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VOLUME NO 5 NO. 2

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FEBRUARY, 1973

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R e t e n t i o n

Pro le m Areas
Receive Emphasis
MAXWELL AFB, Ala -- In a
recent letter to all unit
commanders, Brig. Gen. Leslie
J. Westberg. USAF, national
commander, identiﬁed declining
membership as the most critical
problem facing Civil Air Patrol
today.

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Hig Might 1972 Activities
MAXWELL AFB, Ala. -- Civil
Air Patrol spent a busy year in
1972 in its various humanitarian
activities, with air search and
rescue missions leading the list.
However, other CAP personnel
spent thousands of man-days in
other types of emergency
situations such as helping with
relief work during disasters,
assisting civic and relief
personnel with communications
and transportation, and
performing other voluntary
services for public agencies.
In air search and rescue
(SAR), Alaska andCalifornia led
all other CAP wings in 1972, with
Alaska receiving credit for
saving the lives of 17 persons.
The Alaska Wing ﬂew a total
of 1,585 sorties in 1972, rolling up
3,632.5 hours ﬂying time in the
process, and were credited by
the Air Force's Aerospace
Rescue and Recovery Service
(ARRS) with locating 70 speciﬁc
SAR objectives in addition to
saving the 17 lives.
The Alaska Wing's most
extensive search activity was
the October-November search
for Rep. Hale Boggs of
Louisiana, Rep. Nick Begich of
Alaska and two other men.
During this one search, the wing
ﬂew 529 sorties for a total of
1,1028.8 hours ﬂying time.
In 1972, California ﬂew 2,206
sorties, racking up 3,367.7 hours
ﬂying time.
Nationally, Civil Air Patrol
ﬂew 14,560 sorties for a total of
27,390.8 hours ﬂying time, and
were credited with locating 119

SAR objectives and saving lives
of 20 persons.
In the continental United
States, most CAP search and
rescue activities are under the
direction of ARRS and lives
saved are credited by this
service.
In other humanitarian services

during the year, CAP ﬂew 775
hours on disaster relief efforts.
Besides aerial reconnaissance
ﬂights, these efforts included
assistance during ﬂoods in a
number of states, ground
assistance during snowstorms,
airlift of blood and drugs,
{See 20 SAVES, Page 2~

Chaplain TI ,orington
Named To 1 {at'l Post
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.Chaplain (Lt. Col. ) Chlldon F.
"Chick" Thorington has been
appointed Chairman of the
National Chaplain Committee.

Chaplain Thorington

Chaplaﬁi Thorington is pastor
of the Northwest Presbyterian
Chruch in Atlanta. He replaces
Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Robert F.
Newberg who served in that
capacity for two years.
Chaplain Thorington entered
Civil Air Patrol in 1961 and has
served as both Georgia Wing
Chaplain and Southeast Region
Chaplain. He is a pilot with more
than 1,000 hours ﬂying time and
has completed the Mission
Coordinators course and ﬂown
on numerous search and rescue
mission.
Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Billy H.
Ferrell was named vicechairman of the committee.
Chaplain Ferrell, a native of
Texas, has been in CAP for 12
years and has served as a group
chaplain, deputy Texas Wing
Chaplain, assistant Southwest
Region Chaplain and recently as
local coordinator for the Annual
National Chaplain Convention at
Dallas, 'rex.

DALLAS, Tex. ~ Ninety-two
Civil Air Patrol cadets
representing 46 wings met here
in early January for their second
Advanced Cadet Leadership
Symposium.
Commenting on the meeting
Brig. Gen. Leslie J. Westberg,
USAF, national commander
said, "I was particularly pleased
with their tota.l participation.
'T~ y~u,g mea and women
who served as seminar leaders
guided their discussion groups
with the tact and skill of veteran
diplomats," he added.
General Westberg also
presented the Spaatz Award to
Cadet Col. David H. Spenner of
the Milwaukee Composite
Squadron. Wisconsin Wing,
during the banquet following the
conference.
In addition, the cadets
received a brieﬁng on the new
Dallas/Ft. Worth airport
complex from Fred Ford,
administrative assistant to the
airport director.
A number of items were
surfaced during the two-day
conference which dealt with
possible improvements in the
CAP cadet program.
These items are being
evaluated by members of the
national headquarters and
results will be published and
distributed to all wing and region
commanders at the earliest
possible date.
Areas covered included drill
team competition, ﬂight training
a c t i v i t y, c a d e t a d v i s o r y
councils, goals and objectives of
the cadet program, safety, cadet
recruiting and retention and
moral leadership.

CAP Praised
For Efforts
MAXWELL AFB, Ala. -- The
commander of Air Force's
Alaskan Air Command recently
praised the Civil Air Patrol for
their efforts in the search for
Congressmen Hale Boggs and
Nick Begich. See Page 5 for
story.

General Westberg Stated that
he intended to place proper
emphasis on the problem and
pledged his personal support in
1973.
The commander's ﬁrst step in
this direction was to increase
emphasis on recruiting and
retention in the 1973 National
Commander's Evaluation.
Membership was assigned a
point value of 3,000 in the 1972
National Commander's
Evaluation. This has been
increased to 4,500 points--or one
quarter of the total points
available in 1973.
The overall membership
category is broken down into ﬁve
areas with cadet retention
earning the largest number of
points--l,500.
In order for a wing to achieve
the total, 1,500 points, it must
have a recruiting rate of 80
percent. For example, a wing
with 100 members at the end of
the previous' year m,aqt recruit
80 new members to achieve
maximum points. A recruiting
rate of 50 percent is the
minimum acceptable required to
earn points. For each additional
one percent over this ﬁgure the
wing will earn 50 points.
The next big area is the
retention of ﬁrst-year cadets. A
(see PROBLEM, Page 2)

11 Complete
Space Course
MAXWELL AFB, Ala. -Eleven Civil'Air Patrol senior
members started off the new
year here by attending the Allied
Ofﬁcer Weapons and Space
Orientation Course.
(See Photo on Page 2)
The course, which is sponsored
by the Air UniversityInstitutefor
Professional Development, is
designed to provide selected
allied ofﬁcers with a knowledge
of current U.S. weapons and
their employment, a familiarity
with the fundamentals of space
operations, and an appreciation
of the U.S. national space effort.
Recognizing Civil Air Patrol's
role as a promulgator of
aerospace education, the
Institute for Professional
Development has allocated a
quota at the course for CAP
senior members. Those selected
attend with ofﬁcers from any
allied nations which provides a
bonus learning experience.
Attendees at the January
i course all met informally with
Brig. Gen. Leslie J. Westberg,
U S A F, C A P N a t i o n a l
Commander during the four-day
course. They were Majors
James B. Cogswell II and Leroy
(see 11 COMPLETE, Page 2)

PAGE G;E TWO

, FEBRUARYr 1973

CIVIL AI R, PAT_ROL NEWS

20 Saves

ADDRESS
CHANGE?

hurricane watch, and aerial
surveillance of a chlorine-laden
barge which hit a bridge in the
Ohio River.

Mail this form to:

(Continued from Page 1)

National Headquarters, CAP
Attn. DPYD
Maxwell AFB, Ala. 36112

During disastrous ﬂoods in six
Eastern States following
Hurricane Agnes, Civil Air
Patrol Volunteers put in 10,956
man-days of work, assisting in
the distribution of relief supplies
and rescue work, providing
communications, and helping in
the clean-up when the ﬂoods
subsided.

LEVEL I DISCUSSION -- Civil Air Patrol and Air Force ofﬁcials discuss the senior
member training program. From left to right are Maj. Gary D. Crawford, USAF, assistant
director of Senior Training; Col. Gerald M. Quilling, CAP, chairman's advisor for Senior
Training; and Lt. Col. Ralph W. Barrett, USAF, director of Senior Training.

CAP Senior T] aining Program
Evolves Throug Joint Effort
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.Both the Civil Air Patrol
Corporation and Headquarters
CAP-USAF were represented
here during the ﬁrst week in
January when experience from
the ﬁrst six months of the new
senior member training
program was evaluated.
CAP Col. Gerald M. Quilling,
the chairman's advisor for
Senior Training, worked closely
with personnel from National
Headquarters in making certain

changes in the program which
are designed to make it more
manageable and responsive to
the needs of the organization.
The joint working group pooled
all the information related to the
senior training program
gathered from correspondence,
region conferences, and the
many Level I clinics attended by
Colonel Quilling. The expressed
goal was to be responsive to
inputs from the ﬁeld in revising
items that have caused problems
in implementing the program.

11 Complete Space Course
(Continued from Page 1)
E. Barnett, Captains Louie and
Annette Tollett of the Florida
Wing; Maj. Robert B. Reicbert,
Nebraska Wing; Capt. Clovis H.
Breaux, North Carolina Wing;
lLt. William B. and WO Martha
F. Cbeney, South Carolina Wing;
Captains Paul E. Milstead and

Reed S. Vaughn, Virginia Wing;
and Maj. Gary S. Gyland, from
the Wisconsin in Wing.
The class was unanimous in its
indorsement of the course and
recommended it to any CAP
s e n i o r m e m b e r. T h e n e x t
presentation will be on April 2327, 1973.

M O D E L TA L K - - C i v i l A i r P a t r o l m e m b e r s e x a m i n e a
model of the Saturn missile during the recent Allied Ofﬁcer
Weapons and Space Orientation Course at Maxwell AFB,
Ala. From left to right are Maj. James B. Cogswell H,
Florida Wing; Maj. Gary S. Gyland, Wisconsin Wing; and
WO Martha F. Cheney, South Carolina Wing.

Probably the largest project
undertaken was to revise the
suggested agenda for Level I
clinics to encompass a one-day
session. The previously
published agenda was
compressed into a period of eight
hours of classroom training
while still covering the
requirements established in CAP
Regulation 50-10.
Those units that have built
their Le~l I eli~ a two- ~ ~.
day concept are encouraged to
continue to do so. The one-day
agenda was designed pr'nnarily
for those who have had difﬁculty
holding two-day clinics The new
agenda suggests using selected
slides from the previously
distributed Level I slide kit. It
also recommends use of the slide
set titled "CAP Cadet Program 1971", a new Aerospace
Education slide set that will
come with a taped narrative, the
newly released ﬁlm - "CAP SAR
Mission Coordinator", and the
" T h e Yo u n g
IACE ﬁlm
Ambassadors".
The Aerospace Education
slide/tape set will be distributed
to regions and wings in the
future and will also be available
from the Bookstore just as was
the Level I slide kit. Region
liaison ofﬁces will have a
permanent copy of the new SAR
movie (TF-6615) and it will also
be sent to wing liaison ofﬁces for
a 30-day period.
The Level I Comprehensive
Review, CAP Forms 19 and 19a,
was revised and renamed by the
working group. The new version,
which corrects errors pointed
out by members in the ﬁeld and
changes the numbering of
questions to make scoring
easier, should be available this
month. The new revision of
CAPR 50-3, also to be available
this month, limits requisition of
CAP Forms 19 and 19a to regions
and wings. Wing senior program
directors should order these
forms when notiﬁed of their
availabilty.
It is planned to use the joint
CAP/USAF concept to review
the senior member training
program to keep it a viable,
relevant program for senior
members.

CAP put in 1,368 man-days of
work during snowstorms, ﬂew
blood or drug delivery missions
in four states, and spent 78 hours
ﬂying surveillance during the
barge disaster.
On other voluntary services,
CAP ﬂew a number of missions
in Hawaii for such things as
aerial survey oﬂava ﬁow daring
volcanic eruptions, assisting the
University of Hawaii in
scientiﬁc experiments, and
providing communications
support for the Hawaii Forestry
Service.

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A new incentive has also been
added to stimulate cadet unit
growth this year by awarding
points for the establishment of
new cadet and composite
squadrons. This can earn the
wing up to 500 points--100 for
new unit formed providing

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wing can earn 1,000 points here if
it has a 60 vercent retention
rate--of ﬁrst-year cadets. Points
will be given after the wing has
reached the 40 percent retention
level at the rate of 50 points for
each additional one percent up to
the 60 percent mark.

