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WINTER2008-2009
In this issue . . .
H Hurricane Ike Atermath . . .
H Sertoma Celebration . . .
H Cadet Receives Two Prestigious Awards . . .
. . . And Much More!
Colonel Jack Jackson and President Bush at the TexasState Operations Center after Hurricane Ike.
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Afte Hicane Ike came on shoe on 3 Septembe oe Galeston
and Hoston, the Texas Wing was called pon to assist with disaste elief
effots. Mission base was established in San Antonio to begin the Texas
State Opeations Cente (SOC) flights, with additional assistance fom
the Akansas and Oklahoma wings. Mission Base was moed fom San
Antonio to West Hoston Aipot beginning on Tesday, 7 Septembe
and was eady to fly mission beginning Wednesday, 8 Septembe.
Besides woking with State of Texas, cadets and senios helped
FEMA at PODS (Point of Distibtion) distibting ice, wate and food
in the Manille and Alin aeas. Additionally, thee wee ELT Gond
Team missions aond Hoston and Galeston tying to locate and dis-
able any signals. Some of these they hae not been able to tn off as the
boats ae nde wate, nsafe to boad o nable to find the ownes to
gain access to eithe the plane o boat.
As of 4 Septembe thee wee 33 soties completed, with 63 so-
ties fo photo missions and moe than 6,000 photos taken fo Texas
SOC. Assets sed ding this time wee 7 senios and cadets, 0 ai-
caft (flying abot 6 hos pe day) and 7 CAP ehicles. Thee wee 3
Texas Wing Respondsto Hurricane Ike
AftermathLt. Col. Dana Gray
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inteiews in Texas with Tv Stations abot the mis-
sions CAP has accomplished. Two of those inteiewswee in Hoston with ABC KTrK Channel 3.
Texas Wing wold like to say thanks to Oklahoma
and Akansas pesonnel fo thei assistance in help-
ing with the mission.
My Time atHouston Mission
BaseBy Cadet Michael Moody
The most Ciil Ai Patol aicaft I had ee seen
in one place was how I descibed it to a fellow mem-
be of my sadon who asked how the hicane Ike
mission was. Becase all of those aicaft not only
fom all oe o geat state of Texas, bt also fom
Akansas and Oklahoma, was a isal efeence of
the hge amont of powe and foce we the Ciil Ai
Patol came ot with in esponse to one of the wost
natal disastes to hit this conty. It did not matte
whee yo came fom o what sadon yo claimed,
all that matteed was the mission at hand.
I, as someone who has woked a few missions
in my fo and a half yeas in the Ciil Ai Patol,
am ey pod to say that we did a geat job! Fom
the people that wee nning the mission een befoe
the hicane made land fall, to the people that cold
only stay at mission base long enogh to fly two so-
ties; eeybody did what they cold to help the job get
done. Ding the day things wee nee calm, eey-
thing moed at lighting speed, and nee stopped
moing. Mission base was p befoe the sn, and they
weent asleep ntil well afte snset.
I as a cadet in the Ciil Ai Patol am esticted
by a lot of eglations that senios ae not. I dont get
to go on cetain missions senios get to go on, een
those that I tain fo meeting afte meeting, weekend
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afte weekend, taining school afte taining school.
Fo this eason I did not beliee that I was going to
be call ot to help on the mission. Thee wee e-mails
eesting fo people with alifications, each e-mailI sent in esponse boght me hope that I wold get
to pt my contless hos of taining and stdying to
wok in a eal life sitation whee thee might be lies
at isk. It was not ntil the thid e-mail I sent did I
eceie a esponse and I was off.
Michael, sit down in yo seat. The bells not
going to ing fo anothe 30 mintes. my histoy
teache said as I paced aond the doo with all my
school stff aleady packed p and eady to go. I had
jst ead the text message that my mothe was coming
to pick me p so I cold go and wok the mission thatdeastated so many; the mission that I tained fo and
that was going to set ecods. Six hos late I was
signing into mission base, getting my fist glimpse of
what the next days wee to bing me.
I immediately began to wok, helping set p the
mobile adio system that was boght in to impoe
commnications. The fist day fo me was slow, still
tying to get a feel fo things, bt as the days po-
gessed, it seemed like eeything was jst a bl; I
was waking p at o-dak thity and the next thing
I knew I was going to sleep only a few hos befoe
I wold be p again. The fist fie days I was thee, I
woked in many dif-
feent jobs; I was
on the flight line
fo oe half of the
time. The amont
of aicaft on the
flight line amazed
me. At one point
in time I conted
twele aicaft,
inclding thee G-
000, 8s and
the G-A8. With all
these aicaft I am
pod to say that
while I was thee
we had no incidents
o poblems with
any aicaft, pilots,
pedestians o the ciilian cas whose oad an ight
thogh o flight line.Afte my fist fie days at the mission I etned
to home, this was not a decision made by me, bt my
mothe. I, being a sixteen-yea-old Jnio at Stony
Point High School (go Tiges!!), needed to etn to
school so that I wold not flnk ot. When I walked
into my school and etned to my classes it did not
feel ight to me. I cold not ndestand what I was
doing sitting in a desk staing at a white boad when
I cold be woking in possibly the biggest mission in
my caee.
I was back in school fo two days, befoe and
afte the nomal hos to make p my missing wok,
and in two days I had completed eeything. So what
was I to do now, why not skip thee moe days to go
back to the mission? These next fie days wee faste
and moe cazy then the fist fie. We wee nning
low on staff all aond the boad and we didnt hae
enogh ai opeations, adio opeatos o pilots; how-
ee the mission mst go on, and so it did. We an
sotie afte sotie afte sotie. Pictes of the damage
wee flowing in, in massie amonts; one sotie alone
boght back two thosand photos. By the last day we
wee low on sleep, patience and staff, bt we wee not
low on amazingness. Thogh to the end we pe-
fomed, exceeded expectations, and made a name fo
the Ciil Ai Patol.
When eeything was done, I had leaned a lot,
did a lot and achieed some moe, howee I was not
eady to go back home o to back to school. I wanted
to contine to wok, bt we wee done and packed p.
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We had taken the last photo, flew the last
official, signed the last fom and wee on
o way home. Fo some of s that home
still didnt hae powe and those people aethe ones that need the most ecognition; the
people that wee helping othes while they
needed help themseles. Eeybody gae
60% of themseles, woked had, did a
geat job and eeybody will do a geat job
next time.
Working
Hurricane IkeMaj. Robert Brecount
On 4 Septembe, Texas Wing gatheed ai and
gond assets fom all oe Texas, expecting to be
tasked with taking aeial
photogaphs of the coastal
aea extensiely damaged
by Hicane Ike. The
Incident Commande was
Lt. Col. Gwynn Goggel. Asthe soties to
be lanched
p o g e s s ,
they will
epot any
people in dis-
tess to the athoities. As the mission
stats, seeal agencies hae eested
these seices, fo an indefinite peiod
of time. Loisiana, jst ecoeing
fom the effects of Hicane Gsta,also sffeed the effects of Hicane
Ike, thogh to a lesse extent than
Texas.
With electical powe estoed to
the aea, opeations moed fom San
Antonio to the Hoston aea, signifi-
cantly shotening the distance fom
mission base to the taget aeas. The
Incident Commande was Lt. Col. Books Cima. It
became appaent that the photo econnaissance effot
in sppot of Hicane Ike damage assessment
might become the most massie sch opeation ee
attempted by any non-militay oganization. By
Septembe, 73 CAP senio membes and cadets hae
olnteeed, contibting 3,0 man-hos to the
mission. At any one time, to 60 olntees ae on
dty. Thee ae 0 aicaft flying in and ot of mis-
sion base, so that eight to ten ae aailable fo the jobeey day. Thats how the
mission was able to mont
0 to daily soties.
Gond teams wee
bsy too, finding thei
way to the seemingly end-
less adio signals fom the
Emegency Positioning
Indicating radio Beacons
on the boats piled p, hel-
te-skelte, along the shoe.Thei job was to tn off the
beacons. Thee wee also
many Emegency Locato
Tansmittes in aiplanes
stacked p on Galeston
Island and othe places
along the coast. These, too,
mst be switched off. The
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elentless heat made the wok hade.
By 3 Septembe, FEMA asks the CAP team to
photogaph enogh of east Texas to otline the dam-
age woght by Hicane Ike to the coastal aea. Thiswas a monmental task that CAP olntees esoled
to finish, no matte how long it takes. By the end of
the day, aicews hae taken a total of 4,36 photos.
And we still hae Wednesday, Thsday and Fiday
to go, said Lt. Col. Books Cima.
On 4 Septembe, Texas Wings Gop III
Commande, Lt. Col. Owen Yonge, had been the
Incident Commande fo the peios two days, while
Lt. Col. Books Cima and Lt. Col. Dennis Cima took
a two-day beak. We nee know exactly whee a
hicane will hit o who will be affected, so wemaintain a high state of eadiness, said Yonge.
Afte a moment of eflection he added, The Ciil
Ai Patol is pod to hae the oppotnity to see
o commnity, state and nation in its time of need.
That pide is eflected in the ality of wok caied
ot by CAP membes.
The highlight of the day was a isit fom Texas
Goeno rick Pey, on a to with aios officials,
to see fo him self the extent of the damage.
On Septembe, moe planes and aicews wee
otated. Akansas and Oklahoma aicews etn
home, and planes fom west Texas began aiing in
the aftenoon. New Mexico Wing had been eady too,
bt not called.
It is now 6 Septembe, and the latest photo
cont stands at 7,36, filling 99 gigabytes of sto-
age. Second Lietenant James Moody manages the
collecting and fowading of this daily data steam.
