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The Chamber's monthly business luncheon provides an excellent opportunity for attendees to showcase their businesses, promote products, and let others know how you can serve their business needs, all while enjoying a delicious lunch, prepared by a local caterer and a spectacular speaker!

Sponsor: The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office is the second largest in the state, with a staff of over 600 serving more than 400,000 citizens across an area of some 1,200 square miles.

The Sheriff’s Office serves through four divisions: administrative services, field operations, support services and correction. Our correction division which operates the Mobile Metro Jail, has an average daily population of some 1500. In order to best fight crime while saving taxpayers millions of dollars, the Sheriff’s Office also administers a 325-bed minimum security barracks that houses prisoners who are put to work in order to earn their keep.

The fight against crime requires constant updates of technology, from text-based citizen reporting methods to Smart Policing. This concept utilizes crime analysis in order to identify trends and crime “hot spots” in order to best allocate resources.

Speaker: LT Banning S. Lobmeyer (Aviation Information System Program Manager at USCG Aviation Training Center)

Currently serving as the Aviation Information System Program Manager at the USCG Aviation Training Center, Lieutenant Lobmeyer is a Class of 2016 United States Coast Guard Academy graduate where he earned a B.S. in Government, with a focus in Security Studies. While there he was a member of the football and wrestling teams, and served as the Regimental Workplace Climate Officer where he authored the Shore Patrol Program to provide safe travel arrangements to cadets while on liberty after hours which is still in use today. Following graduation, he reported to Naval Flight Training where he would earn his Wings of Gold in 2018.

As a first tour aviator, Lieutenant Lobmeyer reported to Air Station Cape Cod to fly the HC-144A Ocean Sentry. While stationed in the Coast Guard’s First District, Lieutenant Lobmeyer quickly upgraded to Aircraft Commander and executed 26 Search and Rescue cases: saving 26 lives. One particularly challenging case involved a distressed sailboat 330 nautical miles offshore in severe weather, for which he and his crew were awarded the 2019 Elmer Stone Award for USCG Search and Rescue case of the year. It was during this tour, he began working towards qualifying as an Air Operations Branch Director with deployments to Hurricanes FLORENCE, DORIAN, and HUMBERTO. He also was an active member in the community as the head coach of a youth wrestling team of over 100 children, which provided opportunity to the isolated community that had no youth programs available.

In Summer of 2022, Lieutenant Lobmeyer reported to the Aviation Training Center as a member of the Operations Department. He quickly established himself in the Safety Department as the Ground Safety Officer, managing 27 safety programs and processing all ground mishaps. Since reporting, he qualified as an Air Operations Branch Director and has been called on to respond to six Type 1 incidents to include Hurricanes IAN, IDALIA, DEBBY, HELENE, MILTON and as the first underway Air Boss for Operation Vigilant Sentry. He was also selected by Admiral Lafferty to serve as a Core Team Member of the Commandant’s Accountability and Transparency Review Team, following the Operation Fouled Anchor investigation.

After receiving a full tuition grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety, he is projected to finish his Master of Engineering degree in Industrial Safety Systems and Ergonomics from Auburn in 2026. He has submitted for a Type 1 Air Operations Branch Director qualification, which if awarded would make him the first USCG Lieutenant to ever receive the international designation.

Outside of the Coast Guard Lieutenant Lobmeyer is happily married to his lovely wife Holly, with a daughter due in March 2025. Together they have rescued a dog at each duty station, bringing their total to four dogs in the household. A product of the great state of Colorado, he is an intense supporter of the Denver Broncos, Colorado Avalanche, and Denver Nuggets; however, Norte Dame is his college team of choice.

Caterer: Georgia Roussos Catering