Other CAP wings in the
continental United States
provided airlift for American
Red Cross personnel, furnished
civic and law enforcement
agencies with communications,
helped search for lost children,
and performed air evacuation of
sick or injured persons.

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-- cadets~adets drawn from other
units will not count toward the
minimum six new cadets
MAXWELL AFB, Ala. -- Two
required for credit.
cadets from the New York Civil
' The remaining two areas deal
Air Patrol Wing were recently
awarded the Bronze Medal of
with senior member recruiting
and retention. A wing can earn
Valor--C~AP's second highest
up to 750 points in each of these
award for heroic action,
two areas.
Cadets Leo G.A. Fuller and
Twenty ﬁve points for each
Ralph J. Martignetti were
one percent of the new seniors
responsible for rescuing a
recruited will be awarded after a
helicopter pilot from his crashed
wing reaches the minimum 30
craft,
percent recruiting rate. For
example a wing with I00 senior
The citation accompanying the
medals read in part..."the
members at the end of the
cadets with complete disregard
previous year must recruit 30
for their own personal safety,
new members to gain any points.
pulled the stunned pilot from the
To get the maximum points, a 60
wreckage while highly volatile
percent increase must be
fuel saturated the entire area.."
obtained.
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Paris Peace Talks
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Held In Mack House
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Lt. Col
Victor A. Mack, USAF Ret.,
former New York Wing Liaison
Ofﬁcer and later director of
Reserve Affairs at National
Headquarters, Maxwell AFB,
Ala., advises that the Neuilly
House where Presidential
Adviser Henry Kissinger and Le
Due Tho were meeting is the
residence of an American
Jeweler in Paris, Armand Clerc
a former CAP member,
The house is half-owned by
Colonel Mack's wife, Helene,
and is where they resided when
he was recalled to active duty
with the Air, Force in 1953.
Colonel Mack retired as a
command pilot, and maintains
his membership in the New York
Wing. He and his wife presently
reside in Paris.

- On the retention side a wing
can earn 25 points for each one
percent retained after it reaches
a 60 percent retention mark.
Maximum points are earned
when it reaches 90 percent.
In commenting on the new
criteria, General Westbergsaid,
"I am convinced that Civil Air
Patrol has something unique to
offer and increased membership
would dramatically increase its
capability to fulﬁll its aerospace
affairs of this country".
He challenged all unit
commanders to work together
for a bigger and better CAP
during 1973 by adding his
personal philosophy, "I believe
in this organization and know
that you do also".
A booklet covering all the new
c r i t e r i a f o r t h e 19 7 3
Commander's Evaluation has
been mailed to each region and
wing commander.

PAGE THREE

r~lVlL AIR PATROL NEWS

FEBRUARY. 1973

In Memoriam
Brigadier General

F. W A R D

33 rd PRESIDENT (1945-1953)
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C H AT TA N O O G A , Te n n . - - B r i g .
G e n . F. W a r d R e i l l y, c h a i r m a n
emeritus of the Civil Air Patrol
National Board died here recently.
General Reilly was elected
national board chairman of CAP in
1968 and served in that capacity
until 1970.
He-'~a'ir'B~d~! at C~P's 197~
National Convention in Dallas,
Tex., by induction into the CAP Hall
o f H o n o r. A p l a q u e h o n o r i n g h i m
will be placed in the special section
of the Air Force Museum at WrightPatterson AFB, Ohio which reﬂects
CAP activities in the history of
aviation.
General Reiliy was the recipient
of a number of CAP honors and
awards including the Distinguished
Service Medal with three bronze
clasps, the CAP Exceptional
Service Award, the Meritorious
Service Award, and Air Search and
Rescue Award and many other
operational awards.
He had received the Life
Membership Award, the highest
award in CAP, an honor voted him
by CAP's National Board.
He served CAP as commander of
G r o u p I I I , Te n n e s s e e W i n g , a s
inspector general, deputy
commander and commander of the
Southeast Region. Following these
assignments, he was chosen to be
the vice-chairman and, then,
chairman of the National Board.
General Reilly made many
contibutions to the growth of
general aviation in Tennessee. He
served as a commissioner on the
Te n n e s s e e A e r o n a u t i c s
Commission, a president of the
Chattanooga Flyers Club and as
chairman of the Chattanooga
Chamber of Commerce Aviation
Committee.
.He was graduated from the
G e o r g i a I n s t i t u t e o f Te c h n o l o g y
with a degree in mechanical engineering.
He had joined the Army Air Corps
ROTC and was sent to Maxwell
Field, Ala. He planned a career in
military ﬂying and was to be
assigned to Kelly Field at San
Antonio, 'rex., for ﬂight training

when his father died. He resigned
his cadet assignment and returned
home. He did not actively ﬂy again
u n t i l a f t e r W o r l d Wa r I I w h e n h e
j oined CAP.
He began his business career at
the age of 22 with the Street
Brothers Machine Works in 1923. In
1927~ he and the late D.C. Sherman
organized Sherman and Reilly Inc.,
a consulting engineering ﬁrm. The
c o m p a n y, o f w h i c h h e w a s
chairman of the board at the time of
his death, is now a leading
m a n u f a c t u Te r o f p r o d u c t s f o r
erection of electrical transmission
and distribution lines. He was also a
partner in Sherman and Reilly
partnership, a manufacturer of
wire screens and a regional ofﬁce
for the distribution of wire rope in
the Southeast.
General Reilly is survived by his
w i d o w, t h e f o r m e r M a r g a r e t W h i t e
o f A t l a n t a , h i s t w o s o n s , F. Wa r d
J r. , a n d J a m e s W h i t e ; a b r o t h e r,
William Irving, and seven
grandchildren, all of Chattanooga.

G)ONNEI~ MARCH 1~ |9'4'~

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Form e r P r e s i d e n t H a r r y S . Tr u m a n
died here recently. He was 88 years
old.
This man of great decisions was a
strong advocate of Civil Air Patrol.
Important decisions of Mr.
Trnman's tenure as President
included dropping of the Atomic
Bomb on Japan; the Truman
Doctrine - sending economic and
military aid to the Middle East; the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
( N AT O ) - d e s i g n e d t o a c t a s " a
shield against aggression and the
fear of aggression"; and the
Marshall Plan - designed to help
rebuild Europe.
T h e t o u g h e s t d e c i s i o n M r.
Tr u m a n f e l t h e h a d m a d e w a s t h e
sending of American troops into
Korea.
About the same time, Sept. 18,
1947, the armed services were
uniﬁed into a Department of
Defense with three equal branches,
t h e A r m y, N a v y a n d t h e r e c e n t l y
formed U.S. Air Force.

For Civil Air Patrol, the
important events during his
administration were the signing of
Public Law 476 in 1946 which
incorporated CAP as a benevolent
non-proﬁt organization and Public
Law 557 establishing CAP as a
permanent civilian auxiliary of the
U.S. Air Force.
"I am very interested in the work
Civil Air Patrol is doing to interest
young people in aviation. H we are
going to keep up with our
responsibilities in the world, we
must have a country that is airm i n d e d . " P r e s i d e n t Tr u m a n m a d e
that statement during a
congressional dinner in May 1952.
P r e s i d e n t Tr u m a n w a s a l s o a
strong supporter of the
International Air Cadet Exchange
Program. He often toek time out
from his busy schedule to meet with
foreign cadets in the White House
Rose Garden.
One of the most signiﬁcant events
of Truman's administration was the
radiﬁcation of the 22d Amendment
to the Constitution. This bars future
presidents from more than two
elective terms or from serving
more than 10 years in the White
Hm/se.
Several years after radiﬁcation of
the Amendment, Mr. Truman urged
its repeal. He said it sent the
President into his second term,
"with one hand tied behind him"
because of the lose of a lot of
inﬂuence.
In the summer of 1957, the Harry
S . Tr u m a n M e m o r i a l L i b r a r y w a s
dedicated here, as a national
m o n u m e n t . T h e l i b r a r y w a s M r.
Tr u m a n ' s d r e a m o f p r e s e n t i n g a
closer look at the President and the
ofﬁce he held for the people of the
United States.

Art by

Charles
Wood

FEBRUARY, 1973

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS
PAGE FOUR

From The Commander

Goal: A Better Cadet Program
B y B r i g . G e n . L e s l i e J . We s t b e r g ,
USAF, National Commander
R e c e n t l y, M a j o r D o n a l d Va n
Gundy, a CAP member from Idaho,
corresponded his thoughts on cadet
ofﬁcers to the National
Headquarters. Speaking directly to
this segment of cadets, he said:
"To subordinates, you represent
higher management. It is your
business to see that management is
represented fairly. You must make
sure that its many seemingly odd
demands are understood and
accepted.
"To management you represent
the cadets in your squadron. Only
through you can management
know the needs and multitude of
problems that belong to the cadets.
Only through you can management
learn of the good and bad effects of

its actions."
I have just attended the Cadet Leadership Symposium
and I saw there for
my ﬁrst time, cadets responding to
the demands mentioned by Major Van
G u n d y. A n a i m o f
the symposium was to have the
cadets make suggestions and
recommendations that would help all
CAP members better implement the
existing cadet program. The topics
they discussed were not easy, ranging from cadet contributions in
promoting safety to cadet retention
and recruiting.
These young people did not lack
for ideas. I had the opportunity to
meet and talk with several of them.

They responded to the challenges and
demands of the symposium with
eagerness and determination.
I was particularly pleased by their
total participation. The young men
and women who served as seminar
leaders guided their discussion
groups with the tact and skill of
veteran diplomats. Many meaningful
ideas were surfaced which were
thoroughly examined, sometimes
with heated but friendly dialogue.
The' conclusions from the
symposium have yet to be ﬁnalized.
We a t N a t i o n a l H e a d q u a r t e r s a r e
studying and giving thoughtful
evaluation to each and every
proposal. All will be considered for
possible future implementation, as
were the proposals from the 1971
symposium.
Many of these proposals have been

implemented in some form. For
example, the curriculum for the
Cadet Ofﬁcer School closely parallels
the one suggested at that time. Also,
the idea for the recently conducted
retention survey of fomer cadets was
suggested during the '71 symposium.
The cadets have now returned to
their respective wings and regions. I
encourage each region and wing
commander to discuss with these
cadets their reactions and
impressions of the symposium. The
ideas exchanged in Dallas are worthy
of consideration by everyone of us.
I enjoyed this association with
Civil Air Patrol cadets. I look
forward to working with them in the
future. Their goal is my goal--A
Better Cadet Program!

Chairman's Comments

CAP Is NOT A Spectator Sport
By Brig. Gen. S. Hallock duPont Jr.
Chairman of Board
Col. Robert C. Owen, commander
of the Florida Civil Air Patrol Wing,
has written an exceptional
Commander's Column for the Wing
Newspaper, 'Gator Capers.'
Much of what Bob
says applies to each
of CAP's 52 wings.
That's why I'm stepping aside this month to let this charter member of Civil Air Patrol air his
thoughts on a national scale:
Civil Air Patrol has a motto,
S e m p e r Vi g i l a n s . A s y o u k n o w, i t
means, "Always vigilant." It's a ﬁne
motto.
But too many of our members do
just that - keep vigils - and nothing
more. They sit back, watch the work
pile up, activities increase, and
missions roll by. They're content to
sit back while others ﬂy the aircraft,
man the radios, process the
paperwork, and take care of those
many unglamorous but vital duties
that all emergency services
operations demand.
This is true in all CAP activities ha!

Outlook

by Chaplain (Col.), Joseph T. O'Brien, USA
Did you ever observe a child's effort t
be generous? How reluctantly he share
his toys or candy with someone else! Hm
slow he is to give anything away! HI
internal struggle with selﬁshness show
itself in the slowness of his actions as h
transfers a treasured possession t
someone else. His hands move slowly an
hesitantly. His eyes roam anxiously frm
his toy to the other child, to his mothel
and back again. As often as not,
snatches the toy back or begins to tn'y.