Wee sending photos not only to the Texas State
Opeation Cente bt to FEMA, the Amy Cops of
Enginees, the Hais Conty Emegency Opeations
Cente and othe eesting agencies, he says. And
the job goes on.
By 7 Septembe, the wok pace had yet to
slacken. CAP olntees contine to pefom at peak
leel, as gond teams find and silence emegency
adio beacons, helping in whatee way they can.
The aicews hae been feying officials and cay-
ing spplies, in addition to taking yet moe photos of
the damage woght by Hicane Ike. So fa,
men, women and cadets hae woked 3 days fo a
total of 8,793 man-hos, sing aicaft,
ans and 0 Nikon D00 cameas in 340 soties to
acie an astonding 3,47 high-definition photo-
gaphs. These ecod the entie width and length of
the coastal damage done by Hicane Ike in Texas.
Fom CAPs Sothwest region, two planes and cewsfom Oklahoma, and two moe fom Akansas hae
contibted to the mission, bt most of the wok has
been done by Texas olntees.
Aleady, the photo collection is by fa the lagest
ee done by a ciilian oganization. Go. Pey, the
Texas legislate, and many Hais Conty offices
ae sing it to facilitate thei plans fo ecoey.
Othe cstomes ae the National Weathe Seice,
NOAA, Homeland Secity and FEMA. The assem-
bled photo-mosaics wee shown to o Commande-
in-Chief at the moning biefing ding his isit tothe Texas SOC. This amazing ecod might well be
sed fo yeas.
Befoe the hicane hit, . million people had
eacated the theatened coastal aea of Texas. CAPs
cent cstome is the Hais Conty EOC and Jdge
Ed Emmett, focsing on images of damaged homes.
Hicane Ike, that damaged an aea eal to that of
the entie State of New Jesey, tiggeed the lagest
seach and esce mission in histoy. By the end of
Satday, 7 Septembe, CAP had taken 33,999 pho-
tos (eiing .9 GB of stoage space). Althogh
the client agencies wee spised at the nifomly
high ality of the images, 46.84% of the photoga-
phes wee fist-times, most of whom had attended a
Wing o Sadon camea taining cose. Each CAP
sotie took an aeage of 430 images. At last tally,
thee had been 9 olntees who contibted 8,69
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came in handy once when a gond team was haing
poblems. I was able to tell gond opeations exactly
whee they wee so they cold bing them back. We
also had the chance to get a lot of alifications like
Flight Line Mashalling, uban Diection Finding,
Mission Scanne, Mission radio Opeato, Mission
Staff Assistant, etc when we had time
I had wanted to go to Galeston and find ELTs
since I fist aied; so when I got the chance to go
ot with a gond team, I jmped on it. We didnt
find any ELTs on that tip, bt we did get hndeds
of pictes. It was amazing to see how mch damage
a stom sge cold do let alone a categoy hi-
cane. We came p on boats that wee in the middle of
the highway, cas that wee snk into the gond, and
hoses that wee patially o completely destoyed.
While we wee in Galeston, we went to the Lone
Sta Flight Msem. Een thogh the planes wee in
a hanga, whole sections of the walls wee blown away
allowing wate to get in. The salt wate and damage
to the planes was so bad that many will not be able to
fly again.
Anothe eason we wee in Hoston was to sp-
pot the photo missions. Lt. Col. rick Woolfolk, com-
mande fo the Nighthawk Sadon, boght Nikon
D-00 cameas befoe the hicane; we sed eight
of them fo aeial photogaphy. The cameas wee
hooked p to a GPS that added latitde and longitde
to each picte as it was taken. When the Mission
Scannes etned fom thei flight, they wold tnin the cameas, and the IT (Infomation Technology)
Specialists wold pload the GPS tack infomation
and get the pictes off of the SIM cads. The pic-
tes wold then be flown to Astin and gien to the
goeno, FEMA, and een the Pesident. This tned
ot to be the lagest disaste photo mission the Ciil
Ai Patol has ee done. It coldnt hae happened
if it weent fo people giing p thei time to help
othes.
MarauderComposite SquadronProvides Hurricane
ReliefCapt. Glenn Shellhouse
Kingwood based Maade Composite Sadon
cadets joined foces with the Conoy of Hope and the
Fist Assembly of God Chch of Hmble, Texas, to
distibte MrEs (Meals ready to Eat), ice, and wate
to local esidents in the aftemath of Hicane Ike.
The eight CAP cadets poided taffic contol
ding thei daylong stint while the chch seed as
a die-thogh distibtion point in a fo-day effot
that seed an estimated 7000 esidents. Conoy of
Hope, a ministy specializing in disaste elief, po-
ided the spplies and oganized the elief effot.
The cadets ability to keep the mile-long caaan
of cas flowing biskly thogh the distibtion line
was citical to the effot. We hae to keep these cas
moing, noted Cadet Fist Segeant Jacob romeo,
The line shts down at 700 hos, and we need to
make se nobody is left ot.
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BALAD AIrPOrT, Ia I ecently attended a
showing of Speman 3, hee at LSA Anaconda,
noth of Baghdad.
We hae a lage aditoim we se fo moies, as
well as memoial seices and othe lage gatheings.
As is the cstom in eey militay installation back
in the States, we stood and snapped to attention when
the National Anthem began befoe the main feate.
All was going as planned ntil the msic stopped
abot thee-ates of the way thogh the NationalAnthem. Now, what wold happen if this occed
with ,000 8- yea-olds back in the States? I imag-
ine thee wold be hoots, catcalls, laghte, a few de
comments; and eeyone wold sit down and call fo
a moie. Of cose, that is, if they had stood fo the
National Anthem in the fist place.
Hee, the ,000 Soldies contined to stand at
attention, eyes fixed fowad. The msic began again.
The Soldies contined to ietly stand at attention.
And again, at the same point, the msic stopped.
What wold yo expect happened now? Een
at this point I wold imagine laghte, as eeyone
finally sat down and expected the moie to stat.
Bt hee in Balad, yo cold hae head a pin dop.
Eey Soldie contined to stand at attention. Sddenly,
thee was a lone oice, then a dozen, and ickly the
oom was filled with the oices of a thosand soldies,
finishing whee the ecoding had left off:
And the ockets ed glae, the bombs bsting in
ai, gae poof thogh the night that o flag was
still thee.
Oh, say, does that sta-spangled banne yet wae,
Oe the land of the fee, and the home of the
bae?
It was the most inspiing moment I hae had hee
in Ia. I wanted yo to know what kind of soldies ae
seing yo hee. remembe them as they fight fo yo!
Pass this along as a eminde to othes to be ee
in paye fo all o soldies seing s hee, at home
and aboad. Fo many of them hae aleady paid the
ltimate pice...
From a Chaplainin IraqChaplain Jim Higgins, U.S. Army
Ding 7-8 Jne, Gops III and II sadonsfom as fa soth as Astin gatheed fo a Texas
Wing WAX (Wide Aea Execise) in Gand Paiie
in ode to hone thei skills as gond team membes,
adio opeatos, incident command staff, scannes,
obsees, and pilots. With six aicaft, inclding a
Gippsland G8 Aivan, Gand Paiie Mission Base
an soties thoghot the day, flying in and ot of
the local aipot. The Incident Command Post was
staffed by membes of both Gops.
Gand Paiie, located nde an ote shelf of
the DFW Bao aispace and flanked by AlingtonAipot to the west and Dallas Exectie Aipot to
the east, eied pilots to climb to 00 feet aoid-
ing the adjacent aipots aispace, yet stay nde the
4000 foot shelf. Eey membe of an aicew looked
fo taffic and, gien the actie aispace, thei igi-
lance paid off in a safe mission, withot mishaps. In-
cident Commande Capt. Daid Meddes cationed
the cews ding the moning biefing that they
shold anticipate being e-tasked in mid-sotie and
encoaged instment-ated pilots to condct a pac-
tice appoach to hone those essential skills.
Cadets assisted in the constction of the adio
antennas sed to poide key commnications to any
incident command post. In addition, Gond Teams
went ot into the field in Ai-to-Gond coodinated
seaches, looking fo fo ELTs (Emegency Locato
Tansmittes).
Ding opeations on Satday, Wing Commande
Col. Joe r. Smith stopped by to obsee. Ding his
stay, he made a special pesentation of a photogaph of
the class of cadets and instctos at the ecent Texas
Wing Poweed Flight Academy, signed by each of
them thanking he fo he sppot of the Academy.
Althogh the execise had oiginally been sched-
led to n thogh Snday 9 Jne, on Satday
eening, becase of adese weathe, Incident
Commande Capt. Daid Meddes cancelled Snday
opeations. Fotnately fo WAX paticipants, the
incident command staff had moed soties thogh
efficiently ding the two days, enabling many patici-
pants to achiee thei taining goals fo the weekend.
1st Lt. Richard Hacker
Texas Wing WideArea Exercise
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On Octobe 8, Lt. Col. Jack
Jackson took Congessman Heny
Cella and Congessman MichaelMcCal on an aeial to of the
Texas-Mexico bode, and biefed
the Congessmen on CAPs capa-
bilities in HLS. Aftewads,
McCal landed at Hooks aipot
fo a ceemony honoing membes
of the Texas Wing and to gie a
ick pdate on bode secity.
Lt. Col. Dan Cm took McCal
flying to to the bode aea
between Laedo and Bownsilleto examine otes the dg smg-
gles typically se to illegally
gain access to the united States.
McCal also had an aeial to of
the Galeston aea to assess dam-
age fom Hicane Ike. Speaking to membes of Texas Wing and the news media, McCal called fo inceased
fnding and sppot fo law enfocement agencies to help stem the tide of dg smggling. He also paised the
CAP fo thei seice ding disastes sch as hicanes and floods.
