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Admiral Moore served in every leadership position in the SEAL teams, including the former commander of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, also known as SEAL Team 6, and closed out his career as the number two leader in the entire SEAL organization. He led the military’s elite forces through more than 2,000 of our nation’s most extreme, high-stakes missions and was deployed on SEAL team operations across the globe. He understands the importance of leadership and cohesiveness like few others can, and his experience runs the gamut from leading small groups to large-scale tactical planning. From the mountains of Afghanistan to briefings in the Oval Office, Moore is the man our leaders trusted when failure was not an option.
SCOTT MOORE VIDEO AND BIO HERE
Admiral Moore will speak at 10 a.m. Monday, May 23 on the second day of the conference being held at the posh SLS South Beach Hotel, May 22-24. The oceanfront hotel is located within walking distance of the Lincoln Road retail and Art Deco districts.
The annual LCT Leadership Summit, started in 1999, brings together top-level industry executives, industry leaders and operators from around the world who run companies of all sizes. Limited to about 120 operators and any sponsoring vendor, the Summit is structured to balance thought-provoking sessions with networking, social and recreational activities. And it all happens along the pulsating shores of one of the hottest beaches in the world.
Mercedes-Benz USA, Grech Motors and Lancer Insurance will be platinum-level sponsors.
SUMMIT REGISTRATION HERE: Now $1,200 per person through April 22.
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Announced at the 2016 International LCT show in Las Vegas, Lanyon customers will be able to access the new features effective immediately.
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Alleged Drunk Uber Driver Slams Into Empty Tour Bus: A suspected drunk Uber driver crashed into the side of an empty tour bus and then scuffled with officers overnight March 2-3 in the San Diego Gaslamp Quarter. KGTV ABC Channel 10 article and video here
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Passengers became flushed, overheated and nauseated. Two people allegedly vomited.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article here
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Tom Murphy, a mechanic and volunteer with the Philadelphia Youth Organization, seems to understand this better than anyone. In fact, he wanted to give the organization’s team, the Anderson Monarchs, an experience as close to how players like Jackie Robinson used to travel — in a vintage 1947 Flxible Clipper 29 passenger motorcoach.
Origins
Our story begins with the discovery of the classic motorcoach. In 1997, a mutual friend mentioned to Murphy that Steve Bandura, coach of the Anderson Monarchs, was planning a Baseball Barnstorming Tour in tribute to the 50th anniversary of Robinson signing with Major League Baseball. They were going to charter a bus for the tour, and this got Murphy thinking. He eventually came across the Flxible motorcoach in a three year-old issue of a national publication. He called the owner, and it turned out he still had it.
To see photos of the team and their motorcoach, click here.
“The bus was an amazing time capsule at 50 years old — even with six flat tires,” Murphy says. If they wanted to borrow it, they’d have to put in the elbow grease needed to get it running again, the owner said. That same summer, the team put 5,000 miles on it. Unfortunately, the organization did not have enough money to actually purchase the motorcoach at that time. Fast forward to 2004, and they were finally able to buy it from the new owner thanks to a donation from a local benefactor to the youth group — Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Co.The owner had driven it off the Warner Bros. Studios backlot in Burbank, Calif. in the early 1970s, and parked it in his barn in Connecticut. It had not been moved or started in 25 years.
Rough Repairs
The basic bus shell and suspension are very sound. It originally had an inline 8 cylinder Buick engine from the factory, but was replaced by Warner Bros. in 1970 with a GMC Million Mile 6 engine, which turns 50 this year and has about 450,000+ miles on it.
The biggest issue they’ve come across is trying to find replacement parts, Murphy says. The coach’s original four speed stick shift transmission needed parts that could no longer be found, so the transmission was replaced in 2015 with an Allison 1000 automatic overdrive transmission. This required a lot of custom parts and relocating the engine in the chassis in order for it to fit properly. Murphy’s friend, Howard McGoldrick, was able to wire the 2006 computerized transmission into the bus. This conversion was made possible by a donation from the Tri-State Chevy Dealers Association and CBS Eco Media.
As cliché as it sounds, renovating the motorcoach has been a labor of love. With no air conditioning or power steering, it still has a ways to go. “The goal here is to eventually make this a modern version of a 1947 Flxible Clipper,” Murphy says. “I’m spending time over the winter updating all of the exterior and interior lighting with modern LEDs and adding lights where they weren’t required in 1947…as well as a dozen other things that didn’t get done in 2015.”
Making a Difference
Why would someone put in all of this effort just to make an old motorcoach run? It’s all about what’s in it for the kids. “Jackie Robinson is someone they have studied and are well aware of what a pivotal person he is in history; he’s their role model. He rode buses like this in his career as a Negro League player. They are very aware their American experience is better for what he and others before went through to make it happen,” Murphy says.
Since the original Barnstorming tour in 1997, the team has gone on to do three more: one in ‘04, ‘12, and ‘15 (click here for video). And these kids can really play ball. Seven of them played on the Taney team that went to the Little League World Series in 2014. Mo’ne Davis — the then 13 year-old girl with the 70mph fastball — has been all over the news.
“These kids come from an environment where there is typically very little sports opportunity… I think the organization is a national treasure of sorts. The bus itself is probably the smallest part of it all.”
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