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THE
U.S. A I R F O R C E
A U X I L I A RY

AUGUST

2000
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28 pages

CivilAirF

Former CAP-U.S.
Air Force
commander f
passes away
Retired Air Force
Brig. Gen Richard
Ellis, 84, passes
away June 28 in Fort
Walton Beach, Fla.
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2000 CAP
National Staff
College slat.ed
for Oct. 21 22
College will be held
at the Senior NCO
Academy at Maxwell
AFB-Gunter Annex in
M o n t g o m e r y, A l a .
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CAP Supply Depot ............ 8-9
National Perspective .........10
F o c u s o n S e r v i c e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1
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Fit to Serve ......................... 1 2
Air Force ....................... 1 6 - 1 7
Recognition ....................... 18
Coast to Coast ............. 19-28

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Brig. Gen. Richard N. Ellis, USAF (Ret.) .
CAP-U.S. Air Force Commander, 1969 -1972
Retired U.S. Air Force
Brig. Gen. Richard N. Ellis
passed away June 28 at
the Fort Walton Beach,
Fla., Medical Center. He
was 84.
General Ellis served
as the Civil Air PatroI-U.S.
Air Force commander for
three years before retiring
in 1972.
General Ellis entered
military flight training in
1939. In World War II, he
flew Spitfire fighters with
the British Royal Air Force
Eagle Squadron, B-17s
with the 92nd Bomb
Group and covert special
operations missions with
the 492nd Bombardment
Group known as "The
Carpetbaggers."
General Ellis also flew
P-38, P-39 and P-51 fight-

ers in Europe and North Africa.
During the Korean War,
General Ellis commanded
the 49th Fighter Bomber
Group and the 474th Fighter
Bomber Group. He set a theater record for flying 101 F84G combat missions in only
120 days.
After the war, he served
as deputy commander of the
306th Strategic Bomb Wing,
flying B-47s and then as
commander of the F-84equipped 27th Strategic
Bomb Wing. He went on to
command the 4123rd Strategic Bomb Wing (B-52s),
and the 21st and 17th Strategic Aerospace Divisions.
Following those assignments, General Ellis spent a
year in Air Materiel Command as chief of Personnel

and Support Operations, and
then departed for Germany
to serve as commander of
the 86th Air Division. In 1969,
he retired from the Air Force
as vice commander of the
17th Air Force, U.S. Air
Forces in Europe.
General Ellis was recalled to active duty and then
served three years as the
CAP national commander
before retiring again in 1972.
General Ellis' military
decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit with
three oak leaf clusters,
Bronze Star with one oak leaf
cluster, Air Medal with five
oak leaf clusters, the Air
Force Commendation Medal
with one oak leaf cluster,
Army Commendation Medal,
French Croix de Guerre with
star, Presidential Unit Cita-

tion, Outstanding Unit Award,
and various American and
foreign service and theater
awards.
General Ellis is survived
by his wife, former CAP
Capt. Marion Mathilde Ellis,
and a son, retired Air Force

Lt. Col. Richard Ellis.
Funeral services were
held July 5 at Eglin Air
Force Base, Fla. Interment
followed at the Barrancas
National Cemetery in
Pensacola, Fla., with full
military honors.

CAP National Headquarters
launches billboard campaign
N AT I O N A L H E A D Q U A R TERS -- If you have participated
in any Civil Air Patrol on-line forums lately, you may have read
about some mysterious sightings -billboard sightings, that is.
"It's no mystery at all," said
Mary Nell Crowe, director of Marketing and Public Relations. "The
billboards are the result of a lot of
hard work by CAP's Marketing and
Public Relations staff."
In July, headquarters launched
a yearlong national billboard advertising program in support of
CAP's "Where Imagination Takes
Flight!" public-awareness campaign. In all, 614 billboards will be
used.
Marketing and Special Events
Coordinator Tim Frantz designed
the poster, and Lamar Advertising,

a Shreveport, La.-based outdoor
advertising company, donated probono space in 21 markets across
the United States.
Billboard site selection was
based on CAP's attempt to reach
major markets in each region; but
was limited to those markets serviced by the Lamar agency.
Vincent Printing of Hixon,
Tenn., printed the posters and distributed them in mid-July.
States with CAP billboards will
include: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North
Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
N e v a d a , N e b r a s k a , N e w Yo r k ;
Louisiana, Virginia, Washington,
West Virginia and Wyoming

Civil Air Patrol
National Commander
Brig. Gen. James C. Bobick

CAP-US. Air Force Commander
& Senior Air Force Adviser
Col. Dennis B. Parkhurst

Executive Director
Col. Robert L. Brooks

D i r e c t o r. M a r k e t i n g & P R
Mary Nell Crowe

Civil Air Patrol News Editor
J a m e s F. T y n a n

CAP News Assistant Editor
D a n i e l P. M e r e d i t h

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official publication of the Civil Air Petrol, a private,
benevolent corporation and auxiliary to the U.S. Air
Force. It is published monthly by CAP National
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Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6332, and printed by the
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Utah Wing aircrew
locates Cessna -210
Joanne Searcy
Public Affairs Officer
Utah Wing
U TA H - - A n a i r c r e w f r o m U t a h W i n g ' s U i n t a h B a s i n
Composite Squadron located a single-engine Cessna 210
during a joint Utah/Colorado.
The aircraft went down with two people on board
about 10 miles inside the Colorado border during poor
weather conditions.
Colorado and Utah aircrews participated in the
search.
A c c o r d i n g t o F e d e r a l Av i a t i o n A d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f fi cials, the plane left Grand Junction, Colo., about 12:30
p.m. bound for Vernal, Utah. It dropped off radar about
12:49 p.m.
At about 3:30 p.m., 1st Lt. Leonard Wojcik, incident
commander, began to assemble aircrews to look for the
m i s s i n g p l a n e . H e o r g a n i z e d c r e w s f r o m C e d a r C i t y,
R i c h fi e l d , P r i c e a n d Ve r n a l , U t a h . M a j . J o e S h e l t o n ,
Uintah Basin Composite Squadron, received a call about
4 p . m . a n d s h o r t l y a f t e r h e a n d h i s c r e w, L t . C o l . R a y
Lemieux and 1st Lt. Jim Steinmetz, were airborne.
As the crew approached their assigned area, they
p i c k e d u p a n E LT s i g n a l a b o u t 1 0 - 2 0 m i l e s o u t . U s i n g
direction-finding equipment, Lemieux determined the signal was slightly left and in front of their present position. As the signal became stronger and the search plane
got closer, the crew made contact with a plane from the
Colorado Wing. Because the Colorado aircraft had no
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Cadet to attend scholar academy
MISSOURI - The cadet commander of Missouri
Wing's Vanguard Composite Squadron has been
selected to attend a special academic program at the
University of Missouri-Columbia.
Cadet 1st Lt. Heather M. Woller, a member of the
National Honor Society and honor student at
Warrensburg High School in Warrensburg, Mo., was
one of only 330 students statewide chosen to
participate in the 2000 Missouri Scholars Academy.
Woller will stay in the dorms on the campus and
take a number of intense, fast-paced classes taught

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by university professors. Woller's particular areas of
interest are criminal law and Russian.
The MSA was designed to help gifted students
achieve their full potential and to motivate them to
succeed.
Woller is very active in her squadron. She's a
fully qualified ground team member and mission radio
operator. She is scheduled to participate this summer
in the Missouri Wing flight encampment, CAP's
National Ground Search and Rescue course and
Hawk Mountain. Her parents are both CAP members.
Capt. David Woller is the wing director of communications, and 1st Lt. Sally Woller is the wing logistical
supply officer.

Getting it right! In the July issue of the Civil Air
Patrol News, Lt. Col. Rock Palermo was
mistakenly referred to as commander of the
Louisiana Wing’s Lake Charles Composit
Squadron on Page 8. The squadron’s
commander is actually Capt. Robert Hyberger.
Palermo is the wing disaster preparedness
and legal officer, and squadron emergency
services officer

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C I V I L A I R PAT ? O L N E W S
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CAP Historical Foundation
records stories, memories
of World War II subchasers
tories were subchasers Tom
Worth, Glen Cook, Eddie
Edwards, Maury Betchen,
Tom O'Day and Ed Phipps.
All flew at CAP Coastal PaMARYLAND -- The
trol Base 2 in Rehoboth
CAP Historical Foundation
h a s r e e m p h a s i z e d i t s p r o - Beach.
Edwards won fame for
gram of preserving the reca daring rescue of a downed
ollections and memories of
CAP pioneers, including the C A P a i r m a n a t s e a , a n d
famed CAP subchasers of w a s p r e s e n t e d t h e A i r
Wo r l d Wa r I I - e r a C o a s t a l M e d a l b y P r e s i d e n t
Franklin D. Roosevelt in
Patrol.
the White House in 1942.
The CAPHF renewed
Planned in the near fuits oral history program at
ture are oral histories in
the annual reunion of
the Lantana, Fla., area, site
Coastal Patrol Base 2 vetof CAP's Coastal Patrol
erans at Rehoboth Beach,
Base 3 (which was based in
Del., in October 1999. The
Lantana). A key oral hisreunion now serves as the
tory will be taken from
general reunion of all inO w e n G a s s a w a y, t h e
volved in World War II
"maintenance wizard" of
CAP operations.
Base 3. The maintenance
Among those videot a p e d f o r C A P H F o r a l h i s - chief at each base was a key

Drew Steketee
Executive Director
CAP Historical Foundation

World War II CAP subchaser Tom Worth of Closter, N.J., is interviewed on videotape by Drew
Steketee, executive director of the CAP Historical Foundation. Such oral histories will preserve
the memories of CAP's early pioneers.
figure in the safety of CAP
pilots operating 50-200
miles at sea.
Gassaway continued
his aviation career after the
war when he became the
president of Florida
Airmotive, one of the largest and most successful
fixed base operators in
Southern Florida. He continues to work in Lantana
managing the Palm Beach

County Airpark.
The three Coastal Patrol anti-sub bases were
quickly expanded to 21 located from Maine to
Mexico. The personal accounts of these pilots, observers and support personnel were collected in the
1990s by author Louis
Keefer.
"From Maine to
Mexico" is now available

through the CAP Historical
Foundation, as a premium,
for a tax-deductible contribution of $20 or more to the
foundation.
F o r a c o p y, s e n d y o u r
donation, book request and
mailing address to: CAP
Historical Foundation, c/o
D r e w S t e k e t e e , 4 2 1 Av i a t i o n W a y, F r e d e r i c k , M D
21701. Allow four weeks for
delivery.

N e w M e x i c o W i n g c o n d u c t s fi r s t - e v e r u r b a n gassignment. d s e areceived
r o u n Information r c h
Maj. Robbi Ross
Mission Public Affairs Officer
New Mexico Wing
NEW MEXICO -- Seven-yearold Robert "Robbie" Romero of
Santa Fe, N.M., had walked the
few blocks from a friend's house
back to his home many times -but on June 7, he did not return.
Family, friends and neighbors
started a neighborhood search
when they realized Robbie had not
returned home. Then the Santa Fe
Police Department was called and
a professional search was initiated.
On the morning of June 8,
Santa Fe Police requested the assistance of the state police search
and rescue. Dogs, ground teams
and helicopters began searching in
a heavily wooded area where
Robbie was last seen.
On the night of June 9, 1st Lt.
David Ruetz, New Mexico Wing's
director of emergency services, received a call from the New Mexico
State Police requesting a ground

team with automated position reporting system capability.
A team was quickly assembled
and led by Lt. Col. Bob Ross with
cadet Lt. Col. John Grassham of
the Eagle Composite Squadron
serving as the ground operations
b r a n c h d i r e c t o r. U n f o r t u n a t e l y,
New Mexico Wing's ground search
a n d r e s c u e d i r e c t o r, C a p t . D a n
Bourne, and his wife, Capt. Olivia
Bourne, had just left town. Bourne
has been trying for some time to
get the wing ground teams certified by the state for ground
searches and this was the wing's
first official effort.
The team, comprised of members from the Thunderbird and
Eagle Composite squadrons in Albuquerque, left wing Headquarters
at 6 a.m. June 10. They were
equipped with a mobile communications center, transportation van
and personal gear suitable for this
type of search.
When the team arrived at the
mission base in Santa Fe, they set

up their communications center. A
briefing was held and the team was
assigned to search a large arroyo,
culverts, water easements and the
woods behind a mall.
The initial search pattern was
from the center of the arroyo north
to the edge of the shopping center
parking lot. The second pattern
swept from the center of the arroyo southward through a more
densely wooded pinon! juniper
grove. Short interviews were conducted with possible witnesses, but
no signs or clues surfaced.
After debriefing and a quick
break, the team's next assignment
was to obtain GPS coordinates for
a culvert/drainage system in an adj a c e n t r e s i d e n t i a l a r e a . M a j . J e ff
Carpenter and Ross recorded the
c o o r d i n a t e s . Tw o s m a l l e r t e a m s ,
under the supervision of Capt.
John Choc, were assigned adjacent
search areas.
In the heat of the afternoon,
with temperatures well into the
90s, the team received their third

from a jogger, who had passed very
near where the team had searched
earlier in the day, led incident commanders to believe that another
look at the area was warranted.
Accompanied by a local news rep o r t e r a n d T V c r e w, t h e t e a m r e turned, but again their efforts
turned up nothing.
Late that afternoon, the search
day ended. The incident commander thanked the team for their
invaluable work with communications, GPS and APRS capabilities,
and slow-scan pictures.
Cadets Kaycee Gilbert and
Elizabeth Deeds, both of the Eagle
Composite Squadron, had manned
t h e w i n g c o m m u n i c a t i o n s c e n t e r.
Choc, who works professionally as
a communications specialist, designed and set up the mobile communications center, and had personally trained cadet teams to receive slow-scan imagery, Auto
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Oregon aircrews locate downed Cessna
L t . C o l . T h o m a s Tr a v e r
Public Affairs Officer
Oregon Wing
OREGON -- Oregon Wing
search crews located an aircraft July 9 that had been reported overdue.
The aircraft failed to reach
its destination July 8 after departing Aurora State Airport
for a routine recreational flight
with nine other aircraft, all
members of the Columbia
Aviation Club.
Wing aircrews located the
crash site after following up on
F e d e r a l Av i a t i o n A d m i n i s t r a tion radar-imaging data early
evening on July 9. The site was
about 25 miles northeast of Salem, Ore. The exact coordinates of the site were relayed
to Clackamas County Sheriffs
Office ground teams for verification.
The condition of the pilot

was unknown.
The 1959 Cessna 175 aircraft was reported overdue
when it failed to arrive at
Lebano, Ore., after leaving Aurora at about 8:30 a.m. The
wing was activated by the Air
Force Rescue Coordination
Center at Langley Air Force
Base, Va., at the request of officials from Oregon Emergency
Management. The CAP was already engaged in a search and
r e s c u e e x e r c i s e i n J o h n D a y,
Ore., July 8. Aircraft and aircrews were immediately dispatched to participate in the
search.
On July 8, search aircraft
conducted an initial route
search while the Marion
County Sheriffs Office conducted ramp checks at nearby
a.irports -- all without success.
On July 9, members operating out of the wing's Aurora
airport mission base combed

the projected flight path of the
missing aircraft with 11 search
aircraft and more than 45 volu n t e e r s . Tw o a i r c r a f t a n d a i r c r e w s f r o m t h e Wa s h i n g t o n
Wing were also involved.
Washington County
S h e r i ff s O f fi c e g r o u n d t e a m s
also conducted additional airport checks throughout the
area.
" T h e r e h a d b e e n n o E LT
(electronic locator transmitter)
signal heard so we continued
to search the initial route the
aircraft was intending to fly
when it was reported missing,"
said wing spokesman Lt. Col.
Thomas Traver.
"Once we received radar
i m a g i n g f r o m t h e FA A S e a t t l e
center late Sunday afternoon,
we immediately sent a search
aircraft to check out the possibility that the image was of
the missing aircraft -- and it
was."

