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THE
U.S. AIR
FORCE
A U X I L I A RY

November
2001

Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters

"WHERE IMAGINATION TAKES FLIGI-IT!''sM

Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.

CAP Celebrates Diamond Anniversary
60 ye~s of se~ice to our country

Discover the
history of this
volunteer
organization
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Civil Air Patrol
EAGLE Fund:
Extending A Gift of
Love and Empathy
EAGLE Fund going strong
in response to the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks on
America; money will be
used to assist the victims
of this national tragedy
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Image courtesy of Inventing Flight: Dayton 2003

2002 NCSA for Cadets

CAP members at WTC .................2
CAP assists at crash sites ......... 4

Check out the list of activities for

Avoiding holiday stress .............. 10

cadets in 2002. Access the CAP
website for updates on these

China tour slated ........................ 11
Aerospace Education ...........
CAP history. ...................

programs.

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Cadet programs for 2002 ....... 18-21
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Coast to Coast ...................... 2-28
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NEws

N e w Yo r k W i n g m e m b e r s r e fl e c t
o n ' 9 / 11 ' Wo r l d Tr a d e C e n t e r a t t a c k
By

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NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
-- On Sept. 11, three Civil Air Patrol members were near the World
Trade Center as the disaster unfolded.
New York Wing Commander
Col. Austyn Granville Jr., Lt. Col.
Edward Franco, and Chaplain Maj.
Van Don Williams shared their experiences during CAP's National
Staff College at Gunter AFB, Ala.,
held the week of Oct 20-27. On
Monday, Oct. 22, they reported the
reality captured by the camera
lenses of TV cameras must be magnified ten-fold to grasp the scope
of the tragedy. The following is
their firsthand, personal accounts
of the tragedy and how they're cop- Civil Air Patrol members Lt. Col. Edward Franco, New YorkWing Commander Col.
ing in the aftermath.
Austyn Granville and Chaplain Maj. Van Don Williams of the New York Fire
Department, pose for a photo on Monday, Oct. 22, after sharing their experiences
of Sept. 11, at the World Trade Center, during CAP's National Staff College at
Searching for Coworkers
As Col. Granville got off the MaxwelI-Gunter Air Force Base, Ala., held the week of Oct. 20-27.
subway near his office, he looked
his eyes and throat. He retreated think I'll ever get used to looking
up and saw black smoke, and
at where those magnificent buildcaught a drifting piece of paper. It back up 26 flights of stairs.
A half-hour later, he once again ings once stood."
was a trading bill. Uncertain of
braved the steps, smoke and dust
what was going on he reported into
his office, just one and a half blocks t o l o o k f o r h i s c o w o r k e r s , w h o A N a r r o w E s c a p e
On the morning of the attack,
f r o m t h e W o r l d Tr a d e C e n t e r, eventually turned up unharmed.
"If I could describe my reac- Lt. Col. Franco, an accident inwhere he works as an information
vestigator with the FAA, met with
manager for a worldwide construc- tion to the attack," said Granville,
"these words come to mind: hor- emergency management officials in
tion management firm. There, he
learned that a plane had crashed rific, amazing, awestruck, spell- the agency's office on the ground
floor of the already damaged World
into the tower. As he studied the bound."
To r e t u r n t o h i s h o m e i n Trade Center.
smoking tower from his window,
"The emotional part for me was
he witnessed the second plane Westchester, north of New York,
Granville walked 1-1/2 hours to standing in front of the burning
crash into the second tower.
grand central station because the building and seeing the bodies of
"The explosions rocked the
those who had jumped," Franco rewhole building," recalled Granville. subway was Closed.
Everyone he passed was in a called.
When the first tower collapsed,
Just as he walked away to
Austyn realized that two of his co- state of shock. Like so many othsearch for the black box, the buildworkers were out on the street. ers, he was covered head-to-toe in
ing began to crumble.
He rushed to the elevators, but the gray dust that snowed down
"I ran into a nearby deli about
on Manhattan that day.
they were shut off. So he took the
"I had my suit cleaned, but the a block away," Franco says. "We
stairs, skipping and leaping down
d u s t d i d n ' t w a s h o u t . I ' l l n e v e r turned our backs and shielded our
the 26 flights.
wear it again. I'll never clean my f a c e s f r o m t h e w i n d o w s a s t h e
I n t h e l o b b y, h e c o m f o r t e d
shoes. I'm going to lock them in a black smoke billowed down the bouscores of the people who had sought
refuge from the onslaught of black case so I'll always have something levard. "Once the rumbling and exto remember this day," he said.
plosions subsided, I ran out to help
smoke.
G r a n v i l l e s t i l l h a s t r o u b l e people. You couldn't see. I tripped
"I remained cool headed beon something. It was a person. I
cause of the training I've received sleeping, waking up suddenly in
through CAP," said Granville, who the middle of the night. He still dragged him inside. We kept runas a cadet earned CAP's Spaatz takes the train to work but, "Ev- ning out to help more. If you heard
someone crying, you just helped,"
ery time I walk by the partition
award.
he recalled. "Everyone was
He ventured out to the street with pictures of all the victims, I
get angry," said Granville. "I don't
but was turned back by the chokSee Heroes ... Page 5
ing smoke and dust that burned

Civil Air Patrol
National Commander
BHg, Gen, Richard L, Bowling
Executive Director
Col. Robert L, Brooks
CAP-U.S. Air Force Commander
& Senior Air Force Adviser
Coh AI Allenbnck
Director, Marketing & PR
Mory Nell CROWD
Civil Air Patrol News Editor
Evan L, Cnrdon
CAP News Assistant Editor
Daniel P. Meredith

The Civil Air Patrol News (ISSN #00097810) is the official publication of the
Civil Air Patrol, a private, benevolent
corporation and auxiliary to the U.S. Air
Force. It is published monthly by CAP
National Headquarters, 105 South
Hansell St., Building 714, Maxwell AFB,
A L 3 6 11 2 - 6 3 3 2 , a n d p r i n t e d b y t h e
Opelika News in Opelika, AL, and labelled and distributed by Action in Mailing in Montgomery, AL. Periodical posta g e i s p a i d i n M o n t g o m e r y, A L , a n d
additional mailing offices. Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of CAP or the U.S. Air Force.
Subscriptions: Annual subscription rate
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money order to.; Editor, Civil Air Patrol
News, 105 South Hansell St., Building
714, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6332. Call
(334) 953-5700 for more information.
Changes of address: Changes of address for members should be e-mailed to
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Civil Air Patrol EAGLE Fund:
Extending A Gift of Love and Empathy
The recent tragedy in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., has had a profound effect on all Americans.
Civil Air Patrol members were especially touched by the attack on our benefactor, the U.S. military headquarters in
the Pentagon. In keeping with the philanthropic spirit that dwells within each CAP member, the Civil Air Patrol
EAGLE Fund has been created. You are invited to participate. The EAGLE Fund has been created to provide both
short-term and long-term disaster relief to the victims and the survivors of the terrorist attack upon the Pentagon on
September 11. The EAGLE Fund specifically provides the support of long-term educational, health and rehabilitation, grief counseling, and general support needs of the individuals and families in the metropolitan Washington
region.
Donations are tax-exempt to the extent allowed by law and 1 O0 percent of all contributions will go exclusively
to supporting those most affected by this national tragedy. A special post office box and account has been
established to receive and process each gift.
Participants in the Civil Air Patrol EAGLE Fund will be provided a gift receipt for tax records and will be appropriately recognized in The Civil Air Patrol News. The EAGLE Fund was created by order of the Civil Air Patrol
National Commander, Brigadier General Richard L. Bowling and will remain in place through 31 December 2001.
Join Gen Bowling and thousands of fellow CAP volunteer members by providing your gift today and reaching out
to the victims and survivors in our Nation's capital. Please complete the following form and mail your check or
money order to:
~ cut here and place this portion in the envelope with your contnbution

Civil Air Patrol EAGLE Fund
Department 3139, P.O. BOX 2153
Birmingham, AL 35287-3139

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Reading Composite Squadron offers assistance at crash scene
Eighteen cadets and 16 senior members,
working in two hour shifts, aided in maintaining field operations, specifically perimeter seReading Composite Squadron 811's reguc u r i t y. 1 s t L t . D a v i d G o h e e n h e a d e d t h i s a s lar weekly meeting was thwarted on Sept. 5
pect.
after a Piper Navajo crashed into a semi-rural
At the squadron's headquarters, adjacent
residential neighborhood earlier in the afterto the Reading Regional Airport two miles
noon.
T h e p i l o t o f t h e a i r c r a f t , f r o m Wo o d s t o c k , a w a y, r a d i o o p e r a t i o n s w e r e d i r e c t e d b y 2 n d
NY, was declared dead at the scene.
By Lt. BARBARA A. FREY

Cadet Airman Zack Brizek monitors the crash site perimeter.

Lt. Earl Frantz. Several cadets, with advanced
radio authorization, kept communications open
with field operations.
A first real mission for many members, the
crash became a 14-hour undertaking until Nation'al Transportation Safety Board officials arrived the following morning. The members of
811 offer their condolences to the family of Dennis A. Gould.

This was the scene after a Piper Navajo crashed into a semi-rural residential
neighborhood in Reading, Pa°

San Marcos Composite Squadron saves lives at Giddings
By Capt. ROBERT SPIEGEL
The San Marcos CAP van, carrying five cad e t s a n d fi v e s e n i o r m e m b e r s o f t h e Te x a s
Wing, Group 8, arrived at the Giddings-Lee
County Airport festivities on Saturday, Oct. 27

at 9:50 a.m., in time to see a Cessna 170 lose
directional control on landing, attempt a goaround, but cartwheel into a Laker Buccaneer
amphibian at the fuel pump.
On board the Cessna was an elderly couple.

After hitting the amphibian, the plane grazed
the aboveground fuel dispensing equipment,
which began spewing jet fuel, and came to rest
next to a hangar full of people.
Without hesitation Capt. Mark Sandel,
a i d e d b y To m A d a m s a n d L t . L e r o y
Friesenhahn, rescued the two occupants of the
Cessna, protected it with a fire extinguisher
(not needed), made certain it wasn't leaking,
t u r n e d o ff i t s e m e r g e n c y l o c a t o r t r a n s m i t t e r
( E LT ) a n d s h u t i t d o w n . M e a n w h i l e , a i r p o r t
personnel, directed by Airport Manager Carla
Dedera, stopped the fuel pumps and helped
the Laker occupants to safety. Lisa Sandel applied first aid to the slightly injured Cessna
pilot and treated other airplane occupants for
shock.
The San Marcos CAP squadron put yellow
security tape around the accident scene. Sen i o r m e m b e r 2 n d L t . N e a l B a s e l e r, t h e
squadron's Deputy Commander for Cadets, led
Cadets, Airman 1st Class Bradley Owens, Airman Christina Sandel, Airman Mark Sandel,
J r. , A i r m a n G a b r i e l S t e w a r t a n d A i r m a n
A m a n d a Wa l k e r i n c r o w d c o n t r o l . T h e y p r e served the accident scene for Federal Aviation
A d m i n i s t r a t i o n ( FA A ) i n v e s t i g a t o r s a n d m a n aged the crowd during the ensuing scheduled
collegiate spot-bombing contest, which used
message drops. One cadet was overheard saying, "I didn't know senior members could run!"

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Civil Air Patrol delivers listening devices for rescue workers
N AT I O N A L H E A D Q U A R T E R S - C i v i l A i r
P a t r o l ' s N e w Yo r k W i n g d e l i v e r e d 3 0 B o s e
Noise-Canceling headsets donated by the Bose
Corporation of Framingham, Mass., to the urban search teams who worked the World Trade
Center site.
The equipment was dropped off to the team,
w a i t i n g i n A l b a n y, N Y, a n d p l a c e d o n t h e C 141 taking them down to JFK airport. This
was some $30,000 worth of equipment that CAP
expedited directly into the hands of the rescuers. The folks at Bose even took the time to
place batteries in each one, include boxes of
fresh batteries and provide a 24-hour technical
support number in case of any problems.
The headsets were connected to listening
devices used by the rescuers to detect the faint
sounds of possible survivors trapped in the rubble.

c o v e r e d w i t h g r a y. T h e d e l i t u r n e d i n t o a
triage. We cleaned their faces and made certain they were breathing."
Franco stayed at the site that day and returned the second day. He did what he could to
help, including joining in the bucket brigade.
The 'Sound of Darkness'
M a j . Va n D o n W i l l i a m s , a v e t e r a n
fi r e fi g h t e r f o r t h e N e w Yo r k C i t y F i r e D e p a r t ment, was finishing up a 24-hour duty and looking forward to getting off at 9 a.m. that Tuesday morning. Then a fifth alarm rang out. As
he was trained to do, he rushed to join a convoy of fire trucks speeding toward Manhattan.
Williams quickly set up the fire
department's staging area on the west side of
the World Trade Center. As a communications
and liaison officer, he dispatched teams to the
building and coordinated logistics.
He was only a block and a half away when
the first tower crumbled.
"People and firefighters ran from the tower
toward me. All I could say was, 'Oh, God. Oh,
God. Oh, God."'
A volcano of black smoke engulfed the entire lower Manhattan.
'~his is what I call the 'sound of darkness.' For three minutes or more, you couldn't
breath, see, or hear," said Maj. Williams.
The eerie bleeps from the pass alarms of
firefighters' breathing apparatus were the first
sounds to break the silence of darkness.
"The firefighters' pass alarms are designed
to detect movement and will activate after several minutes of inactivity," Williams explained.
Slowly the black smoke gradually gave way
to gray and a stark revelation.
"I went into force mode," said Williams,
"working the radio trying to contact the command post. It was gone."
Williams and fellow firefighters quickly es

O n S a t u r d a y, S e p t . 1 5 , a N e w Yo r k C i t y
Civil Air Patrol crew flew a follow-up mission
o v e r t h e Wo r l d Tr a d e C e n t e r s i t e . T h e p r e v i ous Wednesday afternoon, national media reported a light aircraft flying over the World
Trade Center site. That plane belonged to Civil
Air Patrol, who performed those flights at the
r e q u e s t o f N e w Yo r k G o v e r n o r G e o r g e E .
Pataki.
"Civil Air Patrol provided the first direct
aerial perspective of the disaster site for the
State of New York," said Dan O'Brien, Graphic
Information Program Manager for State Emergency Management Operations center in Albany, N.Y.
Northeast Region CAP members provided
support for FEMA officials by manning the Regional Operations Center in Maynard, Mass.,

and dedicating a Cessna 206 and pilot to transport FEMA staff members and supplies.
I n s u p p o r t o f t h e N e w Yo r k S t a t e E M A ,
CAP provided risk-assessment flights over the
N e w Yo r k C i t y w a t e r s h e d . T h e s t r e a m s a n d
reservoirs that make up the watershed extend
140 miles north of the city.
" To b e a C i v i l A i r P a t r o l v o l u n t e e r i s t o
stand ready to jump into action in the instance
of any scale disaster," said CAP National Commander Brig. Gen. Richard L. Bowling. "Our
people are highly trained in disaster relief functions and willingly step up in times of need to
assist in most any capacity."
Civil Air Patrol's Mobile Operations Center also provided communications support for
the rescue workers at the crash site in
Somerset, Pa.

