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Leadership
Our 2025/2026 Officers
Commander - Charles Yannis
Charles was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1969. After high school graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1988 and served in Germany. After his military service, he entered training as a police officer in New Jersey. He relocated to Las Vegas, NV in 1998 and began working for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department from which he retired in 2020. Charles and his wife Aimee moved to Blue Ridge two years ago. He now works for the Fannin County Sheriff’s Department. Charles and Aimee are members of the American Legion and the DAV.
Senior Vice Commander – John Tucker
John Tucker grew up abroad as an Air Force dependent and he entered the Air Force in February 1998 and spent over 20 years on active-duty. His military service included Bioenvironmental Engineering duties in Operational Environmental/Occupational Health, Radiation/Nuclear safety, and Readiness Response Operations (FEMA, Homeland Security, EPA, OSHA). He was stationed in the United Kingdom, South Dakota, Utah, Korea and Georgia and was deployed twice to Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan in direct support of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is currently serving as a Junior Reserves Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Instructor in Morganton, GA. He is also a member of the Fannin County Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veteran organizations.
Junior Vice Commander – Bruce Fowler
Bio coming soon.
Phone: 404-431-7077
Adjutant – Glenn Slotness
Bio coming
Deputy Adjutant – Walter Schnurr
Finance Officer – Katrina Rmiglietta
Bio and contact info coming soon.
Deputy Finance Officer – Randy Wilbur
Bio coming
Chaplain – Mark Smith
Judge Advocate – Larry Drake
Bio coming
Historian – Aimee Yannis
Bio coming soon.
Service Officer – Gerald McMillen
Bio coming soon.
Service Officer – Gerald McMillen
Glenn was born and raised in Duluth, MN. He attended the Univ of Minn-Duluth on an AFROTC scholarship graduating in 1983 with BA in Political Science and History. He was commissioned a 2nd Lt at the same time. He retired in 2018 as a Lt Col. He is a life member of the VFW and been in the American Legion two years.He served 33 years in the Regular Air Force; the Reserve; and the Minnesota Air National Guard as both a Technician and Logistics Readiness Officer and Planner.
During his military time, he was a: Missile Launch Officer at Malmstrom AFB, MT; , AFROTC Instructor at Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH; Ececutive Ofcr, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; Logistics Readiness Ofcr at Shaw AFB and Duluth ANGB, Aircraft Maintence Officer and a Squadron Commander (in garrison and deployed) and Duluth ANGB. While in the ANG he was also a Full Time Technician.
Deployments include two tours in Afghanistan (as a Sqd CC and attached to Special Ops), Egypt, Bahrain, Oman, Germany, Estonia, and Panama (counter drug) and various sites across the US supporting Alert missions after 9-11.
Glenn has been married to his wife Kari for 28 years. They have four daughters: Emily (Minneapolis. MN); Greta (in USAF at Eglin AFB, FL); Kapri (Chattanooga, TN); and Danielle (Mpls, MN).
Phone: 706-851-6736
Sargent-at-Arms– John "Scott" Copenhaver
North Georgia Honor Guard - Bill Stodghill
Bio coming soon.
Post Auxiliary President - Leslie Callender
Bio coming soon.