Cigar Society of Chicago

presents

Operation
Desert Storm: A
Personal
Retrospective,
with Richard
Dunne

OPERATION DESERT STORM
A Personal Retrospective

Richard Dunne
Chief Master Sergeant, US Air Force Reserve (Retired)

Tuesday, January 18, 2022
5:00 pm CST Zoom login opens.
5:30 Meeting called to order.
5:30-7:00 Presentation, Q&A.
7:00- General cigar-and-cocktail conversation

Richard Dunne, a thirty-year veteran of the US Air Force Reserve, was deployed in 1991 from Chicago to Saudi Arabia to serve in the 1911th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron during Operation Desert Storm. Chief Master Sergeant Dunne will give us an overview of one of America’s shortest military combat operations (17 January – 28 February 1991) and tell stories about how that campaign personally affected Chicago’s own citizen soldiers.

Richard Dunne is a Fire Program Specialist in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), where he has served for ten years. Last year he was deployed in support of Covid-19 Pandemic Response for FEMA Region X. Rich is a graduate of FEMA’s National Emergency Management Advanced Academy, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Senior Executives in State and Local Government, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Argosy University. He is also an adjunct Facility member at the Eastern Gateway Community College. Rich served the City of Elgin for over thirty years; ten years as city council member and 25 years as fire chief.

[image: Chief Master Sergeant
Richard Dunne]

Respond to me by email at curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org if you want to attend. Include the name you will be using when you log in to Zoom. I will respond to you with the Zoom link and registration information. There is no charge for this online-only event.

About the Cigar Society of Chicago

ONE OF THE OLDEST AND greatest traditions of the city clubs of Chicago is the discussion of intellectual, social, legal, artistic, historical, scientific, musical, theatrical, and philosophical issues in the company of educated, bright, and appropriately provocative individuals, all under the beneficent influence of substantial amounts of tobacco and spirits. The Cigar Society of Chicago embraces this tradition and extends it with its Informal Smokers, University Series lectures, and Cigar Society Dinners, in which cigars, and from time to time pipes and cigarettes, appear as an important component of our version of the classical symposium. To be included in the Cigar Society's mailing list, write to the secretary at curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org