tablished a new command post.
humanity to the fore.
Granville, Franco, and Williams confirm
'~Fhat's when we found out which ones were
missing," said Williams, as he realized that he'd this is also the case in New York City.
"People talk to each other now," said Col.
lost hundreds of coworkers.
A s a m i n i s t e r, M a j . W i l l i a m s e x p e r i e n c e d G r a n v i l l e . " B e f o r e , n o o n e e v e r t a l k e d . N o w
the dichotomy of his two professions. "In one strangers exchange greetings with one another."
Franco brings it closer to home, "I see evrespect I'm a firefighter, there to save lives. As
eryone and hug them and tell them I love them.
a minister, I'm there to save spiritual lives."
To comfort others he drew upon the experi- I tell my family I love them every day."
That closeness at home also expands
ence gained through CAP's Critical Incident
Stress Management program (CISM). CISM is t h r o u g h t h e a v e n u e s a n d b o u l e v a r d s o f t h e
a program that teaches disaster workers to cope great city.
"I've never seen so much patriotism in New
and help others cope with the emotions a proYork City," said Williams.
found tragedy can trigger.
"Every time I hear the Star Spangled BanAs did Franco, Williams also joined in the
ner or anything patriotic, that makes me weep,"
bucket brigade.
C A P ' s N a t i o n a l S t a ff C o l l e g e a t t h e M a x - F r a n c o r e c a l l s , ' ~ b e c a u s e I ' m p r o u d t o b e a n
w e l l - G u n t e r A n n e x p r o v i d e d t h e fi r s t o p p o r t u -American."
nity for Granville, Franco, and Williams to get
a w a y f r o m N e w Yo r k a n d t h e e v e r y d a y r e m i n d e r s o f t h e t r a g e d y, w h e r e t h e d u s t a n d
acrid smell persists.
As Lt. Col. Franco's flight prepared for takeoff, he prayed. The incident has changed him.
He said, "I'm more wary during the flight. I
take more notice of people now.
" B e i n g h e r e a t n a t i o n a l S t a ff C o l l e g e i s a
break from the long, 15-hour days, working for
As forest fires
The CAP members responded to a
continued in eastern
the FAA," he said.
Maj. Williams, who still works about two Kentucky during
request from the
or three days a week at the site, said he slept a November, with no
state Emergency
solid 12 hours his first night in Alabama.
sign of significant
Operations
C o l . G r a n v i l l e i s a s s i s t a n t d i r e c t o r o f t h e rain in the forecast,
Center to provide
CAP National Staff College, an executive level,
personnel from the
aircraft as aerial
in-residence course for senior members who asKentucky and North
radio relay stations
pire to high level leadership in CAP.
Carolina Wings of
for National Guard
Lt. Col. Franco is a seminar advisor for the
and State Police
the Civil Air Patrol
school, while Maj. Williams is a participant.
supported
aircraft.
Associated Press
firefighting efforts
Changes
Often tragedy brings positive attributes of again.

Heroes…from pg. 2!

Kentucky and N.C.
wing members help
fight wildfires

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N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 1 O C M L A I R PAT R O L N E W S

Scholarships, national cadet acitivities set for 2002
ext summer seems so tar
away now, but it will be
here before you know it.
Our staff is already planning
toward two important programs
for cadets. Because of their long
lead times, I want to alert cadets,
parents and cadet
leaders to these two
programs now.
The first is our
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the summer of 2002.
Many of these are ones that have
been offered over the past several
years and you can read about
them in this newspaper and last
month's pullout section of the
Civil Air Patrol News.
I am very excited about the
new NCSAs being offered this
year. The National Honor Guard
and National Military Music
academies have been in a testing
period the last year and now join
the ranks of national 2002 activities. The aim of both is to develop
a cadre of cadets that can provide
a degree of expertise to their home
units for honor guard or military
music activities. Both of these
activities have had a very successful track record for providing
quality graduates who have been
effective contributors to their
squadrons.
I am pleased to announce our
first venture into a technologically
oriented National Cadet Special
Activity. The Advanced Technology National Cadet Academy is
being offered for the first time thi~,
year. Cadets will have the opportunity to get acquainted with slow
scan video and its interface with
flying missions. Additionally,
other cutting edge technologies
coming into Civil Air Patrol will
be previewed. Col. Thommie
Herndon, National Coordinator
for Rapid Response, and Col.
Drew Alexa, director of Advanced

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Technologies, are heading up this
important effort for our cadets. It
will take place in Waco, Texas. If
you are into new technologies as
they are applied to our emergency
services mission, this activity is
for you.

In addition to these new
activities, a glider academy
specifically designed for advanced
students is being offered in
Colorado. This activity is for those
cadets well along in their glider
career. However, if that is not a
convenient location or timing,
advanced students can find
advanced tracks at other National
Ghder Flight Academies. Cadets
should just indicate a level of
experience in the remarks section
of the Form 31 when they apply.
On the powered side we will
be offering a fifth powered academy for the first time in many
years. It is planned for the Northeast Region. This will allow our
cadets in that part of the country
to find a National Flight Academy
within a reasonable distance.
The Civil Air Patrol Scholarship program deadlines are
rapidly approaching. There are
several different deadlines and
they are listed in CAPR 52-16. I
encourage all of our members to
review the scholarship opportunities and the procedures for applying. There are thousands of
dollars available in academic and
flying scholarships and some of it
is going unused.
The scholarships that go
unused are tied to specific colleges
and universities yet are aviation
oriented. For example Dowling
University has a school of aviation

that offers a full scholarship to a
cadet attending its aviation
school. The facilities and programs at Dowling are first rate. I
would encourage our cadets who
are interested in making aviation
a career to consider Dowling
University or one of
the other fine universities that provide
scholarships to our
cadets. These are
listed in the CAP
News, on line, and
the Cadet Programs
newsletter that goes
to all units.
Another opportu|
nity is for a Civil Air
Patrol Cadet to
attend the USAF Academy Preparatory School. The deadline for
that opportunity is rapidly approaching. This opportunity
provides a slot for a Civil Air
Patrol cadet. The Academy staff
chooses the applicant, but all
applications must go through

Cadet Programs at National
Headquarters. All applicants
must meet USAF Academy
entrance standards.
Most recently Auburn University, which has had a long history
in engineering, is offering a halftuition scholarship to a cadet who
wants to pursue a degree associated with the textile industry.
Auburn's textile graduates have
done work in NASA and other
aerospace industries working with
composite materials. The procedures for applying are currently
being finalized and can be found
on the CAP website in the near
future.
Overall Civil Air Patrol offers
numerous scholarships both flying
and academic either from their
own resources or through other
parties. I urge our senior leaders
of cadets to work with their cadets
in preparing their packages for
these scholarship opportunities.
Please, do not let these scholarship opportunities go unused.
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please contact us for a free packet of
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NOVEMBER 2001 O CML AiR PATROL NEWS 9

Getting to heart of chaplain program issues

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ecently the following
battery of questions (10 in
all) were presented to me
for comment and response. Questions, when properly framed, get
to the heart of program issues,
problems and philosophies. As I
reviewed my answers to them, I
felt impressed to share them with
our whole Civil Air Patrol family.
It is my hope that, as you read
them, you will gain some critical
insight into the direction our
chaplain service is going. It is a
matter of crucial importance that
the CAP family share the journey
with us as we sharpen our skills
to better serve.
Question: Congratulations on
your appointment as chief of the
CAP Chaplain Service and your
promotion to the rank of colonel.
As you begin this new responsibility for approximately 650 chaplain
and 165 Moral Leadership Officers, what has prepared you for
this highest position a CAP
chaplain can hold?
Answer: Serving as national
chief of the CAP Chaplain Service
is daunting. I think, however,
that my experience in life in the
military, as a professional educator, as a pastor of churches, and
as a chaplain in the CAP over the
past 16 years plus the brilliant
mentoring I have received from
some of CAP's finest, all meld to
provide me .with equipment
commensurate with the challenge
to serve as national chief of the
Chaplain Service. I have spent 20
years in pastoral ministry, and 33
years in an academic setting as
professor of Religion and New
Testament Language, Literature,
and Interpretation. Also, I have
served as a volunteer in many
civic capacities in several geographic regions over the years.
My experience with the CAP
Chaplain Service includes service
as a squadron chaplain, deputy
wing chaplain, wing chaplain,
deputy region chaplain, region
chaplain, national deputy chief of
the chaplain service, and now
national chief. I have kept

abreast of all training requireobjective as stated above, I am
ments and have completed the
committed to the following:
highest level of Chaplain Service
a. To mount a vigorous chapand Senior Training offered by the lain recruitment and retention
CAP at this time. I have sought to program.
receive training that is parallel, as
b. To prepare a training
nearly as possible, with the
format that will encourage incomtraining received by Air Force
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Chaplains
I get along well
with people in
general and with
the CAP personnel
i n p a r t i c u l a r. I a m
a company/community person and am
constantly plugged
in to my natural,
egalitarian, sensory
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impulses. My
leadership style is
consensus oriented. I believe in
the concept of community, and as
far as possible, community concurrence. The challenge of this high
office, though daunting, is one for
which I feel ready, though
humbled.
Question: What goals would
you like to set for your tenure as
chief?.
Answer: It is my view that a
close relationship with the Air
Force Chaplain Service and AF/
HC is a sine qua non for the
survival-with-credibility of the
CAP Chaplain Service (after all,
CAP is the Congressionally
chartered Auxiliary of the United
States Air Force, and we were
organized by and nurtured at the
bosom of the Air Force Chaplain
Service 51 years ago!). The full
force of my energies, creative and
otherwise, will be directed to
strengthening the relationship
between the Chaplain Service of
our parent organization, the
United States Air Force, and the
CAP Chaplain Service. I view
us--AFCS and CAPCS--as
children of common parentage,
with the AFCS being the older
brother.
I refuse to think of the CAP
Chaplain Service severed from an
on going relationship with the Air
Force Chaplain Service.
In addition to my primary

ing chaplains (and moral leadership officers) to seek training at
every level offered by CAP: To
inspire them to pursue training
objectives through every level
with a sense of fulfillment and
enjoyment, and to explore the
possibility of CAP chaplains
taking selected classes with Air
Force chaplains at the CSI at
Maxwell AFB (in light of Chapter
909 of Title 10, U.S. Code, Section
9446). It is my wish that training
opportunities will be present that
will make it possible for CAPCS
training to mirror AFCS training
as closely as possible: Especially
in areas articulated as critical by
the chief, AFCS.
c. To have all wing and region
chaplains ICS (Incident Command
System) certified by 30 June 02,
which is the second Semi-Annual
report period of my tenure. This
certification is a requirement to
serve as a Mission Chaplain.
d. To ensure readiness to
comply with Chapter 909 of Title
10, United States Code, Section
9446, which states, '~rhe Secretary
of the Air Force may use the
services of CAP chaplains in
support of the Air Force active
duty and reserve component
forces to the extent and under
conditions that the Secretary
determines appropriate." We will
identify a predetermined number

of chaplains in each of the eight
CAP Regions to be placed in a
readiness program in the event
the Secretary of the Air Force
invokes this provision in Title 10
consequent to a request by the
chief, AFCS.
e. To inspire
every CAP chaplain
currently in the
Chaplain Service to
complete the Chaplain Service Region
Staff College
(CSRSC) by August,
2004.
f. To Study the
feasibility of making
completion of the
CAP National Staff
College and Level V of the Senior
Training Program a requirement
for selection to serve at the Region
Chaplain level and above.
Question: Recognizing the
fact that all CAP chaplains are
volunteers, will you have a staff to
help you carry out these goals?
A n s w e r : Ye s . I n a d d i t i o n t o
the Chaplain Service Advisory
Council and the Chaplain Service
Executive Council, the national
Commander has approved my
request to select chaplains from
among our senior rank to form a
"Council of Special Assistants to
the National Chief of the Chaplain
Service." This council has been
selected. They are nine in number, and are committed to the
responsibilities I have asked them
to assume. The council is made
up of some of our most respected
senior chaplains, two of whom are
former chiefs of the Chaplain
Service.
Question: Please tell us
about the person who has been
hired to fill the new position at
CAP National Headquarters
known as the Executive Administrator of the CAP chaplain.
Answer: The event Title 10 is
invoked by the Secretary of the
Air Force in response to a request
by the Air Force Chief of Chaplain
See

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N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 1 O C I V I L A I R PAT R O L N E W S

Holiday stress
Some steps to help you avoid a crisis at Christmas
Christmas comes but once a
year. Maybe it is better that way.
For many people, the prospect of
the holidays and of family celebrations is filled with anguish and
anxiety. And, when those holidays
and celebrations take place without that special loved one, they are
much harder.
The holidays may be acQompanied by the emotional battering of
anticipatory stress followed by
post-holiday blues. It can take
weeks to recover the agony of unfulfilled expectations, the debt resulting from overspending to create the "perfect holiday," and the
disappointment of rediscovering
that family conflicts and losses remain unresolved despite the promises of holiday music and the commercial messages.

If you are planning a
visit with your parents, make your expectations clear. Let
your parents know
you intend to visit
with friends outside
the family. Alert your
parents to arrangements you might be
considering. Avoid
assumptions about
baby-sitting, sleeping
arrangements, transportation, and so on.
"Home for the holidays" can be either a
nightmare or a lovely
experience.

