FELLSMERE — The U.S. Navy Armed Guard and Merchant Marines will hold its regular meeting on Saturday, May 17, at 9 a.m. at Marsh Landing Restaurant, 44 N. Broadway, in Fellsmere.
This is the last meeting for the season and is being held on Armed Forces Day.
The speaker will be Albert Ricks. Ricks served as a Navy carrier pilot and flew 35 years with American Airlines. He has aviation stories that will be interesting. He grew up with air planes and his dad was an airline pilot.
He owned several planes, himself, and built one from scratch. Ricks has many incidents of humor and drama that took place over several years.