CA Wing helps search for Decafhlon
CALIFORNIA -- The California Wing was
tasked to assist the Santa Clara County
Sheriffs Office with a search for a rented yellow and blue Decathlon with one person on
board.
The aircraft was reported missing after the
pilot failed to return from a local aerobatic flight
out of Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, Calif.
Prior to the wing being put on alert, there
had been an eyewitness report from a person
who had seen an aircraft go down June 15 near
t h e U n i t e d Te c h n o l o g y C o r p o r a t i o n t e s t f a c i l ity in the hills south of Reid-Hillview.
On June 14, a wildfire east of San Felipe
R o a d h a d b r o k e n o u t n e a r t h e U T C f a c i l i t y. I t

mated Position Reporting System transmissions, GPS coordinate transmissions and radio
communications. "Both cadets
Gilbert and Deeds did an exceptional job." Choc said.
In spite of the difficulties
encountered with this type of
search, Grassham and Cadets

was contained by 6 p.m. on June 15 and finally
controlled on the evening of June 16.
On June 16 at 10:30 am, a private fire crew
patrolling UTC lands for hot spots found what
appeared to be the missing Decathlon near the
crossroads of San Felipe and Las Animas Roads
a c c o r d i n g t o t h e S a n t a C l a r a C o u n t y S h e r i ff s
Office.
California Wing members tasked to respond
w e r e : M a j . J o h n Ay l e s w o r t h a n d 1 s t L t . R i c h ard Palm of the Jon E. Kramer Composite
Squadron; and 1st Lts. Larry Daniels and Tom
Conklin of the Monterey Bay Composite Squadron.

Jason and Adam Crawford of
the Thunderbird Composite
Squadron worked professionally with the senior members
of the team.
According to Ross, the cadets in the field, all over 18,
helped illuminate the value of
CAP ground teams to the New

Mexico search and rescue stewards in the Santa Fe area.
"This was the first official
ground urban search performed by a New Mexico Wing
ground team," said Ross. "And
they carried their taskings out
masterfully."
As for seven-year old
Robbie, the investigation into
his disappearance has broadened into a multi-state search
and continues to this day.

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Maryland receives credit for save;
locates missing 81 -year-old woman
1 s t L t . R o b e r t E . Te r r y
Public Affairs Officer
Howard Composite Squadron
Maryland Wing

recreation area and nearby neighborhoods.
Over the next four hours, more teams were
sent out. The Glenn L. Martin team, led by
Capt. Greg Bolyard, searched south of Knowles'
team. Two Mid-Atlantic dog teams were coupled
M A R ~ D - - I n a " t e x t b o o k " m i s s i n g - to the White Marsh team, led by Capt. Neil
p e r s o n s e a r c h , e i g h t M a r y l a n d W i n g g r o u n d Douglas, and sent to a wooded northwest locateams located a missing 81-year-old Silver
tion. The Howard team, led by Maj. Elza
Spring, Md., woman with Alzheimers.
Redman, was assigned a recreation area. The
On June 26 at about 6:30 p.m., the Arden
Arundel team, led by 2nd Lt. Chris Pumphrey,
Court Assisted Living Facility in Silver Spring
took on a similar task to the south. The overall
reported the woman missing to the Montgompattern was designed to obtain coverage of all
ery County Police Department.
areas potentially accessible to the missing
Detective A1 Williams of the MCPD opened
woman.
the investigation with a detailed check of the
At about 9:30 p.m., Knowles' team finished
facility followed by foot patrols in the immedi- s e a r c h i n g a t G a l w a y P a r k . T h e y b r o k e i n t o
ate vicinity.
three interviewing groups and spread out. The
Coordinated by Lt. Darrel McSwain, deputy
middle group, with Capt. Bruce Drury and his
commander of MCPD's Silver Spring District,
son, cadet Staff Sergeant Dan Drury, encounthe search continued into the following morntered a man who told them about an old woman
ing. Assets included an MSP helicopter, horse- h e s a w i n a y a r d e a r l i e r i n t h e d a y. H e c o u l d
mounted park police and dog teams.
not recall the address, and offered to take them
By early afternoon on June 27, officials re- to the location in his truck. As they approached
quested the help of the Maryland Wing to
the area, they saw the woman on the ground.
s e a r c h l o c a l a r e a s m o r e c o m p l e t e l y. B y 3 : 3 8 She was on her back with her arms raised, and
p.m. mission coordinator Lt. Col. Robert L.
her head and shoulders in bushes.
Ayers was alerted and opened his log. At 3:45
EMS personnel arrived within minutes. The
p . m . , L t . C o l . K e v i n W. R e d m a n , e m e r g e n c y victim was suffering from shock, hypothermia,
s e r v i c e s o f fi c e r f o r t h e H o w a r d C o m p o s i t e dehydration and a minor wrist injury. She was
Squadron, was assigned as ground operations treated at the scene for her injuries and transdirector. The wing mission-management team
ported to Holy Cross Hospital.
comprises about 50 man-years of search and
Knowles team -- consisting of Drury and
rescue experience.
his son, cadet Capt. Michael Crockett, cadet
Ay e r s c o n t a c t e d t h e M C P D a n d a r r a n g e d A i r m a n S a n d e r C o h e n , c a d e t A i r m a n F i r s t
f o r t h e s e a r c h b a s e t o b e s e t u p . S o o n a f t e r, Class Natasha Lewandrowski, and senior memground teams from the Howard, Glen L Mar- ber Suzanne Shoemaker -- was debriefed, as
tin, Arundel, White Marsh, Bowie, St. Mary's,
were all the remaining teams over the next
Hagerstown, and Bethesda Chevy Chase squad- hour. The Air Force Rescue Coordination Cenrons were contacted. The most remote teams
ter at Langley Air Force Base, Va., was called
w o u l d t r a v e l n e a r l y 1 0 0 m i l e s t o j o i n t h e e f - for a closeout of the night's action at 2:40 am
fort. Ayers has promised to field 40 to 50
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searchers.
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00M1315A was officially closed by the AFRCC.
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Satellite Tool Kit integral part of our future

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oday, millions of America,,.~ use personal compute~@ ~n a daily basis and we
are no exception. It is
commonplace to send or receive emails from all over the
globe or to access
volumes of information through the
World Wide Web.
Computers and the
benefits of high
technology have
become indispensable.
Computers and
technical advances are
playing an important
role in our Civil Air
Patrol activities and missions.
CAP aircraft are being equipped
with modern navigation aids
including Global Positioning
Systems. The use of search and
rescue satellites to pinpoint the
origin of emergency locator
transmitter signals has become an
integral part of many missions.
Weather forecasting is far more
advanced through the use of
satellites. The list of achievements
and benefits of satellite technology
goes on and on.

One particular high-tech
computer program advancement
is having a very positive impact on
CAP in all three of our primary
missions - cadet programs,

aerospace education and emergency services. That program is
the Satellite Tool Kit -- more
commonly called STK.
In my travels across the
country attending CAP conferences and events, you may have
heard me talking about the
Satellite Tool Kit and the CAPSTK Program. STK is leadingedge computer software developed
by Analytical Graphics Incorporated, headquartered in Malvern,
Pa. Paul Graziani, AGI president
and CEO and a former CAP cadet,
founded the company in 1989.
STK is the premiere satellite
analysis software used by governments, industry and educational
institutions worldwide in all facets
of space-related technology,
training and operations.
At this point, many of you are
wondering what satellite software
has to do with CAP and where is
the benefit. To provide complete
answers would take far more
space than is allotted here. However, a brief overview of how STK
is having a positive, productive
impact on our CAP missions is
surely of value.
About four years ago, AGI
granted CAP the use of STK
under their Educational Alliance
Program. AGI made a commitment to supply all CAP units with
STK software and required
licensing. I should mention that
the commercial value of a single

or module within STK especially
copy of the STK software is from
designed for CAP by AGI and
$50,000-$100,000. Yet, more
applies space-related technology
important than the dollar value, is
to real world mission applications.
this significant grant to CAP,
Components of the CAP-STK
which represents a tremendous
opportunity for us to
Search Tool are:
Grid search: 3D terraintake pioneering steps
into the 21st Century imaging with line-of-sight coverusing leading-edge,
age analysis. The user will be able
space-related techto program different search
nology.
patterns and simulate flying the
mission on a computer over
Seizing this
opportunity, a team
"actual" terrain. This includes
determining visual ground viewof CAP volunteers
ing limitations due to terrain
developed and
restrictions.
initiated the national
Repeater tool: Determines
CAP-STK Team. Our
first use for STK was signal coverage taking terrain
masking into consideration.
in our cadet programs and aeroE LT t o o l : L i n e - o f - s i g h t f o r
space education. The team develELT signals based on terrain
oped and published a 32-hour
masking.
course for STK and now it is
Radar tool: Determines
available for all CAP units along
radar coverage based on terrain
with the STK software.
masking.
CAP's STK course deals with
N TA P t o o l : U s i n g N TA P
an introduction to orbital mechandata, a recreation of an aircraft
ics and has five different lessons
flight path can be viewed in 3D
that are interactive using the STK
over the actual terrain flown.
software. The program gives our
Satellite coverage tool:
cadets the opportunity to have
hands-on use of the same space
Determines SARSAT and GPS
satellite availability for any given
tool used by NASA, the U.S. Air
Force, our nation's military
area in the world.
It is important to note the
academies and many other instiSTK software can be run on a
tutions and businesses.
Pentium-chip notebook or desktop
Using STK software with a
computer! STK software is user
Pentium type computer having
friendly and the search tool has
Internet access, CAP members
been designed using a "task
have the ability to view a space
wizard" for easy use with minimal
shuttle launch in 3D and in real
time! That is just another example training. Just point and click!
The first operational version
of STK benefits. The educational
of the CAP-STK Search Tool, the
value alone is limitless and will
grid search tool, as well as the
surely continue to grow in the
entire CAP-STK Program will be
future.
displayed at the CAP National
Recently, benefits of this
Board this month in San Antonio
alliance between CAP and AGI
have been developed for our
and informative seminars will be
emergency services mission.
offered to all attendees. I encourage everyone to learn more about
Shortly, we will be using STK as
the CAP-STK Program and
an integral part of our search and
understand its value to all CAP
rescue missions. Expanding on
members. I assure you, it is an
the STK software modules curopportunity we will always apprerently available, AGI engineers
ciate.
working with a team of CAP
In addition to all the CAPvolunteers have engineered and
produced the CAP-STK Search
S e e S T K . . . P a g e 11
Tool. This is a software program

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CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS * AUGUST 2000

11

We are spiritually strong, and we stand ready
ave you recently looked
into a mirror? Did you
see your reflection as
you expected or were you surprised to see some
change?
In fact, if you
did not see any
change, you might
want to look again
because we change
physically every
hour and we
should change
spiritually continually for this life
is the time to
prepare to meet God. Therefore
each day, each hour should be
normal change.
I have served as your chief for
two years and together we have
seen CAP's Chaplain Service
change. Every three months, six
months and annually, I establish
chaplain service goals and con-

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stantly monitor results.
May I share just a few with
you. Each year for the past two
years, as in other years, we have

had exceptional Chaplain Service
region staff colleges.
Seven of eight have trained
personnel in critical incident
stress management or CISM,
following the Mitchell model and
thus providing CAP and communities with more than 200 basictrained people.

Chaplain leadership at the
wing and region levels are proficient and change every six years,
thus providing opportunities for
percolating experience.
Moral leadership officers
are able to receive special
MLO #225 track training
and become part of the
Chaplain Service.
This millennial year is
the 50th year of what is
surely a milestone for the
CAP Chaplain Service.
And it's been a wonderful
history that has experienced nothing but solid
leadership James O'Connell,
1952-1970; Robert Newberg, 19701972; Chilton Thorington, 19731975; Luther Smith, 1976-1979;
John Elliott, 1980-1982; Frank
Ebner, 1983-1986; Harold Place,
1986-1988; Alva Appel, 1989;
Gene Elmore, 1989-1991; Vernon
Harms, 1991-1993; David

VanHorn, 1993-1996; and John
Murdock, 1996-1998 -- all past
chiefs/chairmen of CAP Chaplain
Service.
There is no doubt that our 50
years of service has brought about
significant change. And a special
thanks to all of those individuals
for their service during that time
and to all of the CAP chaplains
who have ministered since 1950.
True, that daily or hourly
change is not as evident as when
we look back over a 50-year span,
but let us not forget that it was
those small amounts of hourly and
daily positive change that have
made the Chaplain Service what it
is today. We are a major force of
about 700 now -- providing good
in the lives of CAP members and,
most especially, our cadets. We
are spiritually strong, and we
stand ready for the future as we
go about quietly ministering
where needed.