~ If a death or other trauma
Spend realistically. Give reContrary to the media hype,
has occurred, share with your chilalistically,
the holiday season does not proRemember that people are dren in terms that they can unduce the highest suicide rate. Howmore important than things and r derstand, and avoid euphemisms.
ever, during the holiday season,
~ Identify areas of concern in
events.
loneliness, depression, alienation
Clarify family expectations your life over which you have conand other personal problems may
trol, and exercise that
plague many of us. Percontrol.
haps present all year long,
~,Continue
tensions increase with the
projects that you
expectation that somehow,
have already begun.
in some way, the holiday
~, Create a rouwill make it, "All better."
tine for yourself and
The season itself does
stick with it.
little or nothing to solve
~, Plan outings
the problems in our life.
and activities with
Yet, many of us annually
friends. This mutual
perpetuate the fantasy
support can be helpthat this year it will be difful.
ferent. The responsibility
~, Find something to laugh
long before the holiday season.
for creating emotional comfort
about every day. Use laughter as
Avoid assumptions.
rests with each individual, not with
~, Acknowledge and allow for a stress manager and reducer.
the season. Changing our belief
~, Walk or exercise regularly.
from, "The holidays will make it
the feelings that you experience.
Include sufficient rest and relaxThey are real. Allow yourself to
better," to, "I will make it better,"
is the first major step in manag- miss loved ones who cannot be with ation in you schedule. Eat regularly and drink plenty of water.
ing holiday stress and preventing you.
Both for yourself and for
~, Share the work of holiday
post-holiday letdown.
your children, maintain the contiFor your information and use,
events. Avoid Victimhood.
Stick to your regular diet and nuity of the familiar. This includes
the steps that follow may be helpsleep routines as much as possible. schedules, school attendance,
ful in avoiding holiday crises. (The
~, To avoid letdown, plan some f r i e n d s h i p s , T V p r o g r a m s , a n d
sources for these steps include the
interesting activities for after the regular activities.
Elements of Crisis Intervention,
Recognize your grown chilholidays.
Second Edition and The American
dren as adults.
~, If you are in counseling, stay
Board of Examiners in Crisis In~, If necessary, remind your
in counseling during the holiday
tervention.)
parents that you are an adult.
~, Be realistic in your expecta- season.
~, If you are planning a visit
Learn to appreciate who and
tions of the holidays and the celwith your parents, make your exwhat you have rather than wishebrations.
ing that you had someone or some- pectations clear. Let your parents
~, Remember, it is not what the
know you intend to visit with
holiday does for us, but what we thing else.
~, Enjoy this particular time of friends outside the family. Alert
do with the holiday that makes the
year, and this particular time in your parents to arrangements you
difference.
Recognize that you are rey o u r l i f e . I t w i l l n e v e r h a p p e n might be considering. Avoid assumptions about baby-sitting,
again.
sponsible for your life and that
~, Allow your feelings to be sleeping arrangements, transportanothing and nobody else can be rewhatever they are. Avoid berating tion, and so on. "Home for the holisponsible for you.
yourself or discounting your feel- days" can be either a nightmare or
~, Live year-round, and espea lovely experience. Consideration,
ings or those of your children.
cially at this season, by the present
Let your children talk with fairness, clarity, careful planning,
realities and not by the fantasy of
you about their fears, concerns, and shared feelings help determine
how you might envision things to
confusion, anger, sadness and prob- a visit's success.
be.
~, If you need help getting
~, Look to yourself as the
lems.
through this season, seek profes~, Do not expect your kids to
source of your well-being and hapsional help early.
resolve your grief.
piness.

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NEws
16 day Aviation-Oriented tour to China slated for May 2002
A l a . - C h i n a ' s B e i j i n g Av i a tors Association will host another
aviation oriented cultural tour to
China in May 2002.
According to Edward J.
Komyati, the organizer of the
past five China tours, the BAA
has invited a group to return to
China for a 16-day tour the highlights of which will include a visit
to Qinhuangdao to attend the
start of the first "Great Wall Air
D e r b y " a n d a Ya n g t z e R i v e r
cruise. These are both first time
events for the tour program.
The tour is scheduled to depart Los Angeles (LAX) for
Beijing on May 14, 2002. After a

night of rest in Beijing the tour
group will go to Qinhuangdao, the
take-off point for the GWAD, loc a t e d w h e r e t h e G r e a t Wa l l
meets the Yellow Sea.
Then it's back to Beijing for
two days of visiting the Forbidd e n C i t y, Ti a n ' a m m e n S q u a r e ,
the Imperial Summer Palace, the
Beijing Zoo and Aviation Museum. Our hosts, the BAA and
COITS, will treat the group to a
world famous Beijing Duck %Velcome" banquet during the visit.
Xian, located in central
China, an ancient capital city, is
next on the schedule. The group
will visit the excavation site of

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the famous Terra-Cotta Soldiers,
the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, the
Imperial Resort of Huaging and
the Bampo Neolithic archaeological site. The Xian chapter of the
BAA will host the group to a banquet of twenty different delicious
dumplings.
Next stop will be Chongqing
(Chung King), the WWII Capital
of China, which is located in
w e s t e r n C h i n a o n t h e Ya n g t z e
R i v e r. A v i s i t t o t h e G e n e r a l
Stillwell Museum and the folkart museum is scheduled in this
fast-growing Industrial City from
where the U.S.Army Air Force
launched the first B-29 raids

against Japan in 1944. The tour
group will board a Four-Star
Cruise Boat in Chongqing that
will be their home for three days
o n t h e Ya n g t z e . W h i l e o n t h e
river cruise to Yichand the tour
will visit Fengdu City, The Three
Gorges and the Three Gorge Dam
site.
Kunming, the next capital
city is reached by a flight from
Wu h a n . K u n m i n g p l a y e d a k e y
role during WW II serving as the
terminal-hub for all air lift to
China from 1942 through 1945.
The BAA was instrumental in
having a memorial dedicated to
See China Tour... page 12

They actually pay to serve.
The dynamics of a worker friendly
environment communicate the
ingredients necessary to prompt
adecision to stay. The chaplain
on the Special Council tasked with
retention will work this issue with
our wing chaplains who in turn
will work with unit commanders
to keep the fires of friendship and
appreciation burning. We will ,,
work with our chaplains and
MLOs in a way that will convince
them that excepting God, family
and church, the CAP Chaplain
Service is the best place they can
find to share and serve our country andthe American people.
Incidentally, we believe---we
really do--that this is true: The
CAP Chaplain Service is the best
place for clergy, whether minister,
priest or rabbi, to serve God and
country as volunteers.
Question: What excites you
most about ministry as a CAP
chaplain?
Answer: I am a WWII
veteran and an American patriot;
my love for my country America is
second only to my love for Godfamily-and-church. (You will
notice that I hyphenated the

preceding four words. For my
purposes in defining myself, those
words go together in the order in
which they are hyphenated.).
Given the things we do,
Serving in the United States Air
Force Auxiliary, CAP, is a way to
serve my country. Considering
my age, CAP is as close as I can
come to military service. Aerospace Education, Emergency
Services, and the CAP Cadet
Program are three fantastic and
exciting venues of service. To be
in a position to provide pastoral
care for the 60,000 plus CAP
senior members and cadets and in
some cases members of disaster
stricken communities as well as
family members and other people
at the scene of horrendous accidents is the grandfather of all
exciting adventures in service.
Add to this the role we are soon to
play in Home Land Defense and
you have something that will
excite and elicit for service every
ounce of service in your body. And
to think: I get to do this in a
relationship with the United
States Air Force and the Air Force
Chaplain Service.
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Service. This is a distinct
honor and privilege.
Question: Even though CAP
usually averages from 30-50 new
chaplains each year, a significant
number of Units still have no
chaplain assigned. Do you plan to
have any special recruitment
programs to increase this yearly
average (and man unmanned
Units with chaplains)?
Answer: Yes. Our recruitment efforts are augmented by a
professionally prepared, highly
attractive and provocative, four
color recruitment brochure. Two
of the members of 'The Council of
Special Assistants to the Chief of
the Chaplain Service" are tasked
with working therecruitmentrentention issue for us and enlisting the aid of all of our chaplains
and the commanders of the 1400
plus CAP Units in fostering the
endeavor. My immediate goal is
to have a minimum of three
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fourths of the 1400 CAP Units
manned with Chaplain Service
Personnel by the end of my tenure
in August, 2004.
Question: Equally important
as recruiting chapla~s is keeping
the ones you have. On an average,

CAP loses a significant number of chaplains each year.
To what do you attribute this
loss and what would you like to
see done to facilitate the retention
of CAP chaplains?
Answer: Attrition among our
chaplains may not be blamed on
any one factor. Many factors
combine to contribute to our loss
of chaplains. One of the members
of the Council of Special Assistants to the National Chief of the
ChapIain Service is tasked with
the responsibility of identifying
key contributing factors to this
phenomenon. He has written and
is in the process of updating a
booklet on retention of chaplains.
The booklet will be a source for
instructions on retention in
connection with our Chaplain
Service Regio n Staff Colleges.
Also, we hope to disseminate the
booklet among CAP Wing Commanders.
It is my opinion that the
presence of a friendly and appreciative working environment will
greatly almt our efforts at retention. As you know, our chaplains
(and MLOs) are all volunteers
who receive no remuneration.

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GEN. IRA C. EAKER AWARD
BRIG. GEN. CHARLES E.,
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EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

ILT AARON ADAMS
2LT CHARLES W. BOLIN
MAJ JERRY FR1SBY
SM ROBERT MCKINNEY
CAPT GUINA F. WILLIAMS
SM JOHN R. ELLISON
2LT JAMES COX
CAPT DAVID FELBER
CAPT EDWARD T. SCHILTZ
2LT MICHEAL THOMPSON
LTCOL LEO F. WILLIAMS
ILT LARRY R. ALLEN
2LT BARBARA J. BOWEN
1LT ROBBERT E. COUCH
CAPT LINDA J. EVEREST
ILT JONATHAN FOSDAL
CAPT STEPHANIE N. KONEONY
2LT GEROGE R. MURRAY, JR.
SM JEANNE M. PEKNY
2LT JOSEPH E, PEKNY
ILT ELIZABETH J. SECREST
SM CINDY A. SHOCK
1LT ERIC W. TISO
CAPT ALFRED G. TRAYLOR
CAPT ROBERT W, TURNER
1LT MAX T, BRADLEY
ILT JOHN HOECK
CAPT KEVIN BARRY
LTCOL DONALD F. EDDY
CAPT JOHN A. JONES
2LT DENNIS W. MCGRAW
1LT MAURICE D. CLEMENT
SM KRISTOFER D. KELLY
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MATTHEW W, DRESHER
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GREGORY A. CHAPLIN
HUNTER L. HOLLRAH
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Zane R. Shewalter
Robert Hernandez
David R, Walker
David E. Warlord
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Col Gene D. Hartman (First Bronze Clasp)
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Brady J. Delperdang
Justin G. Geiger
Norma Corona
Marcelino Corona
Wade C. Kamman
Laura M. Hiesener
Mark E. Sievertson II
Adam D. Trimble
Jared R. Wilson
Will D. Lindsay
Philip P, Hawley
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Anne M. Gaulkln
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Walter F. Whitson, Jr IL 28 May 55-30 Sep 01

Oct 98 -

Northeast Region HQ tl Sep 01 - 28 Sep 01

honor the Hump Flyers who
served during this critical period
in Chinese history. A visit to the
memorial and a tour of the Stone
Forest located south of Kunming
are scheduled for the visit.
Shanghai, the last capital city
o f t h e t o u r, i s a w o n d e r f u l e x ample of ancient and modern
China. This modern city with over
14 million inhabitants offers an
unforgettable contrast between

ancient Cathay and the new
China. Visiting the river front
BUND area one sees a 100-floor
skyscraper with multi-level freeways crossing suspension bridges
along with a modern Olympic
sports stadium and new world
class art museum, which are in
contrast with the YU garden (YU
Yuan) that was started in the
16th century and now offers serene refuge in the center of

Shanghai
The cost for this "not for
profit" tour is $2,610 per person
(double occupancy). Included are
international air tickets, intercity air-tickets and ground transportation, Yangtze river cruise
accommodations, hotel accommodations (four and five ~ar), three
meals a day, entrance tickets for
all tours, airport taxes inside
China, professional guides, insur-

P h i l i p D , Ye t c h
Nolan K. Madrlaga
Kevin C. Cosse I
Steven P. Weber
Nicholas M, Carvan
Molly A. Schseffer
Michael Wethen
Kelly Craven
Christopher W. Duffey
Christopher P. Jacques
Avlnash C. Chandra
Daniel E. Haack
James B. Holderbaum
Fred S, YI
Jeffery L. Belisle
Jason D. Backers
Lance L. Kraffenberg
Luis M. Vicente
Dia Beshare
Jesse B, Bronzo
Steven Cuevas
Lltchroy M. Marquis
Brian J. Bauer
Philip M, Brown
Elizabeth A. Arle
Joseph R. Dringo
Eric H. Frohman
Matthew M. Groff
MIchaelT, Maguire
A n d r e w J , Tr e i m e n
Glenn A. Conley
Joe D, Hendrix
lan R, Thomas
Alexander C, Zavala
Gary R. Jennings
Eric Cannon
Lawson J. CaBs
Nick J, Kulesza
Daniel Maciejewski
Brian G° Rigez
Paul S. Rigez
Francisco J. Carrero
Raymond Feliciano
Kristy Lamboy
Richard Rodrlguez
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Jelani D. Webster
Brandon D. Harmon
Heather L, Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Lucae
Michael S. Fry
Matt D. Langley
Andrew J. Ford
Rysn D, Reeves
Christopher K. Kosko
Edward L, Lloyd
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ance in China and Chinese visa
fee.
To obtain a tour application,
send your name, rank status (cadet, senior member, CAP family
member), address, and home and
work telephone numbers to: BAA/
U.S.Aviators 2002 China Tour c/o
Edward J. Komyati, 3737
Cricklewood Drive, Montgomery,
AL 36109- 1307.

