Meet Your Department leadership Department Officers Stanley Elliott Commander - Ames Post #37Email Samuel Blumer Vice Commander (5th) - Centerville Post #214Email Jeff Large Vice Commander (3rd) - Tama Post #73 Email Candice Lanning Finance Officer - Denver Post #653Email Whitney Smith McIntosh Chaplain - Altoona Post #682Email Robert "Bob" Waugh Past Dept. Commander - Douds Post #494Email Dennis Soppe NEC - West Union Post #15Email Steve Colcord Vice Commander (1st) - West Branch Post #514 Email Amy Muse Vice Commander (7th) - Glenwood Post #141Email Dwight Dinkla Judge Advocate - Guthrie Center Post #124Email Shane Pankonen Service Officer - Des Moines Post #274Email Jim Kessler Past Dept. Commander - Lake Park Post #371Email Bob Waugh Alternate NEC - Douds Post #494Email Fritz Kies Vice Commander (4) - Jesup Post #342 Email John A. Derner Adjutant - Dedham Post #20Email Julius Sisco Historian - Ames Post #37 Email Kandice Miller Sergeant-at-Arms - West Branch Post #147 Email Randy L Johnson Past Dept. Commander - Deep River Post #296 Email District Commanders Gerald Bennett First District - Swisher Post #671Email Cindy Yslas Fourth District - Cresco Post #135Email Terry Joynes Seventh District - Gravity Post #578Email Dick Bries Second District - Epworth Post #650Email Gary Quinlan Fifth District - Deep River Post #296Email Ken Fields Eighth District - Gowrie Post #431Email Dixie Kapayou Third District - Tama Post #701Email Don De Kock Sixth District - Pella Post #89Email Jim Rolfes Ninth District - Lemars Post #241Email