U.S. Representatives Tour MexicanBorder
Lt. Col. Jack Jackson takes Congressman Henry Cuellar andCongressman Michael McCaul on an aerial tour of the Texas-Mexicoborder, and briefs the Congressmen on CAPs capabilities in HLS.
C/nd Lt. Michael Moody
fom Apollo Composite Sadon
attended the Sothwest region
Cadet Leadeship School (rCLS)
held at Lackland AFB, TX on -
0 Jly, 008.
Teamwok, motiation, and
leadeship ae the fndamentals of
rCLS, said Cadet Moody. This
yeas school was no exception; the
cadets who attended had a geat time
and leaned a temendos amont.
What the cadets leaned at
this seen-day school will not
only see them well the est of
C/2nd Lt. Michael Moody
Apollo Cadet Attends Southwest RegionCadet Leadership School
thei cadet caee, bt follow them
thogh the est of thei life. Skills
in aeas of witing, speaking,
teamwok, and time management
will help these cadets do well in
school, get jobs, and hae a bette
chance at scceeding in life.
It was a geat week fll of fn
and excitement, and I definitely ec-
ommend this school to anyone, and
eeyone, Cadet Moody explained.
The Sothwest region Cadet
Leadeship School (rCLS) is
designed to poide ising cadets
with leadeship taining, manage-
ial skills, a deepe ndestanding
of all aspects of the cadet pogam
and pepae them to take thei
place as contibting membes
of o society. Lessons inclde:
Eent Planning, Leadeship Styles,
Effectie Commnication, Goal
Setting, Time Management, Team
Bilding, Conflict Management,
and Sitational Leadeship.
This actiity is open to cadets
who ae at least 4 yeas old,
hae achieed a ank of C/MSgt.
o highe, and hae completed at
least one encampment.
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We wee some bnch. Exactly. Wegatheed fom CAP nits acoss two
states, coming togethe to lean, to shae
what we knew, to see the task of ceat-
ing newswothy aticles thogh new
eyes. Fie senio membes and thee
cadets. Eagely, expectantly, we came to
the classoom, a sanctm of knowledge,
and began speading ot o comptes,
notebooks, pencils and cameas all oe
the desks, enjoying the big cool oom.
Cadets and senios and this ey seniosenio, with seeal leels of talent and
abilities, bent on leaning een moe
fom Capt. Ath Woodgate, the newly
appointed Sothwest region Diecto
Of Pblic Affais, maste of inteacting
with the pblic. How wold he inteact
with s? We wee soon to lean that, and
mch moe.
Fist, the cadets. Bight yong
minds, aleady impessie with thei
accomplishments.
Two of them hae been accepted
as Cadet Pblic Affais Offices at the Ai Foce
Space Command Familiaization Cose in Floida,
a National Cadet Special Actiity to be held by the
end of Jly. This is a geat accomplishment fo two
6-yea-olds. A thid one, only , has his sights
set on becoming a Majo Geneal. He cetainly has
the potential.
The senio membes came fom seeal sad-
ons in Texas and one is the new Oklahoma Wing
PAO. One has no expeience; othes hae fom some
to a lot. None is eally expet at being a Pblic Affais
Office, let alone the new skill of Mission Infomation
Office. That is why wee hee. Capt. Woodgate will
teach s how to be that.
Who wee the fist to occpy England?, he asks
at the beginning of the fist session. What a stange
way to begin teaching pblic affais. No one bt he
knows; gesses o aised eyebows ae all he gets
fo answes. Afte a long set of challenges and moe
LESA and PAO School - You neversaw such a bunch
gessing we get the answe, soon fogotten by the
time we lean of the inasion of Anglo-Saxons flee-
ing Attila the Hn. Histoy, old histoy, to explain the
beginnings of Eopean langages.
Moe and moe he eeals the effect of one occ-
pant o anothe on the local langage ntil we see,
moe o less, why Geman sonds one way, Italian
anothe, and English is the way it is. Ameican
English is a mess, he says, with easons now nde-
stood. (Not that Bitish English is in mch bette
shape, eithe.) He mst be a pofesso of histoy, at
least. We go to bed with sonds of othe langages to
intde pon o deams.
We get to know each othe by esponding to his
assignments. The knowledge is distbing to some bt
definitely heat-waming. We see each othe mch
cleae now, and the immediate effect is that we see
oseles, too.
Capt. Woodgate compliments each enty and we
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On this second yea of the PAOAcademy, the emphasis was on
taining and planning. As a eslt
of the comments and ealations
gatheed in 007 and in post-eal-
ation eies, some of the hands-
on taining sessions wee diided
into basic and adanced
steams, with excellent eslts.
Many wings wee epesented by
membes at the sadon leel,
who pofited fom the basic pe-sentations. Some Wing PAOs, too,
attended the basic coses as a
means to pdate thei own knowl-
edge in an effot to bette sppot
thei sbodinate nits.
As in 007, the Inteim National
Commande, Big. Gen. Amy S.
Cote, was ey mch inoled
in the poceedings and pesided
the pesentation of awads at the
Wednesday Awads Ceemony.This yea, CNN coespondent
Miles OBien delieed the key-
note addess. Sothwest region
awad winnes wee Capt. Jey
Pote, Aizona Wing ( awads);
nd Lt. Noman D. reames, New
Mexico Wing; and Capt. Ath E.
Woodgate, SWr DPA ( awads).
The eent eeyone was wait-
ing fo, howee, was the election
of CAPs Commande and vice-
Commande. It came as no spise
that Big. Gen. Amy S. Cote
was confimed as the new National
Commande. Late in the day, Col.
reggie Chitwood was elected to
be the new vice-Commande.
That eening, they wee pomoted
to Majo Geneal and Bigadie
Geneal, espectiely.
PAO Academy and National BoardsConerence
The beakot sessions hadsomething fo eeyone. The pe-
sentation on PA Planning was tho-
ogh, stessing the 4-step planning
pocess, that is a ecognized bsi-
ness standad. CAP, as a bsiness
(een thogh not-fo-pofit), and
the official axiliay of the uSAF,
fist eied that all nits pepae
a Pblic Affais Plan and a Cisis
Commnications Plan when the
new CAPr 90- was pblishedon 4 Jne 007. Althogh the eg-
lation doesnt specify how the PA
Plan is to be stcted, National
eies each to inclde a way in
which sccess can be meased.
These will be consideed liing
docments, that mst be eiewed
at least semi-annally (pefeably
ately) and pdated, added to,
o eised as often as necessay.
The posting of a new PblicAffais Office Toolkit was also
annonced, emphasizing the PA
Planning Gidelines: Witing
Yo Cisis Commnications
Plan and Witing yo PA Plan.
The PAO Toolkit can be down-
loaded in its entiety at the CAP
Channel site (http://www.cap-
channel.com/pao_downloads).
Appoximately 00 PAOs attended
the PAO Academy, consideed a
geat sccess.
Othe Pblic Affais sessions
pesented a aiety of sbjects
designed to shapen the skills
of all attendees, inclding com-
mandes and othe inteested
pesons. In fact, commandes at
all leels chose to attend many
PA pesentations, which speaks
eloently abot how impotantPblic Affais is now consideed
at the command leel. PAOs hae
Maj. Gen. Cote to thank fo on
this cont, since with he pofes-
sional backgond she possesses
a deep ndestanding of the ale
of PA fo copoate health and
gowth. It is a fact that those nits
that hae an actie and igoos
PA pogam do best at eciting
and etention, as well as eachingot to the commnity.
Oppotnities to netwok with
old fiends and meet new ones
abonded, and some ey po-
dctie high-leel planning took
place as well. All region DPAs
attended the Confeence, and
thee wee many Wing PAOs as
well. Nationals top-tie PA staff
was thee as well. The eslt was
a seies of highly podctie talksand pe-planning, establishing the
paametes fo optimal copoate
gowth and deelopment.
Stating this yea, the PAO
Academy will be held eey two
yeas (00s will take place in
San Diego, in conjnction with
the National Boads Confeence).
Since some potential attendees
coldnt do so becase of distance
and/o cost consideations, it was
poposed that regions hold local
PAO Academies in the off-yea.
As always, the banet was a pe-
fect occasion fo netwoking, as well
as ewading those most deseing.
The chosen location, thogh
expensie, was excellent. And attend-
ees wee lcky in that no hicane
decided to stike ding that week.
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It all hinges on good pepaation. Oe a month
befoe the schedled date of -7 Agst 008,
Lt. Col. Books Cima, Incident Commande fo the
Texas Wing Gided Taining Execise (GTE), pt
ot the call fo staffing. volntees fom all oe
Texas thew thei hats in the ing, and she was able
to pick fom the best. So it was that thity-one senio
membes and two cadets (one of the latte alified
as a Commnications unit Leade) fom all oe the
state gatheed on Fiday, Agst at the IncidentCommand Post, hosted by the Delta Composite
Sadon at D.W. Hooks Aipot in Sping, jst Noth
of Hoston.
Among the expeienced olntees wee Texas
Wing Commande Col. Joe r. Smith, Gop Iv
Commande Lt. Col. Dennis Cima, Gop III
Commande Lt. Col. Owen Yonge, and Texas Wing
Diecto of Opeations Maj. randy rssell. The lat-
te was to play a majo pat in handling an emegency
mission on the following day.
Pomptly at 4 PM on Fiday, Agst, the fist
soties wee assigned to the ten Staging Aeas scat-
teed acoss the ast expanse that is Texas and, by the
time the sn set, the eslts wee coming in, setting an
easy pace that was to become the nom. The pape-
wok stated and was passed aond to the seeal
positions whee the staff began posting the data on
the wall chats and inptting it into the compte po-
gams designed to make sense of it all (IMu, WMIrS
and CAPErS), slowly at fist, then moe smoothly as
emembeed habits kicked in and finges keyed thei
way to sccess. Was this going to wok ot well? Of
cose it was -- look who was chaged with doing it.