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Following the recent attack on the World Trade Cenlm-, Civil Air Patrol voluntev_rs across the nation sprang into action-continuing a tradition of service to this country that ~ 60 yea~ ago. For more than a half century, the official Air Force Auxiliary
has carried out nork~mh~t missions on ~ of the US. Air Force.
Not since World War II, has any other C_MI Air Patrol commander been able to step forward and speak to you with the
pride in which I ~ today.
Many of you are familiar with fl'tis organization's ~, but our diamond annivew-omy provides the perfect opportt~ty to
reflect on our legacy and traditions.
The C_M1 Air Patrol was offid~ established as a voltmfeer civilian defense organimtion on Dec. 1,1941, just one week before Pearl Haflxrr.
During World W~r IL we ~ fan'Knas for our coas~ patrol where dvilian vohmteem used their aircraft to spot emmy
submark~ along the Atlantic and Gull: ~
~that ~'s ~ into fl',e war was imminent and general aviation would be needed to ~ CAP
grew rapidly into an army of over IO0,(BO dvilian v~ committal to ~ ~'s ~ Back then, lhe or~
nization was ~ of wen ~o old for ~ Army, boys too young for it, wormn who wanted to ~'ve our nation in a productive capacity and ~ of ~ who later saw action in every branch of military service.
CAP vol~ pilots flew more than 24 million miles over the Atlantic and Gulf in ~ akrmft to help win fl-~e
battle agah'~t C, ennan U-boats that were praying on crustal shipping early in fl-~e war. Km~ with bom~ and delYah ~,
the CAP ~ Patrol fotmd 173 ~ su~, att~.ed 57, hit 10 and sank two. After the war, a ~ ~er con£mned during a ~ he gave to the ~ Beach C_.oas~ Patrol that U-lx~t operations were withdrawn hrnn our coasts
'~use of fixate damned little ~i and yellow airp~"
Next year in ~on with our winter national board, we will honor and pay tnlmte to our World War II vol~
hers who served ~ great nation in ~ CAP Coastal Patrol - ~ very first '~ defense" group.
TtK~ of you who've studied hhe 1Kva~ of this ~tion know that Civil Air Patrol is the bmimhild of aviation writer
CAll Robb Wilson, who ~y advocak:d ~ use of dvilian flyers to help ~ our cotmtry's ~.
It is ~ passion of the Civil Air Patrol's fotmding fa~ and charl~ ~ that today remains one of our driving forces.
You proved this in the days that followed the World Trade Cen0er attack. All across ~ nation, Civil Air Patrol wings
sprang into action. In fact the first direct overl'~d aerial shots of the disaster site were provided by our New York Wing. Our
sprang into action from ~ to Florida; from New Mexico to Maine-~ghout this great nation, CAP answered
lhe call for Wamport of blood and blood products, monitoring airports, WamFx~tion of government officials, rearming state
operations centers and providing aerial
" .
The recent tragedy only und~ the need for ~d defense, and as volunteers of h'~ great~'t organization on ~ ~ tragic event brings us full drcle as we again ~ to guard our horr~Aand. Even fl~ough CAP missions have
been modified by the needs of a more complex society today, the spirit of those early aviat~s is still evident in the enthusiasm
displayed by our 60,000 volunk:~r ~ in service to their conmunities. Steef~ in the tradition of its wartime service, Civil
Air Patrol has matum:t into a viable humani~n dvilian service organimtion.
As we look toward our 60th year -its our diamond anniversary- I am reminded of a quote hr~ Oliver Wendell Holn'~,
"The great~t fl'~xg in this world is not so much where we are, but in what ~on we are moving."
More than any ~ time in our 1KCcory, I'm convinced we are moving in ~ right din~on...a ~on that will lead us to
unrented growth...a direction h'~t will truly allow our imagination to take fligh~ I invite you to join me as we approach
exalting and challenging times. The future has never looked ~ for this organization, we love, Civil Air Patrol
I am honoK~ to lead you at this fasdnating &me in our 1Kstory. Gcxt bless Civil Air Patrol and C_o:l bless ~ca.
-Brig. Gen. Richard L Bowling
National Commander

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N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 1 O C i v i L A I R PAT R O L N E W S

Our Noble Beginning

civilian coastal patrol bases until
government financial support caught up.

vital war supplies for Europe were

Volunteers came from

nearly choked off as enemy submarines

everywhere and within

operated with impunity--often within

months, some 40,000 signed

sight of the beach. Tankers and freighters

up, ranging from overage

were going to the bottom in record

World War I fliers to aviation

numbers. While the American military
frantically geared up to meet the threat,
ships were torpedoed in the mouth of the

heroes and Hollywood
celebrities.
CAP pilots provided their

Connecticut River and in the Saint
Lawrence. One surfaced sub actually

expenses on their $8 per

on January 15, navigating by reference to

flying-day government pay,

a New York City tourist map and visible

which often arrived two

landmarks like the Ferris Wheel at Coney

months late. Civic organiza-

Island. Subs could blast their prey at night

tions across the nation

as targets became silhouetted against still

The Early Years

and often couldn't cover

motored right into outer New York Harbor

Gill Robb Wilson

own airplanes and equipment,

chipped in with Sink-a-Sub

brightly lit coastal resorts. Usually
unopposed, they could attack on the

Civil Air Patrol was conceived in

clubs, staging fund-raisers for
Coastal Patrol.

the late 1930s by legendary New

surface using deck guns to conserve

Jersey aviation advocate Gill Robb

torpedoes. Even years later, New Jersey

The military required an initial
90-day trial in early 1942 to prove

Wilson, who foresaw aviation's r(

civilians could do the job, so

in war and general aviation'~

Coastal Patrol began as an

potential to supplement America ~

experiment at the hot spots of the

unprepared military. Wilson, then

submarine bloodbath; Atlantic

aviation editor of the The New York

City, New Jersey; Rehoboth

m t Ly n d o n B . J o h n s o n c o n g r a t u l a t e s a c a d e t .
II presented by President Roosevelt went
to CAP pilots Eddie Edwards and Hugh
Sharp for one such rescue, which saved
one of two crewmembers down in a
bitterly cold wintertime ditching. Edwards
had to perch on the Widgeon's wing to
counterbalance the loss of the opposite
pontoon, ripped away in the rescuers'
landing. A half-frozen Edwards clung there
for 11 hours as the unflyable Widgeon was

Herald Tribune and later New Jersey

Beach, Delaware; and Lantana,

Aeronautics Commissioner, first sold

Florida. Flying up to 200 miles

the idea to New Jersey's Charles

offshore were pilots whose

Edison, who created a statewide

previous overwater experience had

depth charges after a crew watched in vain

organization. Wilson then convinced

been crossing the wide part of the

as a grounded sub off Cape Canaveral,

New York Mayor (and National Civil

Delaware River from below

Florida, escaped before the military arrived.

Defense Chief) Fiorello La Guardia of

Wilmington over to the South

the need for a civilian air defense

Civil Air Patrol's first female unit.

organization. The new Civil Air Patrol

uniforms and U.S. insignia so they

was born on December 1, 1941, just

teens termed their secluded romantic

days before the Japanese attacked

interludes on the beach, "Watching the
Submarine Races."

Pearl Harbor.
The CAP insignia, a red three-

Jersey side. They wore military

As tankers burned, Philadelphia-based
Sun Oil (Sunoco), along with other

would be considered prisoners of war if
captured rather than shot as guerrillas.
Atlantic City's initial flight was out

water taxied at night to shore.
CAP planes began carrying bombs and

CAP Coast Patrol flew 24 million miles,
found 173 submarines, attacked 57, hit 10
and sank two. By Presidential Executive
order, CAP became an auxiliary of the
Army Air Forces on April 29, 1943. The
military had resisted "those country-club

only 15 minutes when it spotted its
first torpedoed tanker and started

pilots" and their "toy

coordinating rescue efforts. The

planes," but 21 CAP

appearing on private

presence of CAP raised tanker crew

Coastal Patrol bases

aircraft everywhere. (The

morale during the war and was even

from Maine to Texas

red markings were later

credited with convincing torpedoed

had soon deterred

deleted for aircraft in

tankermen to accept another assign-

close-in submarine

combat areas to prevent

ment back at sea. A CAP crew first

operations. By August

confusion with enemy

interrupted a sub attack on a flight out

31, 1943, it was time

insignia.) CAP initially

of Rehoboth Beach, saving a tanker offf for the Coastal Patrol

planned only on liaison

Cape May, New Jersey. Since radio

flying and interdiction of

calls for military bombers were often

bladed propeller in the Civil Defense
white-triangle-in-blue-circle, began

infiltrators on the East

concerned companies, established a Tanker

to stand down. A ..............

German commander
unproductive, unarmed CAP fliers dived later confirmed that
:1

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Coast and the southern

in mock attacks te force subs to break

coastal U-boat

border, but CAP's mission

and run.

operations were

grew when German

Many CAP aviators earned member-

submarines began to prey

ship in the Duck Club for their numer-

on American ships.

ous engine failures and subsequent

Coastal Patrol

ditchings at sea. Radio calls to CAP's

America entered the war
with meager maritime defenses on
the East Coast. Gasoline and oil
shortages grew and

communications network, if made in

Cartoonist Zack Mosely signs an autograph for
his admirers. In early t942, Lt. Col. Mosley
created the syndicated comic strip uSmilinn
3ack,n to build support for the fledgling organization, which was founded on Dec. t, t941.

~

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Three young Arizona Wing

withdrawn because of
those "damned little
red and yellow airplanes."

Other Wartime Missions

time on weak one-watt sets, brought

CAP went on to target towing opera-

CAP twin-engine Grumman Widgeon

tions, courier service for the Army, liaison

amphibians to the rescue. The first Air
Medals of World War

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obvious there

Southern Border Patrol against enemy

was no other

infiltrators crossing from Mexico, and air

organization

search and rescue. Nonflying CAP

with the

members guarded airfields and trained a

equipment

rapidly growing corps of CAP cadets. CAP

and training

searched for many military planes that

to continue

had gone down on training or ferry

this vital job

missions around the United States. After a

in the

B-24 crash landed one winter atop Mount

postwar

Baldy near Taos, New Mexico, a CAP

years. Even

Taylorcraft made six successful landings
and recover crucial equipment. Nevada

O CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

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war, it was
and cargo flights between war plants,

at 12,800 feet to deliver survival rations

NOVEMBER 2001

though there
Civil Air Patrol members pass in review at Coastal Patrol Force #1

were plenty

Women were actively recruited by

forced to eject from his burning Banshee
jet fighter. Falling almost 30,000 feet, he
slammed into the ground, breaking both
ankles and other bones, and puncturing a
lung. Meder was spotted at first light by
CAP pilots Vince Causmaker and John
Zonge who were part of a two-state air
and ground search team.
When floods ravaged Kentucky, Virginia
and West Virginia in 1957, CAP ground,
air and radio teams swung into action.

Base in Atlantic City, N.J.
East on flights between war plants.

their lives to CAP. Flying at night at
40,000 feet in stormy skies, he was

of military aircraft available, they cost far

CAP planes flew vital serum and vaccines

too much to operate and flew too fast for

to forward areas unreachable by heavier

the accurate spotting of downed planes

military aircraft.

CAP. In addition to support duties at

and personnel. Military pilots were

Coastal Patrol Bases, women pilots flew

expensive to train as well, and mission

inland liaison, forest fire patrol and

logging over 75 percent of the search and

requirements limited their availability for

rescue hours flown each year. The

other missions. By war's end, women

By the 1960s and 70s, CAP was

search and rescue work. Civil Air Patrol,

made up 20 percent of
burgeoning civil aircraft

the Civil Air Patrol.

fleet was the primary

These women were

impetus for the continued

not immune to duty's

need for a growing CAP

dangers. Margaret

organization, but the

Bartholomew,

CAP's parent organization,

commander of the

the U.S. Air Force,

Cincinnati courier

sometimes had to use

station, was lost in the

CAP's search and rescue

western Pennsylvania
Smart-stepping Civil Air Patrol cadets move down a
street in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1951.

skills as well.

mountains after
departing

When an F-111 fighter

Williamsport, unaware of
CAP actually had its own cavalry of sorts,
conducting ground rescue operations in
rough territory on horseback, including 24
mounts transferred from the Army's nowobsolete Calvary
at Ft. Riley,
Kansas.
inland operations were typified

bomber wer,t down in the

a surprise storm ahead.

southwest. CAP members
from six states were

In all, Civil Air Patrol

called up in a 15-day

flew a half-million hours

search and rescue

during World War II and

operation. CAP pilots flew

64 CAP aviators lost

over 80 percent of the

their lives.
After the war, military
political leaders rose to
praise CAP's unusual

by the flying of

commitment and

liaison Pilot Bill

Pres. Roosevelt awards air medal to Maj. Hugh R. Sharp (center, and
Lt. Edmond Edwards (right) for their heroic sea rescue of Coastal Patrol pilot Henry Cross. Looking on is James M. Landis, wartime chief
of the Office of Civil Defense.

accomplishment. At a

"Pappy" Madsen,
operations officer

special dinner in Washington, DC, in
March 1946, President Harry Truman,

with its proven record of volunteer service
using light aircraft, was put to work.

14,000 sorties flown.
Over the years, Civil Air
Patrol has experienced an

ever-increasing number of missions.
Today, Civil Air Patrol flies more than
85 percent of federal inland search

for the Mountain

Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, and

Boys flying from

no less than 300 members of Congress

percent of search and rescue hours flow in

Air Force Rescue Coordination Center

Peterson Field in

and 50 AAF generals gathered to praise

the country according to the

at Langely Air Force Base, Virginia.

its work. President Truman later signed a

Air Force Air Rescue

bill granting CAP a national charter,

Service, and was saving

placing the organization in a uniqu.e status

the country $46 million a

similar to the American Red Cross. The

year--the cost equal to the

United States Air Force was created as an

military flight pay of the

Colorado Springs,
Colorado. CAP's
operations in the
mbers model uniforms in 1954.

Rockies actually
pioneered many
routes and

mountain flying concepts still in use
today. Colorado-based courier pilots
operated 100 scheduled flights a day, over
50 mutes, carrying 3.5 million pounds of
cargo to military bases in 17 states. Seven
courier pilots died in the mountains of the
West, with a like number perishing in the

By 1954 CAP was flying more than 50

independent armed service in September

12,000 fliers that would

1947, and the Civil Air Patrol was

have been needed to fly

permanently designated as its official

and rescue missions directed by the

the missions if not for CAP.

auxiliary the following year,

The Peacetime CAP
Since air search and rescue had been
one of CAP's primary missions during the

In October 1954, Navy
pilot Joe Meder became
one of the many crash
survivors who owe

The flight line at Fort Mclntosh, Texas (Laredo).
Southern Ualson Patrol No. 1, World War II.

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;IIP]EC][A\]L

Anniversary
Events

TilE WHITE [louse
WASH INGI"ON
August I, 2001

Calendar
The following is a sample of anniversary celebrations taking p/ace around the country.

lam pleased to send warm greetings to all thos¢ $athm'od for the Civil Air Patti's
(CAP) annu~ conferetme. I join you in (~lebraling the 60th anniverimy of CAIPs
effective and dod~ m to our Nation.
From ret~nding to domestic emergencies to aui~g drug tmfot~ematmt effom
by workia8 clo~iy with the United Statm Air Force, m~atmrs ofthe CAP play a
vital role in m.~ our Nation's inttcm~ I commend CAP vohatteem for tit=
mcriflcm that you make on behalf of your communiti~ =rod your country. America
it strong becautm of the countless individuals who give so freely to defend its ideals
alxl protect its cir. Your committed work gives the pubfic con~ that
there will be a quick and earing ttmponlm to entergermie$.Your efforts are a
tribute to our Nation's getmmmi spirit.
Lath joins me in sendin8 best wishes for a mmeesaful confomnce and celebration.