Middle East Region aircrew safely lands stricken C-172
Lt. Col. Stan Ingrain
North Carolina Wing Headquarters
MIDDLE EAST REGION -The Saturday morning sortie was
nothing more than a routine mountain flying clinic training flight.
Clinic instructor Capt. T. W.
Kirkpatrick of the North Carolina
was in the right seat of Capflight
3214, 1st Lt. Bill MacKrell of North
Carolina's Raleigh-Wake Squadron
was the left-seat student, and, in
the back seat, was student 1st Lt.
James Atkinson, a certified flight
instructor and mission pilot from

West Virginia Wing.
The three were in grid 241
Bravo for about 45 minutes practicing approaching and crossing
ridges, when the engine began to
run rough. A quick check indicated
there was no oil pressure -- and
soon they would have no power.
As practiced, the crew immediately turned away from the
mountain, attained maximum glide
speed, headed for an open field and
called in a "Mayday." Now the entire Middle East Region Mountain
Flying Clinic became focused on
the emergency.

STK national presentations, we are making a
concerted effort to conduct seminars and
training sessions at region/wing conferences
and educational meetings. It is a huge undertaking to bring this program to all CAP members and it will take time. It is our intent to
make sure every CAP unit and all members
across the country be given the opportunity to
take part in the CAP-STK Program, be it for

The "high bird" aircraft called
for radio silence, and all aircraft
remained in their grids except the
closest aircraft, which was given
permission to approach the site.
The crew of the stricken aircraft
made a safe landing in a West Virginia meadow after "hopping" over
two fences.
As soon as they got out of the
aircraft, they spotted oil on the side
of the aircraft, but none in the engine. The aircrew members also
suspected damage to the landing
gear.
Kirkpatrick credited the skill

cadet, educational or mission use.
In addition to current uses of CAP-STK,
we are exploring the use of STK to assist in
our counterdrug mission. On a recent visit to
CAP National Headquarters, Paul Graziani
learned of our counterdrug initiatives and is
now eager to explore the use of STK in that
arena as well. There is a definite excitement
surrounding the CAP-STK program. This
excitement can lead to an excellent recruiting
tool. It is very possible for CAP to attract new
members who are interested in being able to
use state-of-the-art space technology.

and knowledge of the other two pilots in the aircraft, along with constant training.
"We practice forced landings all
the time, especially during 'Form
5's," he said. "I believe the 'safety
always' attitude preached by our
CAP check pilots makes all of us
better pilots."
The airc,'aft had to be trucked
from its lar, ~ing spot for engine and
possible landing gear repairs.
Acccording to region officials, it is
expected that the aircraft will return to Civil Air Patrol's aircraft
inventory.

This is a classic win-win situation. Don't
miss the opportunity to participate and invite
others to join in. You will never regret it. STK
is the future and through the generosity of
Paul Graziani and the entire AGI staff, it is an
integral part of our future as well.
Like the 21st Century, the CAP-STK
Program is just beginning. The possibilities
are exciting and, in this case, the sky is not the
limit. The CAP-STK Program is truly assisting
CAP to become a significant contributor to the
magnificent future that lies ahead for all
Americans.

Good medical advice for staying healthy, safe

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hether you're traveling

round the United States
the world or relaxing at
home, a safe and healthy journey
will add to your fun.
Here are a number of
helpful health and
safety tips to keep in
mind when planning a
vacation.
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Most likely it is improperly handled chicken
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Prevent premature aging
and reduce your risk of skin cancer by using a good "broad spectrum" sunscreen with at least a 15
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after exposure, bringing redness,
pain, swelling and blistering.
Cover the exposed area with protective clothing and wear a broadbrimmed hat.
Choose sunglasses that block
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UVB radiation. If traveling, make
sure you bring your eyeglass or
contact prescription with you.
To stay safe while swimming
or boating, know your limitations
-- and never swim alone. Most of

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plant. Put calamine lotion or hyTa k e s t e p s t o p r e v e n t t r a v drocortisone cream in your first aid
elers' maladies such as motion sickkit to ease itching.
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Avoid overheating in the
summer sun by
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drinking plenty of liq- Food poisoning can cause various
uids and taking
ailments, such as nausea, vomitbreaks in cool places. i n g , d i a r r h e a a n d s t o m a c h p a i n s .
These symptoms can occur one to
While exercising in
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Pollen and mold spores peak
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head injuries.
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counts are the highest.
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If you ask Michelle Yost why she was
selected as the CAP National Headquarters
employee of the quarter, you'll get a very
interesting answer.
"1 shouldn't have gotten the award," stated
Yost, a senior business systems analyst with the
Information Systems Department. "The award
should have gone to the whole IS department,
because we all work together and do everything
as a team."
No surprise here! The emphasis Michelle
places on teamwork is one of the reasons why
she is such a valuable asset to CAP. And her
actions prove she means what she says. Many
people would have used the $100 gift that went
with the quarterly award as a chance to do
something nice for
themselves, but not
Michelle -- she saw
it as a chance to do
something nice for
her teammates. In
the end, she used
the money to treat
everyone in her
department to a
pizza lunch.
In addition to
her value as a team
Michelle Yost
player, Michelle is a
hard-working, always-on-the-go dynamo. Few
can keep up with her, and her energy and smile
are contagious.
Apart from CAP, Michelle is married to
Craig Yost and has a chocolate Labrador named
Jasmine. And you don't have to know her long
or well to realize what her biggest passion is.
Everyone at headquarters knows she is an avid
Auburn University sports follower. Her knowledge of Auburn and all of the school's sports
teams is remarkable, and, when mixed with her
energy and intellect, she is a tough foe for the
most avid of Crimson Tide fans.
Michelle also enjoys gardening, and she
works out at the gym every day.
Chances are good that, as CAP members
in the field, you will never have direct contact
with Michelle. However, when you call headquarters, the bookstore or supply depot to
request something, the people working in those
departments know you are a CAP member
because of the database work performed by
Michelle and the other members of the IS team.

N AT I O N A L H E A D Q U A R TERS -- Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters has released the fiscal 2000 Inland
SAR Coordination Course
schedule.
"This course is an outstanding opportunity for all
CAP mission managers," said
John Desmarais, head of emergency services plans at headquarters.
In order to attend, applicants must be incident commanders/mission coordinators
or nearing that status; pilots/
observer/scanner; working in
operations, planning, logistics,
administration chiefs; and others with substantial CAP
emergency services experience
who are committed to progressing to mission management positions in emergency
services.
Each class has 24 openings
with six of those reserved for
CAP. To apply for a CAP slot,
submit a completed and signed
CAP Form 17 through your
unit, wing and region commander to CAP National Headq u a r t e r s ( H Q C A P / D O S ) . To
preclude "form-loss syndrome,"

you should fax a copy of your
original application to headquarters to establish your intent to attend (or via e-mail).
Application deadlines are
not later than 60 days before
class start date.
Students must firmly commit to attend when the list is
finalized and submitted to the
SAR school so students are being asked to coordinate attendance with their with employers. Please contact headquarters if you have to make spe-

cial plans to attend.
While the classes are offered free of charge, each student or their organization is responsible for all personal expenses, including travel, lodging, meals, etc.
For more information, contact John Desmarais or Pete
Kalisky
via
e-mail
(j desmarais@capnhq.gov or
pkalisky@capnhq.gov ) or via
telephone -- (334) 953-4220/
4228 voice or (334) 953-6342
fax.

SC Wing flies evacuation route recon flights
Maj. Emerson Smith
Director, Public Affairs
South Carolina Wing

nator. The mission coordinator trainee was Maj.
Ginger McMillan of the Charleston Composite
Squadron. George Roberts, CAP was in charge
of Air Operations. Capt. Cindy Aulbach served
SOUTH CAROLINA -- The South Caroas the key liaison with the preparedness divilina Wing joined with the South Carolina High- sion and highway patrol.
way Patrol to fly reconnaissance flights over
According to South Carolina Wing Come i g h t h i g h w a y e v a c u a t i o n r o u t e s f r o m t h e mander Col. Hartsell Rogers, the exercise was
a vital experience. "This is the future of the
coastal areas inland.
The South Carolina Emergency PreparedCivil Air Patrol," said Rogers, "participating in
ness Division oversaw the joint effort.
emergency preparedness and disaster services
During the most recent hurricane in South
in conjunction with other state agencies and
Carolina, traffic was blocked for hours as coastal authorities."
All 10 of the wing's aircraft were involved
residents in Charleston, Hilton Head and Beaufort packed the highways heading inland after
in the exercise. Ground crews, made up with
a n e v a c u a t i o n o r d e r w a s g i v e n b y t h e g o v e r - both cadets and senior members, also participated.
nor.
Recently, the South Carolina Highway PaAs a result of this exercise, the wing will
t r o l a n d S o u t h C a r o l i n a W i n g h e l d a p r a c t i c e be better prepared for the hurricanes that pose
response exercise based in Columbia, S.C. Maj.
a threat to South Carolina's shores every year,
Corty Williamson served as the mission coordi- said Rogers.

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N AT I O N A L H E A D Q U A R T E R S - - I n o n e o f
the grandest public celebrations in Civil Air Pat r o l h i s t o r y, t h e M a r y l a n d W i n g M u s i c P r o g r a m
t o o k p a r t i n " Ta t t o o 2 0 0 0 - - S a l u t i n g A m e r i c a ' s
Ve t e r a n s " o n t h e N a t i o n a l M a l l i n Wa s h i n g t o n ,
D.C., July 11.
Twenty-one National Military Music Academy
cadets, led by academy director Capt. George
Carroll, entertained the audience alongside Maryland Wing Music senior members dressed in World
Wa r I I - e r a u n i f o r m s . O t h e r b a n d s i n t h e t a t t o o
included the U.S. Army's Old Guard Fife and
Drum Corps, Colonial Williamsburg Fifers and
Drummers, and City of Alexandria (Va.) Bagpipes
and Drums.
With only a few days to prepare, the members
put on a spectacular show. They played a medley
of patriotic tunes, reenacted a 1940s Glenn Miller/
USO swing-band segment and presented a flag
pageant as a tribute to all CAP volunteer-members who lost their lives in service to America.
Master of ceremonies, senior member Roger
Thiel, included remarks about the wealth of resources and spirit CAP presents to the country.
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II Director: "NSC is CAP's capstone program for professional development"

2000 National Staff College set for. Oct. 21.28
Mark Wilkerson
Chief, Senior Training
CAP National Headquarters
N AT I O N A L H E A D Q U A R TERS -- .The 2000 Civil Air Patrol
National Staff College will be held
Oct. 21-28 at the U.S. Air Force
Senior NC0 Academy, Maxwell Air
Force Base-Gunter Annex in Montgomery, AJ~.
Col. Ernie Pearson, the 2000
N S C d i r e c t o r, s u m m e d u p t h e
college s ~lue for eligible senior
members. ~The National Staff College is Ci~] Air Patrol's capstone
program for professional development, and~ will provide CAP's senior offices the best executive.
level training that CAP has to offer."
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The ~SC offers training in
leadershipeand management issues
and comnihnications, and brings
members ~p to date on a wide
range of CAP issues. Small seminars discuss and analyze management concepts and deal with real

lent. (See CAP Regulation 50-17,
problems facing CAP.
D u r i n g t h e w e e k , m e m b e r s CAP Senior Member Training Proh a v e t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o i n t e r a c t gram, Chapter 7).
Members attending the
with other future leaders of
NSC are authorized to
CAP and the current
use the academy's
leadership of CAP, indormitories and
cluding sessions
dining facilities.
with the national
This profescommander and
sional military
executive direceducational fator.
cility is one of
The NSC
the finest in
also takes adthe Air Force
vantage of a
with seminar
number of exrooms,
dorms
pert lecturers
and dining facilifrom Air Univerties all conveniently
s i t y, t h e c e n t e r o f
located in a campusthe U.S. Air Force's
like environment at
professional military eduG u n t e r. C o s t s r a n g e f r o m $ 1 0 - 1 5
cation.
per day for the room and $10-15
Present and potential wing and
per day for food, although several
region commanders, and group
commanders who have attended a meals are included in the registraregion staff college may apply. Ap- tion fee. The NSC registration fee
plicants must hold the grade of ma- is $100 and covers a variety of acjor or above (cannot be waived) and tivities and functions.
Eligible senior members need
have completed an RSC or equiva-

to complete a CAP Form 17, Application for Senior Member Activities, and submit it through the unit
commander to wing and region for
approval. The region commander
must forward the approved forms
(signed by the unit, wing and region commanders) to CAP National
Headquarters (HQ CAP/ETP) by
Sept. 15. Form can be sent via fax
at (334) 953-7771.
Once accepted, the college director will send each member an
acceptance letter all of the necessary information.
For more information, check
out the NSC Web site at
w w w. c a p n h q . g o v ( c l i c k o n t h e
"Aerospace Education and Training" icon, and then the "Professional Development" icon) or contact NSC Director Col. Ernie
Pearson at (909) 394-1175 or via email at erniepear@earthlink.net.
Applicants may also contact the
Professional Development Division
at CAP National Headquarters at
(334) 953-7584.

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C,VIL AIR PATROL NEWS liii AUGUST 2000

Honor Guard Academy
26 Middle East Region cadets
attend first CAP Honor Guard Academy
Lt. CoL R. tAJill/orn 5ch //
VIRGINIA -- Cadets from across the
Middle East Region gathered at Virginia State
Military Reservation to attend the first-ever
national Honor Guard Academy.
Twenty-six cadets from five different
wings completed two weeks of intensive
training under members of the U.S. Air Force
Honor Guard.
The honor
guard, made
up of some of
the sharpest
personnel in
the Air Force,
is stationed at
Boiling Air
Force Base,
Washington,
D.C.
Three
noncommissioned officer
members of
the honor
guard put the
cadets
through their
paces in a
variety of
activities.
They started
with the
Capt. Shewn Kerrigan of the basics and
Vi r g i n i a N a t i o n a l G u a r d continued
teaches a Drug Demand Re- through some
duction courae during the of the
complex
academy,
displays for
which the honor guard is known. But the
instructors taught more than just maneuvers
they shared with the cadets about other
aspects of their lives as members of the honor
guard,
The academy itself came about because
of a need in CAP for a standardized honor
guard training program.
That such a need existed became
increasingly evident over the past several
years as more and more requests came in for
honor guards for nonessential events.
Because military budgets were cut, it was
increasingly difficuR to get military honor
guard units for events deemed nonessential.
Event planners were requesting CAP units to
fill the gaps more often as time went by,
With this in mind, Lt. COL Amanda B.
Anderson, Middle East Region director of
administration, developed a comprehensive
training guide. With the help of Lt. Col.
Johnet:ta C, Mayhewi Maryland Wing honor

guard project officer, she also designed the
training program.
Additional input for the course was
provided by members throughout the Middle
East Region. Based on that input, 25 subjects
were selected. Included were: basic drill, flag
etiquette, colors ceremonies, funeral procedures, changes of command, drug demand
reduction and honor guard history.
The academy was limited to a small
group of cadets in its first year so that CAP
officers would be able to review the course
and make any necessary =mprovements
before offering the course to all members.
The wings represented by the students
were: Maryland. North Carolina, National
Capital, West Virginia and Virginia.
The participants ate at nearby Naval Air
Station Oceana, Va.
There was a fee for those who wanted to
participate in the academy, to help cover the
cost of putting on the course. Included in the
fee was room and board, a training guide, Tshirts and a complete equipment set.
The set contained a parade dfle. ascot
with honor guard patch, parade belt and
buckle, gloves and a silver shoulder cord.
Graduation ceremonies were held at the
Virginia National Guard Armory, Virginia
Beach, Va. Guests included parents, friends
and members of CAP's Middle East Region
command staff.
Plans are currently underway to open the
school to all CAP members in 2001.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marc Schoellkopf, honor guard
instructor at Boiling Air Force Base, Md., works with Cadet
Senior Airmen Benjamin Williams of the Maryland Wing.
Williams was selected as the academy's honor cadet.