Capt. Stat Hagedon set p a gond station and
settled in attentiely, watching his compte sceen
show the nea eal-time position of seeal soties
caying the Spot Tacke tansmittes. Soon he was
saying, We can tack them fom take-off to landing.
The Spot Tacke is a small package that sends the
GPS coodinates to a satellite e-tansmitte eey
ten mintes, and has bttons that can call home to
annonce that all is OK in this case, Ops Nomal
- , one that will call Come get me, and one that calls
9 fo emegency assistance. Indefatigable, Capt.
Hagedon wold tack his chages fo the coming two
days withot skipping a beat.The ArCHEr System-fitted Ciil Ai Patols
Gippsland GA-8 aiplane, lagest one on inentoy,
fascinated Pofesso Daemon Byn of the Institte
of Mlti-Dimensional Ai Stdies at the uniesity
of Hoston. D. Byn had expessed an inteest in
seeing the ArCHEr in action, with an eye towads
haing his gop se it in thei stdies of ai ality
oe the united States. Afte Maj. randy rssell had
gien him a gond school oientation, he boaded the
GA-8 fo a sotie oe an aea that inteested him.
upon his etn, he paised the systems pefomance
and capabilities.
Inclement weathe oe mch of Texas soon hand-
icapped opeations of seeal Staging Aeas, casing
aleady-biefed and eady ai cews to fist delay, then
postpone, and finally abot thei soties. Six of the ten
Staging Aeas had so mch ain that they wee nable
to lanch any soties oe mch of the day. Thee
was a epot that the Staging Aea at San Angelo was
eentally sht down on Satday, 6 Agst. Hoston
weathe was fai to poo, with occasional showes
oe and aond the aipot, delaying the lanching
of the GA-8 and jeopadizing the demonstation fo
D. Byn. The weathe impoed oenight, howee,
and soties went ot Snday in good ode.
The Ai Foce ealato/mentos wee eeywhee,
nobtsiely obseing the ality and efficiency of
the staffs wok. At one point, the Infomation Office
was called to the land-line whee he said, This is
Majo robet Becont. How may I help yo? The
calle then eealed that he was Geoge, the Ai
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Foce gy. Oh, it had been one of thei little tests to
see how the IO wold answe the phone. Thee was
a bigge test in the woks, bt it didnt come fom theon-site AF team, it came fom the Ai Foce resce
Coodination Cente (AFrCC) at Tyndall AFB, Fla.
Satday mid-aftenoon the AFrCC actiated a
mission pompted by a missing aiplane that had taken
off fom Steamboat Spings in the high montains of
nothen Coloado, heading fo Sgaland regional
Aipot, sothwest of Hoston. The pesmed path
of the aicaft (no flight plan had been filed) wold
inole seaching by the Coloado, Oklahoma, New
Mexico and Texas Wings of the Ciil Ai Patol. When
the Texas Wing redcap was assigned to Maj. randyrssell as Incident Commande, he immediately
set p shop at the same office whee he had pei-
osly extolled the ites of the ArCHEr system to
see at his Incident Command Post. Withot delay,
he began moing assets towad Amaillo and estab-
lishing contact with his Coloado Wing contepat,
at the same time that he kept woking on the GTE.
Within hos, a hike fond an aiplane cash, late
confimed by a Conty Seach and resce team
as the missing aicaft. Sadly, thee wee no si-
os. Opeations ceased on this AFrCC mission onSnday, 7 Agst.
At the 4:00 oclock biefing of Satday aftenoon,
the Ai Foce team was happy to epot that the Texas
Wing A Team was pefoming admiably, and that
they had fond no discepancies o weaknesses in its
opeation. They had nothing bt paise fo the whole
team, and thei only adise was, Dont get compla-
cent o lazy. One of the offices, Ai Foce Lt. Col.
Geoge villalobos, a 0-yea etean, wote the fol-
lowing statement ding a late inteiew:
The Ciil Ai Patol has some temendos capa-
bilities in a way they ae (nfotnately) the best
kept secet in the wold of emegency seices. They
continally add new capabilities and assets to thei
epetoie. No matte how many execises I attend,
I am always amazed at what The Ciil Ai Patol is
able to do, een moe so becase they do it with an
all-olntee foce.
Fo the Texas Wing A Team, that was the week-
end that was. H
ae lifted. Maybe wee bette than we think. Then he
lanches into stoies and emindes and thee is ease
and laghte aond.
We stain to ndestand his chaming Agentineaccent and nie hmo, as we lean moe abot the
bsiness of infoming the pblic abot o faoite
otfit, the Ciil Ai Patol. Capt Woodgate contines
to impess s with the depth of his knowledge, which
he gies to s feely. We ae dawn togethe into a
woking team. Oh, this is good.
Moe and moe, a demonstation, a stoy, an
opened magazine, something else to lean abot. The
sbject is moe inoled than one ee thoght. Now
dobts ceep in. Fo days and eenings into it and
the end is not in sight. In a day o two wee to beexposed to the eal wold, with eal-time assignments
and things to do to delie the Ciil Ai Patol in its
best possible light to the pblic eye. Will we scceed?
Yes, we will. He can inspie s in fie langages,
maybe moe.
Days pass. We feel smate. Assignments ae
met, and discssed, and citied with constctie
hmo and kindness. Capt. Woodgate demonstates
good and poo magazine page design and pblishing
pactices, and wans s abot pshy media methods
aimed at getting the stoy that might end p mak-
ing the Ciil Ai Patol look bad. He tells how to deal
with the media, the pblic, and on occasion the ela-
ties of the missing o lost.
Thee is a lot to being a Pblic Affais Office, and
een moe to being a Mission Infomation Office. He
een shows s how to bild a simple website. Not easy
fo some.
Tomoow is eiew day. Im se well lean
how well we hae done. Ill get a good gade, I
think, bt not the best. One of those teif ic cadets
will get that.
Tomoow night thee is a big babee oe by
the lake, whee well get to eat and talk, compae
notes and cowe o bag abot what wee leaned.
Satday is o gand gadation day. Ae we going
to be all dessed p in o finest nifoms, as we
pocess befoe the school commandant and eceie
o de ewad? Maybe not. I head we wont pass
in eiew.
Bt, oh, that will be some day. Our day.
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What happens when yoe
hit by the nexpected, and yo life
depends on a moments action?
These wods had been dilled intos all week, and they wee the only
thing on my mind as, on my fist
solo flight, I ealized that the engine
of the Cessna 7 I was flying had
jst stopped woking. The next thing
to flash billiantly in my thoghts
wee the wods all cadets at the flight
academy had gien as the one and
only coect esponse, Fly the plane,
fly the plane, fly the plane!
Sayings sch as this one, along
with many othes, will stay with
me and with all the cadets that
attended the 008 Texas Wing
Poweed Flight Academy. Not
only will they stay with s, bt
fo many it will get s ot of tight
spots like the one I was in ding
my solo. Along with those geat
wods and the taining I eceied
fom my instcto, Lt. Col.
rayfod rK Bown, I was able
to bing the plane aond, estat
the engine, and land it.
Back on the gond safely,
denched in wate, half of my shit
gone to my classmates scissos, my
adenalin shing, and an ea-to-ea
smile is how the week of 74 Jn
ended fo me. It was a pefect end
to a geat week fll of flying, lean-
ing, laghs, and excitement. Flight
Academy was the best actiity I
hae ee been to.
The otine was packed withexcitement and fn. We woke p
at fie, and wee p in the ai at
snise. At 0700 we wee haing
a delicios beakfast pepaed and
seed by the Matagoda Geneal
Hospital, as was eey meal. By
000 (8 pm) we wee back at the
hotel, stdying the flight books as
we got eady fo o pe-solo test.
Most flight teams wee com-
posed of two stdents and one
instcto pilot. If only one stdent
was allowed to fly at any time, the
othe stdent wold emain on the
gond stdying, stdying, o stdy-
ing. Bt not all the stdying was
eading ot of books. A lot of the
focs was placed on the pactical
aspect, so while one stdent was in
the ai flying, the othe one cold be
on the gond flying. No, we didnt
fly simlatos, we flew oseles,
on a chalk nway. We wold stick
ot o ams, and fly the patten,
pacticing the adio calls, and othe
check-list items that needed to be
committed to memoy.
Of cose, not all of o fee
time was spent stdying. We liked
to hae a little fn, too. It was not
a ae thing to find most of the st-
dents hanging ot on the balcony
singing, dancing, and getting to
know each othe. All the stdents
had a geat time togethe, and thefiendships made at that time will
last well beyond the flight academy.
Fo the est of my flying caee,
I know that when I get in the plane,
I will be heaing, right dde,
ight dde, Pt the aileon in
the wind, Keep that hand on
the thottle, Yo dont need two
hands on the yoke, Let the engi-
nees fly the plane, yo aleady
paid them. Those sayings will be
with me and the est of s at the
flight academy fo all time, and
whenee we come in fo a land-
ing well hea, Flae, flae, dont
psh the nose down, keep the nose
p. And we will keep the plane in
woking ode to fly anothe day.
Flight academy was geat, bt
none of it wold hae been possible
withot the help of SABrE, Bay
City, Matagoda Geneal Hospital,
Bay City Aipot, Jmpe, and
Wambo. And a special thanks
to all the instctos who, thogh
aleady ite bsy, geneosly
gae of thei time to come tain
s! Thank yo to eeyone that
helped s, it was geat, and I defi-
nitely ecommend it to all those
inteested in flying.