USO Swing Dance, (Dec. 1)
Planes of Fame Air Museum
Chino, California
It. Andrea Binder
909-371-3725
email chinosquadron20@aol.com
CAP Day (Dec, 1)

At the 2001 National Board Meeting and Annual Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, this past August, Civil Air Patrol paid special tribute to its founding fathers and charter members. Dec. 1, will mark Civil Air Patrol's 60th and
wings and units across the nation will celebrate this event in their hometowns. To further recognize this milestone, a 60th Anniversary Gala will be
held at the National Air and Space Museum on March 2, 2001. Civil Air Patrol
leaders will honor and pay tribute to our World War II volunteer members
who served as pilots in the CAP Coastal Patrol - the very first "homeland
defense" group. Their service is one of America's great-untold stories.
The gala was originally scheduled for Dec. 1, but the tragic events of Sept.
11 prompted the national commander to reschedule to March 2, which
coincides with Civil Air Patrol Winter National Board meeting and Legislative Day.
In the wake of the attack, Brig. Gen. Richard L. Bowling issued the following statement:
"After careful consideration and discussion with the National Headquarters staff, in light of the events of last week I have decided it would be in the
best interests of Civil Air Patrol to postpone the 60th Anniversary Gala
scheduled 1 December 2001 at the National Air and Space Museum. Out of
respect for the thousands who have lost their lives, the families whose grief
we share and the weighty burden of monumental decisions facing our
elected officials and military leaders, our organization would be better served
to celebrate and recognize our 60 years of service at a later date."
The gala, co-hosted by the National Air and Space Museum, will be an
invitation-only event and will replace the Congressional Reception normally
scheduled for that time of year. A wreath-laying ceremony is planned for
March 2 at the CAP memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
All former Coastal Patrol members are invited to attend the gala. Please
contact Charlotte M. Crowe, chief, communication plans and programs at
(334) 953-5320 or ccrowe@capnhq.gov no later than Dec. 15 if you or someone you know flew as a pilot in the Coastal Patrol.

"

1Lt John Burrows ....
816.224,3001
j~rrows@logicomp.org
2nd Annual
Civil Air Patrol Military Ball

The Michael King Smith
Evergreen Aviation
Education Institute
McMinnviUe, Oregon
Lt. Col. Les Peterson
McMinnville Sq. CC

(Celebrating CAP's
60thAnniversary) (Dec. 1)
Concord Elks Club
48 Airport Rd
Concord, NH
Maj Darin Ninness

maccap36099@aol.com

The Celebration Continues

Memoirs.
Period uniforms and costumes
mcouraged

60th Anniversary Dinner (Dec. 11
Re&tone Arsenal Club

(603) 228-3771
dninness@mediaone.net

Decatur, Alabama
Major Patricia Mitcham
256-880-0623
pmitcham@hsv.k 12.al.us

Maine Wing Military Ball (Dec, 1)
Spectacular Events Banquet
Facilities,
Griffen Road
Bangor, Maine
Dinner, Awards Presentation,
Capt. Chris Hayden
Change of Command, Ball, Cadet Lock- 1-207-767-1874
In (after Ball) (Dec. 1)
chris@millennium-tv.com
Falcon Composite Squadron
New Albany National Guard Armory
National Capital Wing
Capt. Darrel D. Williamson
and Maryland Wing
812-366-4408
60th Anniversary
scout 126@juno.corn
and Holiday Celebration
(Nov. 30)
Anniversary Celebration (Dec. 1)
Andrews AFB Officer's Club
Taft Composite Squadron 91
National Capital Wing Hqs and
DEC. 1, 2001 Veteran's Hall, Cedar and Maryland Wing Hqs
Taylor Srs.
Taft, CA
1Lt Matise Scholefield
rubyr@lightspeed.net

CAP National Anniversary Gala
(March 2)
National Air and Space Museum

Holiday Awards Banquet (Dec. 5)
Reno Composite Squadron
Keno, NV
1 LT

J u d i

R o b i n s

:

Washington, DC
Charlotte Crowe
ccrowe@capnhq,gov

Contributors to the CAP Ea le Fund
2Lt. Albert Costa Jr.
Cadet Alexis M. Atkinson
Lt. Col. Andrew. B Felix
Capt. Assunta S. McDonald
Capt. August W. Peters
SM Barbara J. Nitz
Cadet Brian G. Herendich
Lt. Col. Calvin L. Wilkinson
Lt. Col. Carroll P. Rogers III
Cecilia Felix
1Lt. Charles C. Seeber
Col. Charles X. Suraci Jr.
2Lt. Chloe Z. Duckett
Cadet Cody Y. Mossberg
Capt. Cyril E. Tanoff
Capt. David L. Turnmire
SM David L. Westberg
Maj. David M. Auerbach
Col. David N. Simmons
2Lt. Debra A. Kilpatrick
Lt. Col. Don C. Bunnell
Donald Hines
Lt. Col. Donald A. Haarup
Maj. Donald M. MacLeod
Maj. Donald M. MacLeod
Capt. Donald W. Martinson
1Lt. Douglas A. Barth
Lt. Col. Douglas M. Kabler
Col. Duddly L. Hargrove
Maj. Dwight T. Martin
SM Elizabeth A. Warner
Lt. Col. Eloise E. Monsarrat
Capt. Elwood N. Rieke
Cadet Erik M. Mainville

2Lt. Fay E'. Smith
1Lt. Floyd J. Havard
1Lt. Francis E. Bond Jr.
Maj. Frank R. Wheeler
Col. Gary H. Tobey
Lt. Col. Gary L. Baker

Col. Jacquelyn L. Floyd
Capt. James J. Dandeneau
SM James L. Mallett
Lt. Col. James R. Dahlgran
1Lt. Jane M. Arnott
Lt. Col. Jefferson B. Meaders

Capt. John W. Banks
1Lt. Jonathan F. Johnson
1Lt. Jonathan F. Johnson
2Lt. Joseph E. Pekny
Capt. Joseph M. Bradley
Cadet Joshua A. Brooks
Cadet Joshua D. Hebert
Maj. Karen D. Bel
Col. Karen K. Payne
2Lt. Keith Maurer
1Lt. Kenneth A. McNaught

Se~i~:the record straight

No donation is too small
Col. Gene D. Hartman
Lt. Col. Gerald D. Burk
Capt. Gregg E. Wilson
Lt. Col. Gregory P. Chase
Lt. Col. Harriet E. Johnson
SM Herman C. Bliss
Capt. Hyman Pitkofsky
Maj. lan D. Tolentino
Lt. Col. J. P. Ollivier

Lt. Col. Jenny L. Baker
Col. Jerome L .Hanson
Cadet Jill M. Brickey
Maj. Joan E. Blankenburg
Col. John A. Alexander
Capt. John F. Witkowski
Col. John R. Buschmann
Lt. Col. John R. Rimicci
Col. John Scott Hamilton

On page 24 of the August edition of the CAP
New& we listed the w~ng names u~ei the
photograph from the Rorida Wtngi:Acc~rdir!g
tothe cutlin~, the members= pi~t~red were
Col:. Hemp] Casanovepassi#g the t]a~l t0 = =
Capt. Fran Gloeckter. it should= h~ve been Lt.
Col. Steve Bell passing the flag to Capt,
Robert Curry, We apologize and regret any
confusion this mistake may have Caused~
On pages 2t and 22; we published a :press
release directly= from Marq:uis Whos Who on
CAP Col. Charles=X: Suraci, In the article,
Suraci is ;listed as a medical=doctor being.
recognized in the book Who's Who In
America for his medical research; Suraci is

Deadline for AE Foundation grants Dec. 31
The Aerospace Education
Foundation (AEF), established in
1956 by the Air Force Association
(AFA), helps provide educational
opportunities for America's
youth. These opportunities were
initiated to help ensure future
generations of Americans:
- Appreciate the important
role of aviation and space in
America's future
Have the technical knowledge necessary to understand
aerospace issues
Have the educational
background required to pursue
aerospace careers
To accomplish their educational goals, the AEF communicates directly with the American
public about the importance of
maintaining a sound aerospace
infrastructure and the importance
of maintaining a strong Air Force
to ensure national security.

AEROSPACE EDUCATION
Another important part of
their educational efforts is to
support the educational objectives
of the Air Force and CAP. As part
of that support, the AEF recognizes outstanding contributions in
the field of aerospace education.
To support CAP's aerospace
education programs, the AEF
provides aerospace education
grants for Civil Air Patrol units.
Since 1996, the AEF has provided
over $65,000 to CAP units to help
fund their aerospace education
programs.
The Requirements and Selection Criteria for the Aerospace
Education Foundation grants are
as follows:
Units are eligible to

receive one grant every other
year.
Grants cannot exceed
$250 per request.
Grants must be used for
aerospace education-related
items/activities such as books,
videotapes, aerospace-oriented
field trips, and aerospace education days.
Grants may not be used
for uniforms, honor guard, or color
guard activities nor may they be
used for individual member flying
instruction.
Grant recipients must file
a follow-up report with HQ CAP/
ETA on how the AEF grant
contributed to their AE program.
Only those CAP units that

have signed up for the 2002
Aerospace Education Excellence
Aw a r d P r o g r a m ( A E X ) m a y
apply for the winter grant
competition. The application
deadline is December 31, 2001.
Grants will be processed and
checks issued to all selected
units by January 31, 2002.
Please remember that units can
only receive a grant once every
other year.
An application form can be
downloaded from the HQ CAP
web site or requested from CAP/
ETA. Completed applications
should be faxed to HQ CAP/ETA
at (334) 953-4235 or mailed to HQ
CAP/ETA, 105 South Hansell St,
Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6332.
For more information, please
contact Civil Air Patrol Headquarters, Aerospace Education and
Training Directorate at (334) 9535095 or send an e-mail to
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military and civil-related.
Cope~d flew in his career
developing the skills
successful, and the teams
support for the use of ~TV
When asked what he
necessary to deal with the
includedthe F-4 Phantom, Fwere sent to more remote
and APRS communi~tion
missed most since retiring from
varied terrain that provides a
areas to continue testing the
..14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, F-16
tools in Civil Air PatjOl mis- /
the Navy, Adm. Copeland said
special element to effective
technology.
sions. Fut~l~e exercises will " Fighting Falcon. a YF-17
it was being around other
communications in San Diego
Because the mission base use t~to'ols plos HF ratios./.
..~obra prototype; and the F/Aservicemen. "Most definitely it
was in a valley, a forward
18 Hornet.
.
County. The exercise highis the camaraderie with my
Adm. Copeland, known as
lighted two new communicacommunications post vXas~=~'~
, ~ ; - a ' ~ ~ r s
shipmates. I really miss the
"Mad Dog" during his career,
tions technologies - Slow Scan
up at Moul~, ^ ~!"--~ w=~ ,... of the John J. Mont~nery
people. No matter what
Larry _j:~,o-ole, ~-1 tJajon L, om"~Pcmorial Cade'~quad'- ron got - spoke about some of his
"IV and Automatic Position
-~,3slt~ Squadron commander,
occupation one pursues in life,
a.le~in, in naval ~viation =
experiences as a naval aviator
Reporting Systems. ._~-.-to act as relay between the
history fro-'~,~,~teran naval
during a 30-minute presentation. it can't really equal the bond
aviator.
field and mission base.
Ad m.~=r-Fie]d Army
between members within the
"There were two medals
By the end of the day, the
Retired U.S. Nav-'~r
Reserve Center. Ground
that I never wanted to earn: the armed forces," he said.
ground teams were as far out
Admiral W. Winston CopePa~l~
teams were formed of both
Cadet Thomas J. Norrie,
Prisoner of War Medal and the
as Mission Bay, Calif., using
Jr.~wn over 300
senior and cadet members.
cadet commander for the
~le Heart. After all was
the new radio communication
combat missions, made 1,200 "~
The teams began the
arrested landings and4ogged ---~
"~enough to never have earned
presented Adm. Copeland with
morning with an introduction to devices, with the cooperation
a certificate of appreciation
and participation of Joe
4,800 flight hours in 30 typ~,,,_ them," he said.
the other organizations
of aircraft, Spoke to the ~'~
Adm. Copeland also
and one of the unit's patches
participating and a briefing on
Stevens, who linked CAP and
squadron during a recent
the Coast Guard Auxiliary in
co~ented on his continued
for speaking to members of the
the goals of the day: learn to
meeting.
interes-'~he current happensquadron.
this exercise.
communicate between various
ings throu~world, both
Another ground team
Some of the aircraft Adm.
Capt. Michael Montgomery Jr.
groups; teach how the new
technologies work; and go to
took the APRS out to the
the field and put them to actual highest point in San Diego.
They climbed the rough terrain
real-world use.
and were tracked with special
During the briefing, 1st Lt.
software on a laptop computer
Richard Whaley explained the
at the base. After working out
mission. "We are here to learn
a few glitches the team was
to integrate technology into
~ l t e r
L . A n d e r s o n
S ~ ~omerset County Compos~uadron
M a j . D a v i d ~ e c k
Bangor-Brewer Composite Squadron
what we ,do, to be more
~i'~ssions like this exercise the
efficient," he said._
Maine Wing
Pennsylvania Wing ~k
knots are worked out. During
a real mission where every
~ . clse o r ~-nslgn Joe i s
~ was
t h
L t . C o l . Te d B a g a n
Capt. Richard N. Leo "\,
Stevens, a member of both
minute counts in the race to
Offutt Composite Squadron
Camarillo Composite Squadron
CAP and the Coast Guard
find the target or complete the
Nebraska Wing
California Wing
Auxiliary. He helped coordimission, the technology can
nate the communication
flow smoothly and support the
Lt. Col. Charles L. Burrell
2 n d L t . G a r y P, P r o c o p e n k o
between CAP and the Coast
success of the mission.
California Wing
Redwood Empire Composite Squadron
Guard boats adding a new
Without adequate training,
Califo~a I/~ing
dimension to the training.
attempting to use unfamiliar
C o l . G o r d o n W. C u r t i s s
Glen Gerbrand and Kent
equipment on an actual
Georgia Wing
Tiburski, ham radio operators,
2nd Lt. Mario G. Quintanilla
mission can cause frustration
represented ARRL and
Uvalde Composite Sq uadr0n
and slow down the mission at
Lt. Col. Harold M. Dickerson
Emergency Services in San
Texas Wing
critical moments.
: Greevnille Composite Squadron
Diego County. They shared
Capt. Osargent said she
South Car~lina wing
their expertise by training the
Capt. Arthur G. Rathje
was very excited about the
CAP members on the use of
/
West Broward Composite Squadron
enthusiasm and dedication of
~:
Slow Scan TV. Everyone
Lt. Col. William Dobbs
the participants who attended
Florida Wing
San Francisco Bay, Group 2
learned how to use the Slow
this communication exercise
Scan TV equipment.
California Wing
and the opportunity to learn
Maj. Milton S~berg
The ground teams were , and use these new radio
Sarasota-Brandenton Col.nposite Squadron
sent outside the base building
communication tools. Also, the
Lt. Cot. Ben C. Harris
Florida Wing
and practiced communicating
participants voiced their
Georgia Wing
with and sending pictures to
support and enthusiasm fo~-~
Lt, Col. Orville K. Sandaker
the base. The local tests were
this exercise and affirmed-theist
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San Diego Senior Squadron
Nevada Wing
California Wing