"mission coordinator," hung on him
hits closest to home when discussing
those who could get the time off and
has a beck of a job and he needs help.
our role in providing help to anyone,
need a place to stay so they can work
If you're so smart, then get out there
anytime, anywhere.
again the next day?
and give him a hand.
SO, if yon are one of those people
Yes, you worked on CAP last week
who have done a lot of watching
CAP doesn't send out engraved
but missions seldom happen when it's
lately, then brother here's a ﬂash for
invitations requesting the "honor of
convenient for everyone and the
i,.
, ,
. . . .
. ou CAP ts "
y .
" NOT a s .e~ ,tator sport. If . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , ,,,, , ,, , ~-:~-"-~"~-.-_'~-----~ ,,--~_-.-- --7-~_'1-'_;: _
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volunteer[ﬁg- all the planes and
you are net out tSere in the ﬁeld dbl-~~-ef a msun~ ,pu~ am p.,,~
has no regard for your comfort,
something, no matter how small, then
personnel you can ﬁnd, if you're
No one's asking you to divorce
turned down then at least you've done
that makes you a spectator. Like it or
y o u r s e l f f r o m y o u r f a m i l y, b u t y o u
your part. Since when does the
not, you're not doing your part in an
can bet that if you were the one who
mission have to be in your Task Force
organization dedicated to helping
was missing, your family would want
for your squadron or group to offer to
others.
everyone working to ﬁnd you no
participate?
There go the cries of indignation
matter how many nights they were
and outrage. "I can't get off work",
Fortunately, these spectators are a
away from home.
"I worked on CAP last weekend and if
minority here in the Sunshine State
So you don't like the mission
I'm gone again, my wife will have a
and throughout all of Civil Air Patrol.
coordinator and yon know more about
ﬁ t " , " I t ' s t o o f a r a w a y, I ' d h a v e t o
It's a good thing too, because CAP
mission than he ever will. Sure, you
spend the night", "I can't stand the
probably do. But this is not the time
was founded and thrives because it
m i s s i o n c o o r d i n a t o r, a n d I ' l l b e
had people who believe in getting
for a popularity poll. They don't give
darned if I'll go work for him and get
involved and doing more than
t r o p h i e s f o r M r. C o n g e n i a l i t y o n a
bossed around."
watching from the sidelines.
mission. The guy that gets the title,
Let's take these excuses one at a
time. Work commitments cun tie you
u n . . . h a s t i n v o n r t i m e o ff m a y b e y o u

EWS

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...Brig. Gen. 5. Ha[Iock DuPont Jr. CAP
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eVILAIR PATROL NEWS

PAGE FIVE

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CAP Wins Praise
For Alaska Search
MAXWELL AFB, Ala. -- Civil
Air Patrol has won praise for its
part in the search last fall for
Congressmen Hale Boggs of
Louisiana and Nick Begich of
Alaska who were lost October 16
with two other men on a ﬂight
from Anchorage to Juneau,
Alaska.
In a recent letter to Brig. Gen.
L e s l i e J . We s t b e r g , U S A F
national commander, Maj. Gen.

Donavon F. Smith, commander
of the Air Force's Alaskan Air
Command, expressed his
appreciation for "the
magniﬁcent response by your
Alaska Wing CAP units to our
request for assistance .... "
General Smith said that "the
immediate reaction,
professional performance and
cooperative effort demonstrated
by the Alaska Wing CAP units
were truly superior and

indicative of their support in all
of our SAR (search and rescue)
missions."

He added that "the Alaska
Wing CAP is truly the 'backbone'
of SAR in Alaska."

CAP ﬂew 529 sorties on the
Boggs-Begich search for a total
of 1,102.8 ﬂying hours.

Unit Promotes Safety
With Monthly Fihns
M O R G A N T O W N , W. Va . The Morgantown Cadet
Squadron has started a monthly
program of showing ﬂight safety
ﬁlms to their members in an

For the beneﬁt of all
members of Civil Ab
Patrol, the latest statistics
of search and rescue
activities thi~ughout the
organization are shown
below.
T hese me unofﬁcial
ﬁgures compiled by
Directorate of Operatiom
at CAP National
Headquarters.

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(As of Jan. 14, 1973)
9
Number of Missions
Number of Aircraft
291
Number of Sorties
376
Flying Hours
864
Personnel
1,720
Mobile Radios
391
Fixed Radios
346
Lives Saved
0
SAR Objectives Located
2

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The Life
You Save
May Be
Mine.

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effort to promote aviation
safety.
The ﬁrst ﬁlms were "Weather
to Fly" and "Stable and Safe."
The ﬁlms covered Visual Flight
B ule (VFR) pilots making use of
weather services to avoid
Instrument Flight Rule (IFR)
conditions during a cross country
ﬂight and _graveyard spirals
encountered by VFR pilots in
IFR conditions.
Thirty-two members attended
the ﬁrst showing which was
arranged by WO James Maloy,
unit cadet activities ofﬁcer,
through the Morgantown Airport ....
tower personnel.
Maloy plans to incorporate
ﬁlms from both the Federal
Aviation Administration and Air
Force ﬁlm libraries in future
programs.

Boyd Presented
S a f e P i l o t Aw a r d
TOP AWARD -- Cadet Col.
Montgomery M. Broward,
of the
a member
Florida
Jacksonville
Rescue
Search and
Composite
Squadron,
recently earned the
highest cadet award -- the
Spaatz Award. Broward
has been in CAP since 1965
and is a rated private pilot
with more than 200 ﬂying
hours logged. He is
presently a student at
Jacksonville University
where he is majoring in
Sociology.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Civil
Air Patrol member Lester E.
Boyd has been presented the
National Pilots Association
highest award -- the Safe Pilot
Certiﬁcate.
Boyd, commander of Florida s
Group 17 at St. Petersburg,
received the award in
recognition of skill and ﬂying
ability represented by 500 hours
or more as pilot-in-command
without major accident
involving damage to property or
injury to person.
Boyd's ﬂying career began in
1965. Since then, he has
accumlated more than 1,000
accident-free hours.

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C H E C K E Q U I P M E N T- M e m b e r s o f t h e G o l d e n B e l t
Rescue Squadron of Great Bend, Kan., check radiological
monitoring equipment daring a recent Civil Defense practice
mission. Checking the equipment are Capt. Ralph F. Warren
(right), commander of the squadron and mission air
operations ofﬁcer and 1st Lt. Doyle A. White, mission pilot
and executive ofﬁcer of the unit.

Ark.-Olda. CAP Fli ers
Find Craft:; Save Pair
MAXWELL AFB, Ala. -- Civil
Air Patrol ﬂiers from Arkansas
and Oklahoma have been
credited with saving the lives of
two Flourissant, Mo., natives
after their plane crashed near
Meona, Ark.
The aircraft, piloted by Jack
G. Handley and carrying his wife
and two children, was enroute
f r o m Te m p l e , Te x . t o F o r t
Smith, Ark. when it crashed.
Mrs. Handley and her ﬁveyear-old son survived the crash.
She was l i s t e d i n c r i t i c a l
condition.
Civil Air Patrol members
from Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Texas ﬂew some 81 sorties during
the two-day search.
The two saves brought to 20 the

number of lives saved during
1972 by Civil Air Patrol.

Former CAP Cadet
On 'Angels' Team
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former member of the Indian
Head Civil Air Patrol Squadron
has been assigned as a jet
mechanic to the maintenance
crew of the Blue Angels, the U.S.
Navy precision ﬂying team.
Greg Riley was the ﬁrst cadet
commander of the unit when it
was formed. He was graduated
from Sacred Heart High School
and attended the East Coast
Aero Technical School prior to
joining the Navy ﬂying team in
December.

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CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

PAGE SIX

C A P C a p t a i n R e ﬂ e c t s O n C h i n a Tr i p
MCCHORD AFB, Wash.,--CAP Capt.
Eddie N. Johnson of McChord AFB holds
the' distinction of being the ﬁrst United
Stales serviceman to set foot on the
Chinese mainland since 1948.
He accomplished this a year ago this
month when the U.S. Air Force C-141
Starlifter jet transport he was ﬂying with
landed in Shanghai in support of President
Richard M. Nixon's trip to China.
Captain Johnson, also a master
sergeant ﬂight engineer in the Air Force,
was the ﬁrst crewmember to step off the
ﬁrst U.S. aircraft that landed in China in
support of that historic trip.
Reﬂections of the trip come easily to
Captain Johnson, even though a year has
passed. "'I guess the thing I remember the
most is the way they fed us while we were
there," he stated.
"Every time we turned around the
Chinese had another banquet prepared for
us. Every time we ﬂew somewhere and
landed for only a couple of hours they
were there with their food. It was
impossible to refuse them, because they
would insist that we have 'just a little
snack'." Johnson said that the little
snacks always turned out to be 14-course
meals.
Johnson, who joined the CAP in 1969,
spent a total of 35 days out of the United
States during his China trip. "About 28 of
those days were spent on Guam," he
explained. "We were on-call in case the
President needed anything. Everybody
that went to China had to have a
diplomatic clearance--even the aircraft
had a diplomatic clearance. That is why
only certain selected individuals and
aircraft were allowed to ester the
country," he said.
When the aircraft landed at Shanghai
airport for passport clearance the crew
picked up a Chinese navigator and a
Chinese radio operator. These individuals
ﬂew with the U.S. crew whenever they
were in China. "There was no language
problem at all while we were in China,"
Joimson said. "Our guides spoke ﬂuent
English. We were really amazed at the
great number of Chinese people who
spoke English," he explained.
The crew, Captain Johnson was a part
of, stayed overnight at the Peking airport
twice, and they stayed at a large
downtown hotel once. Two nights spent in
Shanghai brought the total number of
overnights spent in China to ﬁve.. "The
quarters we had were superb," Johnson
attested. "The Chinese people are
undoubtedly the world's greatest hosts as
far as l'm concerned," he continued.
Air Force crew members were taken on
shopping trips several times, and Captain
Johnson said that the prices, with one
exception, seemed comparable to ours,
"China is a antique shopper's paradise,"
he said, "and the prices on antiques
seemed dirt cheap."
In comparing a Chinese city with an
American city, Captain Johnson spoke of
automobiles. "In Peking there is a
noticeable lack of automobiles. In a city
of several million people you would
expect heavy trafﬁc, but you hardly see
any cars at all."
Another lasting impression he got was
the way the Chinese keep their cities so
clean. "The cities are extremely clean,"
he said, " and you just don't see anything
that looks dirty or out of place."
The McChord-based sergeant related
that the problems they encountered while
ﬂying in China were not insurmountable.
"When we were airborne, Chinese air
controllers would radio altitude changes
to us in meters," he explained. "I kept a
slide rule in my hand all the time, and
when they radioed in I had to convert the
instructions into feet and pass it on to the
pilot."

Story And Photos Provided By MeChord AFB
Ofﬁce Of Information

TRAINING -- MSgt. Eddie
N . J o h n s o n , U S A F, k e e p s
current on duties of a ﬂight
engineer by attending
periodic training in a C-141
jet transport ﬂight simulator.
Here he works on the ﬂight
engineer's panel. (U. S. Air
Force Photo by Sgt. Mike
Storey)

grounded at Shanghai because of bad
Only one other problem was
weather."
encountered, and that was the fact that
He still considers it an honor to have
Chinese power units would not plug into
been chosen to go on the trip, and he
the American aircraft,
managed to collect several souvenirs.
Johnson, an 18-year Air Force veteran,
feels that his trip was not' entirely--'~My'~~'n~ m-m*,~-.-~.,~.~--printed in both Chinese and English which
complete. "We missed seeing the Great
says 'Presented to Master Sergeant Eddie
Wall of China," he said, "and although
N. Johnson as a gift from the People's
we were invited by the President to
Repubic of China."
attend the banquet he gave for Mao-TseCaptain Johnson joined the McChord
Tung, we missed it because we were

AFB Composite Squadron in December
1970, and was recently appointed
commander of the McChord Cadet
Squadron. He also has commanded two
CAP units in Wichita Falls, Tex.
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.......
Captain Johnson on China le~ds him to
what he calls "lO0-year-old eggs." He
said that they probably weren't really 100years-old, "but they were deﬁnitely
something to behold."