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Missile defense system under scrutiny
Defense Secretary Cohen testifies before Senate Armed Services Committee
They have tested an intercontinental-range missile and could build more, he said.
Cohen is reviewing the program and will
WA S H I N G TO N - - A l i m i t e d n a t i o n a l m i s make a recommendation to President Clinton
s i l e d e f e n s e w o u l d p r e v e n t n u c l e a r b l a c k m a i l in August on whether to proceed with the limited National Missile Defense program. Intelliagainst the United States and could "enhance
gence officials see the ICBM threat from "states
deterrence and improve stability," Defense Secof concern" emerging by 2005. For a defense
retary William S. Cohen said July 25.
Cohen, testifying before the Senate Armed system to be in place by then, construction must
begin this year.
Services Committee, said the
proliferation of long-range balOf the last three tests of the
land-based system, only one was
listic missiles and weapons of
successful. Cohen said he is takmass destruction are increasing
ing this into consideration as he
challenges to U.S. national seprepares his recommendation to
c u r i t y.
the president. He said the sys"Our goal," he said, "is to protem now is "possible" rather
vide protection to the American
t h a n f e a s i b l e . " Yo u . . . w o u l d
people against irresponsible nawant to have something that ...
tions, to prevent them from putyou can reliably count on to
ting the United States in a position of being blackmailed and
work," he said.
precluding us from taking action
The current estimated $20.3
billion cost of the National Misto defend our own national secusile Defense system through fisrity interests."
cal 2007 would cover 100 interHe said the threat these
Defense Secretary
ceptors and radars in Alaska,
weapons pose is "substantial,"
William S. Cohen
Britain and Greenland. Of that
and that even the Russians have
admitted this. He said Iran, Iraq and Libya are cost, $5.7 billion was appropriated prior to fisworking on building a long-range capability.
cal 2001.
Cohen noted that having radars in Britain
He also said that while the United States
is encouraged by the results of the recent sum- and Greenland make it imperative to have almit of North and South Korea, "one summit lied cooperation. He told the senators he is
working with his counterparts and is discussdoesn't change a tiger into a domestic cat."
Cohen said the United States needs to see ing the threat and the national missile defense
a c t i o n s f r o m N o r t h K o r e a a n d n o t j u s t w o r d s . response.
Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

AF launches fourth replenishment satellite;
joins 27 other satellites in GPS constellation
Ronea Alger
Space and Missile Systems Center
Public Affairs
LOS ANGELES AIR
FORCE BASE, Calif.- The
Air Force has successfully
launched its fourth Global Positioning System replenishment satellite (GPS IIR) on a
Delta II rocket from Cape
Canaveral Air Station, Fla.
This spacecraft will join 27
other satellites in the GPS constellation.
"This launch is to increase
global coverage and improve

overall constellation health,"
said Col. Douglas Loverro, system program director,
N AV S TA R G P S j o i n t p r o g r a m
office. "In such a mission, the
satellite is placed into a desired
plane based upon analyses,
which determines which plane
most likely contains a satellite
or satellites which are nearing
their end-of-life. This strategy
allows us to fully utilize the
unexpended life of satellites in
all planes without risking coverage gaps if older birds (satellites) should fail."
The Global Positioning

System allows any user
equipped with a GPS receiver
to determine velocity and
worldwide position -- latitude,
longitude and altitude -within a few meters. Both position data and velocity are
given at a precise reference
time. Although originally designed as a guidance and navig a t i o n a l t o o l f o r t h e m i l i t a r y,
GPS has proven beneficial in
the fields of transportation,
surveying, and search and rescue operations, and has cre
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I CV-22 will be used by Special Operations Command

Bell Helicopter unveils Air Force version of Osprey
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla.The Air Force Special Operations
Command saw the future of its aircraft platforms as the first test and
operational CV-22 was unveiled at
B e l l H e l i c o p t e r Te x t r o n ' s p l a n t i n
Fort Worth, Texas, July 25.
The tilt-rotor aircraft is a
m o d i fi e d v e r s i o n o f t h e V- 2 2
O s p r e y. I t i s t h e fi r s t a i r c r a f t p u r chased specifically for use by the
Air Force Special Operations
Command. While C-130s and MH53s have been the primary
AFSOC aircraft, they were conventional aircraft that were modified to meet the Special Operations Forces mission.
AFSOC influenced the design
of this aircraft from its early stages
to meet the needs of its special operations mission, according to command officials. The rollout of the
C V- 2 2 s i g n a l s t h e b e g i n n i n g o f a
two-year period of operational testing and evaluation at Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif. The first six operational aircraft are expected to
arrive at Hurlburt by 2004. The Air
Force plans to purchase a total of
50 aircraft.
T h e C V- 2 2 u n v e i l e d t o d i s t i n -

ated a tremendous demand
in new commercial and civil
markets.
"The GPS IIR satellites
are compatible with the
current system but offbr improved performance," said
J e r r y H e y d i n g e r, p r o g r a m
manager GPS space systems. "Increased navigation
accuracy and longer autonomous satellite operation without ground control
corrections will improve
service for the Air Force
customer and other users."
In recent GPS IIR
news, the president's 2001
budget request, unveiled
e a r l i e r t h i s y e a r, b u i l d s i n

Crowds gather around the CV-22 as it is unveiled at the Bell Helicopter/Textron
plant in Fort Worth, Texas, July 25. The Air Force plans to purchase a total of 50
of the tilt-rotor CV-22s and use them for special operations.
guished visitors during the rollout
ceremony is one of the four original engineering, manufacturing
and development aircraft the Marine Corps used for the flight test
p r o g r a m o f i t s M V- 2 2 . T h e p r i m a r y d i ff e r e n c e b e t w e e n t h e A i r
F o r c e C V- 2 2 a n d t h e M a r i n e M V22 is the advanced avionics equipment the Air Force aircraft will

plans to accelerate GPS
modernization. The budget,
if approved by Congress,
will allow GPS to provide
improved capabilities being
sought by military and civilian users of the navigation system much sooner
than previously envisioned.
"The new capabilities include additional military and
civilian signals, increased
signal power and the ability
to reprogram spacecraft signals and power while on orbit," said Loverro. "Fhese improvements will provide for
better resistance to enemy
jamming and improve accuracy."

c a r r y. T h e e q u i p m e n t w i l l a l l o w
special operations forces to penetrate hostile areas using
w e a t h e r, t e r r a i n a n d d a r k n e s s t o
t h e i r a d v a n t a g e . T h e C V- 2 2 c a n
also carry 4,000 pounds more fuel,
increasing its flight time by 1.5
hours.
Command officials laud the
C V- 2 2 , b u t e m p h a s i z e i t i s n o t a

According to Heydinger, the government will
launch 16 more GPS IIR
satellites, built by Lockheed
Martin Space Systems
C o m p a n y, Va l l e y F o r g e ,
Pa., over the next five
years. This most recent
launch was the 36th success in a row for the Delta
[I since 1997.
The Delta program office has been responsible
for launching all the GPS
satellites except the earlier
Block I GPS satellites,
which were lofted into
space by refurbished Atlas
ICBMs. (Air Force Print
News)

replacement for the MH-53 Pave
L o w. I t p r o v i d e s f o r m a n y o f t h e
capabilities of the Pave Low as well
as some of the missions of the
command's C-130 assets, while still
adding its own unique contributions to the command's capabilities.
Among the key attributes the
tilt rotor aircraft brings to AFSOC
are:
-- The ability to conduct longrange infiltration and exfiltration
missions in a single period of darkness.
-- Greatly reduced reaction
time due to the aircraft's range,
speed and flexibility.
-- State-of-the-art avionics that
a l l o w f o r p i n p o i n t d e l i v e r y, a c c u racy and decreased detection of
special operational mission assets.
-- A self-deployable capability
that reduces the need for support
airlift to conduct missions.
-- Doesn't need an airfield; it
can operate out of a parking lot or
a soccer field.
-- An increased range, speed
a n d fl e x i b i l i t y t h a t g i v e s t h e C V22 the ability to cover more than
500 nautical miles. (Air Force Print
News)

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Photographic
illustration for
POW/MIA month.
In 1970, three
college students
began making
bracelets to
remember
servicemen.
T h i r t y y e a r s l a t e r,
U.S. soldiers are
still missing and
Americans
continue to wear
the bracelets.

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CIVILA,R PATROLNEWS ~,AUGUST 2000 19

Nationwide
Reporting achievements of CAP members

CONNECTICUT -Connecticut Wing members
from across the state gathered
for the wing's annual conference.
The conference, held at
the Holiday Inn in East
Hartford, Conn., was the first
since Col. Karen Payne took
over as wing commander. Brig.
Gen. James C. Bobick, CAP
national commander, attended
the conference.
The theme of the conference was aerospace. Aerospace projects were presented
by the Silver City Cadet,
Stratford Eagles and Danielson Composite squadrons.
Members of the Danielson
squadron also completed a
safety project for the conference.
Seminars on the Hubble
space telescope and model
rocketry were attended by
senior members and cadets.
The rest of the seminars,
though, separated cadets and
senior members.
Seminars for cadets
included a leadership lab,
open forum and quiz bowl.
Seminars for senior
members were held on
communications, emergency
services, senior programs and
aerospace education.
During the conference,
several Connecticut Wing
members and squadrons were
honored for their performance.
Among those honored
were: Capt. Roger Provost,
Danielson Composite Squadron, squadron commander of
the year; 103rd Composite
Squadron, squadron of the

year; Maj. Scott Varrick, senior
member of the year; and
Cadet Lt. Col. Erica Schindler,
cadet of the year.
Commander's Commendations were presented to:
Capts. Peter Carroll, Provost,
Matthew Valleau and Vladimir
Petruniw; and 1st Lts. Martin
Sullivan and Jack Shapiro.
The members of the wing
took the opportunity to honor
Lt. Col. Lawrence Fraser, who
served as the Connecticut net
control officer until he passed
away earlier this year.
His call sign, "Charter Oak
45," was retired and a plaque
with the call sign on it was
made to hang at wing headquarters in his honor. A plaque
was also presented to Fraser's
wife.
Mike Pienkosz
CONNECTICUT
Cadets and senior members of
two Connecticut Wing squadrons helped with an annual hot
air balloon weekend.
Members of the Northwest
Hills and Charles K. Hamilton
Composite squadrons helped
the event staff of the Seventh
Annual Goshen Balloon Fest
and Craft Fair, held in Goshen,
Conn.
The event's main attraction was the hot-air balloons,
but there was also a petting
zoo, a variety of vendor
displays and amusement parktype rides.
The representatives of the
Northwest Hills squadron
arrived first, and spent Friday
night parking cars and keeping
personnel on watch throughout
the night.
The 13 Northwest Hills
squadron members were
joined by the about seven
members of the Hamilton
squadron on Saturday.
Members of the two
squadrons spent Saturday
directing parking-area traffic
and helping inflate balloons.
Poor weather on the final
day of the event made balloonlaunching unsafe. The festival
did not shut down, though, and
the members spent the day
assisting with parking-lot
duties.
Cadet Tech. Sgt.
Mark Genarelli

MAINE-- Down East
Patrol Squadron cadets helped
make a Bangor, Maine, air
show a success.
The night before the air
show kicked off, cadets took
part in a barbecue with the
famous U.S. Navy Blue
Angels. They also helped
people with disabilities and
children from the Make-A-Wish
Foundation take a behind-thescenes tour of the facilities and
the aircraft in town for the
show.
The day of the show, the
cadets worked to keep the
spectators safe. They helped
keep people out of restricted
areas, rendered first aid, kept
people from smoking on the
flight line and provided
directions to spectators not
familiar with the base.
During the show, Cadet
Airman Joshua Norris helped
care for an air show attendee
who collapsed, assisting the
person until emergency
medical technicians arrived on
the scene.
The following cadets
assisted with the air show:
Tech. Sgt. Brian Norris;
Airmen Joshua Norris, Douglas Greenhalgh, Michael
O'Haloran and Kenneth Stock.
The cadets were supervised by 2nd Lt. Jean Boynton.
Jeff Pierce
NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Wing cadets
met in Concord, N.H., in June
for a model-rocket launching
competition.
The New Hampshire Wing
competition -- originally
scheduled for May, but
delayed because of poor
weather conditions -- was held
on the grounds of the New
Hampshire Technical Institute.
This time, the weather was
perfect and members of nine
squadrons participated while
family and friends watched.
There were three separate
competitions which were part
of the overall contest. The first
competition used single-stage
Gemini rockets and the goal
was to achieve the highest
altitude. Cadets competed as a
squadron, and the Concord
Composite Squadron took first
place, with the Manchester