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D National Headquarters will
send the final "slotting" list to the
wing headquarters.
4. For Mar 31 (Activity fees
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~' All activity fees are to be
paid in full by March 31. Because of
new accounting rules at National
Headquarters, all checks or money
orders for the NCSAs except the
NESA*, must be sent to:
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Ensure the check or money order
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This course offers behind the scene: Sic :c0urse sh0~ld mark"Weather i;. :il
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This AFWAFC is open: tO cadets
tower, the aircraft malntenance hangars,
and want to use ~urknowledge to help be at least a Phase II cadet, and have a
us: perform :one Of our p~imary missions?. ~p desire to learn and excel in all Honor and the parachute shop. Cadets wilt also who have completed the Rickenbacher
receive briefings on the mission and op- achievement and have attended an am
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Senior Members that wish to become e r a t i o n s o f a F l i g h t Tr a i n i n g W i n g , a c a - :campment (Preferably, cadets should i;
would like to be able to track satellites,
demics, and physiological training. High- be a sophomore or:junior in school;
students in order to train cadets within
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lights of the week may include the possi- however, =~en ors or coilege students
: :their unit must have completed Level 1
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squadron's computer?, Then join us for
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chance to fly a full motion flight simulator weather related careers wiii not: be exOfficers Course. be familiar with the
the Civil Air Patrol's firstAdvanced
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with an actual Air Force Instructor Pilot! Technology Cadet Activity.
members shouldbe working in an 0pYo u w i l l " s e e h o w C A P p r o v i d e s :Chapters 1-5 or equal serv=ce d=rect~ve.
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CAP Satellite: TOo! Kit program, Yog i .: the position.for which: they; are applying.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE -Members of the New Hampshire Wing gathered in
Concord, N.H., for the wing's
annual conference.
Conference guests
included: Col. Richard Greenhut, Northeast Region commander; U.S. Air Force Lt. Col.
Timothy Doty, Northeast
Liaison Region commander;
Col. Dale Hardy, Northeast
Region vice-commander; Col.
Kenneth J. Herman, New
Hampshire Wing commander;
and Lt. Col. Margie L.
Sambold, New Hampshire
Wing vice commander.
Cadets of the Hawk Cadet
Squadron posted colors to
open the general assembly.
During the assembly, Sambold
unveiled plans for a new wing
headquarters building and a

fund-raising campaign to kick
off among wing members. The
fund-raising will then move
outside the wing and involve a
search for grants and outside
contributions.
Certificates of appreciation
were handed out to 17 members of the wing for their
contributions over the past
year. Commander's Commendations were presented to 18
members.
Amelia Earhart Awards
were sent to Cadet Capts.
Joshua McGary and Jeremy
Swanson, and a Gen. Billy
Mitchell Award was presented
to 2nd Lt. Peter Goodspeed.
1st Lt. Heather Barrington
received the cadet leadership
award and Lt. Col. Timothy
Harper was honored as cadet
of the year.
Senior members who were
honored included: 1st Lt. John
Moore, staff member of the
year; Maj. Dale Swanson,
squadron commander of the
year; Capt. Penny Hardy,
senior member of the year,
Grover Loening Award and
promotion to major; Maj.
George Guild, Paul Garber
Award and promotion to
lieutenant colonel.
A change of command
ceremony was held during the
conference, with Guild turning
over command of the Col.
Andrew Amitrano Senior
Squadron to 1st Lt. Paul
Mondoux.

New Hampshire Wing
member Capt. Mike Baxa
brought his glider to the conference to be used as a static
display. Baxa gave glider
lessons to cadets from New
Hampshire and other wings
during the summer.
Capt. Penny Hardy
NEW JERSEY -- Five
cadet members of the Brooklyn
Tech Cadet Squadron flew the
first orientation flights in the area
since the tragic terrorist attack of
September 11.
The cadets also flew the
first O-flights in the group since
CAP instituted the new flight
orientation syllabus. The pilot for
the flight was Maj. Malcolm
Dickinson, aerospace education
officer for New York Wing's New
York City Group.
During the flights in a
Cessna 172, Dickinson taught
the cadets about takeoff and
landing procedures and air
traffic patterns and showed
them how to operate the aircraft
while in flight.
Some of the cadets had
been on orientation flights
earlier in the year and were able
to experience the differences
made by the new syllabus.
"The new program is
different and more fun. The
longer flight times allow you to
get a handle on what it's like to
be in the air," said Cadet
Avrohom Katz, cadet commander of the Brooklyn Tech

Members of New York Wing's New York City Group pose after orientation flights based on the new
orientation flight syllabus. Pictured are, from left, Maj. Malcolm Dickinson and Cadets Yin Ping
Chan, Mlng Hon, Wendy Xue, Avrohom Katz and Chao Huo Li.

squadron.
The new program calls
for a minimum flight time of
42 minutes and doesn't
include back seat flights in
the maximum number of
flights allowed for cadets.
The cadets who participated were: Yin Ping Chan,
Ming Hon, Wendy Xue,
Avrohom Katz and Chao Huo
Li.
Sr. Mbr. Yehuda Katz
NEW JERSEY -Members of the New York
Wing's Southeastern Group
conducted the group's
second annual open house at
the Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Airport.
Local government
officials and members of the
general public were invited to
tour the hangar facilities and
speak with the cadets and
senior members about the
organization and its capabilities.
Members of the
Dutchess County Cadet
Squadron set up displays
showing uniforms and
equipment used in search
and rescue missions. They
also held demonstrations on
drill and military courtesy.
Members of the Southern
Dutchess Senior Squadron
had displays on emergency
services capabilities and
discussed past missions with
the guests.
Many of the guests
asked questions about CAP's
involvement in World Trade
Center disaster relief efforts.
They also asked how local
and national CAP units could
be used if other incidents
occur in the future.
Because of the information available on the CAP
Web site, group members
were able to share information on CAP's national efforts
in the wake of the events of
September 1 lth.
The open house was
publicized in local newspapers and was covered on
local television programs.
Capt. Kevin Barry and
1st Lt. Patricia Barry
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Composite Squadron
spent a day assisting melnbers
of the Vermont Chapter of the
Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The cadets and senior
members marked three routes
to be used in the MS society's
annual "Bike-A-Thon." The
routes covered more than 350
miles of roads and trails in the
Lake Champlain-area of
northern Vermont.
Marking the paths allowed
the participants to sharpen
their skills with compasses,
global positioning systems and
radio communications.
The squadron coordinator
for the event was Lt. Col.
Martha Stuart, who battles MS
herself.
Cadets Staff Sgts. Joey
Ross and Curtis Harvie and
Senior Master Sgt. Curtis
Harvie helped with the event.
Senior members 1st Lt. Phil
Neuhaus and Lt. Col. Kevin
Stuart, squadron commander.
The chairperson of the
Vermont MS society sent a
letter to the squadron thanking
them for their efforts. In the
letter, she stated that all of the
feedback from riders regarding
the CAP presence was
positive. She also gave the
squadron members event Tshirts and asked that the
squadron help them in future
Bike-A-Thons.
Lt. Col. Kevin Stuart

DELAWARE -- A survivor
of the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor spoke to a group
of Delaware Wing members
about his experience.
Casimir Chiczewski, a
gunner assigned to a fixed-gun
position at the main gates of
the Pearl Harbor naval facility
on the day of the attack, told
the gathered wing members
abouthis part in the efforts to
secure the beach following the
attack.

He said he was only
issued 10 rounds of ammunition for the big gun and eight
rounds for his rifle when the
attack went down, due to
peace time regulations. He
went on to describe other
difficulties the American
servicemen faced on Dec. 7,
1941.
He also described military
life during his enlistment from
July 1941 through the end of
the war.
Chiczewski, now 83, is a
native of Bayonne, N.J., and
retired after working many
years for an oil company.
Col. Robert Vawter,
Delaware Wing commander,
arranged the meeting at the
Kent County Emergency
Operations Center in Dover,
Del.
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Eight cadets and 14 senior
members represented the
Delaware Wing during a fall
festival at the Delaware
governor's mansion in Dover,
Del.
The 22 w!ng members
were asked to assist with traffic
control for a footrace that was
part of Governor Ruth Ann
Minner's Fall Festival.
The race was held in
heavy rains, though the rest of
the festival was cancelled.
Cadet 2nd Lt. Travis Ahrens of
the New Castle Cadet Squadron participated in the race and
placed first in the 15-19 age
group.
Cadets who helped
provide traffic control for the
race included: 1st Lt. Philip
Harris; 2nd Lt. Travis Ahrens;
Chief Master Sgt. John
Deering; Senior Airmen John
Read and Samuel Jefferson;
and Airmen Tyler Austin and
Chris Racine.
Senior members who
helped were: Col. Robert
Vawter, Delaware Wing
commander; Lt. Cols. Larry
Kibler, David Lewis, Nancy
Staton and Raymond Harris;
Majs. Russell Opland, Richard
Pyle, Elmer Boyle Jr., Ros
Medina and Nancy Smith;
Capt. Doug Beish; 1st Lts. Ted
Allen, June Reed and Paul
Reed; and 2nd Lt. Bonnie
McDaniel.
Ist Lt. Paul R. Reed
MARYLAND -- Cadets
and senior members of the
Bethesda-Chevy Chase
Composite Squadron participated in a mock disaster
scenario involving a high

school shooting.
Representatives of the
Montgomery County Department of Emergency Management asked Bethesda-Chevy
Chase squadron members to
participate. The squadron has
worked with the department
on several other projects in the
past.
Cadets and senior
members met at the Northwest
High School in the morning for
a pre-exercise briefing. During
the briefing, the cadets were
told what to expect from police
and emergency services
personnel. They were also told
what roles they would have to
play and how to act.
Finally, last minute
questions were answered as
Red Cross personnel applied
Moulage to create realistic
wounds.
The victims were placed in
various areas throughout the
third floor of the school,
including hiding in lockers and
bathrooms. Two mock pipe
bombs were also placed in the
school; one in a locker and one
attached to a trip wire across a
hallway.
The initial response to the
crisis was made by school
security personnel. They were
followed by a tactical team of
police officers carrying shields
and red plastic handguns.
The senior members acted
as safety monitors to ensure
none of the victims got hurt.
They also carried out tasks as
assigned by the county
emergency services department.
A poster was hidden with
a picture of the bad guy on it,
and once he was captured the
entire group was placed back
in their original positions to
allow the EMS personnel
practice working in that
situation. Triage was performed as the EMS team
passed quickly through the
hallways.
The victims were finally
cleaned up and asked to fill
out a report on what they
thought about the exercise.
Capt. David Staples and
Cadet Chief Master Sgt.
Jeffrey Fink were the project
officers for the exercise.
The other senior members
who participated were: Lt. Col.
John Knowles and 2nd Lts.
Bridget Nesko and Kevin
Nesko.
Cadet participants
included: Airmen Lois Barnett,
Cory Gardner, Genevieve
Harbuck, Joseph King, Tina

Liao, James Martinez,
Daniel Secrest and David
Seibel; Airmen 1st Class Kevin
Correa, Anthony Nguyen and
Aaric Wright; Senior Airmen
Brandon Billingsley, Edward
Chang and Lindsey Donnellan;
and Staff Sgt. Michael
Knowles.
NORTH CAROLINA -Cadets and senior members of
the North Carolina Wing
participated in the first International Flight Symposium in
Raleigh, N.C.
The symposium was
coordinated by the First Flight
Centennial Commission.
A cadet color guard from
the UNC Chapel Hill AFROTC
Squadron presented the colors
at the opening ceremony, then
the group posed for a photograph with Maj. Gen. Hugh
Shelton, former chief of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
Congressman Bob Etheridge.
The color guard members
were Capt. Sharon Weeks, 1st
Lt. Matt Mickelson, Chief
Master Sgt. Robert Tomsick,
Senior Airman Noah Lorang
and Airman John Bojanski.
The wing also set up an
aerospace education and
cadet programs table, which
was visited by hundreds of
symposium attendees.
Claudine M. Sayegh, director
of aerospace education for the
Middle East Region, helped
with the table.
Maj. John Smoot, North
Carolina Wing external
aerospace education officer,
gave two presentations, one on
the start of aviation and the
other on the careers that are
introduced through CAP.
1st Lt. Tonya Larsen,
coordinator for the First Flight
Centennial Commission, made

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it possible for the North
Carolina Wing members to
participate in the symposium.
Maj. Aaron Harper
SOUTH CAROLINAFive members of the Lexington
Composite Squadron spent the
day aboard one of the U.S.
Navy's largest nuclear vessels.
The cadets and senior
members, as well as one
member's spouse, took a brief
cruise on board the U.S.S.
Nimitz, the lead carrier of the
Nimitz class of nuclear aircraft
carriers.
During the cruise, the six
toured several of the ship's
compartments. Included in the
tour were the hangar bay,
bridge, flag bridge, flight deck
and carrier air traffic control
areas and aircraft elevators.
Once the carrier reached
the cruising area, the flight
operations began. The aircraft
on board were from different
area air stations. Several of the
F/A-18 Hornets were from a
reserve squadron out of New
Orleans, and the crews were
conducting training operations.
The visitors were allowed to
stand 75-100 feet from the
catapult area to watch the
planes launch and land.
In addition to the Hornet
flights, there were fly-bys by an
E-2 Hawkeye and an F-14
Tomcat.
The Nimitz had recently
completed a three-year refit,
during which the nuclear
reactors were refueled for the
first time since the Nimitz was
launched.
The cruise was what is
known as a "dependant's
cruise," which is a one-day
cruise just off the coast during
which the sailor's dependents
-- family members -- have a

An F-18 Hornet launches from the deck of the U.S.S. Nimitz and
is caught on film by Ted Sutton, a member of the South Carolina
Wing's Lexington Composite Squadron. Five members of the
squadron and one spouse spent the day on board the carrier
during a dependant's cruise.

