The Aurora Navy League Council 247 will hold its monthly dinner meeting Tuesday, Feb. 19 at Grandma’s Table Restaurant, 1700 Douglas Road, Montgomery.
The after dinner speaker will be Lieutenant Peter Besser, USN from the Recruit Training Center, Great Lakes. Lt. Besser’s topic will be “How we transform a young high school graduate into a U.S. Navy sailor in eight weeks.” This meeting will be a most interesting presentation, with slides, that shows in detail how the U.S. Navy (and Lt. Besser) perform this amazing feat of training and transformation.
A reception will begin at 5:15 p.m. followed by dinner at 6 p.m.. The dinner includes a choice of three entrees, fish, chicken, or beef, soup or salad, dinner rolls, vegetables, dessert, and nonalcoholic drink. The cost is $20 all-inclusive. Alcoholic drinks can be purchased separately. A fourth, lower cost entree, a dinner salad, may be purchased for $12. It includes soup, dinner rolls, dessert, and nonalcoholic drink.
You do not need to be a member of the Navy League, or have a reservation, to attend the meeting, the general public is welcome. The Navy League is a civilian organization started by president Teddy Roosevelt to provide civilian support the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine, and Sea Cadets.
Lt. Besser is a native of Chicago and a 2012 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He has served in a diverse range of sea and shore assignments.
—Aurora Navy League Council 247