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CHINA -- CAP Capt. Eddie N. Johnson, (left), poses with
the aircraft and crew that ﬂew to China last year in
support of President Nixon;s trip there. Here they stand
with a Chinese radio operator and navigator, center, that
ﬂew with the U.S. crew whenever they were inside China.

Johnson, also a U.S. Air Force master sergeant, is a ﬂight
engineer with the 62d Military Airlift Wing, MeChord
AFB, Wash. This photograph was taken at the airport in
Shanghai, China.

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

FEBRUARY, 1973

PAGE SEVEN

92 Attend 2d Cadet Leadership Symposium

With Fire In The Eye...

My Point Is...

You'd Better Believe It!

Group Togetherness.

Deep Concentration.

U.:~. Air Force Photos by Russ Brown

g
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A General Discussion.

Watch It !

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

PAGE EIGHT

FEBRUARY, 1973

W. Va. Minister Prays
Plane To Safe Landing
B U C H A N N O N , W. Va . - - A
Buchannon minister and
a member of Civil Air Patrol,
ﬂying a light aircraft with no
lights, no radio and no
navigational system, attributes
his safe landing to prayer and a
physician w h o c a r e s a b o u t
mankind.
The Rev. Jack L. Kitchen,
pastor of the Calvary United

Cadets Aid
In Rescue
THIRD STREAMER -- A third unit citation was presented to the Augusta Squadron CAP,
recently, by CAP Lt. Col. Randolph C. Ritter, deputy wing commander, (right) to Augusta
Commander Lt. E. Ray Proctor, {left). The citation was awarded for work done by squadron
members during June ﬂooding in surrounding cities and counties. Also present were Maj.
Dennis M. Sutton and Maj. Richard Niess.

Va. Unit Receives 3d Award
S TA U N T O N , Va . - - T h e
Augusta Squadron, became the
ﬁrst Civil Air Patrol squadron in
Virginia to receive its third unit
citation award in special
ceremonies here.
The citation was presented by
Lt. Col. Randolph C. Ritter of
Winchester, deputy wing commander.
The squadron won the citation
for its work during Tropical
Storm Agnes from June 22- July
1, 1972, when its members
worked around the clock in
communications, relaying ﬂood
conditions and bridge
surveillance, among other
activities.
Colonel Ritter presented the
citation to Lt. E. Ray Proctor,
s q u a d r o n c o m m a n d e r. T h e
Augusta Squadron has received
two other unit citations in recent
years in recognition of its
activities and especially for
work during recent ﬂoods in
surrounding cities and counties.

Colonel Ritter noted the
citation was approved by CAP
Col. Earl T. VanStavern, wing
commander, who stated, "The
entire effort was applauded by
Civil Defense ofﬁcials as a
primary factor in saving lives
and property in the state. I feel

this act of selﬂess dedication of
members of this unit merits
awarding of the unit citation."
Augusta Squadron is composed
of former Tri-County Squadron
members and the Augusta unit,
both of whom merged to become
the largest squadron in Virginia.

2 Air Force Ofﬁcers Assist-Stranded N.Y. CAP Cadets
ORANGEBURG, N.Y.--Two
Air Force ofﬁcers came to the
rescue of 20 cadets from the
Orangeburg Cadet Squadron recently when the aircraft scheduled to airlift them to Florida
was unable to land.
The cadets were at the
Westchester County Airport in
New York awaiting airlift to
Patrick AFB, Fla., on an Air
Force T-29 when they were
informed that the aircraft could
not land due to a malfunction of

its landing gear.
Noting the disappointment of
the cadets, Maj. Leon J.
Plotnitsky, senior Air Force
advisor to the State of New
York, took the situation in hand.
He called Andrews AFB, Md., to
arrange for a possible tour of the
base and Washington, D.C.
Within an hour he had arranged
for lodging, dining hall facilities
and tour of the base He also
made arrangements through the
AMTRAC Corporation for a
special rate on a round-trip train
ride to Washington, D.C.

Apostolic Church, said the
plane's electrical power failed at
a crucial turn for the approach to
the Huntington, W.Va., Tri-State
airport, where he was to land.
The CAP pilot from the
Buchannon Composite Squadron
attracted the attention of
persons on the ground by buzzing
a nearby Louisa, Ky., service
station.
Police were summoned,
"but," he said, "they thought we
were a military aircraft
carrying out maneuvers and
left"
Everyone did, that is except
f o r a L o u i s a p h y s i c i a n , D r.
Brezedine, who realized that the
aircraft was in trouble. He led
the aircraft and some local
residents to a nearby ﬁeld where
the residents lit torches to guide
the aircraft to a safe landing.
The pastor said that he and his
p a s s e n g e r, t h e R e v. Te r r y
Williams of Madison, Ill., prayed
for a safe landing throughout the
ordeal.
"I was talking to the Lord at
40 miles an hour," he said.
The Rev. Williams added, "We
both were--and what he couldn't
think of to pray for, I did."

MIAMI, Fla.--Civil Air Patrol,
U.S. Air Force, American Red
Cross and Florida Highway
Patrol personnel combined
rescue efforts during the recent
L o c k h e e d 1 0 11 ( T r i - S t a r )
aircraft crash in the Florida
Everglades.
The aircraft, enroute from
Kennedy International in New
York to Miami International,
crashed and burned west of its
intended destination.
The ﬁrst CAP personnel
arrived on the scene only 45minutes after the aircraft
crashed. They were used to
assist in directing trafﬁc and
ll Units Attend
crowd control. In addition, the
six CAP members aided by
serving coffee and donuts to
rescue workers, handling radio
HONOLULU--The Hawaii
trafﬁc for the Florida Highway
Civil Air Patrol recently held a
Patrol and American Red Cross
Supply Ofﬁcer Seminar in
and directing airbouts to
conjunction
w i t h t h e i r
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Eleven units were represented
stationed in Florida were
during the one-day session which
credited with rescuing 26 of the
included discussion of
80 persons taken from the crash
disposition of CAP property,
site. In addition, an Air Force
CAP Supply Forms, donations,
C-130 arc light aircraft, equip. inventory and request forms
ped with high-intensity lights of
The orientation course was
more than 3,000,000 candle
conducted by Lt. Jackson
power, lit the crash scene as if
Tsujimura, supply ofﬁcer for the
it were daylight.
wing.

Supply Seminar

Upon their arrival at
Washington, D.C., the CAP
cadets were met by Capt. James
Elder, USAF, the CAP liaison
ofﬁcer at Andrews AFB.
The captain personally
supervised a tour of the base and
Washington.
The cadets returned to New
Yo r k t h e n e x t d a y a f t e r a
successful trip thanks to the Air
Force ofﬁcers who took time
from their regular duties to help.

CORRECT METHOD -- Civil Air Patrol Cadets Gilbert
Rosenfeld (left) and Isaac Williams demonstrate the correct
method of applying a triangular bandage during the 16-week
Standard and Advanced First Aid Course given to all cadets of
the Gwynn Oak Composite Squadron of the Maryland Wing.

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MONEY POLE -- An unidentiﬁed participant tries his hand at
climbing the greased pole during the recent Money Pole and
Pennie Dig sponsored by the Civil Air Patrol Group III of the
Te n n e s S e e W i n g a t t h e C h a t t a n o o g a H a m i l t o n C o u n t y
Interstate Fair. All children under 12 were admitted free to
try their hand at climbing the six-foot pole for $S or ﬁnding the
more than 1,500 pennies buried in sawdust during the ﬁve-day
fair.

FEBRUARY, 1973

- PAGE NINE

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

Te a m Vi s i t s C a l i f o r n i a
MCCHORD AFB, Wash.--A
group of Civil Air Patrol cadets
and seniors from 10 Washington
squadrons...Washington Team
CI ona3a'if-r-iSp°ns°red a trip to
during Christmas
vacation.
Under the leadership of Lt.
Col. Charles Young, the 25 team
members and guests departed
Tacoma on December 26.
After a stop in Portland, Ore.,
to pick up two Oregon personnel,
the team stopped in Corvalis,
Ore., where a rescue rapelling
demonstration was given to a
group of 50 persons.
The next stop on the itinerary
was a visit to Ukiah, Calif.,
where an emergency service
encampment was being held.
The team located a 900-foot rock
with a river below for their
rescue demonstration. Using
800-feet of cable, encampment
participants watched while team
members skillfully removed a
"victim" from the ledge half
way up the rock.
From there, the group
travelled to Hamilton AFB,
Calif. At Hamilton, they toured
the Western Aerospace Rescue

FINAL CHECK-- Cadet Margaret Hoffman of Sanpoint
Squadron, Washington Wing makes a ﬁnal safety check on
trailer hitch prior to departure on California trip.

Wisc. Riﬂe League
Honors CAP Captain
G R E E N B AY, W i s c . - - C i v i l
Air Patrol Capt. Eugene E.
Dombrowski was recently
presented the Good Samaritan
Award for 1972 by the Wisconsin
Volunteer Riﬂe League.
The award is presented every
ﬁve years to a member of the
Riﬂe League who works
extensively in community
service and promotes youth
activities.
Captain Dombrowski guided
the Cadet Riﬂe Team from his
unit, the Brown County
Composite Squadron, to become
the top cadet team in Wisconsin
during 1971. He also participated
in the formation of a ground
rescue team in his unit and has
taken extensive ﬁrst aid and

Civil Defense Preparedness
courses.

The Brown County Squadron
also has the distinction of having
in its membership the only other
receipients of the award. In 1967,
Lt. Earl Nelsen and his wife
Viola were presented with a joint
award, which cited their
contribution to the community
as Red Cross volunteers.

MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--Maj.
Frank H. Rockwell of the New
York Civil Air Patrol Wing received the Distinguished Service
Medal recently for his efforts
during the ﬂood caused by Tropical Storm Agnes.
The major used his own radio
equipment to coordinate
transportation of personnel,
medical supplies, food and
equipment to the ﬂooded areas.
He also acted as a liaison
between wing headquarters and
other disaster bases.
The citation accompanying the
medal read in part..."with
complete disregard for his
personal affairs Major Rockwell
remained with the mission 245
hours out of a possible 384 total
mission hours."

BALTIMORE, Md.--Cadets of
the Gwynn Oak Composite
Squadron were recently given a
tour of the Friendship
International Airport
facilities in lieu of their regular
weekly meeting.
The tour was intended as a
supplement to the Aerospace
Education program and was used
to familiarize the cadets with the
night operations of a major
airport.
Capt. Gerald Fuller, USAF
Res., the squadron's Aerospace
Education ofﬁcer said that he
hoped this type tour would
become a regular activity of this
Baltimore CAP unit.

Shelton and Bremerton.
In past years, the Wing Team
has sponsored other trips to
California, several Montana
missions, trips to the Air Force
Academy in Colorado and a trip
to Hawaii.
The group returned on New
Year's Day.

SOLO WINNER -- Cadet Lt. Col. Paul Freeman receives
congratulations from Maj. Freddie Lee, Headquarters 13th
Group of the Texas Civil Air Patrol Wing, upon receiving a
Solo Flight Scholarship. The scholarship was presented by
the 13th Group. Cadet Freeman is a member of the Bayou
City Composite Squadron.

Cadets Gather Books For Navy
SAN DIEGO, Calif.--Civil Air
Patrol cadets from San Diego
County Group 3 took on an
unusual Christmas project this
year. They collected paperback
books for several squadrons
from Naval Air Station Miramar
who were about to deploy to the
Far East on the USS
Constellation.

More than 1,600 books were
collected and presented to
command personnel during a
special ceremony.
The project was such a success
that the cadets voted to make
this a year-round project, with
the books to be delivered to the
base each quarter.

The tour was conducted by
Captain Fuller and' airport
personnel and included a visit to
the control tower, radar room
and weather room. Runway
procedures and ground
operations were explained to the
group.
The tour lasted approximately
two hours and never failed to
hold the interest of all group
members.