Texas WingPowered
FlightAcademyC/2nd Lt.
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Fo the thid yea in a ow,Apollo Composite Sadon sp-
poted Setomas 4th of Jly cel-
ebation in San Gabiel Pak.
Sadon membes woked the
vIP and endo paking and set
p a booth to sell T-shits and help
ecit new membes. The Apollo
Colo Gad led the paade and
pesented the colos at the opening
ceemonies. Seeal cadets also
took the stage fo an impomptesion of the Ai Foce Song!
Setoma is the shot name
fo Seice to Mankind, a nation-
wide non-pofit oganization.
Setomas pimay seice poject
is assisting the moe than 0 mil-
lion people with speech, heaing
and langage disodes. Setoma
also sponsos commnity pojects
to pomote feedom and democ-
acy, to assist yoth and to ben-efit a aiety of othe local com-
mnity needs, as identified by the
indiidal clbs.
This was Setomas th Annal
Apollo Squadron Presents Colorsat the Sertoma Celebration
4th of Jly celebation. The festi-
ities began at :00 AM and fin-
ished with an afte-dak fablosfiewok finale. Oe 80 ats and
cafts booths, food, endos and a
childens aea poided entetain-
ment fo eeyone. The festial has
gown into one of the lagest fam-
ily eents in cental Texas, attact-
ing oe 0,000 isitos annally.The Geogetown Setoma Clb
may be eached at info@geoge-
townsetoma.og.
The Mesite Black Sheep
Composite Sadon membes
staffed thei own booth, with
postes and hand-ot mateials to
encoage yongstes inteested in
becoming CAP cadets. As yong
isitos asked estions, the CAP
cadets told them abot the many
Black Sheep Squadron Participates inBrand New EventCapt. Kelly Castillo
oppotnities they wold hae as
membes of the Ciil Ai Patol.
The cadets also assisted in cowd
contol, as well as helped othe oga-
nizations set p thei booths.
Fo moe entetainment, the
cadets and attendees wee teated
to an ato show and a lie band
that pefomed in the aftenoon.
Paticipating cadets inclded
C/nd Lt. Mitchell Gaham, C/
CMSgt. Andew Smith, C/Amn.
Bandon Keehan, and C/Amn.
Gaett Pote. Senio membes
inclded st Lt. Opal McKinney
and st Lt. Jey Baon.
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At fist it was jst an idea. Bt when the oppo-
tnity to pesent the colos at the 6 Jly game of the
Fisco roghrides came abot, fo of the sad-
ons most expeienced cadets stepped p to the chal-
lenge. Despite the shot notice, and afte haing pac-
ticed togethe fo only a week, the Colo Gad did its
best and had fn doing it.
And so, the newly fomed Colo Gad team of
the Dallas Composite Sadon pesented the col-
os to a sold-ot stadim, to the sond of the open-
ing National Anthem. The u.S. flag was caied by
C/TSgt Zach Bswold and the Texas state flag was
pesented by C/SMSgt. Chad Mooe. Gading the
flags wee C/TSgt. Collin Cathcat and C/SMSgt.
Tyle Mooe
As we walked off the field and p the steps, many
people emained standing, podly holding thei hands
oe thei heats, ntil the flag had passed them by.
This showed the geat espect that the games specta-
tos hae fo o conty.
As the yea pogesses, the team will contine to
accept engagements to paades and ceemonies, and
has a second engagement booked fo Agst. Also
looking ahead, the sadon plans to ente the Wing
leel Colo Gad competition, which wold be o
fist competition at that eent.
Dallas Color GuardPresents the ColorsC/SMSgt. Tyler Moore and
C/TSgt. Zach Buswold
On Jly, the Tyle Composite Sadon hosteda Geneal Billy Mitchell Awad ceemony fo fo
sadon cadets, an eent attended by family, fiends,
fellow cadets, and sadon membes. In ecognition of
haing completed the fist eight of sixteen achieements
of the Cadet pogam, the cadets, rssell Elliott, Isaac
Niedae, Josiah Niedae, and John Shanahan, wee
pesented the awad and pomoted to the gade of Cadet
Second Lietenant. To ean the awad, the Cadets had to
pass an ados 00-estion examination, testing lead-
eship theoy and aeospace topics.
Since its inception oe 30 yeas ago, oe 4,000
cadets hae eaned this hono. The Geneal Billy
Mitchell Awad, in existence since 964, honos the
late Bigadie Geneal Billy Mitchell, aiation pio-
nee, adocate and stanch sppote of an indepen-
dent Ai Foce fo Ameica.
The Texas Wing Chaplain, Maj. ron Whitt, po-
nonced the inocation.
Sadon Commande Lt. Col. Lo Thomas wel-
comed Sadon membes, family and gests. Lt. Col.
Owen Yonge, Commande of Gop III, Texas Wing,
spoke to the cadets abot the Coe vales of Integity,
Excellence in all we do, and Seice befoe self.
Theepon, Lt. Col. Thomas and Lt. Col. Yonge
pesented State repesentatie Leo Beman with
a Legislatie Sadon Membeship Cetificate,
welcoming him to Texas Wing as a Lt. Col. of the
Ciil Ai Patol. repesentatie Beman, a etied
u.S. Amy Lt. Col., assisted by the cadets paents,
pinned the new gade insignia and pesented the
Mitchell Awads to each cadet.
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Afte a few hos elaxing fom my staff dty at
smme encampment, now it was time fo me to sign
in at the Lone Sta Emegency Seices Academy
(LESA), also to be held at the ALErT facility. As
I signed in, I was hanted by the fayed nees and
tiedness I dagged along fom Basic Encampment.
I wasnt woied abot attending the Gond Seach
and resce Specialty School (GSArSS), bt I didnt
know if they wold let me attend, afte haing dis-
located my sholde ding encampment. Lckily,
Capt. ricky Pena, the School Commandant, pt my
am in a sling and said I cold still attend. Once I
head that, all tiedness and neosness left me, and
I felt like I had slept fo a week.
right off the bat, afte signing in and finding
o assigned billets, we had o fist class, dealing
with o 4- and 7-ho packs. Afte class we had
pizza, and got to isit with o new instctos. When
we finished, we wee eleased to pesonal time. The
females had ite a walk to o sleeping ates.
On o fist moning, we had PT on the tack
at aond 4:30 a.m. I was not able to paticipate in
PT, which was a little psetting fo me, bt I enjoyed
motiating my fellow cadets. Afte PT we had an ho
of pesonal time. We had been instcted to meet at
the dining hall fo beakfast. Afte eating o mf-
fins we went down to the classoom and stated o
instction. Befoe the class began, thogh, we wee
Gregg County Cadet LESA Experience
intodced to o best fiend: the stetche basket. We
leaned how to get it thogh, oe and nde obsta-
cles while keeping it leel. Fo o second class, wehad to pefom the hman coch, the roman chai,
and the fiemans cay. We got to cay each othe
acoss the field.
Thoghot the week, we had at least 0 classes
coeing signaling, adio se, L-Pe se, and othe
skills we wold need to maste in ode to become
gond team membes. O instctos gae s
many challenges. Almost eey night we wold be
awakened fo a mission. On o fist mission, we
fond the downed aicaft, lit the flae, and caied
back the injed. The injed peson (me) had tocay was C/CMSgt. Micah Pael of the Shoemake
Composite Sadon. Well, he wasnt eally injed,
he was spposed to be dead; bt I nee knew the
dead cold talk.
We also got the chance to coss a ie on a ope
abot 0 feet aboe the wate. Befoe doing this,
we had to maste the Swiss seat and o ope knots.
The next moning, fo PT, we had a wok-ot with
a ten-foot log.
One mission that we did lasted abot fo hos.
We mached with fll packs on and the stetche bas-
ket with a 7-pond load tied to it. Team fond
the downed aicaft and they sent thee cadets to
tape it off, while the othe cadets helped the injed
pilot. The thee cadets wee declaed blown p (not
eally, it was a simlation) and Team adioed in that
they needed assistance. Help nee came de to bad
weathe. The thee cadets we nee got to esce, bt
somehow they lingeed aond the camp with s, as if
nothing had happened, with pple heats painted on
thei had hats. When we etned to the classooms,
we had a naming ceemony giing eeyone call
names to wite on the back of thei had hats.
The most insane thing I hae ee done in my
life, at two in the moning, was finding 7 ates
that the instctos had thown in the field. The les
wee simple: find all 7 ates in 3 mintes with
no light. We didnt make the fist 3 mintes, so we
did ten ange psh-ps with packs on fo an exta 3
mintes. We finally fond them all, and wee eleased
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C/SMSgt. Kayla Cassel
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Was the eent a sccess? Yo
bet. All yo had to do was look
at the cadets, as they got into the
planes with stas dancing in thei
eyes. It was the stff that deams
ae made of. In thei imagination,
they saw themseles getting into
a WWII fighte, an F-, an Sr-
7, een a space ship. Stapped in,
they taxied towads the nway.
Big deal. Theyd felt that befoein a ca, only this one was slightly
wobbly. Is this safe? no dobt
some of them asked themseles.
Bt they immediately answeed
themseles, I cant gie p now!
What wold the othes say?
Theye all done it aleady...
Addison & Dallas CompositeSquadrons Stage Group III OFlights
Then the aiplane moed into
position, tned into the wind, the
engine eed p into a oa as the
aifame shook a little, the pilot
eleased the bakes, and they felt
the acceleation as the plane an
into the wind, a little wheel noise
pnctating the lod p of the
moto that now didnt seem to oa
ite as lodly, then the baest hop
and the wheels fell silent, as aeo-dynamics took oe and the plane
soaed aboe the gond.