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chance to travel aboa.rd the ship to get a glimpse into
life aboard the ship. The ship's
full aircraft compliment were
not yet on board as they
separate every time the ship
goes into the yards, then rejoin
when the ship is heading out
on deployment.
The Lexington squadron
members who made the cruise
included: Cadets 2nd Lt.
Andrew Sutton, Senior Airman
Triston Mikutaitis and Airman
Timothy Greenwold; and senior
members 1st Lt. Ted Sutton
and 2nd Lt. Michael Mikutaitis.
They were joined by Sue
Mikutaitis, Michael's wife.
Michael Mikutaitis is a
former Nimitz crew member
and is part of the U.S.S. Nimitz
Association, a fraternal order
of former and current crew
members. The association
members were on board as
guests of U.S. Navy Capt.
Steven Firks, current commander of the Nimitz.
1st Lt. Michael Mikutaitis

INDIANA -- Cadets and
senior members from across
the Indiana Wing gathered at a
South Bend, Ind., airport to
support an air show.
The Indiana Wing members from five different units,
as well as the wing liaison
office, provided assistance
during the three-day SkyFest
2001 air show.
Lodging in South Bend
was provided by the Army
National Guard Center, where
the local CAP unit holds their
meetings.
Wing participation in
SkyFest was part of the effort
to promote CAP in the South
Bend, Ind., area.
Throughout the weekend,
members operated three Tshirt booths, one beverage,
and one souvenir booth to

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KENTUCKY -Members of the
Kentucky and North
Carolina Wings made
orientation flights in a
UH-60 Black Hawk.
The orientation
flight was sponsored
by B Company, 1st
Battalion, 114th
Aviation Regiment of
the U.S. Army's 63rd
Aviation Group.
The event was
designed to demonstrate the capabilities
of the Army's premier
utility helicopter.
Members of the
Kentucky and North
Carolina Wings support
B Company during
counter narcotics
operations with aerial
relay stations during
the U.S. Army National
Guard's counter
narcotics missions in
rural Kentucky.
The aircraft flew
the CAP members in
the area around
Frankfort, Ky., and
demonstrated the
helicopter's capabilities
in both the low level
and terrain flight
KENTUCKY -- Members
environments.
of the Bowling Green-Warren
County Composite Squadron
The Black Hawk,
Because of Georgia Wing Gwinnett County Composite Squadron's
built by Sikorsky
toured one of the famous
Commander Lt. Col. Will Hargrove's (above) leadership, the squadron
"Goodyear Blimps" at an area
Aircraft, entered
was able to purchase material to assemble a hangar at an area airport.
airport.
service in 1979. Each The hangar is now known as the Wilbur H. Hargrove Hangar in recognione can carry 11 fully- tion of the leadership and determination that made the hangar a reality.
The blimp, called the
equipped solo~ers or
equ~ppea soldiers or
"Stars and Stripes," was at the
ite Squadron won first
Robby Groover and Steven
Bowling Graen-Warren County
8,000 pounds of equipment. It
place in a statewide drill
is used by all branches of the
Kester. They were accompa(Ky.) Regional Airport, home of
competition.
nied by Robert Bayless, deputy
the squadron, overnight.
United States armed services
The competition took two
commander for cadets.
Members of the squadron
and the Coast Guard. It flies in
days and consisted of seven
any weather with a top speed
1st Lt. Patrick O'Key
listened to a lecture on the
of 160 knots and a range of up events. Included elements
blimp by a representative of
GEORGIA -- A Peachtree
Goodyear and then each
to seven hours with long range were a 100-question written
exam, a panel quiz, uniform
fuel tanks.
City Falcon Field Composite
member was given a personal
Sr. Mbr. Jayson Altieri inspection, standard drill,
Squadron cadet received his
tour of the gondola.
innovative drill, a volleyball
)
solo wings during a recent
Each cadet was allowed to
competition and a one-mile
ceremony.
sit in the pilot's seat and ask
run.
Lt. Col. Don Greene,
questions about the operation
Points were given for each commander of Georgia Wing's
of the blimp, its on-board
event and then the numbers
Group 3, presented the wings
instruments and takeoff and
combined for a total score.
to Cadet Maj. Bratt Matcheck.
landing procedures. The
The SRQ squadron
Matcheck received his
answers were explained in
cadets, who come from
flight training with help from the
detail by the Goodyear
Manatee County Middle and
Group 3 powered flight
representative.
High schools, will advance to
scholarship. The scholarship
The blimp was actually in
the Southeast Region competi- was one of five Georgia Wing
the area to promote an area
tion to be held at Tyndall Air
scholarships available to the
General Motors plant where
Force Base, Fla., in February
cadets.
Chevrolet Corvettes were
2002.
The scholarship allowed
produced.
The SRQ cadets who
him access to a certified flight
During the previous night,
participated were: Robby
instructor, a Cessna 172P, and
the squadron members saw
Slusser, Joshua Purtee,
$500 for fuel.
the blimp over Bowling Green
Jessica Craig, Eugene
His instructor was Lt. Col.
flashing public services
Carnegie Jr., Chris Selman,
announcements concerning
Harry Jones, wing safety
Allyson Snow, Scott Fox,
officer.
the American Red Cross and
Jennifer Hart, Zachary Julian,
Matcheck logged 15 flight
the Salvation Army.
Sean O'Key, Kevin Merrick,
John Knight
hours in about four months and

raise funds and for public
interaction.
The wing members who
were not working in the booths
made themselves available to
assist where needed, mostly at
crowd and traffic control.
Other members manned a
recruiting tent and took shifts
wearing the inflatable "Cadet
Ken" costume.
Transportation for CAP
members around the air show
grounds was provided by the
AM General Hummer Assembly Plant, based in Mishawaka,
Ind. The plant donated use of a
military-style Hummer to CAP/
RAP Maj. Dave Tan for use
during the weekend.
Col. Glenn Kavich, Indiana
Wing commander, joined the
group on Sunday to preside
over a change of command
ceremony. During the ceremony, Maj. Steven Towne
turned over command of the
South Bend Flight to Capt.
Jeffrey Mueller.
Kavich also presented a
Gen. Billy Mitchell Award to
2nd Lt. Charles M. Benson, an
Indiana Wing cadet.
Cadet 2nd Lt.
Charles Benson

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completed his first solo
flight to earn his wings.
-)- + -)A cadet lieutenant colonel
of the Peachtree City Falcon
Field Composite Squadron was
honored for his work on the
Southeast Region Cadet
Advisory Council.
Cadet Lt. Col. Dan
Upshaw of the Peachtree City
squadron received the Meritorious Service Award for being a
part of the council for a year
from July 2000 until July 2001.
Cadet Col. Michael
Provencher of the Mississippi
Wing, chairman of the Southeast Region CAC, recommended Upshaw for the award.
The Meritorious Service
Award is the fifth highest
award a cadet can earn and
has only been awarded to
about five other cadets in the
Georgia Wing in the past few
years.
Cadet Master Sgt. Athena
Anderson

NEBRASKA -- A September aviation event in Nebraska
was a success due to involvement of Nebraska Wing
members.
The first Aviation Career
Awareness Day was put on by
Duncan Aviation of Lincoln,
Neb., so students from across
the state could learn about
career opportunities in aviation.
Officials from Duncan said
the activity was especially
important due to setbacks
commercial and civil aviation in
the days after the attacks on
the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon.
Nebraska students could
visit any of 24 booths during
the day-long event. One of the
booths was a CAP booth setup
to pass out Drug Demand
Reduction material and to let
the students know about the

cadet program opportunities
within the wing.
Twenty-four cadets and
senior members from several
Nebraska units provided
security for the static displays,
coordinated vehicle parking
and worked flight line security.
The final event of the day
was a small air show, and it
was the first allowed nationwide since the events of Sept.
11. According to Duncan
representatives, Federal
Aviation Administration officials
told Duncan's management
that the air show could go on,
provided "CAP personnel were
available to assist in crowd and
flight line security."
About 600 students
attended the event.
Bruce Marxsen
MINNESOTA -- Squadron, group and flight commanders from across Minnesota
attended a commander's
workshop in Breezy Point,
Minn.
On the first day of the
weekend course, Col. Dale
Hoium, Minnesota Wing
commander, met with the
wing's executive staff. At the
same time, Maj. Mike Donat
conducted a new commander's
orientation for commanders
appointed since the last
workshop.
A series of educational
programs was held on the
second day. Some of the
presentations included: public
affairs, Capt. Shannon Bauer;
suicide awareness, Ralph
Rickgarn; aerospace education, Col. Kevin Sliwinski; flight
operations, Maj. Craig Lommel;
emergency services, Maj.
Thomas Kettell; and
commander's notebook, Lt.
Col. David Skaar and Capt.
Richard Koop.
The final day, Hoium
conducted a semiannual
commander's call. Graduation
certificates were presented to
Cols, Dale Hoium, Kevin
Sliwinski and Dennis Rock; Lt.
Cols. Larry Hynding, Alan
Rustan, John Modders,
Michael Moen, Keith Bischoff,
Timothy Goodner, Roger
Brogran, David Skaar and
John Quilling; Majs. Thomas
Kettell, Craig Lommel, Richard
Wenzel, Nancy Hoium, Victoria
Eckhoff, Richard Jadwin, Carl
Hallum, Stephen Miller and
William Willis; Capts. Richard
Koop, James Crawell, Don
Sorson, Douglas Mitchell,
Darlene Bejamin, John
Barsness, Aron Leavstrom,

Leslie Rostad, Richard
Josephson, Charlotte Miller,
Shannon Bauer, Thomas Van
Engen and Roll Carlson; 1st
Lts. Richard Yeager, Elizabeth
Pfingsten, Kenneth Lundgren,
Marcel Derosier, James
Hulteen and David
Nightengale; 2nd Lt. :l'racy
Brooks; and St. Mbrs. John
Vadnais and retired U.S. Air
Force Master Sgt. Jeff Borseth.
Col. Dennis Rock
MISSOURI- Several
cadets and senior members of
the Richards-Gebaur Composite Squadron received awards
during the Missouri Wing's
annual conference.
The conference was held
at Lake Ozark, Mo.
Members of the RichardsGebaur color guard team were
recognized by Col. Sheila
Waldorf, North Central Region
commander, for their first-place
win in the region color guard
competition. They went on to
place fifth in the National
Cadet Color Guard competition.
The members were:
Zachary Packingham, Christopher Hooton, Scott Knight,

Niles Grant and Daniel
Sullivan. The escorts were 1st
Lt. Dawn Grant and Lt. Col.
Gary Gregory. Each member
and escort received a
Commander's Commendation.
Other squadron members
recognized during the wing
conference included: Maj.
Julie Berry, cadet of the year,
North Central Region
Commander's Commendation, Veterans of Foreign
Wars officer of the year;
Hooton, VFW noncommissioned officer award and
cadet noncommissioned
officer of the year; Gregory,
Missouri Wing Commander's
Commendation; and Chaplain
(Maj.) Homer L. Ontman
Ph.D., wing chaplain of the
year.
Col. Nicholas "Doc" Knutz,
former Missouri Wing and
North Central Region commander, as well as CAP's first
national inspector general,
presented the wing squadron
of the year award to Lt. Col.
John W. Baker, acting
Richards-Gebaur squadron
commander.
"In all, we've had a busy
and distinguished year in 2001.

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Now, just like sports teams, we
have to put it behind us and
start all over again," Gregory
said.
Lt. CoL Carl W. Gregory

ARIZONA -- Cadets from
two Arizona Wing squadrons
helped area Boy Scouts learn
about rocketry during a scout
camporee on the Mongolin
Ridge north of Payson, Ariz.
The cadets, from the
Cochise and Deer Valley
Composite Squadron, helped
the Scouts during the Boy

GROUP OF THE YEAR

Members of Texas Wing's Group 13 pose after the Texas Wing's annual conference in Fort Worth,
Texas. The group was honored as the Texas Wing's group of the year for the second consecutive
year. Lt. Col. Max Hays, group commander, accepted the award on behalf of the group. Pictured
standing are, from left, Cadets Master Sgt. Alison Tunnell and Jonathon Moore, Capt. Chuck
Bremholm, and Cadets 2nd Lt. Caitlin Bryant and Senior Master Sgt. Joel Katz. Seated are Lt.
Cols. Max Hays and Jan Hayes. Jan Hayes was also honored a second time as most outstanding
emergency services officer.

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Scouts of America's Grand
Canyon Council Geronimo
Camporee.
The cadets who took part
were trained as part of the
Arizona Wing's model rocketry
program. They had training in
model rocket construction,
safety, physics, aerodynamics,
tracking, recovery and
weather.
They volunteered to use
their knowledge and experience to teach a basic model
rocketry course to the Scouts
to help the Scouts earn their
space exploration merit badge.
More than 100 scouts from
12 troops attended the rocketry
training and learned the basic
concepts of rocket building,
science, safety, launch
procedures, and the history of
rocketry and space exploration.
The participating CAP
model rocketry cadet launch
team members who assisted
included: 1st Lt. Preston
Hebert; Master Sgt. Christopher Russnel; and Tech. Sgts.
Kevin Gunderson and Rafael
Drotar.
They were accompanied
by senior member 1st Lt.
Robert Hebert.
@ + @
A group of cadets from the
Arizona Wing supervised two
days of model rocket launches
by Scouts from the Catalina
Council of the Boy Scouts of
America.
The cadets, accompanied
by two senior members, helped
the Scouts launch solid-fuel
powered model rockets, as
well as water-powered soda
bottle rockets during the
"American Heroes" Camporee
at the Carlson Ranch in
Wilcox, Ariz.
The cadets helped more
than 250 Scouts from 22
different troops complete the
requirements for their space
exploration merit badge.
In addition to their work
with Boy Scouts, the cadets
helped more than 400 Cub
Scouts from 34 different
Catalina Council Cub packs
launch water- and air pressurepowered one-liter soda bottle
rockets to earn their scientific
activity pins.
The cadets who participated were: 1st Lt. Preston
Hebert; Master Sgt. Christopher Russell; and Tech Sgts.
Kevin Gunderson and Rafael
Drotar.
The cadets were accompanied by Capt. Kristine Wold
and 1st Lt. Robert Hebert.
1st Lt. Robert Hebert

