MOWW News:

This month’s meeting will be Tuesday Jan. 20. This month’s speaker will be Robert Hull.

Surveilling the Sea Below: The Cold War’s Hunt for Red October, and the hunt for adversary submarines. 

The U.S. regularly tracks submarines that operate near our territorial waters or near military exercises with NATO. Using specially designed anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft, fixed and mobile underwater sensor arrays, satellites, submarines, and other submersible watercraft, we look, and we listen for any evidence of their presence. Recent surveillance examples include the Russian Yasen-class submarine Kazan near Florida in 2024, and suspected Russian submarines during a NATO exercise in the Norwegian Sea in 2025. This tracking is a continuous cat-and-mouse game, a core part of naval intelligence, often involving the risky shadowing of ballistic missile submarines.

This month’s meeting will be Jan. 20. We will meet in the Los Alamos Research Park building room 203A. The meeting will begin with a social period starting at 6 p.m. A brief meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. with the speaker at about 7:15 p.m. For further information, call Gregg Giesler at 505.662.5574 or email at g.giesler@computer.org. The Military Order of the World Wars meetings are open to all interested people for dinner and program with RSVP, or the program only at no cost. This month, we will be doing something different. It will be a brown bag dinner. Bring your own dinner.

The meeting will be a hybrid session both live and Zoom. Zoom will start at about 6 p.m. Zoom details will be in the reminder email two days before the meeting

An Act of Congress chartered the Military Order of the World Wars in 1919 as a national patriotic organization. The principal objectives of the MOWW are continuing service to the Nation, and patriotic educational opportunity for the nation’s youth and citizens. Current youth programs are focused upon annual Youth Leadership Conferences for high school students presented in New Mexico by its related Sunbelt Patriotic Youth Leadership Conferences, Inc. Current, former and retired federally commissioned officers of all branches of the United States Uniformed Services are eligible for membership in the MOWW and are especially invited to attend our meetings. For additional information about MOWW membership, call Commander Gregg Giesler at 505.662.5574.