Fee as a bid, is pobably
the most hackneyed expession
that walks ot of the cockpit afte
a fist-flight expeience. Yet, in
thei heat, thats how each one of
them felt.
Thei joy, too, was contagios.
Althogh they seemed to take it in
stide, some wee so oewhelmed
by the expeience that they fogot
to say, Thank yo. The pilots
didnt mind. They cold ead
each ones heat in that mael-
os, slightly lopsided, half-intel-
ligent smile. Bt the pilots wee
not fooled. They cold see thei
the eyes, esplendent, shining in
glee, planning the next o-flight,
and wondeing how they cold get
to do this all the time.
Kdos to the pilots and the
coodinato, Maj. Alan OMatin,
fo thei had wok.
Capt. Arthur E. Woodgate
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I joined the Ciil Ai Patol
becase I was inteested in aia-
tion, thogh I didnt dae deam
of becoming an Ai Foce office.
My expeience in CAP, howee,
has opened many doos fo me,
and one of them is the possibil-
ity of enteing the uS Ai Foce
Academy. It all hinges on how I
manage my time.
Time management is an essen-
tial skill that eeyone needs to
execise and hopeflly maste
at some point in life. With the
wold moing at sch a fast pace,
falling behind can doom that pe-
sons hopes fo the fte.
I am gatefl fo haing
leaned this lesson ealy in my
life, becase now I know that life
beyond high school is no walk in
the pak. At the moment, I am
constantly balancing my time as
I jggle my obligations in school,
CAP, Band, and JrOTC, with
school being my fist pioity. The
Ciil Ai Patol has helped me
ite a bit with time management,
becase Ie been gien geate
esponsibilities as I pogessed
within Cadet Pogams.
I admit that I am fa fom mas-
teing the at of time management,
bt my detemination to attend the
Ai Foce Academy has dien me
to bette myself on a daily basis.
This is not easy, becase many
Pegasus Squadron -
My Path to Successdistactions ae always at hand:
teleision, ideo games, and the
Intenet to name a few. A com-
mon misconception among teen-
ages is that since distactions
will always be aailable, ptting
thei pioities in ode will nee
be possible so its pointless to
een ty.
Most yong pesons dont
ealize that this attitde only leads
to faile. In my case, CAP has
taght me that the Coe vales ae
applicable to eeyday life, and
that I can do anything I want, po-
ided I want it had enogh. Ie
also leaned that nothing woth-
while is easy, bt the ewads ae
always geat.
I ndestand that time man-
agement is not eeyones faoite
thing, bt it is necessay. Withot
it, many oganizations, like the
Ciil Ai Patol, wold cease
to exist. Wose yet, leadeship
wold anish, the conty itself
wold sffe, and nothing wold
get done.
C/1st Lt. Raphael Erie
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C/CMSgt. Andrew Smith
to etn to bed.The last night we wee
thee, we set p camp ot in
the woods, whee we got tested
on eeything we had leaned.
Afte we finished being tested
indiidally, we mached p to
the lake and attended a cook-
ot with the othe schools. We
isited and sang veggie Tale
songs with Col. Joe r. Smith.
Yes, Col. Smith the Texas WingCommande sang veggie Tales
with GSArSS. That is how
mch we ocked.
The hambges and hot
dogs wee delicios. It stated to
get dak, so we headed back to
camp. We wee taght many dif-
feent ways to stat a fie. Then,
30 aied and we all went
to o sheltes fo the night. I
shaed my tap with C/Amn.Emma Stowes of the randolph
Composite Sadon, becase
she didnt hae one. In the mid-
dle of the night I woke p with a
snake next to me. I moed away
fom it, and thew things at it,
scaing it away. And went back
to sleep withot distbing the
cadet beside me.
To sie GSArSS, yo
had to be physically and men-tally togh. Yo hae to lean
how to wok with othes. So if
yo attend GSArSS - which
I highly ecommend yo do -
make fiends with eeyone in
yo school. It will help yo in
the long n. H
LESA Experience . . .Continued from page 25
On 7 Jne 008, the MesiteBlack Sheep Composite Sadon
pefomed thei annal Flag Day
Ceemony, commemoating the
adoption of the united States flag
on Jne 4, 777.
The ceemony stated when
C/CMSgt. Bittany Stelting spoke
abot the Ameican flag and the
pope way to etie it.
Aftewads, seeal Ameican
flags that wee consideed wonot, damaged o badly stained
wee placed into a bn pot as
pat of the etiement ceemony.
Sadon membes paticipated
in the eent, as they took tns to
ceemonially place a flag in the
bn pot.
The eent ended with two
final flags that wee each etied
by Lt. Col. Mike Ebele, Sadon
Commande, and Lt. Col. JackBichm, the Sadon Moal
Black Sheep SquadronFlag Retiring Ceremony
Leadeship Office.The ceemony taght the
cadets the Ciil Ai Patols Coe
vale of respect: espect fo the
flag, espect fo the conty, and
espect fo the men and women
who hae died defending it.
O flag desees moe
espect fo etiement than jst a
tash can, said C/CMSgt. Stelting.
We teach o cadets that this
symbol epesents o feedom.Calin Coolidge, 30th
Pesident of the united States,
once said, Bt when we look
at o flag and behold it embla-
zoned with all o ights, we mst
emembe that it is eally a sym-
bol of o dties. Eey gloy that
we associate with it is the eslt of
dty done. A yealy contemplation
of o flag stengthens and pi-
fies the national conscience.
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What cold possibly be bette than smelling jet fel
and fesh hot pancakes bight and ealy at 0700? Not mch,
especially if yoe a membe of the Ciil Ai Patol.
On Jne 7, 008, the Waxahachie/Midlothian
Mid-Way regional Aipot hosted thei annal
Pancake Fly-in, and once again the aipot athoities
asked the Waxahachie Talon Composite Sadon to
flight-line mashal fo the aipot.
Thoghot the day, both cadets and senio mem-
bes mashaled oe 0 aicaft in and ot of the taxiway.
Most of the planes wee Cessnas, tail dagges, Bonanzas,
DC3s, and T8s. As an addition, some esidents een
boght thei antie cas to display on the amp.
In an amsing aside, CAP Majo Bill Habe was
signaling an aicaft to slow down. The pilot, a bit con-
fsed by the signal, asked, Ae yo acting as if yoe
an aiplane? Majo Habe chckled and eplied, No,
si. I was tying to get yo to slow down.
Cadet Captain Tiffany Hamm commented, I
beliee we had moe local esidents come to the eent
than we had aiplanes. Althogh, I hae to say that
the lady cooking the pancakes did an amazing job.
He nie pancake-flipping technie was a geat
hit with the cstomes.
The Waxahachie Talon Composite Sadon did
it again. The eent was a sccess, with a lage tnot
of both people and aiplanes.
WaxahachieAnnual PancakeFly-inC/Capt. Tiffany Hamm
On Satday 6 Jly 008, the Waxahachie Talon
Composite Sadon held a uDF taining execise
at the Midlothian/Waxahachie Midway regional
Aipot.
The ppose of the eent was to teach new cadets
how to se an ELPEr to find an Emegency Locato
Tansmitte (ELT). A total of ten pesonnel, fie
cadets and fie senio membes, attended the eent.
The cadets said that the best pat of the taining had
been sing thei newly-leaned knowledge to find the
hidden ELT.
At the end of the day, the Waxahachie Composite
Sadon had accomplished thei goal, as they got a
few moe cadets alified in uDF taining.
Second Lietenant Taylo Stockfod said, I hae
a pefect ote which fits this eent pefectly. If the
blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch
The moe we tain o cadets, the moe knowl-
edgeable theyll be as they lead thei followes on the
ight path.
Waxahachie TalonSquadron UrbanDirection FindingTrainingC/Capt. Tiffany Hamm
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Capt Stee Baclay, the sadon commnication
office, attended the 008 SWrSC at Kitland Ai
Foce Base, joining CAP membes fom eey state
in Sothwest region, pls one fom Neada Wing.
using the facilities of the Kitland Ai Foce Non-
Commissioned Offices Academy, this week-long
cose pepaes CAP pesonnel to fnction well in
staff office positions at wing leel and aboe.
Stdents wee diided into fo seminas,
and each was assigned a Staff Adiso to make
se that they pefomed the eied tasks to
standad. The leaning pocess eied woking
ot poblems in a gop, achieing the desied
eslts within the time allotted.
Capt. Baclay said, It was a geat cose, we
had wondefl instctos, and it was an otstanding
expeience in leadeship taining and pepaation fo
Austin MemberGraduates romSouthwest Region
Sta College1st Lt. Richard Hacker
Members of Seminar #1 - (Rear, L-R) Maj. RickWoolfolk (Denton, TX), Capt. Steve Barclay, Maj.Dan Shearer (Flagstaff, AZ), Capt. Robert Will (RioRancho, NM). (Front, L-R) Capt. Bob Beeley (Tomball,TX), Staff Advisor Capt. Carol Slag (Ft Worth), 2nd
Lt. Judy Candelaria (Albuquerque, NM). This groupearned the Outstanding Seminar prize.
Fo Csade Composite Sadon cadets
attended the 008 Texas Wing Smme Encampment
at the A.L.E.r.T. Academy in Big Sandy, Texas. Cadet
Josha Gllace was a membe of Alpha Flight, Cadet
Hampton was a membe of Chalie Flight, Cadet
Daniel Finche was a membe of India Flight, and
Cadet robet Seeance Iv was the Flight Segeant
fo India Flight.
Seeal cadets took adantage of a new po-
gam offeed by the sadon to help fnd the
enollment fees fo cadets fist encampment. En-
campment affods an excellent oppotnity fo
cadets to lean impotant skills that will enhance
thei cadet caees.
