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Hotel: Crown Plaza Dulles Airport

Location: Herndon, VA

Date: 06/03/2016 - 06/06/2016

Chaired By: George Overman

Attendance: 77 total/35 shipmates

Highlights

Great reunion. Excellent hotel. Excellent banquet meal. Two fine bus tours. Everyone had a great time. Our guest speaker, and former Cogswell crewmember (temporary), was Ozzie Ozkosar, a Turkish Navy Senior Chief Machinest Mate who was aboard when taking over the USS Cogswell DD-651 and recommissioning it as TCG Izmit D342. He gave an excellent talk on how he ended up back in America and after many years retired as a Lt. Cdr. in the U. S. Navy. Out next reunion is sceduled for Sept/Oct. 2017 which will be held in Colorado Springs, CO.