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Great Lakes has a new RC - SteelThunder

Started by ITB, March 09, 2019, 12:20:48 PM

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ITB

March 09, 2019, 12:20:48 PM
All,

Please join me in congratulating/welcoming SteelThunder as the new Great Lakes Regional Coordinator.  Kris will be taking over from me, as I focus on my new responsibilities with the AOC.

Kris attended his first Appleseed in June 2007 with The Guy and Fred as instructors
At his second event, he earned the Rifleman patch and accepted an Orange Hat in October 2011
He is currently a Senior Instructor, was the MI SC for 2 years, and also has been on the NRAAM IP team for 4 years
Kris has been married for 27 years, has 3 kids -- 2 in college, 1 in high school, and has 2 Labs and cat
Also known as the Warlord of the West, he works for a large aerospace manufacturer.
Outside of Appleseed, he enjoys road cycling, working on a grumpy Russian motorcycle, is a really bad CMP Service Rifle and 3 Gun competitor, is also color-blind private pilot, and is heavily involved in Scouts and his church board.
Kris' goal for the Region is to "bottle" the innovation and growth within the Great Lakes, apply it to all the states within the region, and share/steal best practices between the regions.

Thanks, SteelThunder for stepping up!

"I will either set my country free, or shed my last drop of blood to make her so." -  Dr. Joseph Warren

" ITB glides through the highways of the Midwest like a Velvet Fog, unfettered by mortal speed limits, leaving only the knowledge of American Heritage and Marksmanship (and a faint whiff of ghost pepper sauce) in his wake." - Oz

CF KD requal - Muenster, TX  11/25/23

Maximum Ordinate

#1
March 09, 2019, 12:51:20 PM
Thank you, ST, for taking on the additional responsibility.  You have big shoes to fill l, but I have the greatest confidence in you.  O0
"If you're going to be a Rifleman, be a KD Rifleman.  We should all strive to be like Ephraim Brank."
-Ramblin' Wreck

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Ghostring

#2
March 09, 2019, 01:17:19 PM
Kris,
On behalf of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Louisiana and Arizona -- YOU ROCK!!!  :F
Anything you need, just ask!  Now you're aboard, the Great Lakes are going to be the Greater Lakes, amirite?!?
Oh, and we've been stealing borrowing from the y'all for years  ;)

Congratulations!
"Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken...
     They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about..." - Lord Hugh Percy

"If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you.  If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?" - John Gunther

"That's Kirby-level shooting, right there!" - Trailman

ThePoet

#3
March 09, 2019, 02:38:41 PM
Congratulations, Kris!  If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.

cwcdl79

#4
March 09, 2019, 04:00:09 PM
Congratulations!!

Monkey

#5
March 09, 2019, 04:38:15 PM
Thank you for stepping into this big role.
"5 minutes for this stage - that's like a week in people years!"

"Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.�
― Hyman G. Rickover

"Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning Is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer."- Lanny Bassham

Corvette

#6
March 09, 2019, 08:08:35 PM
Even though he is a Wolverine, he's a great choice.  Ohio is here to support Kris 100% in his new responsibilities.  Go Great Lakes.

Corvette, SC Ohio

malabar

#7
March 09, 2019, 09:46:45 PM
Thanks for stepping up, Kris!

tk
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

-- Justice Alex Kozinski, US 9th Circuit Court, 2003

colonial shooter

#8
March 10, 2019, 08:32:22 AM
UH OOH there goes the neighborhood! **) Welcome aboard Brother!
"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny." --Thomas Jefferson

Only the dead have seen the end of war
Plato

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

Texas T

#9
March 10, 2019, 04:24:45 PM
Well done! Thanks for stepping up.
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."  Mark Twain


First Appleseed, September 26-27, 2015;   First Rifleman, September 27, 2015;   First Redcoat, September 27, 2015;   Second Rifleman, September 27, 2015

Thanks Corvette, great instruction!!!

MI IBC, February 2017

D.O.M.

#10
March 10, 2019, 04:37:05 PM
all glory and honor be unto you, oh, warlord of the west aka grand pubah!

I know you'll be great at this, Kris.

Can't we all just agree to disagree in a civil fashion while the planet's last, fading hope of liberty and prosperity gets snuffed out?

No. We can't.

de KD8AQT 73

Charles McKinley

#11
March 10, 2019, 11:06:42 PM
Huzzah!

Thanks for stepping up.  I hope to see you on the line..
Last evening, it occurred to me that when a defender of Liberty is called home, their load lands upon the shoulders of the defenders left behind. Just as the Founders did their duty for Liberty, every subsequent generation must continue their work lest Liberty perish. As there is no way for the remaining adults to take on the work of those that die, we must pass the ideals and duties on to the children. -PHenery
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