CrusaderCadets TexasWing SummerEncampmentCapt. Robert Severance III
staff assignments. The facility coldnt hae been
bette, and the actie dty Ai Foce instctos wee
eally good at what they did.
As an added bons, some of the AF instctos
wee paaesce pesonnel, and the cose stdents
wee able to go thogh thei v- Ospey, a mlti-
mission, militay tiltoto aicaft with both a etical
takeoff and landing (vTOL) and shot takeoff and
landing (STOL) capability.
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On 9 Jly, Michael Witzgall, a tactical taining con-
sltant with Chalie-Mike Entepises, spoke to the Black
Sheep Composite Sadon cadets and senio membes.
M. Witzgalls pesentation focsed on how indiidals
can hone thei leadeship skills by ndestanding fea
and coage.
M. Witzgall spent a total of yeas on actie
dty as a noncommissioned and commissioned
office in the u.S. Maine Cops and u.S. Amy,
espectiely. He is also a highly decoated office
with the Dallas Police Depatment.
Afte losing pat of his left leg in a ehicle acci-
dent, M. Witzgall began teaching coses on Hazados
Waant/Appehensions, Basic and Adanced SWAT,
Basic Adanced Police rifle, Hostage resce, and Conte
Paamilitay Opeations. He has also witten seeal books
on the sbjects.
Confidence is bilt thogh taining, edcation, and
fitness, said M. Witzgall as he discssed his pesonal
expeiences while seing in the militay and police foce.
Following the pesentation, the cadets paticipated in
a estion and answe session. At the end of the session,
M. Witzgall ead rdyad Kiplings poem The qest,explaining its message so the cadets cold bette nde-
stand what it means to be a waio.
Eisenhowe once said, contined M. Witzgall,
Good leadeship is getting someone to do something
becase he wants to do it. As a bons, M. Witzgall
explained his companys name. Chalie-Mike is the
phonetic adio code meaning, Contine the Mission. He
ended his explanation by saying, Afte losing pat of my
leg, I decided that I had to contine the mission.
On 7 Jne, a Gladewate Cosais Composite
Sadon cadet was pesented two ey pestigios
awads. Cadet Second Lietenant Jaod Alexande
eceied the Geneal Billy Mitchell Awad and the Ai
Foce Association Cadet of the Yea Awad. u.S. Ai
Foce Colonel rdy Byne pesented both of these awads
to Cadet Lietenant Alexande.
Colonel Byne, who stopped off on his way to a new
assignment in Gemany, had been the Commande of the
34th Opeations Gop at Little rock Ai Foce Base ntil
that ey moning. As the 34th Gop Commande, he
had been esponsible fo a Depatment of Defense FomalTaining unit compised of 0 pesonnel sing C-30E,
C-30J, and C- aicaft. Annally, the gop tains 000
stdents fom all seices and 3 allied nations.
The Ai Foce Association Cadet of the Yea Awad
is pesented by an Ai Foce Association membe (Colonel
Byne is a Life Membe) to an otstanding cadet. Cadet
Alexandes Sadon Commande, Captain Haold
Paks, had nominated Cadet nd Lietenant Alexande fo
this Awad. This cadet sees as the Cadet Commande in
the Gladewate Composite Sadon and is also ated as a
Gond Team Membe , an adanced Emegency Seices
ating. Cadet Alexande aspies to achiee a Gond Team
Membe ating (the highest ating) followed by a Gond
Team Leade ating by the end of 008. He leads his cadets
by example, athe than simply demanding pefomance
fom them. Teaching them eied elements of the Cadet
Pogam seems to come natally to him, making him a
ey positie ole model. He is a cedit to himself, his fam-
ily, and the Ciil Ai Patol.
Gladewater CorsairsCadet Receives TwoPrestigious AwardsCapt. Harold Parks
(L-R) Colonel Rudy Byrne, Cadet Second LieutenantJarrod Alexander, and Captain Harold Parks
Black Sheep SquadronHears DecoratedVeteran Speak onLeadershipCapt. Kelly Castillo
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A Gop III CAP Cadet
obtained his Piate Pilot ce-tificate today. That alone is geat
news, bt it gets bette: the majo-
ity of this Cadets taining was
done in CAP aicaft, sing CAP
instctos. This doesnt happen
ey often.
Like many stdents, C/SSgt.
Ean Petosky had seeal instc-
tos (, if I conted coectly) d-
ing the cose of his taining. This
is not ideal, bt instctional tn-oe ding taining has been
a poblem fo geneations of
stdents. It takes a dedicated and
skilled CFI to do this while wok-
ing fll-time and taking college
coses too. Capt. Nicole Noack,
of Kittinge Phantom Senio
Sadon, fits that desciption.
Those in the flight tain-
ing commnity also know that
thee is a ange in the ality ofinstction. Otside of CAP, pay-
ing moe doesnt ense bette
ality of instction, bt hnt-
ing fo the lowest pice almost
gaantees a coesponding
leel of ality. In the Ciil Ai
Patol, instction is donated,
which can eslt in a ae leel of
commitment. Cetainly, this was
the case.
I had the piilege of flyingwith Cadet Petosky a few days
befoe the pactical test. In two
flights totaling almost 4 hos,
we coeed emegency poce-
des, simlated instment fly-
ing, stalls, manees, shot field
landings, and moe -- all in an
aiplane othe than the one he had
Cadet Earns FAA Class III Pilots License
been sing fo taining, jst 3 daysbefoe the schedled checkide.
Weeks befoe, I had oln-
teeed N9893 to go ot of state fo
a Cadet flying academy. unexpect-
edly, a combination of maintenance
isses and aicaft aailability led
to an naoidable plane switch,
jst befoe this cadets pactical
test. In othe wods, he was get-
ting a togh beak that was petty
mch my doing (een thogh it hadbeen nintentional). Despite this
challenge, Cadet Petosky handled
the change with the same nas-
sming confidence he displayed
in flight. The ality of Capt.
Noacks instction was obios.
Taining in N9893 was dif-
feent fo seeal easons. Pehaps
most significant was this planeshighe idle thst compaed to
that of most 7s. This seemingly
small change can make a big dif-
feence when switching to anothe
aicaft with diffeent appoach
chaacteistics. The eied
shot-field landings hae a PTS
toleance of -0, +00 feet of the
tochdown taget. When land-
ing on a nway, 00 ft. looks a
lot smalle than it sonds. Also,N9893 handles bette than most
othe 7s of its intage, so Cadet
Petosky was challenged in mlti-
ple ways, which he oecame with
speme confidence.
Please join me in congatlat-
ing C/SSgt. Ean Petosky and his
CFI fo this accomplishment.
Capt. Leonard Laws
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Fo yeas afte joining the Ciil Ai Patol, witha BANG!, Cadet Michael Moody eached a mile-
stone. In addition to eaning the coeted Geneal Billy
Mitchell Awad, C/ nd Lt. Michael Moody eceied
a cetificate signed by the goeno of Texas, the
Honoable rick Pey, commemoating the occasion.
The Mitchell Ceemony took place at the Geogetown
receational Pak Commnity Cente, in the pes-
ence of many distingished gests. Among them
wee Texas Wing Diecto of Emegency Seices
Lt. Col. Books Cima, Gop III Commande Lt.
Col. Owen Yonge, Gop Iv Commande Lt. Col.Dennis Cima, Gop III Pblic Affais Office Capt.
Ath Woodgate and his wife Adey, and Kittinge
Phantom Senio Sadon Pblic Affais Office st
Lt. richad Hacke.
To stat the poceedings, Apollos Depty
Commande fo Senios st Lt. Jason Badde called
pon the Apollo Composite Sadon Colo Gad to
pesent the colos. Then, he intodced st Lt. richad
Hacke, the Maste of Ceemonies, who welcomed the
nit membes and gests to the Mitchell Ceemony
soon to follow. Capt. Woodgate pononced the ino-cation, and also offeed a paye fo all those who
hae gien thei life in seice to the Nation. Then the
pescibed ode of the Geneal Billy Mitchell Awad
Ceemony began to nfold.
Fo yeas ago, when Cadet Moody had been a
new CAP membe, some thoght of him as an eccen-
tic basic cadet, with stange ideas who was always
eady to see Ciil Ai Patol to the best of his abil-
ity. Since then, Cadet Moody has been ee so actie
in Ciil Ai Patol and always eady to take on a mis-
sion. He is widely known fo his ingenity and expe-
tise in commnications, in which he has achieed
the leel of Commnications unit Leade. Fo the
past thee yeas, he has geneosly spead a wealth
of knowledge by teaching in many Commnications
schools in Texas Wing. And a cople of months
ago, since he is a alified Commnications unit
Leade, he seed as Commnications Office on a
eal redCAP mission.
A fn-loing peson who knows when to get seios,
Pegasus Cadet MoodysMitchell Ceremony
Cadet Moody has toched many lies. He has always
set the example and helped othes each thei pe-
sonal goals, condcting himself as a caing leadeand mento. Knowing that his past wold be looked
at in jest and some detail, and not one to leae things
to chance, Cadet Moody pepaed a slide pesentation
showing him at aios stages in his life, een as a
toddle. It wold seem that hes done eeything, been
eeywhee, and thees no limit to his talent. Bt the
one thing that was most obios is that, most of all
hes had a geat time doing it.
When asked abot his plans fo the fte, Moody
said that he wold like to attend the Massachsetts
Institte of Technology, Texas A&M uniesity, o
The uniesity of Texas. This shows that this yong
cadet aims high, as he woks had to asse himself
of a bight fte. He shold be pod of what he has
managed to accomplish ths fa.