Cadet and Seacoast Composite squadrons in second and
third.
The second competition
was for a two-stage Mongoose
rocket, once again judged on
altitude. The Lebanon Composite Squadron took first
place, with Concord and
Seacoast in second and third
place.
The third competition
involved trying to hit a specified target using Astrosat LSX
rockets. Each rocket deployed
two satellites, and the squadron who got their satellites
closest to the target won.
The Monadnock Composite Squadron, the only team to
hit the target, won first place.
Their satellite came 5 1/2 feet
from the target.
The Concord squadron
came in second, with a hit
about 60 feet from the bull'seye, and Seacoast came in
third with a distance of 61 feet.
The rockets for the
competition were purchased
with drug demand reduction
funds by Lt. Col. Lesley
Fawcett, New Hampshire Wing
DDR administrator.
During a break in competition, a guest from the Concord
Aero-Guidance Society, a local
radio-controlled model airplane
club, put on a demonstration
and staged a static display.
The awards for the
winning squadrons were
presented by 1st Lt. Donald
Ducharme, New Hampshire
Wing director of aerospace
education.
Capt. Penny Hardy
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Four cadet members of the
New Hampshire Wing received
the Gen. Billy Mitchell Award.
Col. Kenneth J. Herman,
New Hampshire Wing commander, presented three of the
awards during a commander's
call. The three cadets to
receive the awards were:
Tracy J. lanuzzi, Monadn0ck
Composite Squadron; and
Timothy J. Harper and Jeremy
Swanson, Nashua Cadet
Squadron.
Herman presented the
fourth award to William C.
Banakos during an open
house hosted by the Seacoast

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AUGUST 2000 ~ CIVIL AIR PA]'nO:_ NE,vS

C O A S T. TO C O A S T

SHOWING OFF OUR COLORS

This kit-built plane helped the New York Wing's Ulster County
Composite Squadron win a first-place award for the most
patriotic float in a Memorial Day parade. Squadron members
escort the plane down Main Street in Kinsington, N.Y., every
year.
command of the Canandaigua
Composite Squadron.
Composite Squadron.
The presentation was
1st Lt. John E. Bradley
followed by a change-ofcommand ceremony, which
assumed command of the
Canandaigua squadron,
Herman presided over. During
replacing Capt. William Frost,
the ceremony, 1st Lt, Dana
who held the position for about
Merrill officially assumed
four years.
command of the Seacoast
Bradley served in a
squadron from Lt. Col. Margie
number of staff positions
L. Sambold.
before accepting the
Sambold had served as
commander's position.
squadron commander since
Included in the positions were:
1993.
deputy commander, operations
Merrill previously served
officer and aerospace educaas squadron commandant of
tion officer.
cadets and vice commander.
Bradley works as a
Three of his children and his
mechanic and union steward
wife are active in the Seacoast
for the power engineer section
squadron.
Capt. Penny H. Hardy of United Parcel Service.
Frost, in addition to
serving as the squadron
NEW YORK -- A Buffalo
commander, has been a
Cadet Squadron senior
member of the CAP for 29
member was honored by the
years. He is a mechanic and
U.S. Air Force for her service
own of Bill's Repair Shop of
to the country.
The Air Force Commenda- Honeoye, N.Y.
Stanley A. Skrabut
tion Medal was presented to
Senior Member Julie M. Sager
VERMONT -- The cadet
during the New York State
commander of the Catamount
Salute to Women Veterans, an
Composite Squadron stepped
event held at the Connecticut
down to begin training in the
Street Armory in Buffalo, N.Y.
The medal was presented
U.S. Air Force.
Cadet Capt. Corey Lobdell
for Sager's performance while
officially turned over the cadet
serving as a training manager
commander role to Cadet 2nd
based at McChord Air Force
Lt. Tony Losavio shortly before
Base, Wash.
leaving for basic training at
The ceremony's guest
speaker was retired Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base,
Texas.
Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught. She
Lobdell, who served as
spoke about her experiences
commander for 14 months,
in the Air Force, and as a
has been a CAP member for
cadet and senior member of
four years. After turning over
the CAP.
Maj. David J. Albanese command, he switched his
membership status from cadet
to senior member.
NEW YORK -- A new
In the past, Lobdell served
commander has assumed

as cadet executive officer of
the Vermont Wing cadet
leadership encampment, was
runner-up for the Vermont
Wing cadet of the year and
was named cadet communicator of the year during the last
wing conference.
While in the Air Force,
Lobdell hopes to become an
aircraft crew chief.
Losavio has completed
the Vermont Wing cadet
leadership encampment as
part of the inspector general
staff.
Kevin Stuart

MIDDLE EAST REGION
-- Eighteen cadets completed
the 16th Annual Middle East
Region Cadet Leadership
School.
Six of the graduating
cadets received awards for
their performance during the
school. Four of those six were
from the South Carolina Wing.
The four South Carolina
cadets were: Brandon Harmon,
drillmaster; Kelly Bryers,
commandant's award; James
Niver, honor graduate; and
Jennifer Fauth, class leader.
The other two cadets who
were honored included Master
Sgt. Marion V. Weaver,
Maryland Wing, distinguished
graduate; and Stewart Sibert,
communicative skills award.
Graduation certificates
were presented to the following cadets: Richie Young,
Jeffrey Cobble, Nell Kester,
Chris Fehrenbacher, Cleo
Lamkin and Megan McKenzie,
South Carolina Wing; Kevin
Writt and Benjamin Kimes,
West Virginia Wing; Chris
Dunaway and Matthew
Looney, Virginia Wing; and
David Forman, Maryland Wing.
During the school, the
cadet honor guard performed
at a ceremony held at a
Seymour-Johnson Air Force

Base, N.C. park that was
dedicated to the Korean War
veterans of the U.S. Air
Force's 4th Fighter Wing,
several of whom were at the
ceremony.
Lt. CoL Jim Carr
MARYLAND -- Several
cadets and a few senior
members of the Carroll
Composite Squadron took on
the high-ropes course at
Hashawa Environmental
Center.
The course is laid out 20
feet above the ground, but is
safe and sturdy.
Navigating the course
meant traveling up cargo nets,
through a cargo net "cave" and
past other obstacles:
To complete the course,
the cadets had to trust the
equipment and the instructors.
They also had to help each
other and rely on teamwork.
While many of the cadets
said it was difficult and took
courage, they also agreed that
it was worth the effort.
"I'm glad I did it," said
Cadet Tech. Sgt. Patrick
Leduc, "it was actually fun!"
Cadet Airman I st Class
Missy Allen

not trained to act vioient!y and
would never bite or harm a
human for any reason. His job
is trailing on search and
rescue operations. His keen
sense of smell.
Fogle and Angel demonstrated for the class how a
typical search and rescue
would begin and end. Angel
was given a scent to follow,
and found the target in very
little time. Using the dog took a
fraction of the time it would
take using a conventional
human search.
Both officers provided
cadets the opportunity to find
out more about search and
rescue operations and how
they are handled more
efficiently with the use of
properly trained dogs.
The cadets were interested in the demonstration,
too. "1 thought it was cool -- it
kept my attention," remarked
Cadet Staff Sgt. Matt Ensor, an
attendee.
Cadet Tech. Sgt.
Chris Livermore

NORTH CAROLINA -- A
Johnson County Cadet
Squadron was honored for his
academic success throughout
high school.
Cadet Maj. David Ryan
MARYLAND -- Cadets of
Carroll was selected as a
the Carroll Composite Squadnational merit scholar for the
ron had the chance to see two
year 2000 by the National
four-legged police officers in
Merit Scholarship Corporation.
action.
Carroll was selected for
Two Maryland State
the honor based on his
trooper K-9 units visited the
academic abilities, potential for
squadron cadets to put in a
success in college and
demonstration of the dog's
successful completion of the
abilities. Corporals John
preliminary scholastic aptitude
Carhart and Eric Fogle, along
test. The test, commonly
with their dogs, Ajax and
referred to as the PSAT, is
Angel, taught the cadets about
used for the initial screening of
their unique jobs.
entrants. Those who have the
Carhart and Ajax showed
highest scores in each state
what a well-trained K-9 could
are named semifinalists.
do to a threatening human
To move to the finalist
when aiding the officer in
stage, Carroll had to have an
capturing a suspect.
outstanding academic record,
Discipline and training are
get an endorsement from his
two of the most important tools
high school principal and
for K-9 officers, whose dogs
submit scholastic aptitude test
must obey every command
results that confirm the
without hesitation.
information obtained from the
The favorite demonstraPSAT.
tion for many of the cadets
Included in the scholarwas when Fogle, wearing a
ship application Carroll
protective coat, was attacked
submitted was school files,
by Ajax, based on a command
information about the student's
from Carhart.
educational goals and interIncentive for Ajax to obey
ests, as well as a listing of
comes from access to his
extracurricular and community
favorite toy. When he obeys,
activities he was involved in.
he is allowed to play with his
As a cadet, Carr.oll
toy.
Later in the evening, Fogle regularly attended squadron
meetings, went to the cadet
introduced Angel, a bloodofficer school and National
hound. Unlike Ajax, Angel is

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Blue Beret. He also travelled to
the Netherlands as part of the
International Air Cadet
Exchange program in 1999.
He accepted the Arizona
State University Merit Scholarship and will attend ASU's
Barrett Honors College this
fall.
The Barrett Honors
College at ASU is a selective,
small undergraduate college
within the university responsible for recruiting academically outstanding undergraduate students.
The ASU merit scholarship provides a full waiver of
tuition for four years, as well as
an annual stipend of $3,500.
Carroll plans on pursuing
a degree in computer engineering and chose ASU for its
outstanding facilities and
reputation in that field.
Maj. Dave Carroll

members of the Virginia Wing
took delivery of a new L-23
Super Blanik glider.
Once the plane is assembled, flight-tested and
receives Federal Aviation
Administration certification,
wing cadets will be able to take
orientation flights. The plane
will be kept at the Front Royal
Airport near Winchester, Va.
Hayman and Jim Kellett,
also a Virginia Wing senior
member and flight instructor,
will work with Bill Bentley, the
chief tow pilot of the Skyline
Soaring Club.
Once all the details are
worked out, CAP will be able to
use the Skyline club's towplane, with a dedicated CAP
tow-pilot, to fly the new glider.
The L-23 Super Blanik is a
two-seat all-metal glider built in
Europe.
Lomer E. Elkins

SOUTH CAROLINA -- A
senior member of the Columbia Composite Squadron was
honored for his contribution to
education.
Lt. Robert D. Rose of the
Columbia Composite Squadron was recognized by
EdVenture of South Carolina
for his contribution to elementary education.
EdVenture is a statewide
program designed to teach
children about the diversity of
career and educational
opportunities available to
them.
Rose taught a course on
preventive search and rescue
to 25 children. The course,
developed by the National
Parks Service, provides
children, ages 6 to 12, with
information on what to do if
they become separated from
their parents or guardians on
an outdoor trip.
He offers the children
advice on what to carry in case
they get lost, what they can do
to speed up their rescue, and
how to survive until they are
found.
Rose also teaches
courses on orienteering at a
local technical college, as part
of the Lexington County parks
program and within the CAP
program.
Maj. Emerson Smith

VIRGINIA -- Newport
News Composite Squadron
members helped an area
church feed families in need.
The cadets and senior
members assisted the Ocean
View Presbyterian Church of
Ocean View, Va., with their
"Fishes and Loaves" food
ministry.
The ministry is a food
distribution program created to
provide families which are
eligible for U.S. Department of
Agriculture food. Each eligible
family gets the USDA food, as
well as a bag of groceries
purchased by the Ocean View
church.
The Newport News
squadron helped load, unload,
package and transport the
food to two locations in the
Ocean View/Norfolk, Va., area.
Under direction of Ocean
View church members and
squadron senior members,
squadron cadets delivered the
food to more than 200 lowincome families in two apartment complexes.
The "Fishes and Loaves"
program began in 1998 as an
extension of the church's food
closet and senior members
have worked with the church
from the beginning. They have
help distribute more than 3,800
boxes of food to more than
200 individuals each month.
Ocean View Presbyterian
has received awards from an
area food bank association, as
well as an area volunteer
organization, because of the
program.
The following cadets
participated: Maj. Ted

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS ,~ AUGUST 2000

VIRGINIA -- Members of
the Virginia Wing proudly
accepted delivery of the
Wing's newest addition.
Under the organization of
Fred Hay~man, CAP national
glider program coordinator,

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Above: the newest addition
to the Virginia Wing's glider
program sits at its new home,
the Front Royal Airport in
Front Royal, Va. Once the
glider is assembled, it must
receive Federal Aviation Administration certification and
pass flight testing. Once all
is done, the glider will be used
for orientation flights.
L e f t : C a d e t s o f Vi r g i n i a
Wing's Winchester Composite Squadron help unload the
wing's new Super Blanik L23 glider. Pictured are, from
the left, Benjamin Olech,
Christopher Kosko and Eric
Mutter.
German; 2nd Lt. Daniel
Tomaino; Chief Master Sgts.
Casey Roberts and Jonathan
Gayfield; 1st Sgt. Deshaun
Brandy; Master Sgt. Samuel
German; Tech Sgts. Kimberly
Barkley, John Gill and Walter
Winnington; Staff Sgts.
Walter Hamilton, Mack Lewis,
Steven Sheridan and Tamara
Senter; Senior Airmen
Danielle Cassell, Ryan Link
and Christian Monge; and
Airmen Adam Foley, Carl
Jones, Mark Hostetler,
Richard Lewis, Christopher
Mangus, Brandon Moore,
Mary Polak and Keith Wilson.
The senior members who
participated were: Lt. Col.
Robert I. George; and 1st Lts.
Shelva J. George, Kenneth A.
Bouchard and Andrew
Cullipher.
Squadron members also
had help from their family
members. Included were: Amy
Foley, Donna Mangus, Denise
Mangus and Bill Link.
Lt. CoL Robert I George
VIRGINIA -- More than
260 children and adults in the

Carrollton, Va., area participated in Aerospace Discovery
Day.
The event, held at the
Carrollton Library and presented by the Science Museum of Virginia, featured
several one-hour seminars on
aerospace topics.
The topics included: the
Bernoulli Principle and the
forces of flight, rocket propulsion, meteorology and aerospace structures.
Hundred of people visited
the Virginia Aviation Museum
AirMobile traveling exhibit, also
on site for Aerospace Discovery Day. The exhibit houses
historical displays, a working
wind tunnel, weather station
and interactive flight simulator.
Cadets from squadrons in
the Richmond, Va., area, as
well as local Junior ROTC
cadets, assisted with interpretation of the onboard exhibits.
The event provided cadets
the opportunity to give community service by sharing their
knowledge of aviation. The
cadets also developed their
program presentation and

leadership skills through the
experience.
2nd Lt. Hope Reisenwitz

GREAT LAKES REGION
-- More than 110 people
participated in the Great Lakes
Region annual summer
encampment at Camp Atterbury, Ind.
The 110 were from the
CAP, U.S. Army and U.S. Air
Force. The CAP members
represented the Indiana, Iowa,

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Above: Kentucky Wing Cadet Debbi Martin
shows her concern while rappelling down a
tower during the
Great Lakes Region summerencampment. The
encampment
was held in Indiana at Camp Atterbury.
Left: Kentucky
Wing Cadet
Michael Wathen
watches an A-10
Warthog bombing run through
a Range Finder
at the Camp Atterbury Live Fire
Range.

