ROA NEWS
Beyond Advocacy:
Supporting Reservist
Employees
LtGen Dennis McCarthy, USMC (Ret.), ROA
executive director, signs a National Com-
mittee for Employer Support of the Guard
and Reserve (ESGR) Statement of Support
reaffirming ROA’s commitment to its Citizen
Warrior employees with Col Jim Rebholz,
USAF (Ret.), ESGR chairman and past ROA
National President. “ROA has had a long and
supportive relationship with ESGR. We greatly
admire what the Committee does, and think
it is a natural fit for ROA. We signed our first
Statement of Support in 2005, and are pleased
to renew that commitment,” LtGen McCarthy
said. Watching are, from left, ESGR Deputy
Executive Director Philip Pope; LtCol Ann P.
Knabe, USAFR, associate edtor of The Officer;
ERIC MINTON/ROA
Maj David Small, ROA director of communica-
tions and the Air Force Section; and 1LT James
Freeman, deputy director of ROA’s Defense
Education Forum.
In Memoriam: COL Herman Frankel, USA (Ret.)
C OL Herman Frankel, USA (Ret.), former ROA
deputy executive director, liked to tell of how he
single-handedly captured a German battalion in
World War II. As his division approached the Elbe River,
he was o