RMA Meeting: Friday, NOVEMBER 14 2025 10:00 AM;
SPEAKER INTRODUCTION BY: TBA
TOPIC: “Lafayette Escadrille”
SPEAKER: Captain Paul E. Mawn
Prior to his retiring after Desert Storm on the deck of the USS Constitution in Boston harbor (i.e.: “Old Ironsides”), Captain
Mawn was on the CNO Executive Panel (i.e. active-duty staff in the Pentagon where he directly reported to the Chief of Naval
Operations). In this billet, he focused on Navy Petroleum related strategy & issues as well as other assigned tasks from the CNO.
He now lives in Sudbury & Harwich Port with his wife June.
SPEAKER BIO:
Captain Paul E. Mawn US Navy (Ret.) grew up in Lynn, MA and was commissioned
as a Navy ensign via NROTC after graduating from Harvard College (cum laude in Geology).
Following communications and intelligence training, he qualified as a surface warfare officer.
Upon release from active duty, he received his MBA from Rutgers University and worked in senior
management positions in the oil business with both Exxon and Hess Oil. He subsequently became
a petroleum consultant with Arthur D. Little, a partner with Mercer Management Consulting and
later president of Concord Consulting Group LLC. In this latter position, Paul annually consulted
with over 40 major oil companies around the world to enhance their petroleum logistics
productivity. During this period, he continued to serve in the active Navy Reserve for over 2
decades in a variety of surface warfare assignments as well as industrial security and petroleum
logistics billets.
Starts 9:45 for coffee/socializing at the First Baptist Church of Sudbury, 162 Landham Rd, Sudbury, MA
Invite a Guest to this meeting.
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VETERANS DAY NOVEMBER 11, 2025
November 11
November 11th – Celebrated in the U.S. as Veterans Day (formerly called Armistice Day) with parades and military memorial ceremonies.
November 11, 1918 – At 5 a.m., in Marshal Foch’s railway car in the Forest of Compiegne, the Armistice between the Allied and Central Powers was signed, silencing the guns of World War I effective at 11 a.m. – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. In many places in Europe, a moment of silence in memory of the millions of fallen soldiers is still observed.
November 11, 1938 – Irving Berlin’s God Bless America was first performed. He had written the song especially for radio entertainer Kate Smith who sang it during her regular radio broadcast. It soon became a patriotic favorite of Americans and was one of Smith’s most requested songs.
November 11, 1972 – The U.S. turned over its military base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese, symbolizing the end of direct American military participation in the Vietnam War.
November 11, 1973 – Egypt and Israel signed a cease-fire agreement sponsored by the U.S.
November 11, 1987 – In Russia, Boris Yeltsin was removed as Moscow Communist Party chief for criticizing the slow pace of Soviet reform.
November 11, 1992 – The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests.
Birthday – Abigail Adams (1744-1818) was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She was the wife of John Adams, the 2nd U.S. President.
Birthday – Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. Best known for The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.
Birthday – World War II General George S. Patton (1885-1945) was born in San Gabriel, California. In 1942, he led the Allied task force that landed at Casablanca in North Africa. He commanded the U.S. 7th Army during the invasion of Sicily, then received worldwide attention and an official reprimand for slapping a hospitalized soldier suffering from battle fatigue. After D-Day, he led the U.S. 3rd Army across France and into Germany. He died at Heidelberg, Germany on December 21, 1945, of injuries from an automobile accident.
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THANKSGIVING NOVEMBER 27, 2025
Thanksgiving Day in the United States is a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November.
November 27, 1701 – Anders Celsius (1701-1744) was born in Sweden. He invented the centigrade (Celsius) temperature scale commonly used in Europe.
Birthday – Wild West lawman Bat Masterson (1853-1921) was born in Henryville, Quebec. He was also a gambler, saloonkeeper, and later became a news writer in New York.
Birthday – Israeli statesman Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) was born near Pinsk, Byelorussia. He helped bring about the British government’s Balfour Declaration, which called for the establishment of a national home for Jews in Palestine.
Birthday – Czech leader Alexander Dubcek (1921-1992) was born in Uhrocev, Slovakia. In 1968, as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, he attempted to achieve “socialism with a human face” and loosen Soviet Russia’s control of his country. This resulted in a military invasion by the Russians.