Major Honored
For 'Services'

Cadets Tour
Aerodrome

and Recovery Squadron and the
41st Air Rescue Squadron where
they viewed the C-I30's and
paramedic rescue equipment.
Cost of the trip was $18 per
person which was earned by a
series of candy sales during
October and November in
S e a t t l e , Ta c o m a , O l y m p i a ,

Calendar Of Events
Feb. 17-18 AIC Circuit Rider Course -PACR

Hamilton AFB, Calif.

Feb. 28 AF/CAP Advisory Panel

Washington. D.C.

Mar. 3 SWR Conference

Oklahoma City, Ok.

Mar. 17 NEC Meeting

Maxwell AFB, Ala.

Mar. 31 MER Conference

Wilmington, N.C.

Apr. 7-8 AIC Circuit Rider Course -GLR

Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

Apr. 23-27 Allied Ofﬁcer Space &

Maxwell AFB, Ala.

Missile Course
May 5 GLR Conference

Chicago, I!1.

June 9. NEC Meeting
.June 2-3 AIC Circuit Rider Course-RMR

Maxwell AFB, Ala.
Ft. Douglas, Utah

June 16 RMR Conference

Salt Lake City, Utah

FORMER CADET -- Coast Guard Lt. (j.g.) Peter C. Olsen, a
former Civil Air Patrol cadet in the Stratford Eagles
Squadron of the Connecticut Wing, is currently assigned to
the Coast Guard Rescue Service in New York. He joined the
CAP in 1963 and progressed through the cadet program to
become cadet commamder of his unit.

FEBRUARY, 1973

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

PAGE TEN

Pa. Cadets
Get Own
Radio Net'

DECISIONS, DECISIONS- Civil Air Patrol Sgt. Alfred
Bernelli of the Queens Group helps one of the 90 youngsters
from the Queens Children Shelter make a selection from the
mountain ~ toys.

CAP Helps Orphans
F L U S H I N G , N . Y. - - T h e
Queens Children's Shelter, a
home for 90 orphaned children,
recently received a breath of
Christmas warmth as a result of
the efforts of Queens Group Civil
Air Patrol personnel.
Under the combined
leadership of Cadets Richard
Murray and David Porter a
"Toys for Tots" program was

organized and two truck loads of
toys and games were collected
residents and
from local
merchants.
With the help of Shelter ofﬁcials, a party was given for the
children a week before Christmas at which time refreshments
were served and the toys distributed.

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. -Pennsylvania Wing Civil Air
Patrol cadets now have the
opportunity to operate their own
"_Radio Net."
The new program went into
effect on January 15 whereby
cadets will be given the last 15
minutes of the regular single
sideband net. It will continue
each Monday evening providing
there is enough interest and
participation.
The primary purpose of
creating this net is to make
cadet communication training
more relevant and to motivate
cadet participation in the
communication ﬁeld.
Lt. Col. Walter Kesslar, wing
director of communications, got
the ball rolling by selecting a
cadet to operate the Cadet Net
Contro| Station.
"The success of the program
hinges on the cooperation from
the senior communicators who
must issue the invitation to
cadet communicators to use
their equipment," the wing communicator stated.

Lives

HEROISM -- Civil Air Patrol Maj. Paul R. Fick (center) and
Cadet Jon West (seated) were recently presented the Bronze
Medal of Valor for heroic action "above and beyond tbe call of
duty" when they risked their own safety to rescue a youth
from drowning when the youth's auto washed into a ﬂooded
creek. Presenting the award is Col. A. A. Milano, commander
of the Pennsylvania Wing. The two are members of the
Reading Composite Squadron, Pennsylvania Wing.

'73 Christian Encounter Conference Schedule ........
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--The
schedule for the 1973 Christian
Encounter Conferences was
announced recently by Chaplain
(Col.)Ralph R. Pace, USAF.
In making the announcement,
the national chaplain said that
the Air Force, which has
sponsored this annual
conference for 20 years hadagain
invited CAP cadets and senior
members to participate in this
summer activitiy.
The popularity and value of
this program has been attested
too by increased attendance and
participation.
Those who attend return from
a week with outstanding clergymen, educators, psychologists.
scientists, athletics, musicians,
authors and laymen with a new
mental attitude and spiritual
growth. Chaplain Pace said.
The conference is designed to
appeal to the "now" person, the
youth who must learn to cope
with the demands of today's
society.
The week-long program
includes presentations on
relevant issues and are followed
with '~buzz" sessions in small
groups.
The conference is not all work
though, as opportunities are
offered to participate in the
choir, youth sings, ﬁreside rap
sessions, drama, interaction
groups, "swimming, hiking and
other sports and tours to places
of interest.
These conferences continue to
augment the national CAP
chaplain program and stimulate
the moral and spiritual
development of the cadet, the
chaplain added.
The conterences will be

conducted in 10 locations and are
open to all cadets. There are no
requirements of award
achievement and a physical
examination is not necessary.
The meetings will be held at:
California Lutheran College,
Thousand Oaks, Calif., June 1822, for personnel in Southern
California, Nevada and Arizona.
Holden Village, Chelan, Wash.,
June 25-29, for personnel in
Idaho, Oregon, Montana and
Washington.
Silver Bay, N.Y., July 9-13, for
personnel in Delaware, New
J e r s e y, N e w Yo r k ,
Pennsylvania, Maine, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island,
National Capital and Maryland.
Squaw Valley, Calif., July 9-13,
for personnel in Northern
California.
Estes Park, Colo., July 11-15,
for personnel in Colorado, Utah,
New Mexico, Wyoming and
Northern Oklahoma.
Ouachita Baptist University,
Arkadelphia, Ark., July 16-20. for
personnel in Arkansas,
Louisiana,Mississippi, Southern
Missouri, Southern Illinois,
Kansas and Southern Oklahoma.
Saint Olaf College, Minn., July
16-20, for personnel in Michigan,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa.
Wisconsin Northern Illinois and
Northern Missouri.
Norman Park Assembly, Ga.,
Aug. 6-10, for personnel in
Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
Mo Ranch, Hunt, Tex., Aug. 1317, for personnel in Texas.
Ridgecrest, N.C., Aug. 30-Sept.
3, for personnel in North
Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana,

Ohio, Virginia, and West
Virgina.
Cadets must apply by
submitting a CAP Form 31 to
reach National Headquarters at
least 30 days prior to the
beginning of the desired
conference. The form should be
mailed directly to the National
Chaplain, Headquarters Civil Air
Patrol, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 36112
A $20 fee is required for each

CAP member for each
conference. However, those
applying for the Holden Village
conference need only remit $15,
as the other $5 will be required
for ferry boat fees to and from
the island.
Senior members who wish to
apply for escort duty will be
required to submit their
application on CAP Form 70.
Senior members must be 21

years old prior to the ﬁrst day of
the conference to qualify. At
least one escort is required for
each 1O cadets.
All applications will be
approved on a ﬁrst-come, ﬁrstpaid basis.
Applicants and other
information for these
conferences is available from the
National Chaplain Headquarters
Civil Air Patrol.

RAP SESSION -- Civil Air Patrol cadets gather around their seminar leader for a
"rap session" during one of the 1972 Christian Encounter Conferences held
throughout the United States.

PAGE ELEVEN

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

FEBRUARY, 1973

CA1 Encourages
Special Training
MAXWELL AFB, Ala--Civil
Air Patrol operational units are
encouraged to qualify at least
four of their members in aerial
radiological monitoring.
The new program will enable
CAP to assist Defense Civil
Preparedness Agency in
fulﬁlling this requirement
during national civil defense
emergency, as requested by the
Air Force. These operational
units are encouraged to contact
their state civil defense director
and arrange to have their
personnel qualiﬁed in this
program.
The DCPA has developed new
instructional material to assist
in this matter. The material is
known as the Radiological
Monitoring HS-3 Home StudY
Course. Interested applicants
may enroll by sending Form L-79
O N E P L U S O N E M A K E S O N E - - Tw o C i v i l A i r P a t r o l S q u a d r o n s , Tr i - C o u n t y S e n i o r
Squadron and the Augusta Composite Squadron, have merged to become the largest
squadron in Virginia. Shown here with the charter are Maj. Dennis M. Sutton, former TriCounty commander; Lt. E. Ray Proctor, new Augusta Commander, and Maj. R. C. Niess,
former Augusta Commander. (Photo by Don Houser)

Virginia Squadrons Merge;
Form Largest Unit In State
STAUNTON, Va.--The merger
of two Civil Air Patrol squadrons
in the Augusta County area has
been completed.
The Augusta Composite
Souadron and the Tri-Countv
Senior Squadron ofﬁcially
merged in what Col. Earl T.
Va n S t a v e r n , Vi r g i n i a W i n g
commander, indicated was best
for the wing and for the Shenandoah Valley.
The merger makes the new
Augusta Squadron the largest
squadron in the state, with 59
senior and 38 cadet members.
Members of the 'old' squadron
operated two CAP jeeps, one
pickup, a station wagon and an
airplane, and had 10 CAP
frequency radios licensed. They

also boasted a strong cadet
program.
T h e Tr i - C o u n t y s q u a d r o n
members brought to the new
Augusta squadron 26 licensed
CAP frequency radios, a pickup,
a communications van and six
all-wheel drive vehicles. They
specialized in communcations
and the separate specialties of
the two units were easily meshed
into one stronger unit.
Named commander of the new
Augusta Squadron was Lt. E.
Ray Proctor of Lexington, who
has been active in the squadron
for several years.
He succeeds Maj. Richard C.
Niess the Augusta commander,
and Maj. Dennis M. Sutton,
commander of the former Tri-

Former CAP Cadet Little
Completes Flight Training
B L A C K S B U R G , Va . - - A
former Civil Air Patrol cadet,

now a cadet lieutenant in the Air
Force ROTC at Virginia
Polytechnic Institue here has
ﬁnished his ROTC ﬂight
training.
Upon graduation in June,
Cadet Craig M. Little, will
report for active duty in the Air
Force where he is scheduled to
enter helicopter training.
Cadet Little, a former CAP
cadet major in the Montgomery
Composite Squadron of
Blacksburg, joined CAP when he
was 14. He has held most cadet
positions including cadet commander.

Craig Little

The former CAP member
received a CAP scholarship his
freshman year at VPI and an Air
Force scholarship during his
sophomore year.
He is the son of Lt. Col. H.B.
Little, Jr., former director of the
Virginia Wing Cadet Program.

County Senior Squadron.
Lieutenant Proctor said of the
merger, "This is the best course
of action for CAP, and I am
conﬁdent the future activities of
the Augusta Squadron will
reﬂect the work done with
communications and emergency
s e r v i c e s i n t h e f o r m e r Tr i County squadron as well as the
strong cadet and senior
activities from Augusta members."
He said the "squadron can be
as good as members wish it to
be", and he asked for continued
cooperation from all members in
his role as commander.
The Augusta Squadron was
originally formed in 1956 by Lt.
C o l . E m o r y H . To p p i n g o f
Staunton. The squadron has been
active, participating in searches
for lost aircraft, assisting in
ﬂood conditions in Augusta and
Rockbridge counties and in
Wa y n e s b o r o , a n d a n n u a l l y
sponsors an open house at the
Shenandoah Valiey Joint Airport.
The "new" squadron meets
weekly at the Staunton Police
Department.

direct to the DCPA Staff College.
A copy of this form will be sent
to all squadron, wing and region
commanders in the March unit
distribution.
In a letter to all commanders
Brig. Gen. Leslie J. ~Westburg,
USAF, national commander
stated, "I believe it is in the best
interest of CAP, the states and
the nation if CAP wings began an
immediate program of
qualifying a minimum of four
team members in each
operational CAP squadron."
These team members will
wear the newly authorized CAP
Aerial Radiological Monitoring
patch as a means of rapid individual identiﬁcation. This new
patch will be available through
the CAP Book Store at a later
date.