CIO)A\ F TO COAST

OKLAHOMA -- The
Oklahoma City Composite
Squadron has a new cadet
ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLYERS
commander following a formal
change of command ceremony
in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Cadet 1st Lt. Bill Harned
stepped down after serving 10
months as the cadet commander in a ceremony held at
St. Mark's United Methodist
Church. He was replaced by
Cadet Capt. Walter Cockran.
To show the squadron's
appreciation for Harned's
service, the acting deputy
commander of cadets, Derald
T. Riggs, presented him with a
plaque during the ceremony.
Riggs filled in for ls.t Lt.
Greg Spitzca, who is on active
duty with the U.S. Air Force
and is currently in Saudi Arabia
repairing radar units. Although
he could not attend the
ceremony, Spitzca made
arrangements for Harned to
receive a U.S. flag that was
flown in an F-15 Eagle on a
A CAP Cessna flies through the mountains of Colorado during the Rocky Mountain Flying Clinic.
mission over Iraq.
The mountains provide several challenges for search and rescuers, and flight clinics help the
The flag will be accompapilots keep their skills sharp.
nied by a certificate signed and
time the squadron has redated by the pilot of the
year.
for each program sold by their
ceived the honor since it was
mission.
The following Addison
members. The Phoenix cadets
chartered in 1977.
Harned stepped down to
squadron cadets were honored sold about 1,000 programs to
The Jersey Village
go to Oklahoma State Univerduring the banquet: Maj. Eric
earn about $500 for their
squadron was chosen for their
sity in SUllwater, Okla., where
Thompson and Capt. Kenneth
squadron.
excellence in CAP's three
he will continue to study in an
Horton, the Amelia Earhart
In addition to making
missions and their involvement
aviation-related field. He plans
Award; 1st Lt. Ryan Bitters,
money for the squadron, the
in community service.
on remaining active in CAP in
solo wings; and 2nd Lt.
cadets and senior members
The squadron performed
a squadron near the university.
Maegan Stevenson, Texas
were able to increase public
20 missions at the request of
Hamed made many
Wing female cadet of the year
awareness of the squadron
the U.S. Air Force Rescue
positive changes within the
and the Gen. Billy Mitchell
and CAP and answered many
Coordination Center at Langley
squadron, such as beginning
Award.
questions from visitors about
Air Force Base, Va. Three of
regular field trips to aviationSenior members who were CAP.
those were distress missions.
related facilities. Also, while he honored were: Capt. Laurie
Cadets and senior
The squadron received the
was cadet commander,
Gray, outstanding cadet
members also saw several
same honors in 1982, 1985,
recruiting for new cadets was
programs officer; 1st Lt.
aerial demonstrations which
1986 and 2001.
more successful than expected Richard Stephens, outstanding
included a performance from
and the cadets were given
aerospace education officer;
the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels
more control over their
and Maj. Melanie Capehart,
team. After the performance,
activities.
lifesaving award.
several cadets met some of the
Cockran said he will
Cadet 2nd Lt. Maegan Blue Angels and got autocontinue to follow the legacy
Stevenson graphs.
begun by Hamed.
1st Lt. Robert Martin,
Cadet Senior Airman
TEXAS -- Cadets and
Phoenix squadron commander,
Dan C. Riggs senior members of the Phoenix and Cadet Maj. Adam Gross,
Composite Squadron supPhoenix squadron cadet
TEXAS -- Eighteen
ported an air show at an airport commander, organized the
members of the Addison
near Fort Worth, Texas.
cadets so they worked in shifts
Eagles Composite attended
Squadron members
to ensure that all of the cadets
the 2001 Texas Wing conferhelped with the 2001 Alliance
could see the static displays
ence in Fort Worth, Texas.
Air Show at Alliance Airport, a
and exhibits.
The Addison members
large airport just north of Fort
Lt. Co/. Bob Russe/I
attended classes on topics
Worth.
such as aerospace education,
Cadets helped sell
T.EXAS -- The Jersey
radio communications and
programs to the thousands of
Village Composite Squadron
emergency services.
visitors who came to the twowas honored as squadron of
A color guard from the
day air show, which featured
the year during the Texas
MONTANA -- Five cadets
Addison squadron presented
both static displays and aerial
Wing's annual conference in
of the Lewis and Clarke
the colors for the main bandemonstrations. Several other
Fort Worth, Texas.
Composite Squadron were
quet. During the banquet,
organizations also sold
The award is made more
honored by the Montana Air
several Addison squadron
programs during the large
impressive because the Texas
National Guard.
members were honored for
event.
Wing is a large wing, with 80
The cadets were surprised
their performance over the last
Each group got 50 cents
squadrons. This was the fifth
when they were presented with

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certificates which thanked
them for their "exceptional
service to the citizens of
Montana."
The certificates were
presented to the members of
the cadet color guard for
presenting and retiring the
colors in support of the
"Salute to the Greatest
Generation," a program held
in Helena, Mont. to honor
veterans of World War I1.
According to the certificates, the cadets performed
professionally despite short
notice.
The squadron wa6 "~k~d ....
to assist with the event ahead
of time. Cadets worked to
greet the public, distribute
programs, escort elderly
veterans and their families to
reserved seating, and help in
other areas as requested.
Just 15 minutes before
the program was to start, the
five cadets, members of the ~ r
Rocky Mountain Regionx,~r
guard team, were asked to fill
in to post the coloro oefore
several dignitaries and a
crowd of abo~Jt 3,000.
The c~lets who r~ceived
certificates were: 2nd Lt. Noah
Schultz; Senior Master Sgt.
Luke Bischoff; Master Sgts.
Hanna Darelius and Elizabeth
,5emple; and Senior Airman
Timothy Damrow.
After they retired the
colors, the cadets were
thanked by Judy Martz,
Montana governor, and Maj.
Gen. John E. Pendergast,
Montana adjutant general.
In addition to the certificates of appreciation, the
cadets on the color guard also
received Montana Air National
Guard coins. The military
coins are rarely given to
civilians
The Air National Guard
color guard was scheduled to
post the colors. However, two
of the five members were
unable to make it because of
the change in alert status
following the events of Sept.
11.
Other cadets who assisted during the event were:
Senior Master Sgt. Daniel
Warhank; Senior Airmen Evan
Barrett and David Wilkinson;
Airman 1st Class Andy
Thompson; and Airman Tom
Stehr.
1st Lt. Cindy Rand and
2rid Lt. Kal:en Semple also
assisted.
2nd Lt. Karen Semple
UTAH -- Members of the

Sevier Valley'~'~or-Squad ron
worked together to'raise funds
to help the victims of ttt@
terrorist attacks of Sept. 1.1.
Several senior m~mbers
from around Richfield, 0tab,
worked as a team to help "-~
victims of the terrorist attacks. They spent hours to make, by
hand, a queen-size quilt with
eagles sewn in to raise
money for CAP's EAGLE Fund.
Rather than selling the
quilt, the Sevier squadron
seniors are selling raffle
tickets, and the person with
the winning ticket will ~et thP."
nanomaoe quilt. The clrawh~-~
"~
will be held on Nov. 22,
Thanksgiving Day.
All of the proceeds from-~
the quilt raffle will go to-h~lP
victims through the ~',~GLE
Fund.
The Sp~;er Valley senior
memb~,~ who participated in
tho project were: Wayne
Reese, squadron commander, Rey Sorense~.
Janeen Hales, Mel Anderson,
Kent G~amberlain, Sue
Dalbert, Robert Olds, Glen
Black, Steve Blomquist, Lee
HoUoman, Jeanne Langston
and Marilyn Shepherd.
2nd Lt. Joanne Searcy

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interest in science. She told
about attending college and
applyin9~,o NASA for astronaut
training ahd the excitement
she felt when she was told
she had been accepted.
She also talked about her
training, what it felt like to "lift
ot~ how much ttm~ ,t=.~,.
lessnes~q= and other unique
features of being an astro ....
naut. She then narrated a
slide show of~Dhowgraphs
taken frjom,t/~e two space
sh~missions that she had
~wn.
During the speech, she
stressed the importance of
-science-end math knowledge
and encouragedyoung people
to consider scientific careers.
After the keynote address, the cadets attended
science seminars put on by
scientists. They had the
choice between 22 different
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of the choices they had were:
most exciting part of the day
"No Exploration Without
was meeting Ride. The
Navigation", "A Vision of Earth" cadets talked with her for a
and "Kitchen Chemistry etc."
short time and told her a little
When asked about the
about CAP.
seminars, the cadets agreed
1st Lt. Audrey DiGiantomasso
that they were great. The
festival and seminars were
CAUFORNIA -- Four
created to encourage young
cadets and senior members
P~J~P ..... ~ ..... ~,,n with
from California's Group 7
science and4eazr] a~,_,,
joined members of the Coast
possible futures in ~-]enc,~
~,.lard AuxiI~ia~,_~aJ~L Di~
and technology.
Ivroum~.,, Rescue and
When not attending
Coronado emergenGy radio
seminars, the cadets manned operations for a communicaa CAP recruiting booth. They
tions exercise.
talked to hundreds of girls and
Group 7 commander
their parents about the CAP
Capt. Mark Criswell and
cadet program. They also
communications officer Capt.
talked with science teachers,
Dee Osargent planned the
and, along with Steve Willexercise. They hoped it would
iams, Pacific Region aerohelp bring together different
space officer, encouraged
volunteer search and rescue
those teachers to take part in
groups in the Southern
CAP's Aerospace Education
California area and allow
programs.
them to practice working with
For many cadets, the
the latest communications
LEFT: Cadets Airman 1st
Class Kori Walton, left,
and Techo Sgt.Andrea DiGlantomas=_q of CaliforCom'l~,~R~,,= ..S,k~TaWk,--.~'. _~
meet Dr. Sally Ride,
America's first woman
astronaut.
BELOW: Cadets pose
with Ride during the
'Reach for the Stars' science festival for middle
school girls. Pictured
with Ride are, from left,
Cadets Airman Kaitlyn
I~alstson, Airman 1st
Class Kori Walton, Tech
Sgt. Andrea Digiantomasso and Airman
Luaren Day.

CALIFORNIA -- Four
cadets from Skyhawk Composite Squadron represented
the Civil Air Patrol at the first
ever "Reach For the Stars"
Science festival for girls at the
University of San Diego on
Saturday, October 6.
Dr. Sally Ride, the first
American woman astronaut in
space, created the festival to
support her Sally Ride
Science Club. Cadets Andrea
DiGiantomasso, Kori Walton,
Laurel Day and Kaitlyn
Ralston attended a keynote
speech by Ride.
During her keynote
address, Ride talked about
growing up with a deep

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military and civil-related.
Copetand flew in his career
support for the use of ~TV
developing the skills
successful, and the teams
When asked what he
included the F-4 Phantom, Fwere sent to more remote
necessary to deal with the
and APRS communic;~tion
missed most since retiring from
/14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, F-16
areas to continue testing the
varied terrain that provides a
tools in Civil Air Pat~01 misthe Navy, Adm. Copeland said
special element to effective
technology.
sions. Fut~e exercises will ,7Figbting Falcon, a ¥F-17
it was being around other
communications in San Diego
Because the mission base
use tbes~tSols plus HF radios. /Cobra prototype, and the F/Aservicemen. "Most definitely it
18 Hornet.
_
was in a valley, a forward
County. The exercise highis the camaraderie with my
Adm. Copeland, known as
~:-a'~.,~-~fA~rs
communications post was,,==~
lighted two new communicashipmates. I really miss the
"Mad Dog" during his career,
of the John J. I~on.tgomery
up at Mount
-. ^
tions technologies - Slow Scan
people. No matter what
"~P~morial Cadet~quadron got
spoke about some of his
Larrv_y~ele, El Cajon L, omTV and Automatic Position
occupation one pursues in life,
-~,3~r{~ Squadron commander,
a I~n naval ~viation
experiences as a naval aviator
Reporting Systems. ..__..--- to act as relay between the
history fro~r~.~teran naval
during a 30-minute presentation. it can't really equal the bond
/~ ~o, oc..,,,~,o.~, ...,t J-a% . aviator.
between members within the
field and mission base.
Adm. BakerField Army
"There were two medals
~
By the end of the day, the
Retired U.S. Nav~,~r
that I never wanted to earn: the armed forces," he said.
Reserve Center. Ground
ground teams were as far out
Admiral W. Winston Cope~
Cadet Thomas J. Norrie,
Prisoner of War Medal and the
teams were formed of both
Jr., who has flown over 300 ~.j~=r le Heart. After all was
cadet commander for the
as Mission Bay, Calif., using
senior and cadet members.
combat missions, made 1,200
C!~!CC~ ~/~!le~, o,~_,,o,"(rnq .._-~--the new radio communication
The teams began the
presented Adm. Copeland with
arrested landings andJogged - ~-enough to never have earned
devices, with the cooperation
morning with an introduction to
a certificate of appreciation
and participation of Joe
4,800 flight hours ih 30 typC~ them," he said.
the other organizations
,~,dm. Copeland also
and one of the unit's patches
of aircraft, Spoke to the
Stevens, who linked CAP and
participating and a briefing on
co~,q@nted on his continued
for speaking to members of the
squadron during a recent
the Coast Guard Auxiliary in
the goals of the day: learn to
interes~",%the current happensquadron.
meeting.
this exercise.
communicate between various
ings througV"~,~the world, both
Some of the aircraft Adm.
Capt. Michael Montgomery Jr.
Another ground team
groups; teach how the new
took the APRS out to the
technologies work; and go to
the field and put them to actual highest point in San Diego.
They climbed the rough terrain
real-world use.
and were tracked with special
During the briefing, 1st Lt.
software on a laptop computer
Richard Whaley explained the
at the base. After working out
mission. "We are here to learn
a few glitches the team was
L . t.'ol. Walter L. Anderson
to integrate technology into
"Maj. David l,R'~aeck :
Bangor-Brewer Composite Squadron
Somerset C o u n t y C o m p o s ~ u a d r o n
what wedo, to be more
Maine Wing
efficient,' he said.
Pennsylvaniff Wing x~\
N
knots are worked out. During
a real mission where every
Lt. Col. Ted Bagan
Capt. Richard N. Leo \N
Stevens, a member of both
minute counts in the race to
Offutt Composite Squadron
Camarillo Composite Squadron \.
CAP and the Coast Guard
find the target or complete the
Nebraska Wing
California Wing
"
Auxiliary. He helped coordimission, the technology can
nate the communication
flow smoothly and support the
Lt. Col. Charles L. Burrell
2nd Lt. Gary P. Procopenko
between CAP and the Coast
success of the mission.
California Wing
Redwood Empire Composite Squadron
Guard boats adding a new
Without adequate training,
California VYing
dimension to the training.
attempting to use unfamiliar
C o l . G o r d o n W. C u r t i s s
Glen Gerbrand and Kent
equipment on an actual
Georgia Wing
2nd Lt. Mario G. Quintanilla
Tiburski, ham radio operators,
mission can cause frustration
Uvalde Composite Squadron
represented ARRL and
and slow down the mission at
Lt. Col. Harold M. Dickerson
Texas Wing
Emergency Services in San
critical moments.
i Greevnille Composite Squadron
Diego County. They shared
Capt. Osargent said she
South Carolina Wing
Capt. Arthur G. Rathje
their expertise by training the
was very excited about the
West Broward Composite Sctuadron
CAP members on the use of
enthusiasm and dedication of
Lto Col. William Dobbs
Florida Wing
Slow Scan "IV. Everyone
the participants who attended
San Francisco Bay, Group 2
learned how to use the Slow
this communication exercise
California Wing
Scan TV equipment.
and the opportunity to learn
Maj. Milton Salzberg
The ground teams were .
and use these new radio
Sarasota-Brandenton Composite Squadron
:e
sent outside the base building
Lt. CoL Ben C. Harris
communication tools. Also, the
Floricia Wirlg
and practiced communicating
participants voiced their
Georgia Wing
with and sending pictures to
support and enthusiasm f~
Lt. Col. Orville K. Sandaker
the base. The local tests were
this exercise and afffirmed-their
Maj. Robert L. Hatcher
San Diego Senior Squadron
Nevada Wing
California Wing

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