USS Midway Veterans Association (MVA)
Attention: All Hands on Deck for
the 2017 MVA Reunion!
We are proud to announce that the next reunion of the USS Midway Veterans Association (MVA) is set for September 11-13, 2017 (Monday through Wednesday), in San Diego. We recommend that you arrive 1 day early (Sunday, September 10), however, so that you can register early and take in the sites and be ready to go bright and early on Monday. The grand banquet will be held on the flight deck of the USS Midway Museum (the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 13th). Click here to visit the USS Midway Museum’s Web Site. To all landlubbers, sea lawyers, old salts, old swabs, square-knot admirals, gold brickers and other scavengers of the seven seas, you, your family members and friends are invited to attend to help us honor America’s POWs and MIAs, and our ship. You do not have to be an MVA member to attend.
Breaking News! There are two ways that you can register for the reunion: (1) online by credit card, selecting your tour and event choices in the fields and then providing your credit card information when prompted, or (2) printing and completing a reunion registration form and mailing it with your check to the address on the form (Armed Forces Reunions, Inc., our reunion planning company). Use the "virtual" reunion page that opens when you click the link below. There you will find the fields to complete and pay by credit card. At the upper right on this virtual page, you will find PDF files of the registration form and the reunion program. Process the registration form as described in (2) above, and refer to the reunion program for details on the tours and events to help you make your choices. It is not necessary to return the reunion program to AFRI. Click here to open the virtual form and proceed with registration. Questions? Contact Jim Hayter, MVA VP-Reunions, by calling or E-mailing Jim at (703) 264-0542 /mailto:mva41vpr@comcast.net
Our reunion hotel, Wyndham San Diego Bayside (WSDB), is close by the ship and downtown shopping, dining and entertainment. Click here to reserve your room at the special reunion rate of $153/night (rate is good for 3 days before and after the reunion, providing the hotel has rooms available). You can also make your reservation by phone at 1-619-232-3861 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. PT, Mon-Fri; ask for in-house reservations and tell them you’re with the USS Midway reunion.
We are pleased to announce that RADM Mac McLaughlin, USN (ret.), President/CEO of the USS Midway Museum, has agreed to be our keynote speaker at the 2017 reunion in San Diego, Sept. 11-13. Mac will take center-stage on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 13, at our grand banquet on the flight deck. Mac last spoke to us in this capacity at our 2010 San Diego reunion, before the days of banquets on the flight deck. He was truly inspirational then, and he's even more so now. Just look at what he's helped accomplish for our ship, which is now polling as the most-visited and successful ship museum in the world. It doesn’t get any better than this, shipmates. Click here to read about Mac and what he means to the museum.
We are Midway veterans who are bound by a common love for our ship and a sense of duty that still burns strong to this day.
To view the 2017 Reunion Flyer click here to open
2017 Reunion message about initial planning of POW/MIA activities. To read message click here
The USS Midway Veterans Association (MVA) is open to all Navy and Marine Corps veterans who served aboard the USS Midway (CV-41) from 1945 to 1992. We invite you to join our ranks regardless of the department or air-wing affiliation you were part of while on Midway, for we are a shipwide
association. Today our ship, one of the premier warships of the 20th century, serves as the USS Midway Museum, in San Diego, California. She is the most popular museum ship in the country, and most of our reunions center around her. Find the link to our application to join the MVA, below.
Reunion contact: Jim Hayter at email mailto:mva41vpr@comcast.net.
Are You a Midway Veteran? If so, click here to download the membership application to join the USS Midway Veterans Association. On the form you will need to fill in the blanks and mail it, along with your check, to the address on the application. The membership fees we collect help offset the costs of writing, producing and mailing our quarterly newsletter and the many other costs associated with hosting our reunions. Our three membership categories are described on the application form. And remember, you don't have to belong to the MVA to attend the reunions. We welcome all Midway Veterans, regardless of Midway Veterans’ affiliations. Note: the USS Midway Veterans Association is a 501(c)(19) not-for-profit organization; our membership fees (aka, dues or contributions) are tax-deductible as provided by law. We donate 20 percent of our dues/contributions to the USS Midway Museum’s Education Scholarship Fund and Midway Preservation Endowment.