Wing Co-hosts
EJucation Co ference
W E S T PA L M B E A C H ,
Fla.--The Florida Aerospace
Education Association and the
Florida Civil Air Patrol Wing
recently co-sponsored an
aerospace educatioa teacher
conference here.
The conlerence was attended
by junior and senior high school
instructors from Brevard and
Orange counties, Miami, Naples,
West Palm Beach and
Jacksonville, Fla., and
representatives from the State

Department of Education,
University of Florida, Florida
Institute of Technology, Florida
State University and the
University of South Florida.
Ken Perkins, director of
Aerospace Education for tl~"~--'~
Southeast Region and Maj. Bob
Croft, Florida Wing director of
Aerospace Education explained
how CAP can be utilized in the
school system.

Cadet Receives
'Thrill Of Life'
EVERETT, Wash.--Eighteenyear-old Tim Johnson
experience the once in a lifetime
thrill,, known only to a fellow
airmen, when he made his ﬁrst
solo ﬂight recently.
Tim, a member of the Paine
Field Composite Squadron of
Everett, soloed after 10.8 hours
of ﬂying time in a Cessna 150.
He has been a member of the
Civil Air Patrol for more than
four years and is presently cadet
commander of the Paine Field
Squadron. He was chosen as
outstanding male cadet of the
squadron last year.

AWA R D C E R E M O N Y - - L a w t o n W i l k e r s o n , d i r e c t o r o f
Public Affairs for WMAQ-TV, in Chicago (right) was one of
three personnel recently honored by the Illinois Civil Air
P a t r o l W i n g . M r. W i l k e r s o n a n d L e e D a v i s , W M A Q - N B C
program director and Clark Weber, WMAQ-NBC disc jockey
make up the newly formed Public Relations Advisory Board
for the Illinois Wing--the ﬁrst of its kind in CAP. Col. A.
Schneider, former Illinois wing commander presented a
Public Service Citation to each.

J o e
composite of all
seated in front

FEBRUARY, 1973

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

PAL3E- TWELVE

Go TO A Clinic
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covering
aching feet,
v tioe w c h , g a s e : ~ ~ i
s ma i n
headaches, Joe was convinced
that he wasn't feeling well. Not
really sick but just out-of-sorts.
Then the TV advised him to ﬁght
cancer with a check and a
checkup, which triggered a
decision on Joe's part.
He agreed he could use a
checkup but paying for it posed a
problem. He ﬁnally decided to
take advanta~ge of a clinic in his
area rather than make an
appointment with a physician.
He'd just received the gas bill
for his aircraft, a periodic was
due soon, and he ﬁgured he could
save some money by going the
clinic route. He'd be going
through his checkup with a group
of people but if anything was
wrong they'd recommend a
specialist.
Joe received a complete
checkup at the clinic where they
checked him from head-to-toe;
blood pressure, x-rays, vision,
hearing, blood test - the whole
thing. He came out ok except for
being a little overweight and
having a little too much blood
pressure; and it only cost him
half as much as if he'd used
private facilities. He was
referred to his doctor who
advised a not too stringent diet
that Joe is following religiously.
Now Joe has that unique
capability dearly loved by
educators; he has what has been

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He could sign up for some dual
instruction but he'd been losing
more weight in his wallet than
from his diet. "Why not use the
clinic approach for my ﬂying
checkup like I did for my
physical," he thought. "It works
much the same way. I'll get
checked out on everything that's
new, have any of my ﬂying deﬁciencies diagnosed, and CAP
will pay half the cost. At least
up to $20.00.
Joe looked through his CAP
NEWS issues to see if it was a
CAP-SAFE, AOPA SKY-SAFE,
or a wing sponsored ﬂight clinic
he remembered reading about
being scheduled nearby. He
found it, signed up, and luck
would have it, was reimbursed
for fuel and oil used during the
air mobility exercise scheduled
concurrently.
At the clinic he got the latest
word from GADO experts on
AT C e n r o u t e a n d t e r m i n a l
procedures, the Federal
Aviation Regulation, and ﬂight
planning. An FAA forecaster did
a great job on weather, a ﬂight
examiner gave them some
physiological information, and
he got some excellent instruction
on aircraft and engine
performance. Joe felt history
was repeating itself when he

W. Va. Cadets Assist
Air Force Recruiters
MORGANTOWN, W.
Va . - - C a d e t s f r o m t h e
Morgantown Civil Air Patrol
Cadet Squadron have spent
hundreds of hours during
the past year providing
assistance to the local Air Force
Recruiting station.
The cadets have addressed and
stuffed hundreds of envelopes,
stamped stacks of pamphlets,
and answered many telephone
calls during this period. They
have also assisted the recruiters
in placing posters and pamphlets
throughout Morgantown and

constructing models of Air
Force aircraft for display at the
recruiters ofﬁce.
The cadets have set up a
schedule so that different people
assist every afternoon after
school.
In return the Air Force
recruiters have assisted the
squadron in numerous ways
including classes in hand signals
for taxiing aircraft and sharing
TV programs to explain
squadron activities to the public.

Money Not Being Redeemed
Says CAP-USAF Comptroller
MAXWELL AFB, Ala.Here's a switch for you. The
comptroller at National
Headquarters has issued a plea
for Civil Air Patrol members to
redeem their money.
Maj. P.E. O'Reilly, deputy
chief of staff for Comptroller
explained, "Everytime a CAP
member orders an item through
the book store and sends too
much money, we issue a credit
memorandum for the excess.
This memorandum is negotiable
either through the Bookstore or
in payment for their
membership dues."
He said that normally these
"chits" are made out for not
more than $5 for individual and

$10 for units.
"Our real problem lies in the
fact that people are not
redeeming the memorandums,"
he explained."Last year alone
we had some $1,000 dollars which
was not claimed."
"Any credit memo not used
after one year from the close of
the ﬁscal year, June 30, in which
it is issued is taken into the
income of the national
headquarters," Major O'Reilly
added.
The majority of credit
paperwork could be precluded if
personnel would only double
check the bookstore price list
prior to ordering," he concluded.

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ﬂight evaluation as the doctors
were at the clinic. He not only
covered every phase of the ﬂight
from aircraft forms and
preﬂight to the many ﬂight
maneuvers, he also delved into
Joe's backgrouﬁd and experience.
Joe is a good pilot. His ﬂight
evaluation check sheet showed
several "goods" some
"acceptables," and one or two
"rustys." Only Joe and his ﬂight
instructor know what items he
was rusty on so we can't relate
them here. Joe appreciated
having his rusty spots pointed
out and he's working as hard on
them as he is his diet. Knowing
the way Joe feels about his
ﬂying, we're giving odds that he
polishes up his rusty spots before
he sheds those 10 excess pounds.
By the way, Joe did send a
check to the cancer fund,
ﬁguring the TV spot had saved
him more than money.
Editor's Note: Flight clinics
are published in the "Calendar
o/Events."

A
T h e P s " t"l e p pr o a c h
o
The Advanced Cadet
Leadership Symposium this year
had a new subject for
discussion--Safety. After many
hours of trying to deﬁne safety,
the cadets came up with a pearl
of wisdom that we should take
heed of. "Safety in itself is no
special way of doing anything; it
is a reasonable and logical
approach to any operation, be it
ﬂying, driving or a bivouac,
deriving safety as the byproduct." The clue here is that
safety is not a function in itself,
but the by-product of an efﬁcient
operation. Many people falsely
assume that safety is an activity
or entity that can be set apart
from normal operations.
Therefore, each commander,
functional manager, and each
supervisor must evaluat_e the
hazards of the operation for
which he has control. As a
manager, he must consider,
evaluate, and handle people,

equipment, and related facilities
to accomplish the mission.
People are the most important
factor of the three, for the
maj ority of the accidents in Civil
Air Patrol are caused by
personnel error.
The supervisor is the key to the
operation. He is the only man in
a position to do anything about
unsafe acts or conditions
encountered after an operation is
underway. He has an intimate
knowledge of the operation and
Js acting in a directive capacity.
In many organizations where a
safety ofﬁcer is assigned, you
hear, "that's the safety ofﬁcer's
job." A safety ofﬁcer can only
see what appears on the surface;
therefore, many times it is
relegated to an "after the fact"
operation, correcting the
deﬁciency after an accident
happens.

In 1972, we closed the barn door
many times after the horse was
out. Unit procedures were not
established in relation to
c r o s s w i n d s f o r t a k e o ff a n d
landings until an accident
occurred. Procedures on use of
CAP vehicles were not
established until a vehicle was
damaged. Supervision of cadets
during encampment or bivouac
was lax until a cadet was
injured.
How is your unit doing in 19737
Are things going to proceed
without change until an accident
or injury happens, then changes
made to prevent recurrence. Or
will your unit be a progressive
one with the positive approach,
assuring. "before the act"
accident prevention with each
operation planned for maximum
efﬁciency, getting the mission
accomplished with that allimportant by-product--safety.

CREDIT MEMORANDUM

NO.

THE CAP UNIT SHOWN BELOW IS AUTHORIZED TO USE THIS CREDIT MEMORANDUM FOR NATIONAL
MEMBERSHIP DUES OR CHARTER FEESIN THE AMOUNT SHOWN BELOW. BASIS FORISSUE OF THIS CREDIT
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PAGE THIRTEEN

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

FEBRUARYr 1973

Professor Walter Named Key
Speaker For Education Event

COMMAND CHANGE--Col. Jess Strauss (right)
congratulates his successor Col. Paul Halstead upon being
named commander of the New York Wing, Civil Air Patrol.
Colonel Strauss served as commander of the wing for more
than 14 years and was recently honored at a special
ceremony for his outstanding contribution to CAP. Colonel
Halstead was the former deputy commander of the
Northeast Region prior to assuming his new position.

42 Oregonians Attend
Internal Flight Clinic
PORTLAND, Ore.--Forty-two
members of the Oregon Wing
recently attended the ﬁrst
Internal Flight Clinic to be held
in Oregon for Civil Air Patrol
members.
The participants heard from
representatives from the U.S.
Weather Service and Federal
Aviation Administration as well
as receiving instruction on
mountain ﬂying and Canadian
border crossing.
Twenty-two certiﬁcates of
accomplishment were awarded
to those pilots who received a
ﬂight check with a Certiﬁed
Flight Instructor or a CAP check
pilot as well as ground school
training.

Supply
Ofﬁcers

We carry the most
complete stock of CAP
supplies at guaranteed
savings. All new items in
Stock. We stock sew-on
cadet ofﬁcers rank
insignias and sew-on
wings of all types.
Send now for your free
CAP catalog.

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All-day visit to FAA
Aeronautical Center-one of the
world's major aviation
development and training
centers.
Evening: Family style dinner
and western dance.
APRIL 7
Morning: Seminars,
organizational meetings, etc.
Afternoon: Speech by
Professor Walter
Evening: Gala get-together for
all Barons and Baronesses.