Kentucky, Michigan, North
Carolina and Ohio wings.
During the encampment,
cadets received training in
aerospace education, first aid,
leadership, physical fitness
and rappelling.
The cadets began the
week with a tour of Atterbury
Army Airfield and the base
military history museum. On
the tour, the cadets saw
several UoS. Army aircraft and

vehicles, including a UH-60A
Blackhawk, UH-1N "Huey"
helicopters, M41 and M60
tanks, an "Honest John"
ground-to-ground nuclear
rocket, and M105 and 110 field
artillery cannons.
The armor and missile
displays are part of the Camp
Atterbury military museum.
The museum has a variety of
military equipment dating back
to World War II, Korea,

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IndoChina and Southwest
Asia. The museum is a tribute
to the men and women from
Indiana who served in the U.S.
armed forces.
Camp Atterbury first
opened in June 1942 as a
training base for the Indiana
National Guard. During World
War II and the Korean War,
the camp served as a mobilization base for several
different infantry divisions.
The Region members who
participated also trained on the
land navigation course,
obstacle course and rappelling
tower. Some of the specific
classes included: compass
reading, map orientation,
terrain association, knot-tying
and basic rope control.
During the encampment, a
ground team was requested to
search for an emergency
Iocator transmitter signal.
Selected were: Capt. Rob Hay,
along with cadets Alan Caudil,
Chades Dry, Adam More, Beth
Mortenson, Cody Willett and
Justin Burg, all from the
Golden Armor Composite
Squadron.
The signal was coming
from Mount Comfort Airport,
and had been activated by an
electrical storm the previous
night. The team located the
transmitter and notified the
local sheriff, who disarmed the
device.
More than 50 family
members, friends and dignitaries attended the graduation.
The guest speaker was Lt. Col.
Richard Baird, Camp
Atterbury's deputy post
commander.
The Indiana Wing's Maj.
Gary L. Brockman, encampment commander, presented a
few awards to those who
excelled during the encampment.
The awards presented
included: Delta Flight, honor
flight; Cadet Master Sgt.
Daniel Adams, Kentucky Wing,
honor cadet; and Cadet 1st Lt.
Phillip Faust, Indiana Wing.
Capt. Jayson Altieri
GREAT LAKES REGION
Eleven cadets from across
the United States met with six
flight instructors in Oshkosh,
Wisc., for the 2000 National
Power Flight Academy.
The flight academy goals
were to teach the basics of
flight to make cadets safer in
the air and help them earn
their Federal Aviation Administration pilot's licenses.
The weather for the

academy consisted of high
winds, rain and thunderstorms,
but did not stop nine of the
cadets from earning their solo
wings.
While in Oshkosh, the
cadets and their instructors
visited the Experimental
Aircraft Association's museum
and met the EAA founder, Paul
Poberezney.
Poberezney served as the
guest speaker at the academy
banquet, held at the close of
the academy.
The cadets who attended
the academy were: David
Fishel, Florida; Robert
Kamber, Wyoming; Ryan
Steslicki, California; Matthew
Kartheiser and Tim Stamp,
Michigan; Seth Nottingham
and Christopher Dyer, Ohio;
Julie Thomas and Mark
Sanchez, Colorado; William
Bach, Virginia; and Edward
Kurnat, Illinois.
The pilot instructors were:
Col. Lawrence W. Stys,
Wisconsin; Lt. Col. Luca
Bencini-Tibo, South Carolina;
Lt. Col. Keith Flanagan,
Minnesota; Maj. Lavern Syring,
Wisconsin; and Capt. Charlie
Mazzulla, Wisconsin.
The ground school
instructor was Capt. Dick
Kildow, Wisconsin.
OHIO -- Six members of
the Wright-Patterson Composite Squadron paid tribute to
America's Vietnam veterans as
a traveling memorial stopped
in Vandalia, Ohio.
The members visited the
Traveling Vietnam Wall, an
exact three-quarter scale
replica of the original Vietnam
Wall in Washington, D.C.
The original wall is the
most-visited monument in our
nation's capitol.
The traveling wall provides
those who cannot make the
trip to Washington to view the
more than 58,000 names
inscribed on the original
monument. The names
represent every American
killed or declared missing in
action in the Vietnam war,
which was fought from 1960 to
1975.
The traveling wall is made
of easily assembled aluminum
sections, which allows it to be
transported in a single trailer to
hundreds of cities across the
country.
The Wright-Patterson
members used computers to
provide the exact location on
the wall of the names the
visitors were looking for.

Having directions saved the
visitors time and allowed them
to find the names of those they
knew who did not come back
from Vietnam.
The volunteers also
handed pencils and special
papers on which to trace over
the engraved names of those
whom they came to honor, as
is done at the full-sized
version.
Wright Patterson cadets
who assisted with the exhibition included: Airmen Eddie
Crowe, Joshua Desaulniers,
Larry Griffey and Jordan
Roberts. The senior members
who helped were Capt. Danny
Robinson, squadron commander, and Master Sgt. Jim
Walker.
Robinson said of the
event, "This was a very
humbling experience for all of
us who participated. We soon
realized how much our efforts
were helping the visitors,
especially the Vietnam
veterans and their families. I
think we helped them find a
means of coming to terms with
a terrible time in their lives."
Master Sgt. James E. Walker
INDIANA -- More than 80
Indiana Wing members
participated in a weekend
search and rescue exercise in
Mount Comfort, Ind.
During the exercise, a
total of 34 sorties were flown
with eight CAP aircraft, while
three ground teams searched
on the ground.
Several of the cadets who
participated earned their
emergency services qualifications, while the senior members trained in ground and air
operations.
The first day of the
exercise, Lt. Col. David Hunter
ran air operations and 1st Lt.
Bob Chance directed the flight
line.
Lt. Col. Bob Chapman, a
certified flight instructor, flew
training missions during the
night to provide night training
flights for all participants. He
also served as a flight line
officer on Saturday and
conducted flight line training
for the cadets.
Capt. Norm Chance
helped get the Fort Wayne
Senior Squadron's airplane
back in the air after the plane
experienced mechanical
problems. The work took about
seven hours, many of which
Chance spent lying on the floor
in the heat inside the plane.
Capt. Karen Weinkle

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ALABAMA i Almost 30
members of two Alabama
squadrons went along on an
in-flight refueling mission.
Members of the Redstone
Composite Squadron, Huntsville, Ala., and the Decatur
Composite Squadron, Decatur,
Ala., flew along with the
Alabama Air National Guard's
117th Air Refueling Wing.
Thirteen senior members
and 14 cadets rode by bus
from Huntsville to Birmingham
for the early morning briefing
and flight aboard a KC-135
Stratotanker.

The flight lasted three
hours, during which time three
F-15 Eagles were refueled.
The mission gave the cadets
an opportunity to observe an
in-flight refueling and to see
military aircraft up close.
The first leg of the flight
was from Birmingham to the
Gulf Coast. All passengers
were allowed to visit the boom
operator's station and the
cockpit, and to explore the
interior of the jet. While
moving around in flight,
everyone had to carry their
oxygen masks in case there
was an emergency decompression.
During the actual refueling
process, the members cycled
through the boom operator's
station to see the refueling,
listen to the radio conversations between the planes, and
see the F-15s from a different
vantage point.
During the return leg of
the flight, the boom operator
allowed the members to
operate the boom. The boom
operator also demonstrated
the control surfaces on the
boom which, when the boom is
extended, can actually steer

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the KC-135, and are
there to help the
plane needing fuel
and the refueler to
connect.
The flight was
arranged by Brig.
Gen. Stanley L.
Pruett, assistant
adjutant general for
the headquarters of
the Alabama Air
National Guard, a
member of the
Redstone squadron.
2nd Lt. Ed
Crankshaw
GEORGIA -Seven members of
Reenactors at the Admiral Nimitz Museum reenact an attack on a
the Walton County
Japanese pillbox, giving a hint of what World War II was like to spectaComposite Squadron tors, including members of Georgia Wing's Walton County Composite
joined other Georgia
Squadron.
Wing members for
an airlift to San Antonio.
then headed to Randolph Air
members of the Walton County
The group, which included
squadron posed with the
Force Base for an air show.
Georgia Wing members from
Thunderbird pilots and crew
The U.S. Air Force
Thunderbirds and U.S. Army
members in front of one of
Walton, Gwinnett and Cobb
Golden Knights performed at
their F-16 Fighting Falcons.
Counties, took-off from
the air show, along with other
Included in the picture were
Dobbins Air Reserve Base,
Ga. They flew by C-130 to
groups and individuals. Static
the following cadets: ChristoKelly Air Force Base, Texas.
displays were also setup,
pher Bowles, Laci Hewell,
In Texas, the group
featuring a variety of aircraft.
Kevin Spears, Jason Stribling
members toured the Alamo
The high point for many
and Daniel Thrash.
and other popular tourist sites,
on the trip came when several
Senior members who met
with the Thunderbirds included

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GEORGIA-- The Georgia Wing combined
t e c h n o l o g y, t r a i n i n g , a n d f u n a s s q u a d r o n
cadets gathered for the Georgia Wing Encampment 2000.
Using technology to boost recruiting and
m o r a l e , e n c a m p m e n t c o o r d i n a t o r s c r e a t e d a We)b
site just ibr the summer encampment, held in
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Center.
T h e We b s i t e w a s u p d a t e d o n a d a i l y
basis with news and photos taken during
the day with digital cameras. Concerned
parents, as well as other family and friends,
could use their computers to see photographs of what the cadets were doing days
before the cadets returned home to tell
them about it.
The encampment schedule
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consisted of training and classes in
aerospace education, emergency
G
Georgia Wing's Cadet Kyle Chappius, one of the
services and moral leadership.
encampment's top marksmen, tries his hand with a
er
According to encampment public
Br
Browning Automatic Rifle under the watchful eye of Lt.
a ff a i r s o f fi c e r 2 n d L t . A n n e t t e
C ( Terry Madden.
Col.
Schimmelman, Georgia Wing Group
1, '~rraining is what the encampment
launching, and orientation flights.
i s a l l a b o u t . E a c h s t a ff m e m b e r h a d a n
Trips were made to Hunter Air Force Base
obligation to learn as much as possible to
and Fort Pulaski for tours.
o ff e r t h e h i g h e s t q u a l i t y o f t r a i n i n g t o
The public affairs staff was responsible for
others:"
taking photos, writing captions and information,
The goal of the encampment was to
and updating the Web site, Schimmelman was
develop cadets and senior members in
supported in this effort by the following cadets:
several areas. Specific objectives were to:
Senior Airman Josh Vickers, Capt. Dan Upshaw
enhance and develop leadership, relationand 2nd Lt. Jacob Holloway.
ships and teamwork; inspire a sense of
"I had an awesome, talented staff of cadets
discipline; challenge individuals to excel;
with the same expectations and goals for the
and motivate all who attended.
encampment... It was a superb learning
D u r i n g t h e d a y, c a d e t s p a r t i c i p a t e d i n
Georgia Wing cadets complete their "carrier qualificaexperience for all of us. Plus, we had a great
tions" by diving across a tarp covered with oil and events such as physical training, classes
time!" said Schimmelman.
and demonstrations, emergency services
sliding into a pile of flour. This event was just one leg of
2nd Lt, Annette Schimmelman
exercises, model rocket building and
the relay race that made up the "dirty games."
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He then went to the Civil
Air Patrol building on base
and picked up the Golden
Triangle squadron's directionfinding equipment. He also got
help from Air Force Capt. Glen
Rybacki, a T-37 "Tweet"
instructor pilot.
The officers quickly
narrowed the search down to
a maintenance hangar for
training aircraft. The signal
was eventually tracked to a
Beechcraft T-1A Jayhawk
Herbivore which was undergoing routine maintenance. They
turned off the transmitter.
Capt. Scott Lanis

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Members of Georgia Wing's Walton County Composite Squadron pose with members of the U.S.
Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team. Squadron members are, from left: Lt. Col. John
Goza, Capt. Dolores Thrash, and Cadets Jason Stribling, Kevin Spears, Lsci Hewell and Daniel
Thrash.
Lt. John Goza Jr., and
Capt. Delores Thrash.
After the show, the group
stopped at Lackland Air Force
Base, where many aircraft
were on display. Much of
aviation history is represented
there, from World War II-era
planes to modern aircraft.
One of the final stops for
the group was a tour of the
Admiral Nimitz Museum in
Fredericksburg, Texas, where
they saw a "living" program.
For a "living" program, volunteers dress in World War II
uniforms and describe life for
various service men during the
war.
They also show and
explain much of the gear and
weapons used during the war,
by both the Americans and
Japanese.
The culmination of the
living program was a staged
attack on a Japanese pillbox,
conducted with blanks fired
from the weapons previously
demonstrated.
Capt. Dolores Thrash
MISSISSIPPI -- Cadets
and senior members from
across Mississippi joined
together for a weekend ground
team exercise.
The exercise, called
"BLUECAP" because it was
designed to simulate the
actual missions known as
"REDCAP," were held deep in
the Tombigbee National Forest
and hosted by the Golden
Triangle Composite Squadron.

