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About Us Meet MilSpec Tours Staff MilSpec Tours operates specialized group tour and meeting programs worldwide. We specialize in military, historical, educational, and cultural tours as well as meetings and reunion operations. MilSpec's senior staff has almost a century of experience operating tour programs in Europe, Asia and Hawaii.
Sarah Krause - Senior Tour Coordinator for MilSpec Tours. Ms. Krause is a graduate of West Virginia University. She has worked in the travel and tour industry for more than thirty years in all aspects of tour planning, coordination and operations, especially of veterans tours. She has developed and led tours in Europe and North Africa.
Infantry and Airborne divisions: 4th, 17th, 26th, 28th, 35th, 42nd, 45th, 66th, 76th, 79th, 80th, 89th, 90th, 100th, 102nd, 103rd, 104th. Armored divisions: 1st, 7th, 8th, 10th, 12th. HQ Staff, etc: SHAEF, 3rd Army HQ, VBOB, VMI Alumni.
MilSpec Tours overseas partners include Seoul Travel Service in Korea, Vidotour and Trails of Indochina in Vietnam. |
Butch Sincock
- President of MilSpec Tours, Mr. Sincock is a graduate
of James Madison University and completed his Masters Degree
at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was an infantry officer
in Vietnam, serving as a company commander and later as a military
advisor with South Vietnamese forces. He is past president of
the 25th Infantry Division Association and serves as Executive
Director of that organization. He worked for the Department of
Veterans Affairs for a quarter century before retiring in 1997.
Beginning in 1993, he organized tours of Vietnam. He joined Galaxy
Tours in 1997 and then left to form MilSpec Tours in 1998. Mr.
Sincock oversees all of MilSpec Tours programs while personally
developing and leading tours to Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and Hawaii.
Patrick
Hinchy - Director of European Programs for MilSpec Tours.
Patrick has a masters degree from Oxford University and speaks four
languages. For 25 years he has planned, organized and guided tours around
Europe for US special interest and affinity groups, ranging from antique
collectors to US veterans. For 12 years he worked closely with Col.
Hal Ryder, D-Day veteran and the originator of US military veterans
tours to Europe, until Col. Ryder's retirement. This has
given Patrick an unparalleled understanding of World War Two and Cold
War Europe. Here are some of the main veterans associations whose groups
Patrick has taken around Europe, in addition to many smaller unit groups.
He has taken many groups several times.
Bob
Boulton - Specialist European tour director for MilSpec
Tours's small groups. Bob is a retired infantry major who for many years
served as a professional soldier all over the world and in Cold War
Europe. After retirement from the Army, Bob founded Abbey Connoisseur
Tours and became one of the most sought-after providers of guide services
for small, exclusive American groups. Among his regular clients are
several US senators and the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
Tony
le Tissier - Tour Director for US veterans tours in France,
Belgium and Germany, and especially for Cold War veterans tours. Tony
is exceptionally well qualified. He is a retired colonel of the British
Army who speaks French and German. He spent 22 years in Cold War Berlin,
first as Provost Marshal of the British Sector and later employed by
the British Foreign Office dealing directly with the Soviets. This included
his appointment as the last British Governor of Spandau Allied Prison
Berlin while Rudolf Hess was imprisoned there. A recognized expert on
World War II and the Cold War, he is the author of six books. |
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