APRIL 4
Get Acquainted-Welcome
Party in the evening following
registration.
APRIL 5
Opening Session: Keynote
address.
Governor's luncheon. Speaker;
Oklahoma's Governor David
Hall.
Optional tour and dinner at the

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APRIL 8
Departures.
The Congress this year is cosponsored by Civil Air Patrol,
whose Deputy Chief of Staff for
Aero-space Education and Cadet
Program, John V. Sorenson, is
chairman; the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration; the Federal
Aviation Administration; and
the National Aerospace
Education Association.
All who plan to attend are
invited to use the registration
form below. Please note that the
Congress will be headquartered
at the Holiday Inn West and that
you can save $5.00 by registering
before March 15. The form, with
appropriate check or money
order made payable to 'National
Congress on Aerospace
Education,' should be mailed to:
National Congress on Aerospace
Education
c/o Mr. Keith Lutz
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Oklahoma, City, Okla. 73112

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a unique speaker-audience
experiment. This session will
give speakers, and those with
attention-getting displays, an
opportunity to attract and hold
their own audience. The
audience will be free to roam at
will and to listen as they wish to
whomever they ﬁnd interesting.
Other highlights include:

MAXWELL AFB, Ala.--One of
the principal speakers at the
April 1973 Nation Congress on
Aerospace Education in
Oklahoma City, Ok., is a man
who, after ﬂubbing his high
school speech course, is now
acclaimed "one of America's
outstanding platform
personalities."
Professor George Waiter,
Dean of Education, Lawrence
University, Appleton, Wis., will
address the Congress on the
afternoon of April 7.
His speech--"No Man Is An
Island"--is one of several for
which he is nationally known.
In accepting the invitation to
speak, Professor Walter said
that he would do his very best to
help close the Congress "on a
buoyant and meaningful note."
Of the many accolades
Professor Walter has received,
this one from a newspaper is
typical: "George Walter turned
out to be one of the most
dynamic, dramatic, and
humorous speakers this reporter has ever heard. He held
his audience enthralled from
beginning to end."
Among other highlights of the
1973 Congress will be the
participation of outstanding
educators who are currently
teaching an aerospace education
course in their respective
schools.
Another event will be the "do
you own thing" session
scheduled for the afternoon of
April 5. As outlined on Page 2 of
last month's Civil Air Patrol
NEWS, all aerospace education
teachers and administrators who
plan to attend the Congress are
invited to bring a soapbox (or

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CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

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National Commander
Cites N.J. Chaplain
OCEAN CITY, N.J.--Chaplain
( L t . C o l . ) C h a r l e s L . Wo o d
recently became the ﬁrst Civil
Air Patrol chaplain to receive
the National Commanders
Citation--the highest senior
program award.
Brig. Gen. Francis R. Gerard,
NJANG, commander of the 108th
Fighter Interceptor Wing made
the presentation on behalf of the
CAP national commander.
Chaplain Wood also received
the Gill Robb Wilson award
during the same ceremony from
Col. A. Rufus Applegarth,
representing the Northeast
Region commander.
The chaplain has served as the
wind chaplain in New Jersey
since 1958. He earned the award
by becoming the ﬁrst chaplain to

HONORED--Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Charles L. Wood (center) recently became the ﬁrst Civil
Air Patrol Chaplain to receive the National Commanders Citation. Making the presentation
were Brig. Gen. Francis R. Grerard, NJANG (left) and Col. A. Rufus Applegarth, CAP.

Cadets Receive
SAR Training

Patrick Murphy of Washington
County Squadron.
Lt. Col. Don Rodewald of wing
headquaters was Encampment
C o m m a n d e r. C a p t . D e l b e r t
Whinery, Lt. Col. Louis Grey and
Senior Members Will Wilbanks
and Steve PoweU donated their
time as CAP Certiﬁed Flight
Instructors.

In an average time of 9.9 hours
these young people reached the
landmark of ﬂying alone, the
ﬁrst step toward obtaining their
private pilot's license. Each
cadet had to pay $25 plus Federal
Aviation Administration and "~T
state licensing fees, to
participate in this "ﬁrst of its
kind" encampment for the
Oregon Wing.
PARKERSBURG, W.Va.--The
birthplace of Gill Robb Wilson,
one of the founders of Civil Air
C o l . R o y L o u g h a r y, w i n g
Patrol, was the site of the 31st
commander presented wings to
anniversary of CAP celebration
Tom Pine, Patrick Tracy, Davie
for more than 120 West Virginia
Ishmael and Arlington Bradford
CAP members and their guests.
of Columbia-Willamette
Col. R.E. Gobel, wing
Squadron~ Kenin Cochran and
commander, led the list of West
K e v i n K o r t z o f M t . Ta b o r
Virginia members in attendance.
Squadron: Alan and David
Santiago (twin brothers), and
Ten squadrons from West
Vi r g i n i a w e r e r e p r e s e n t e d
James and Janet Shannon of
during the one-day event which
Lake Oswego Squadron and
was hosted by Mid-Ohio Valley
Squadron.
Also in attendance were nine
Middle East Region staff
ofﬁcers, three Virginia Wing
members, three South Carolina
cadets and one cadet from
EMERADON, N.D.--Cadet Lt.
Delaware.
Edward O'Reilly of the Grand
The affair was held at the Elks
Forks Civil Air Patrol Squadron
Club in Parkersburg and ended
has been presented with the
with a mini-conference, which
Youth Appreciation Award by
included discussion on
the local Optimists club.
communications, cadet
The award is in recognition of
advisory councils, pilot
his having donated more than 600
upgrading and information.
hours of time to volunteer work
Maj. Thomas Rafferty, local
in the Medical Rehabilitation
squadron chaplain, served as
Hospital.
master of ceremonies for the
Cadet O'Reilly became
event. The CAP members were
interested in volunteer medical
welcomed to the city of
work from his experience in a
Parkersburg and its sister city of
Special Service Corps.
Vienna, by the respective
He has served on ground teams
mayors, W.P. Nicely and Curtis
during three search and rescue
Uhl. Mayor Nicely also
missions and is currently
presented a key to the city to
engaged in an Emergency
Colonel Gobel.
Medical Technician Program.

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SAR Film
Completed
MAXWELL AFB, Ala--A new
ﬁlm on Civil Air Patrol search
and rescue operations has been
completed by the Air Force
Aerospace Audio-Visual Service.
The ﬁlm, TF 6615, which is in
limited supply, will be sent to
each USAF-CAP Region Liaison
Ofﬁce on a "retention pending
basis." Each USAF-CAP wing
Liaison Ofﬁce will receive one
print on a 30-day loan basis. The
initial distribution will be
automatic and accomplished
alphabetically utilizing
approximately 40 prints. The
ﬁrst 40 states should have
received their copy around
January 15. The balance will
receive distribution around the

HARTFORD, Conn.--More
than 80 cadets attended the
Connecticut Wing emergency
services school held at the
Hartford Composite Squadron
Ground school instruction was
recently.
provided by Lieutenants Martin
The school covered all aspects
Easterday and James Crittendon
of CAP search and rescue serof the Oregon Senior Pilots
vices, ranging from administraSquadron.
tive duties to ﬁre ﬁghting techniques.
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Any future requirements for
school, 2d Lt. Daniel Lessard,
Colonel Rodewall announced
school commander, presented t h e ﬁ l m w i l l b e h a n d l e d b y
that similar ﬂight clinics are
individual order through the
certiﬁcates of accomplishplanned in the future for
USAF Film Library channels.
ment to the cadets.
qualiﬁed cadets.

Ore. Solos 11 Cadets
PORTLAND, Ore.--The
Oregon Wing soloed 11 of its
cadets in a special ﬂight
during
encampment held
Christmas week at the Aurora
airpoi't,

g r a d u a t e f r o m t h e A i r Wa r
College in 1968 and the Industrial
College of the Armed Forces in
1972.
Chaplain Wood also served as
senior escort ofﬁcer for the
International Air Cadet
Exchange to Denmark during
1964.
He is a Priest of the Episcopal
Church, holds the degree of
Doctor of Education from
Rutgers and serves as rector of
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in
Ocean City.

rirginians Hold 31st Celebration
L t . C o l . M e l H o l l a r, w i n g
i n f o r m a t i o n o f ﬁ c e r, r e a d a
number of messages of greeting

from such prominent people and
Senators Jennings Randolph and
Robert Byrd (Democrats-

W.Va.) and Dr. James Gilligan,
under secretary of the Air Force
for Reserve Affairs.

Cadets Honored
By Optimists

KEY PRESENTATION--PUrkersburg Mayor W.P. Nicely (right), presents Key to City to
Col. R.E. Gohei, West Virginia Civil Air Patrol Wing Commander during the CAP's 3Ist
anniversary celebration in that eity. Parkersburg is the birthplace of Gill Robb Wilson, one
el the founders el CAP. Looking oil is Vienna Mayor Curtis Uhl.

FEBRUARYr 1973

PAGE FIFTEEN

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

Cadet Directorate
Answers Questions
PROBLEM: Are Cadets
allowed to participate in actual
Search and Rescue missions?
SOLUTION: Yes Qualiﬁed
cadets (those possessing a
current CAP Form 101,
EmergencyServices
Qualiﬁcation Card) may
participate in any facet except
aerial ﬂight. For example, they
may be members of the ground
search team, the interrogation
team, or they may perform any
number of administrative tasks
vital to mission accomplishmeat. CAPM 50-15 provides
further guidanceinthisarea,
PROBLEM: I have completed
all re_q_uirements for my Mitchell
excel~t the encampment. I v/as
not able to attend the summer
encampment and none were held
in the fall. I had planned to apply
for a special activity this
summer. Am I eligible for any
activity?
SOLUTION: Yes. Several
a c t i v i t i e s-- F A A C a d e t
Orientation Program, Space
Flight Orientation Course, ATC
Familiarization Course, AFLC
Orientation Program, and
Medical Services Orientation
Program--require that an
a~oplicant have completed only,

four achievements in Phase II.
Providing you meet the other
requirements listed in the 1973
Cadet Special Activities
Application and Selection
Brochure, you may be eligible
Attendance at an encampment is
not required for th_ese activities.
PROBLEM:Withthe
emphasis on using advanced
cadets, my squadron has been
assigning cadets as aerospace
education counselors. My
question is, "How do you deﬁne
advanced cadet?" Some cadets
with the rank of SSgt and TSgt
have been signing off the
aerospace education portion of
other cadets' contracts. Is this
correct?
SOLUTION: No. According to
CAPM 50-16, an advanced cadet
is a cadet who has completed
Phase II. Cadets in this category
may serve as aerospace
education counselors and sign off
contracts but cadets in Phases I
and II are not authorized to serve
in the capacity.
PROBLEM: Last year I twas
selected for a special activity
but had to cancel because of a
death in my family a few days
before the activity began. If I
apply for the same activity this
year will my application be
gwen any special consideration?
SOLUTION: No application
should be given special
consideration over others;
however, if you apply again this

These awards were presented during December. 1972
Michael J. Wolf
James B. Roberts
Jerri J. Coursey
Chester Gault
Robin P. Needham
Jose R. Carrizaies
Leslie E. Nordman
Jacqueline A. Rosch
Guy J. Osborne
Albert W. Lery
Charles A. Orubbs
Andre G. Braziel
Saadra S. Rees
Leviticus A. Lewis
Edwin Rivera
Nelson Zapata
Elizabeth Ujaque
Victor Perez
20096 Lianeder Rosario
20096 Gloria Rodriguez
20182 Janet 1. Vidal
34010 Jese A. Torres
408121 Lela G. Sanchez
01016 Lela G. P, ona
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Radames Rolon
01041 Lorenzo Riveru
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08166 Ines Perez
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Alfrudo Bonllla
22047 Edwin Velamlnaz
14078 Hector Lobes
33010 Lela A. Martln~
03040 Lucy Santiago
30018 \ William VanR~
35020 Pedro L. Gotay
68068 Jose K Vellon
42190 Nelida Torres
05070 Edwin Torres
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Awilda ]Resado
43003 Jose Roman
490~6 L.v~ M. Rivau
04195 Orlando Montanez
36019 Canuelo Melnadnz
06004 Jone R. Nlaton
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31288 Luis A. Flqneron
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370~8 Arnaldo Dlaz
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David Carresquillo
18018 Jo~amy Borla
18018 Edgardo A. Nieves
18023 Carmen 1. Ostiz
32070 Cesar A. Torr~
3208~ Nazaﬂo Marco
20068 Bernerdino Garcia
34197 Myrtha Escalara
01034 Luis A. Colon
52035 Fernando L. Gonzalez
52045 Radames Garcia
52045 Pedro J. Moreno
52091 Carmen A. Berries
14029 Carmen L. Canals
26019 Francis W. Flores
16075 William lnostruea
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Noel Martlnez
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Jose A. Rossv
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Cesar Munnz
MITCHELL AWARDS
William L. Ramsey
James Troy
06004
Lets D. Daviia
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Celso A. Torres
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Blaise T. Zvrkowski
Rafael R. Saarez
19002 Mildred Nauarro
Robert N. Gamacha
William J. Ahlin
19012 Carmen A. Matos
Richard W. Gondspeed
19012 Jose R. Malauez
James W. Graade
19066 Freddv R, Jacobo
Craig F. Badalatv
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Rndoffo Davila
Bert W. DeVantier
31106 Alfrado Betancourt
L, Blair Savercool
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Eduardo Avuso
Paul E. Stock
37003 Jose O. Carrasquillo
Robert J, Mattes
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Mark A. Salvatore
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Margarita Bermudez
37017 Luia Guzman
Brian P. Dunleaw
Chuck K. Bledka
37040 Alicia Navarro
David L. Spong
37065 Daniel Peralta
Jacqueline Bedsworth
37080 Benigno Robles
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James G. Barrett
Ricurdo Rodriguez
Palricia J. Popadvn
37172 Carlos L. Torrenz
Jeffrey W. Hess
37201 Irving Vazquez
37229 Jose L. Velilia
Earnie L. Ridall
Jonathan R Blake
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Peter F. Caulk
07004 Henry Rodriguez
Blaise M. Cornell-D-Echart 07006 Juan Cabrera
Lawrence A Dziegielewski 07011
Angel Perez
Roneld P. [ocono
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Belen Rivera
Joseph J. Kosloski
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Noel Zavas
Kathleen E. Havden
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Cheryl A. Cllftm~
18069 Everildis Rivera
18077 Dengracia Quininez
Peter H. Cleveland
25017 J~ J. Jimenez
Russell L. Barhne Jr.
Timothy D. Kent
25053
Elba Sanabria
Robert R. Darcev
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Luis J. Ruiz
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Nancy Ramos
John D. Allers
32048 Fidel Perez
Rickv E. McMlare
32051 Pedro J. Rosario
Nancy L, Ziembu
39061 Miguel A. Vazquez
Marshall E. Reeves Jr.
39064 Giovani Corales
Mark S. Bonner Jr,
39064 Aide L. Ramirez
Patricia J. Yancev
45002 Jose L. Sada
Robert P. Nicss
45002 Jorge Tirudo
Karla R Melville
45068 Robert Tlrado
Jennifer L. Anderson
45101 Evelyn Taro
Michael C. Baliard
45103 Miriam N. Torres
Steven C. Stature
47068 Elga Vazquez
11051 Juan Garcia
Richard F. Kane
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lsidro lgnucio
11268 Miguel Morales
Darden C. Hamilton
James W. Livingston
12166 Oscar Peruz
Laura J. Markiewicz
12166 Waldemar Ramos
2o1~ Carmen Rodrigmez
David A. S~manow
Dale J. Brandner
34010 Nancy Cruz
34171 Miguel Ruves
Frederick A. Rinehart
Philip T. Popovich
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EARllART AWARDS