Intermittent rain showers
which lasted Saturday and
Sunday left the exercise site
muddy. The rain, which came
down without accompanying
thunderstorms, did not stop the
training.
Once at the site, members
set up camp. No modern
facilities were available. Like a
real-world lost plane search,
the members only had what
they brought with them.
Due to the inclement
weather and other exercises,
no air-to-ground coordination
was available during the
weekend.
Participants were able to
see firsthand the effects rain
can have on an electronic
search. They learned that
leaves can scatter and reflect
an emergency Iocator transmitter signal, and wet terrain
tends to reflect more signals
than dry terrain. The conditions
led to challenging directionfinding situations.
Those who attended
BLUECAP also participated in
a night exercise and were
trained in the utilization of
visual clues as pieces of the
puzzle. Basic survival,
woodsmanship and land
navigation skills were crucial to
the successful completion of
the exercise.
Other subjects for training
and instruction included the
use of global positioning
systems and slow scan
television, monitoring vital
signs such as blood pressure,

respiration and pulse rate.
Participants from the
Jackson Composite Squadron
were: 1st Lts. Heath Calhoun,
and Catherine Nations, and Lt.
Col. Eckhard Stuart.
Golden Triangle squadron
cadets who participated were:
Master Sgts. Jonathan
Headley and Dustin Pumphrey;
Sgt. Chris Pumphrey; and
Airmen Del Sidebottom and
William Knowles.
Golden Triangle squadron
senior members included:
Wyndell Sidebottom, chaplain;
Sonny Smith, forward observer; and Capt. Scott Lanis.
Capt. Scott Lanis
MISSISSIPPI -- A senior
member of the Golden
Triangle Composite Squadron
detected a emergency Iocator
transmitter while monitoring his
radio.
U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Scott
Lanis, who was monitoring the
radio as part of his duties
when he heard the ELT signal,
had the signal checked by
airborne aircraft who verified
that the signal was an ELT
signal.
Lanis suspected that the
source of the signal was a
beacon packaged into one of
hundreds of parachutes on the
base. When he called to check
with the shop where the
parachute beacons andother
life support equipment are
maintained, however, he found
the signal was not coming from
a parachute beacon.

IOWA -- Members of the
Iowa and Nebraska wings held
a joint operations exercise on
the banks of the Missouri River
between Omaha, Neb., and
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Col. John Rooney, North
Central Region director of
operations, served as incident
commander.
The Nebraska Wing
worked with the U.S. Coast
Guard on the video-imaging of
traffic on the Missouri River.
The Iowa Wing worked with
the Council Bluffs Fire Department and Red Cross on videoimaging railroad cars and
housing areas.
Training scenarios
included missing aircraft, grid
and route searches, missing
persons and emergency
locator transmitter searches for
missing aircraft. All exercises
went well, despite the hot
temperatures.
1st Lt. Julia Bachtell
IOWA -- An East Iowa
Cadet Squadron cadet took
part in a memorial service for a
World War II flying ace.
2nd Lt. Shea Daniels was
among several people who
delivered speeches in memory
of Bill Reed, a resident of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who

became an ace while flying
over China as a volunteer with
the famous Flying Tigers.
More than 750 people
attended the ceremony, held at
the Eastern Iowa Airport in
Cedar Rapids. Members of the
American Legion Post 298
posted the colors to start the
event, as a band from Marion
High School, Reed's alma
mater, played the National
Anthem. Members of the Iowa
Army National Guard rendered
a 21-gun salute.
The event was topped off
with a fly-by by a B-25 Mitchell.
The bomber, named "Barbie,"
is the only example of the Hmodel B-25 still flying. The
plane was also the second
aircraft off the production line.
Reed was born in Stone
City, Iowa. He joined the U.S.
Army Air Corps in 1935 and
became a lieutenant colonel
just before he was forced down
over China and shot by the
Japanese. During his time of
service, Reed shot down or
destroyed 16 enemy aircraft
and received the Distinguished
Flying Cross.
Daniels summarized
Reed's contribution when she
said, "World War II was fought
and won by people like Bill
Reed. He made the ultimate
sacrifice, but showed that one
man and one town can make a
difference."
Cadet Tech. Sgt. A.M. Church
IOWA -- Award and
promotions were presented as
Central Iowa Composite Flight
members held their first diningout ceremony at the Iowa State
Center in Ames, Iowa.
During the ceremony, Col.
Kenneth Schindele, Iowa State
U.S. Air Force ROTC detachment commander, presented
the Carl. A. Spaatz Award to
Capt. Douglass Jansen.
Jansen was the first in
Iowa in more than six years to
earn the award.
Other awards were
presented to: Lt. Col. Brian
Elfstrom, Air Force Association
outstanding cadet and Central
Iowa flight cadet of the year;
Tech. Sgt. Justin Pederson, Air
Force Sergeants Association
cadet noncommissioned officer
of the year; and 2nd Lt. Chris
Ludwig, senior member of the
year.
Suzanne Tomlinson,
aerospace education officer,
and John Halbrook, Central
Iowa flight commander, were
promoted to captain.
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Rex Glasgow, Iowa Wing
commander, presented the
Central Iowa Flight's official
unit charter to John Halbrook,
flight commander.
Capt. Mark Kickbush of
the Iowa Air National Guard's
132nd Fighter Wing was the
guest speaker.
Capt. Dough Jansen
MINNESOTA -- The
cadets of the Minnesota Wing
honor guard and the Red Wing
Composite Squadron color
guard joined together to
remember America's veterans.
The two groups marched
in the annual Red Wing
Memorial Day procession. The
units marched with those from
other military and paramilitary
organizations, as well as the
Red Wing High School
marching band, to the center
of town.
At the center of town, a
wreath was presented at the
monument dedicated to those
from Houston County, Minn.,
who died in war.
After presenting the
wreath, the marchers proceeded to Memorial Park for
the main ceremony. During
this ceremony, the mayor of
Red Wing and other dignitaries
read the Gettysburg Address
and honored those county
veterans who passed away
since the previous Memorial "
Day.
Three volleys fired from a
Civil War-era cannon brought
the ceremony to an end.
Cadet Jack Houck is
honor guard commander. The
honor guard cadet members
are: Josh Gulbranson, Chris
Stewart, Justin Diercks, Aaron
Sicluna and Nolan Teel.
Peggy Schnack is the
honor guard advisor.
2nd Lt. Marcel A. Derosier
MISSOURI -- A cadet
from Germany was presented
a flight scholarship from the Air
Force Sergeant's Association
during a meeting of the
Richards-Gebaur Composite
Squadron.
The 2000 AFSA flight
scholarship was presented to
Staff Sgt. Christoph G. Santel,
a German resident currently
living in Missouri, during a
regular squadron meeting.
"Considering the historical
and military circumstances
under which CAP was formed,
a cadet from Germany
receiving a flight scholarship
by the Air Force Sergeant's
Association today is truly

remarkable," said Hans Santel,
Christoph's father.
Santel joined the squadron in 1998. His father and
mother, Hans and Helga
Santel, are from Leverkusen,
near Cologne and Dusseldorf,
Germany. They moved to
Overland Park, Kan., because
Hans Santel works for Bayer's
agricultural division.
Before coming to America,
Santel was in the German
National Junior Firefighter's
Association, an organization
similar to the Explorer program
of the Boy Scouts of America.
"Unfortunately, we don't
have anything like CAP in
Germany that supports youth
in aviation or the military," said
Cadet Santel.
The flight scholarship was
presented by Gerald D.
Henklemeyer, Kansas City
AFSA chapter president, and
Jay Hyde, senior advisor of
AFSA Division 8 and chapter
secretary. The Kansas City
chapter has about 1,500
members.
"We are fortunate that Col.
Bill Winkert, former Missouri
Wing commander and AFSA
member, directed us to CAP
and its cadet flying program,"
said Hyde. "We are glad to see
it (the money) achieving the
purpose we envisioned for the
third consecutive year."
Cadet Santel said he
planned to use the scholarship
in Portland, Ore., for the glider
encampment. He explained
that powered flying in Europe
is very expensive, but gliding is
affordable and more prevalent.
Santel will start his ninth
grade year at Leawood Middle
School in Shawnee, Kansas in
the fall, and will go back to
Germany with his family in the
summer of 2001.
He hopes to get a job in
aeronautics in the future.
Lt. Col. Gary Gregory,
squadron commander, spoke
highly of the cadet. "Cadet
Staff Sgt. Santel is a ...
fountain of aviation information, a very dependable
noncommissioned officer and
truly deserving of the chance
to achieve his goal of being a
pilot," he said.
Lt. Col. Gary W. Gregory
MISSOURI -- Twelve
senior members from the
Missouri and Kansas wings
participated in the Missouri
Wing's annual corporate
learning course.
The course was held at
Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.

The course project officer was
Lt. Col. Jeff Wolff, Missouri
Wing director of professional
development. Capt. Troy
Campbell, Missouri Wing's
Group 1 commander, assisted.
The Missouri Wing
members who completed the
course were: Capts. John
Papazafiropaulos, Bert Brown,
Joan Brown and Dennis
Gedeon; 2nd Lt. Greg Sykes;
and Senior Member Chris
Schley.
The Kansas Wing senior
members were: Capt. David
Deucher and 1st Lts. Rick
Holmes and Luis Rivera.
Lt. Col. Jeff Wolff
SOUTH DAKOTASeveral cadets and senior
members of Onida Flight
worked with Sioux Falls, S.D.,
area youth during Space Day.
About 3,500 children
attended the event, held at
Augustana College in Sioux
Falls.
The purpose of the event
was to get area young people
interested in technology and
science.
Interactive displays and
activities were setup by
educational organizations,
allowing the children an
opportunity to have fun while
learning in a hands-on
environment.
Onida Flight cadets who
participated were: 2nd Lt. Tina
McKenney; and Tech. Sgts.
Tabitha Moore and Tifany
McKenney.
Senior members who
participated included Majs.
Nancy McKenney and Marlin
McKenney.

SOUTHWEST REGION -Members from throughout the
Southwest Region attended
the Southwest Region Staff
College at Kirtland Air Force
Base, N.M.
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instruction from Lt. Col. Jim
attended the event as stuSwauger, glider flight comdents, and there was a staff of
16. The seven-day course was mander, as well as instructors
Jeremy Stout and Phil Corbell.
held at the Kirtland AFB
He has completed a total of 54
noncommissioned officer
glider flights -- 34 dual
academy in Albuquerque, NM.
instruction, 15 solo and 4
The students represented
acrobatic dual instruction
the following wings: Louisiana,
flights.
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
Ventura completed his first
and Oklahoma. There was also
solo flight after taking 13 dual
a member of the Pacific
instruction flights with Corbell
Region's Washington Wing.
as his instructor. He has also
The college was designed
been actively training in a
to assist prospective execupowered flight program.
tives at the squadron level or
1st Lt. Steven Miller
above to become more
effective leaders and managARIZONA -- A cadet
ers within CAP.
In order to accomplish that member of the Paradise Valley
Cadet Squadron was honored
goal, the college did the
during the annual Arizona
following: exposed students to
Wing conference held in Mesa,
the latest in management
Ariz.
theory and training; taught
Cadet Col. Brian Curtis
them the principles of commuFash, who also received an
nication, management and
appointment to the U.S. Air
leadership; and, by experiForce Academy's Class of
ence, helped them to under2004, received the Spaatz
stand more fully the value of
award from Congressman J.D.
working as a team in carrying
Hayworth of Arizona's 6th
out the CAP mission.
Congressional District.
Much of the instruction
The award was presented
was conducted by professional
during the Arizona Wing's
U.S. Air Force noncommisannual conference, held at the
sioned officer educators on
Holiday Inn Conference Center
staff at the Kirtland NCO
Academy.
in Mesa.
Maj. Patricia Brower
Fash, a CAP member
since 1996, graduated from
Desert Mountain High School
ARIZONA -- Two Deer
Valley Composite Squadron
in Scottsdale, Ariz.
While in school, Fash
cadets earned their glider
played baseball and lettered in
wings after receiving instructrack and cross-country, was a
tion from members of Glider
Flight 400.
member of the National Honor
Society and several other
Cadets Master Sgt. Tyler
Sepp and Senior Airman
clubs.
Daniel Ventura received the
Fash is the son of Debra
instruction leading up to the
Fash of Scottsdale.
Maj. Patricia H. Brower
solo flights from members of
Arizona Glider Flight 400.
Sepp received his
TEXAS -- Members of the

o

Cadet Master Sgt. Tyler Sepp of Arizona Wing's Deer Valley =
Composite Squadron sits in the cockpit of a glider. Sepp is one
of two Deer Valley cadets who earned his solo glider wings this
summer.

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two ground sorties,
including the final
one.
Cadet Senior
Master Sgt. Jonathon Moore helped
train the San
Marcos ground
team and participated in four ground
sorties. Cadet Tech.
Sgt. Caitlin Bryant
helped with communications at the
Victoria and Waco
bases, helped train
the San Marcos
team, and participated in four ground
sorties.
1st Lt. J.M. Bryant

TEXAS -Members of the
Cadet Senior Airman Daniel Ventura, left, shakes hands with Cadet
Randolph and
Master Sgt. Tyler Sepp. Both cadets are members of the Arizona Wing's Brooks Composite
Deer Valley Composite Squadron and earned their glider solo wings after squadrons particireceiving instruction from Arizona Glider Flight 400 members.
pated in one of the
biggest events of
Jersey Village Composite
crashed.
the year for San Antonio.
Squadron trained for disaster
The squadron members
The Fiesta parade, one of
relief during an area fundplanned on working as mission the country's largest night
raising event.
base staff during a mission
parades, attracted a large
The Jersey Village
generated by the Air Force
crowd. About 500,000 people
squadron's cadet ranger team
Rescue Coordination Center at gathered for the event. The
assisted with the Multiple
Langley Air Force Base, Va.
San Antonio squadrons were
Sclerosis Society's 150-mile,
invited to march and took the
Before the mission could start,
Houston to Austin, Texas, bike
a single-engine, experimental
opportunity to increase public
ride. About 10,000 people
aircraft crashed in the grass at
awareness of their units and
gathered for the fund-raiser,
Victoria Regional Airport in
CAP.
providing real-life crowds and
Senior members who
Victoria, Texas.
problems for the cadets to
Within a minute of the
participated included: Maj.
learn from.
crash, dozens of CAP personJohn Carr, Brooks squadron
During the event, the team nel were at the crash site,
public affairs officer; Nathan
helped locate a boy who was
comforting and protecting the
Culpepper, Randolph squadseparated from his family.
trapped pilot.
ron activities director; Capt. Ed
Within five minutes after a
The pilot, who survived,
Sundman, Randolph squadron
was eventually freed from the
father notified 1st Lt. J. M.
commander; and 1st Lt. Eric
Bryant that he could not find
wreckage by a heavy rescue
Renth, Randolph squadron
his son, law enforcement
unit.
historian.
officials were notified, a quick
,-)- + ,-)Cadets who participated
safety survey of the area was
included: Jonathon Sundman,
done and the boy was found
Jersey Village Composite
John Wigle, Jennifer Wigle,
heading for a dangerous
Squadron members provided
Jeffrey Archer, Adam
highway.
additional support for a Waco,
Lawrence, Jeffery Trupp, Mark
After the child was
Texas search for a missing
Juarex and Steven Haggerty.
returned to his parents, the
Fort Worth, Texas, pilot.
1st Lt. Ric Renth
cadets and senior members
All of the squadron's
resumed training and helped
available resources went into
LOUISIANA -- Louisiana
the event staff operate an
the search, which was directed Wing members gathered in
overnight tent city at the
by the Air Force Rescue
groups across the state to train
Fayette County, Texas,
Coordination Center at
for large-scale emergencies.
fairgrounds.
Langley AFB, Va.
Under the direction of the
The overnight population
Members of the squadron
wing headquarters in New
for the event was about 8,000,
assisted in several aspects of
Orleans, teams of wing
and there were approximately
the search. Lt. Col. Theresa
members trained at mission
12,000 pieces of luggage to
Alexander, team leader for
bases in Lake Charles, New
handle.
Ground Team Two, and Chris
Orleans, Alexandria, Shreve+ ,-F ,-)Alexander searched the fields
port, Monroe and Gonzales.
where the plane was eventuThe focus of the training
Several members of the
ally found.
activities was to increase the
Jersey Village Composite
1st Lt. J.M. Bryant served
abilities of wing members to
Squadron provided assistance
as public information officer at
assist the Louisiana Office of
with an emergency rescue
the Victoria and Waco mission
Emergency Preparedness
when a single-engine plane
bases. He also participated in
during disaster relief situa-

