Thank you to all our members who attended the 13th Annual SOTA conference in St. Cloud.  The board hopes that everone found the conference informative and enjoyable.  I had the chance to speak with many of our membership at the conference and will bring your input back to the rest of the board.

The board and I wish to keep SOTA moving forward providing tactical training and being a tactical network resource for all of our membershiip.  I encourage members to contact me or a board member from your area to pass on your thoughts, and suggestions regarding training and the upcoming SOTA Conference in Duluth.  This is our organization, let's work together to make it all it can be.

The 14th Annual SOTA conference for 2009 will be held in Duluth, March 22-24.  Plans are already underway and conference information will be posted on our website, http://www.sotamidwest.org.  I hope to see you there!