Donald L. Rm'
Bruce Hayward
Linda S. Ocampo
John C. Muth
Gerald M. Keeling
Paul J. Ackman
Don R. Mueller
Charles Throckmorton
Richard A. Nakroshis
Mary J. Hove[l
Mike L. Baumgartner
Donna Miller
Leonard A. Palka
John R. Ho, ek
M. W. Christensen
John C. Kelly
James W. Charboneau
Victor J. Bonora
Patrick J. Smith
George Black
Brian J. Mccane
Alan R. Hayes
Robert L. Hlaman
Donald J. McKineev
Daniel J. Levltch
Donna A. Rcth
Jose CrJsty
Jorge L. Torreu
David Marales
Migdalla Ostiz
Francisco Rndrlgnez
Stephnn E, Leunlnz
Lewcencu P. Retz
Roger W. Overland
Weadel J. Msall
Phyllis L. Walker
Patti B. Jolmsne
John V, Yeiral
Putrick C. Sladecek
Lynn M. McNammra
Dlnkla L. Parker
Stev, m W. Smith
Robert T. Tomanek
Tracy W. Fngette
Gregory. A. Freeman
Robert R. Sarno'dci
Mary F. Gilmore
Thomas M. Bryggman
Michael, R. Gaiacei
Theodore R. Galacci
Kenneth A. McClellan
Vincent E. Durante
Lemont Darante
Roanld P. Ward
Anne M. Skeberdis
John A. RUssoJ. Edward Noldlmrg
John R. Webb
Done E. Parman
Scott Thompson
William B. Farrls
Luls R. Lobez
Hector I. Fernandez
Cruz A. Gum~an
Juan A. Gonzalez
George P. Fllnk
Cralc V. Bendocf
Elizabeth M. Cowan
Patricia E, Glade
Thomas H. Young
Bruce A. Campbell
Curtis E. Cowell
Teresa A. Slean

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ofﬁcer. CAPM 20-1 lists the
testing ofﬁcer as a senior
member position and, therefore,
cadets are not authorized to
serve in this position.
PROBLEM: When I came into
Civil Air Patrol I was told it was
a "ﬂying organization." I have
been in for over a year now and
have not even had an orientation
ﬂight My squadron does not
have an aircraft and it will be
another year before I am old
enough to qualify for Cadet Pilot
Solo. How can I get at least an
orientation ﬂight before I am 16?
SOLUTION: Civil Air Patrol is
a ﬂying organization and each
squadron commander should
make every effort to get the
cadets into the air. In your case,
you should request that your
squadron commander contact
the wing liaison ofﬁcer to
arrange an orientation ﬂight in a
military aircraft.
PROBLEMi Are the cadet
ofﬁcer shoulder boards
(epaulettes) worn with the inside
tips above or below the collar?
SOLUTION: Epaulettes are
worn with the inside tips under
the edge of the collar.

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Benjamin Lozada
Russell W. Davis
Jesus Morales
Jose R. Ramirez
Brenda Roara
Nilda E. Sanabria
Rosa !. Parez
Madeline Santiago
Luz 1. Loeada
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William Banz
Benito Bees
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Adolfo Santana
Luls J. MarUnez
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Maria Alverez
Mlgnel A. Castro
Carlos D. Colon
June M. Colon
Ruben Cruz
Carlos Del~ampo
Cruz Garda
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Noel Turves
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Edwin O. Sabo
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MJnmwa Torn
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Rumon Resto
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Frank Colon
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Nancy I. Lopez
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Alexander Rodriguez
Ruben Diaz
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Rufael Rivera
Ralph Mendez
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WINNER Cadet Col.
Theresa L. Rice recently
became the second West
Virginia Civil Air Patrol
cadet to earn the Spaatz
award. The Morgantown
Cadet Squadron Member
oined CAP in 1967 and"
as attended the Cadet
Ofﬁcer's School and Space
Flight Orientation Course.

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PAGE SIXTEEN

FEBRUARYf 1973

CIVIL AIR PATROL NEWS

Joint Seminar Program
Planned For February
The program would call for
Joint Emergency Operations
Seminars to be sponsored by the
Defense Civil Preparedness
Agency in cooperation with the
Federal Aviation Administration, North American Air
Defense Command and the
Civil Air Patrol.
These seminars would be given
at the state level with selected
city/county CD coordinators,
American Red Cross disaster
ofﬁcials, airport managers and
CAP unit commanders invited to
participate along with state
ofﬁcials.
The new" program, in addition
to the seminars, would also call
for an active aerial monitoring
training program to be
established so that each of the
selected airports would have a
minimum of four aerial monitors
available.
In order to test the
effectiveness of the seminars
and related training programs, it
is also proposed that an annual
state exercise be held,
preferably in conjunction with
the Civil Preparedness Exercise
whereby CD coordinators,
airport managers and CAP units
could exercise their portion of
the state SARDA plan.

MAXWELL, AFB, AIa.--A
prototype for a joint seminar
program in Civil Air Patrol is
scheduled to be held in
Columbia, S.C., on February 8,
according to Col. William A.
M c L a u g h l i n , U S A F, v i c e
commander of Headquarters,
CAP-USAF.
The new program is designed
to familiarize local government
and aviation organizations with
the State and Region Disaster
Airlift (SARDA) concept for
their state.

Wing Loaded
With Veterans
RECOGNITION - Maj. Victor H. Heurlin, Air Force Reserve (Second from right, ) ,was
formally recognized during a Civil Air Patrol 31st anniversary luncheon in Chicago recently
for his signiﬁcant contributions to the Illinois Wing Civil Air Patrol Flight Training
program. Looking on are (left to right), Brig. Gen. Leslie J. Westberg, USAF, national
commander, Illinois Lt.Governor Neff Hartigan and Col. Leonard A. Brodsky, Illinois Wing
commander.

17 Tolls

Your Share ' ' 'Garbage
WA S H I N G TO N ( A F N S ) "Greetings. Your share of this
nation's annual trash
production--17 tons per
person--will henceforth be
delivered to you for disposal at
the end of each year. You may
not burn it, dump it, or ﬂush it.
Your cooperation is appreciated."
Letters like that aren't going
out--at least not yet. If they
were, individual concern for the
3.5 billion tons of trash generated
by this country each year might
have some effect on the apathy
which greets it now.
The Air Force, like any other
large organization, contributes
to the problem to the tune of 1.5
million tons of solid waste
annually, or about three pounds
of solid waste per person per
day. The problem of collecting
and disposing of this mound of
refuse has been plagued by
lagging technology, high costs,
pollution hazards, and apathy.
The solution, like the problem,
is not simple. The Air Force is
now conducting a study to
determine the best solid waste
processing and disposal
techniques. Fourteen Air Force
bases are conducting six-month
recycling pilot programs to
reduce or recycle paper,glass,
and metal. Tests have already
been conducted in Air Force
commissaries to gather
information on the sale of
returnable bottles.
Air Force bases dispose of
solid waste by joining regional
community-wide solid waste
management systems,
contracting for removal, by
incineration, or sanitary landﬁll.
The possibility of using multiyear contracts instead of oneyear contracts for the removal
of Air Force solid waste is being

(Editor's Note: The following
article recently appeared in the
Air Force News Service. It is
reprinted in the hope that is will
instill the importance of doing
your share in halting the growing
pollution problem throughout the
United States.)
s t u d i e d a s o n e a n s w e r.
Multi-year contracts for four to
10 years would permit both the
Air Force and the contractor to
make long-range plans for disposal or processing of solid
waste.
In the forseeable future a few
bases will have to handle their
own solid wastes The Air Force
is therefore investigating new
collection vehicles, refuse
containers, shredders, and
compactors for use.
Solid waste management
specialists are now being trained
to view the disposal of Air Force
waste as not only an Air Force
problem, but a national problem.
Your individual effort can help
whittle your share of the
problem down to size.
Reduce the amount of waste
you generate and recycle that
which you do generate.
Make trash useful. Stop
making double duty for the
garbage system by buying
garbage bags -- use shopping
bags.
Take your own shopping bags
to the grocery store. It's an old
European custom, if someone

Don't junk old belongings,
toys, and clothes. Sell them or
give to someone who will use
them, like the Salvation Army or
Goodwill Industries.
Don't burn garbage at home.
Even if you must pay someone to
haul it away, clean air is cheap
at the price.
Keep the area around your
garbage cans clean. Inspect the
area after each garbage pickup.
If your sanitation men cause
excessive litter when they pick
up, report them.
Keep garbage where it
belongs. Don't hesitate to stop
anyone from littering, politely
but ﬁrmly.
If you have a garden make
your composts from food wastes.

WILMINGTON~ Del.--The
Deleware Civil Air Patrol Wing
recently announced that more
than 22 percent of their members
have been in CAP for more than
15 years.
Leading this group of 46
members are Col. Louisa
Spruance Morse, wing
commander, and Capt. Elmer R.
Segers, who have completed 30
years of service this year.
Three other members have
been in CAP for 25 years. They
are Lt. Col. Richard S. Crews
and Captains Gilbert S.
Scarborough Jr., and John A.
Galle.

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BLAKESLEE, Ohio--The
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visit to the Ohio Wing Chaplains
Conference in Columbus.
Chaplain (Col.) Ralph R.
Pace, USAF, was attending the
U.S. Air Force Chaplain's
conference at Wright-Patterson
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MILWAUKEE, Wisc.--More
than 50 of Milwaukee's more
disadvantaged orphans had a
merrier Christmas thanks to
members of the Milwaukee Civil
Air Patrol Composite Squadron
5.
The Christmas party for the
children of the St. Joseph Home
included a gift and candy for
each.
More than 18 cadets and
seniors from the unit
participated in the goodwill
project.
The event was such a success
that the squadron has decided to
sponsor the home during Easter
should ask..and Christmas of each ~ar.

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