Here’s to all of you who wore the Shazam. Thanks for joining up to help. I'm looking forwart to this growing quickly once we get some momentum.
First goal is this: find every super hero who ever served on the New Mexico State Police Tactical Team, get the history down while we can still get it right, and put it in a book that gets handed to every new member of the team moving forward. All of it starts with the names. So that's where we start.
Below is everyone I've got so far. I started with 86 and it stands at 103 today. It's still missing a lot of names, and a lot of it has blanks where service dates ought to be. That's what this first newsletter is about.
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The Roll Call — 103 Names
Take a look. You'll likely immediately see the list doesn't have names for members you remember, and names that aren't on it yet.
Gerald Anderson
Alfred Arana
Adrian Armijo
Raul Arteche
John Balderston
A. Benavidez
Ryan Buckner
Jeff Burke
J. Butler
Philip Candelaria
E. Castillo
Joseph Chavez
Joshua Chavez
Tom Christian
Peter Conticelli
Robbie Coon
Cory Crayton
Frank DeLaO
Tom Dobson
Keith Duncan
Paul Flores
Tommy Ford
Mike Francis
James Frietze
Michael Gallardo
Noe Galvan
Robert Gibbs
Paul Gonzales
John Gooden
Robert Gutierrez
William Hanson
Steve Harvill
Andy Henderson
Luis Hernandez
Bill Holder
Robert Holguin
Alex Horcasitas
Glenn Huber
James Keyrte
Pete Kogler
Stephen R. Libicer
Bobby K. Long
Jorge Lopez
Howard MacKinney
Joe Madrid
Chris Maes
P. Mares
David Martinez
Lionel Martinez
Joe Mascarenas
Richard Mathews
John McCanich
Kevin McPherson
Albert Mora
Hugo Munoz
Steve Nance
Brian Nellist
Richard Newman
Juan Ontiveros
David Osuna
Maurice J. Payne
Roger L. Payne
Chad Pierce
Mike Quinones
Mark Radosevich
Greg T. Richardson
K.C. Riedemann
Alex Rodriguez
Mike Row
John Salas
Jerry Saldivar
Jimmy Salmon
Buddy Sanchez
Pedro Sanchez
Robert Santana
Farron Segotta
Tim Sharp
Robert Shilling
Forrest Smith
Teril Stadelmeyer
Gilbert Tafoya
Jonathan Tenorio
Forrest Thompson
K. Thompson
Andrew Tingwall
Shane Todd
Greg Toya
Mark G. Umprovitch
Jerry Urban
Michael Jose Urbano
Felix Valdez
Frank Valles
Bobby Vigil
Bryan Waller
Jason Waller
Kent Waller
Chris Ware
Ray White
Michael Williams
Josh Willis
Pat Wood
Ed Yeager
Frank Young
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The Ask
Four things. Send whatever you can on any of them:
Your service dates. The years you came on and the years you left. Most of the list is blank here. I know this may be hard to remember
Names I don't have. Anyone missing below, and anyone you remember who isn't getting this newsletter.
Who you're still in touch with. Send me a name and email and I will reach out. Or feel free to share the website or email address and have them reach out. I’m good with any means of contact.
The ones we've lost. Names and dates for the brothers who've passed, so the book honors them and doesn't forget them.
Please provide full names if you have them, correct spellings if I’ve screwed that up, or whatever you see that you can improve on. I’m open for any help. I’m working on setting up a shared drive where we can all share photos easily, but until then, just email or text anything you have.
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The Goal
Every man who served deserves to be in this record, and every name you send gets us closer. Know a brother from the team who should be on here? Forward this to him. Once he's verified, he'll get every issue.
All photos I include will have an image number so if you can name anybody in them just reference the image number and I will document the information.
For he who sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother. Henry V (This was Andy Tingwall’s favorite quote)
Much respect to all of you super heroes for participating in this project. It means a great deal to me.
Alex "Hondo" Horcasitas
NMSP Tact Team, 1997–2015