVE ROOMS

HERE AT THE HOTEL AND WE CAN GET YOU

ACCOMODATIONS IF NEEDED.”

RETIRED CHIEF SANDI CORSI HAS GRACIOUSLY OPENED HER ROOM AS THE HOSPITALITY ROOM!

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