Mike Cook, Arkansas Regional Group, and Randy Cantrell, Spokane Inland Empire Regional Group, are the newly named Directors of Districts 2 and 4, respectively. District 2 is comprised of the following states: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. District 4 includes: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. 

A Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Mike was a Civil Air Patrol Leadership Aerospace Graduate and began his service as a Cadet at age 13. Upon completion of flight training, he earned his private pilot license on his 17th birthday and his commercial pilot certificate on his 18th birthday. He taught as a Professor of Astronomy while serving as a Federal Inspector (U.S. Civil Service). He is the current secretary of the Buddy Spivey Razorback (Arkansas) Regional Group.

A veteran of the U.S. Navy with deployments as a jet aircraft troubleshooter on the U.S.S. Oriskany and the U.S.S. Ranger, Randy is the immediate past president of his regional group. He recently, successfully, completed the BVA Ambassador Training Program and is now functioning as an Ambassador of the Association at the VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington.

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