This is our annual Roster Issue, and our forty-eighth Boxcar Newsletter since the Boxcar Association was formed in June of 1991. Note that our current Veteran membership is now up to 295, and with Associates our mailing list is well over 300. Please check over your entry, and contact the Secretary if any errors slipped past my bifocals. Also, if your phone number and/or email address is not listed, but you would like to be, please contact me by phone, postal mail, or email. And, if you know of a Boxar Vet who is not on the Roster, please let me know, or put him in contact with me. We were only ever able to get about eight 178th rosters from the National Personnel Records Center, and only about three partial 400th rosters; consequently, there are more Boxcar Veterans out there than we have in the Association.

WHO ARE WE?
Veteran Membership is comprised of Veterans of the 178th ASHC and 400th TC. Several members were in other units in Vietnam but served in the 178th at Ft. Sill in the Seventies. Associate Members include relatives and survivors of Boxcar Veterans, Vets of other units who have a connection to us, and Veterans Associations.

WHAT IS OUR MISSION?
In a word - COMMUNICATION. The Reunions are great, but not everyone can get to them. The Roster includes home mailing addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. You can contact your buddies any time, and get together any time, whether you attend Reunion or not.

HOW OFTEN ARE REUNIONS?
We discussed this topic at length, and decided that we would have Reunions every year. That way, if one cannot make it one year, he can always count on "next year".

ARE THERE MEMBERSHIP DUES?
NO! We have also discussed this topic at length. The feeling is: We all paid our dues between 1966 and 1972. We do need voluntary contributions to the treasury in order to cover expenses (like the Newsletter you are reading) so contributions are are welcome, and we pass the hat at Reunions; but no Boxcar Vet will ever be cut off for financial reasons.

HOW LONG WILL OUR ASSOCIATION LAST?
We will continue to hold Reunioins as long as we have willing hosts, and Veterans who want to get together. The Boxcar Association has been growing for fourteen years so far; We'll last as long as we can...

Check out the Roster... Association Secretary DC Nelson - 2 March, 2004