August 13th Click here to view the Alert on the MDAA website Follow and Support MDAA   MDAA Alert: Sweet Home Alabama Command Sergeant Major John Foley speaking at the 22nd Annual Breakfast of Champions in Huntsville, Alabama, August 7, 2024. Dear Members and Friends, We celebrated and highlighted our Missile Defense Champion community in Huntsville Alabama for the 22nd time on August 7, 2024, at our annual kickoff Breakfast of Champions at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium. This is a tradition and legacy that MDAA has done with our Air and Missile Defense Leaders in our nation’s bedrock of missile defense. “This is a world championship breakfast. This is a world championship team and it's not about playing for a world championship; it's about winning a world championship.” - Riki Ellison, Breakfast of Champions, 7 August 2024, Huntsville, Alabama. Our people come first as they lead the coalition of the willing and the winning to establish, develop, grow, execute, and sustain integrated Missile Defense to help preserve our freedoms and status quo in the current World Order. “We’re not a think tank, we’re a do tank. A people tank. A relationship tank.” - Riki Ellison, Breakfast of Champions, 7 August 2024, Huntsville, Alabama. MDA Director Lt. Gen Heath Collins, ARMY SMDC Commander LTG Sean Gainey, PEO Missiles and Space BG Frank Lozano, and USASMDC CMS John Foley highlighted individual champions in their organizations that are essential to critical issues of defense for the Nation and the World. “We have to have our expensive veteran players but as Bill Walsh told us, it's those guys on the bench that aren't on the field that make the core of the team in order to enable those superstar players to do their job.” - Riki Ellison, Breakfast of Champions, 7 August 2024, Huntsville, Alabama. The strategic environment is rapidly evolving, and we must contribute in whatever way we can to enhance the cost curve revolution. We are a do-tank, a team-tank, a win-tank, we are a world championship team, people matter, and people make the difference. We can’t win with just offense; we need to be one team integrated with our allies to win. The 2024 Huntsville Breakfast of Champions Awardees: Katherine O'Conner Anh Huy Nguyen Emily Hornberger Ms. Jeannie Sommer Mr. William Black Ms. Jennifer Montgomery SPC Chase Betsinger SFC Monte Perkins Fight On! Riki Ellison Chairman and Founder Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance   Click Here to Join MDAA _____________________________________________________________________ MDAA is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501(c) (4) organization. Our mission is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats. We are a membership-funded organization that does not advocate on behalf of any specific system, technology, architecture or entity. Founded in 2002, MDAA is the only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit our website www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org for more information.   Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance 515 King Street, Suite 330 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone: (703) 299-0060 Email: [email protected]   Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance | 515 King Street Suite 330 | Alexandria, VA 22314 US Unsubscribe | Constant Contact Data Notice