tions.
Participating in the
Gonzales exercises were
members from the following
squadrons: Ascension Parish
and Capital City Composite
and Baton Rouge Cadet.
During the training in
Gonzales, ground teams and
aircrews were asked to make
reconnaissance missions,
using slow-scan and standard
video photography, as well as
still photography.
Specific jobs included
ground and aerial surveys of
potential evacuation routes
and bridges with special
attention to the potential traffic
bottlenecks between Baton
Rouge and New Orleans.
Barge and ship locations
along the Mississippi River
were recorded for use in
tracking river traffic in potential
problem areas after a severe
weather event, such as a
hurricane. Local airports were
also included in the aerial
surveys.
The images obtained from
the surveys were transmitted
by the wing communications
network back to the mission
base for analysis.
If there had been an
actual emergency, the images
would have been sent directly
to the emergency preparedness office in Baton Rouge for
use in the deployment of relief
efforts.
,.). ,.). ,.).
The Baton Rouge Cadet
Squadron and several of its
members were recognized
during the Louisiana Wing
Conference held in Lafayette,
La.
The squadron received
awards for overall excellence
which included: outstanding
cadet squadron, wing outstanding squadron and
Southwest Region squadron of
distinction.
This was the fifth consecutive year the squadron was
honored as an outstanding
cadet squadron.
The squadron also
received an aerospace award
for excellence.
The Baton Rouge
squadron's public affairs
officer, Maj. Linda Muffoletto,
received individual honors.
She was named public affairs
officer of the year for the fourth
consecutive term and received
a national award for her public
affairs efforts.
Several of the squadron's
cadets were honored for their

service as members of the
Louisiana Wing color guard for
the opening of the conference.
Included were R.J. Fabre,
Alexis Gibson, Ryan Munn and
Jacob Kora.
Members of the national
championship-winning Louisiana Wing cadet competition
team were recognized during
the conference awards
banquet. Each member of the
team and support staff
received a Commander's
Commendation from Col. Mary
D. Berkowitz, Louisiana Wing
commander.
The competition team
commander, Michele
Robichaux of the LeBlanc
Cadet Squadron and Capt.
Richard Muffoletto of the Baton
Rouge Cadet Squadron
received meritorious service
awards for their contributions.
Baton Rouge cadets
honored were: Megan Dubois,
Chris Martinez, Will Morrison
and Matthew Wroten. Squadron senior members Joe
Muffoletto and Linda Muffoletto
were also honored, along with
cadets and senior members of
other squadrons.
Maj. Linda Muffoletto

COLORADO -- Five
Colorado Wing cadets earned
their solo wings during a wing
powered flight activity.
The special powered flight
activity was held at the U.S. Air
Force Academy, Colorado
Springs, Colo. Lt. Col. Bob
Beabout served as encampment director.
Five cadets made solo
flights in Air Force Academy
Aero Club Cessna 172s. The
five were: Maj. Jeff Martin,
Arvada Cadet Squadron; 1st
Lt. Matt Doran, North Valley
Composite Squadron; 1st Lt.
Jamison Walsh and Staff Sgt.
Marc Kudlac, Valkyrie Cadet
Squadron; and 2nd Lt. Zach
Zorn, Douglas Composite

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Squadron.
During the event, cadets
were taken on tours of the
Colorado Springs control tower
and terminal radar control
facility, as well as the Pueblo
Air Museum.
They were also given
tickets to Air Force appreciation night at a home game of
the Colorado Springs Sky Sox
baseball team.
Capt. Tom Morton
MONTANA -- Cadets and
senior members of the
Flathead Composite Squadron
helped clean up an area
airstrip.
Six cadets and two senior
members worked together to
clean up and restore Montana
Spotted Bear airstrip as part of
a three-day camping trip and
community service project.
As part of the cleanup
efforts, cadets painted airplane
tied-down points, installed new
wind-sock poles along the
airstrip and worked with U.S.
Forest Service personnel to
stack 16 large piles of fallen
forest debris.
Each of the cadets earned
eight hours toward a community service ribbon for their
participation in the Spotted
Bear cleanup project.
The cadets who participated were: Capt. Brandon
Adams; Airmen 1st Class
Charles Sneddon and Kevin
Kalvig Sr. Airman Andrew
Reindl; and Airmen Justin
Spillas and Michael Rusaw.
The senior members who
participated were Capt. Jan
Van Hoven, squadron commander, and Lt. Col. Bruce
Sneddon.
Diana Snec/don
MONTANA -- About 70
members of the Montana Wing
met in Missoula, Mont., for the
annual wing conference.
The wing glider fly-off was
held during the conference,
which was hosted by the
Missoula Composite Squadron. Cadet Capt. Gordon Marty
won the fly-off and received a
U.S. Air Force jacket as the
prize. Cadet Lisa Smebokken
came in second place.
Also during the conference, several awards were
given out. Awards were
presented to the following
cadets: Marry, Torch Award,
Amelia Earhart Award and
wing cadet of the year; Capt.
Karen Flint, Torch Award; and
Capt. Trey Starns, Earhart
award.

Marty also received an
appointment to the U.S. Air
Force Academy, and will go as
part of the Class of 2004.
UTAH -- Members of the
Utah Wing took advantage of a
large Boy Scout event to
spread the word about Civil Air
Patrol.
Wing members described
CAP to about 20,000 scouts,
family members and scout
leaders who attended the
Great Salt Lake Council's
Expo 2000.
The three-day expo was
held at the Desert Peaks
recreational complex in Tooele
County, Utah. The event,
which attracted almost 30,000
people, was held to celebrate
the new millennium. According
to Boy Scout officials, the Expo
was a one-of-a-kind event.
2nd Lt. Christopher Marks,
Desert Range Senior Squadron commander, organized a
CAP exhibit at the expo.
Thousands of spectators saw
the wing communications van
and glider, and various display
items and photos.
Cadets from the Blackhawk Cadet Squadron assisted Marks in setting up the
exhibit. The success of the
exhibit due to the efforts of
several wing cadets and senior
members who worked together
on the project.
Maj. Robert Anderson and
Sgt. Joe Diaz, Utah Wing Air
Force liaison office, helped the
wing get the equipment for the
exhibit and helped man the
display.
Marks believed the
recruiting effort was a success.
"We really stood out," he said.
"1 can safely predict a lot of
new faces will be showing up
at our meetings across the
state."
Wing officials estimate
that 200 Scouts looked over
the exhibit and took brochures
home with them.
Joanne Searcy
UTAH -- About 125
people attended a model
rocketry seminar sponsored by
the Weber Minuteman Cadet
Squadron.
The seminar, held at the
Hill Air Force Base Aerospace
Museum, provided an opportunity for cadets to work toward
earning their model rocketry
badge as they showed
participants how to build
rockets.
To prepare for the
seminar, the squadron

produced a video that explained each step of the rocket
construction process. To add
variety to the presentation,
cadets mixed in videos of
actual rocket launches
between steps.
The cadets also built a
mock launch pad for the
presentation and displayed
several model rockets.
Lt. Col. James Mercer,
Weber Minuteman squadron
commander, was assisted in
conducting the seminar by
several squadron cadets.
They were: 2nd Lt.
Heather Chartraw; Staff Sgt.
Bryce Mercer; and Airmen
Dustin McLung, Steven Lefors
and Joe Lefors.
Joanne Searcy

CALIFORNIA -- Ten
members of the Saddleback
Composite Squadron attended
a one-day first aid training

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session held to help them earn
their emergency services
certification.
The class was taught by
Tech Sgt. Ralph Marez, an
instructor with the California
Air National Guard's 222nd
Combat Communications
Squadron. Subjects included:
cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
the Heimlick maneuver, basic
first aid and the use of an
automated external defibrillator.
AEDs are designed to
provide potentially lifesaving
defibrillation before other help
can arrive.
"Devices such as these
are becoming increasingly
popular in public and private
institutions, as well as in the
transportation sector," said
Capt. Kenneth Gonzalez,
squadron public affairs officer.
The following senior
members attended the course:
Capts. Alan Dow and Larry
Southwick; 1st Lts. Sandy
Lindsey and Richard Lovick;
and 2nd Ltso Shirlene Bradrick
and Tim Brockman.
Cadets who attended the
course included: 2nd Lts.
Sergio Nardi and Eric Biddle;
Senior Master Sgt. Chris
McHugh; and Senior Airman
Dan Staup.
+ -)- +
Members of the Saddleback Composite Squadron
participated in a night search
and rescue exercise at Desert
Resorts Regional Airport near
Palm Desert, Calif.

The squadron provided an
aircrew and target team for the
exercise.
The target team consisted
of Capt. Larry Southwick, 1st
Lt. Rich Lovick and Cadet Staff
Sgt. Matt Langford. They were
assigned to a location at
Bombay Beach, Calif., and
were responsible for activating
the practice emergency Iocator
transmitter. They managed to
include some direction-finding
training into the evening
activities.
The aircrew consisted of:
Majs. Greg Frazier, California
Wing's Group 7 deputy
commander, and Charles
Biddle; and Capt. Kenneth
Gonzalez.
The course used for the
exercise was designed to test
the effectiveness of various
signaling techniques and
devices, and to test the
effectiveness of the aircrew's
night-scanning and navigation
abilities.
Because of the course
design, effective crew management was a key factor in
the success or failure of the
mission.
The exercise was difficult
to fly properly and safely. Each
team had a general route
assigned with airspeed,
altitude and time-on-station
restrictions.
"It was not very long after
-we were off that it got very
dark. There was a first quartermoon in the sky, but this did
little to illuminate the terrain
below us," said Frazier.

Three senior members of California Wing's Saddleback Composite Squadron pose for a
photograph on the flight line during a search and rescue training exercise. Pictured are, from
left, Maj. Charles Biddle, Capt. Kenneth Gonzalez and Maj. Greg Frazier.

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students.
tions, safety, aircraft refueling
The sorties were flown into and ground control.
assigned grids in the nearby
Lt. Col. Donna M. Starr
A SHow OF RESPECT
Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The exercise was evaluWAS HINGTON -ated by U.S. Air Force personMembers ot the Overlake
nel. Air Force Lt. Col. Mark H.
Composite Squadron particiRichardson. commander of the pated in a 24-hour relay event
CAP-U.S. Air Force Pacific
held to encourage physical
Liaison Region. said he was
fitness.
pleased with the performance
The Bellevue, Wash.. 24of the participants and the
Hour Run Relay was organized
success of the exercise.
to bring local high school youth
"The mountain flying
together and promote physical
training conducted at the
fitness.
mission offered an excellent
The Overlake squadron
opportunity for us to observe
members were asked to
ngorous and challenging flight
provide secunty during the
profiles. The mission staff was
night by aiding local police as
extremely competent and a
they carried out their tasks.
great deal of valuable training
During the day, squadron
took place.
me tubers used the event as a
1st Lt. Ellis Udwin,
recruiting opportunity and
California Wing duty officer,
operated a booth where they
was mission coordinator and
told the crowd what CAP is all
Lt. Col. Charles L. Starr,
about.
Auburn Composite Squadron
The team at the booth was
Q.
commander, acted as base
interviewed by a local televiCadets from Nevada Wing's Clark County Composite and Nellis Cadet squadrons salute the pilot
commander.
sion station news crew. The
of "Thunderbird 1" as he taxies by them before take-off during an airshow. The show was held
Several of the Auburn
media representatives said
at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and drew a crowd of about 175,000 people.
squadron senior members
they were impressed with the
assisted with registration,
Fury flight training exercise
cadets' professionalism and
Thorough preflight
and third days, mentor pilots
administration, transportation,
was hosted by the Auburn
maturity.
planning and meticulous
flew two sorties with each of
flight operations, communicaComposite Squadron and
the current mission-pilot
Cadet 2nd Lt. Scott McMahan
execution were key factors in
included aircraft from as far
successfully completing the
south as San Diego and as far
course and accomplishing all
north as Eureka, Calif.
objectives. The crew located
The objective of the
all three visual targets and
exercise was to provide
tracked the practice ELT at
training in special flight
each of the checkpoints.
Maj. Marlene Nikodem
Capt. Kenneth Gonzalez techniques and procedures to
Steven A. Allison
be used in flying into mounLockport Cadet Squadron
North Castle Composite Squadron
tainous terrain during
New York Wing
CALIFORNIA -- Forty
New York Wing
searches.
California Wing members with
Instructor pilots flew with
William B. Reinbold
18 aircraft participated in a
2nd Lt. Ralph E. Biggerstaff
mentor pilots during searches
a, nchorage Polaris Composite Squadron
flight training exercise.
Shelby Composite Squadron
Alaska Wing
The three-day Mountain
the first day. On the second
North Carolina Wing

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North Missouri Composite Squadron
Missouri Wing
Lt. Col. Calvin D. Cross
Wyoming Wing
Brig. Gen. Richard N. Ellis, USAF (Ret.)
Former National Commander
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Maj. Julius J. Schrader
Kansas Wing
Maj. Gary D. Strawn
New York Wing
L t . C o l . A r l y n Va n A l t a
Oregon Wing
L t . C o l . M i c h a e l J . Ve r m a n n
California Wing

Maj. Ronald L. Hunter
Redwood Empire Composite Squadron
California Wing

L t . C o l . F r a n k E . Vi s k a
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Capt. J o h n K . W a r r i n e r
Arizona Wing

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New York Wing

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