Afte the Mitchell Ceemony, the Apollo
Composite Sadon held an official change of
Cadet Command ceemony, as Moody elinished
his command, which was tansfeed to C/Maj.
Josha Lewis.
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The Maade Composite
Sadon of Kingwood inited
the entie commnity to join them
in lanching nealy sixty ock-
ets at thei foth annal Octobe
Sky ocket lanch, on Satday,
Octobe 8. Flaming exhast and
ocket smoke filled the ai as nealy
a hnded gests and paticipants
settled in fo the popla eent.
The homemade ockets anged
fom one to six feet long, and spe-
cial ick-bild kits wee on hand
so that gests cold bild and
lanch thei own ocket ding
the festiities. Maade Sadon
cadets helped the yong ocketees
assemble and lanch thei ockets.
Some of these ockets ae
lage, and ite sophisticated,
Rockets Fly inOctober Sky
Capt. Glenn Shellhouse
noted st Lt. Eich Abogast, the
sadons Aeospace Edcation
Office. They cay altimetes,
ideo cameas and hae the
potential to exceed altitdes of
one mile and appoach the speed
of sond. Fo safety easons, the
lage ockets ding Octobe Sky
lanch wee limited to 300 knots
and altitdes of 000 feet.
The eent commemoates the
book and moie Octobe Sky,
the te stoy of Home Hickam,
a teenage who was inspied by
the Sptnik lanch of Octobe
97, to bild and lanch home-
made ockets. Hickam and his
high school fiends wee pesis-
tent expeimentes whose passion
fo ockety led them to become
NASA scientists.
This hands-on appoach to
science is pat of CAPs mission
to poide Aeospace Edcation tothe commnity, and a solid lean-
ing expeience fo cadets. This
is something o cadets eally
wanted to do, obseed Abogast.
They spend months stdying,
bilding ockets, and woking
with the commnity. By the time
lanch day aies, the paticipat-
ing cadets hae eaned the ali-
fication to wea the CAP Model
rockety Badge.
On lanch day, the sadons
cadets woked in teams to welcome
gests, help assemble ockets, lanch
the missiles, and ecoe them
as they paachted back to eath.
C/Amn. Calos Espinola seed
as Maste of Ceemonies and DJ,
playing tnes and poiding com-
mentay to ense that gests wee
entetained and well infomed.
Good weathe and a lage
tn-ot helped make the well
oganized eent a esonding sc-
cess. The sadon is pod of
o tadition of engaging the com-
mnity in Aeospace Edcation
and the Octobe Sky pogam is
a geat way fo s to shae o
enthsiasm with o neighbos,
noted Abogast.
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The Cops Chisti Intenational Aipot (CCIA),
in conjnction with the City of Cops Chisti and
Signate Flight Sppot, held a ibbon ctting on 7
Agst 008 to annonce the opening of the Cops
Chisti Composite Sadons new home at Signate
Flight Sppot, 06 Intenational Die at CCIA.Gest speakes at the ceemony inclded Mayo
Heny Gaet, CAP Sadon Commande, Majo Joe
Ely Caales and Diecto of Aiation Fed Segndo.
We ae so pleased to hae the CAP on ai-
pot popety, whee they belong, Segndo
said. O commnity will benefit temen-
dosly thanks to this new patneship, he added.
The veteans Band of Cops Chisti was on hand to
pefom patiotic and ceemonial msic. Additionally,
a -gn salte to hono the CAP pesonnel who died
ding Wold Wa II was fied cotesy of a ifle team
Corpus Christi CompSquadron Ofcially Opens
New Facility with Ceremony
fom Mathis, Texas Ameican Legion Post 633. Local
pasto reeend Eilas vasez pesented the Inocation.
In addition to the geneal histoical kdos offeed to
CAP, the unit also honoed one of its longtime membes,
Majo victo Medina, J., fo 40 yeas of seice to CAP.
Immediately afte the ibbon ctting ceemony,CAP cadets condcted tos of thei new heada-
tes, CAP STATION COrPuS CHrISTI, at the
Aipot. CAP Offices also condcted a static dis-
play of a isiting CAP Aicaft fom victoia, Texas.
Game Time Food & Beeage, a local aipot ten-
ant, poided efeshments fo the eents eception,
which played host to local dignitaies inclding M.
Ed Hicks of the local Aipot boad that gae paise
to the local CAP unit, Aipot Staff and its diecto
of Aiation, fo pomoting the gowth of geneal aia-
tion in the Coastal Bend.
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By Major Joe Ely Carrales
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Ciil Ai Patol fo his 90th bithday so she cold take
him fo he fist flight at the contols on an oienta-
tion flight. We tied to keep it a secet bt it was had.
Eeyone was so excited. We taeled to Wisconsin
Dells, WS fo the big 90th bithday gatheing. On
Oct 4th, 008 ret. Maj. Foest Fosty Sommes
(et. AF pilot and WWII wa heo) signed papes to
became a senio membe of SWr-TX-007 sadon ot
of Lackland AFB. C/SMSgt. Katheine Sommes pt on
he nifom and we went to the gatheing. As she gae
him the gift she said We wold like to hono yo foyo 90th bithday, with a senio membeship in the
Ciil Ai Patol. She then took a step back and salted
him which he etned. Teas wee eeywhee. My hs-
band, st Lt. Bian Sommes CAP and nd Lt. Cystal
Sommes CAP (I will be a st Lt. in abot a day o so)
ae both membes. This makes 4 geneations AF and 3
geneations CAP membes. They will be making thei
yealy tip to soth Texas (de to the cold weathe and
haing patial lngs de to cance diagnosed yeas ago
makes cold weathe too had to handle) in abot -3
weeks and his health has impoed temendosly.
This is one of the many stoies he has of the wa:
One of the missions he was
on as a co-pilot was emakable.
As they wee binging a shot p
and cippled B-4 back the pilot
foze at the contols. As the cew
made final plans Maj. Foest
Fosty Sommes took the con-
tols, flew, and safely landed the
plane which saed the lies of
the cew. Afte that plane landed
they assessed the damage and
detemined it not flyable and
shoed it off the nway. Like
many othe seice men ding
those times find it had fo them
to talk abot things that hap-
pened bt when he does talk
abot it, it is amazing.
We wold like to shae with yo an amazing stoy
that we hae. Two yeas ago when o daghte signed
p fo the Ciil Ai Patol, he geat gand fathe
(WWII wa heo ret. Maj. Foest Fosty Sommes)
was so excited to hea she wants to go to the Ai foce
Academy and be in the AF jst like he dad (actie dty
MSgt. Bian Sommes /CAP st Lt. Sommes), gand
fathe ret. MSgt. Jim Sommes and geat gand fathe
ret. Maj. Foest Sommes. He
said he wanted to be the fist pe-
son she took p in a plane when
she got he pilots license. Well,
some nexpected eents hap-
pened that has jeopadized this
deam. ret. Maj. Sommes was
e-diagnosed with cance a few
months ago which he was gien
ey bad news. The teatments
didnt wok. She doesnt get he
pilots license fo a yea and a
half moe so he wold nee get
to fly with he. That was ntil she
had an astonishing thoght. O
daghte who has been a membe
fo the past yeas (she stated
at ) wanted to gie he geat
gand fathe a membeship in the
Lackland Squadron MemberInvolves Great Grandather
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By 2nd Lt. Crystal Sommers
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The Colo Gad fom the Lackland CadetSadon wee honoed to mach in the Monte vistas
Histoical Associations 4th of Jly Paade fo the
nd yea in a ow. This yeas special gest was San
Antonios Chief of Police, M. William P. McMans.
Aond 00 Monte vistas neighbohoods adlts,
kids and dogs all gatheed at the cone of Belknap
and Lynwood at 0900 hos. The paade kicked
off pomptly at 0930 hos and ended at the Landa
Libay gonds fo a picnic. Hot dogs, lemonade,
and plenty of food wee at hand, een a fit pie con-
test fo the locals was held with ble, ed, and whiteibbons awaded. The local fie depatment wee at
hand. At the Landa Libay gonds, a few wods by
the Monte vista Histoical Association Paade coo-
dinato and the Chief of Police, thanking eeyone
who made this Monte vista eent a sccess.
The Colo Gad was commanded by Cadet/
TSgt. Nicole Miglis, beaing the Ameican
Flag. Holding the Texas flag was Cadet/CMSgt.
Lackland Cadet Color Guard March withSan Antonios Chie o Police
Kis Ke. rifleman dties wee caied ot by
Cadet/MSgt. Taylo Moellendof and Cadet/TSgt.
Katheine Sommes, all fom the Lackland Colo
Gad. An additional CAP Colo Gad mem-
be pefoming backp dties was Cadet/AC.
Timothy Ande fom the Books Ciil Ai Patol
Sadon. Eeyones paticipation helped make
this paade memoable.
SAREX at Stinson AirportThe Lackland Squadron participates in a SAREX at San Antonios Stinson Airport.
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2nd Lt. Nancy Kerr
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Membes of the3ST Johnson Conty Composite
Sadon paticipated in a Citizenship Nationalization
Ceemony inoling 3 new Ameicans in Keene and
late mached in the Clebne paade on Jly 4th.
At the 0:30 am ceemony, Cadet Senio Maste
Segeant and nit Fist Segeant, Tanne Splock
and Cadet Aiman Fist Class Ghenesis Codeo led
the gop of soon to be Ameican citizens fom the
Sothwesten Adentist College gymnasim to thelake acoss the oad fom the camps fo the swea-
ing in ceemony with Neil Diamonds song, Coming
to Ameica playing in the backgond.
The Citizenship Nationalization Ceemony was
a fist fo the commnity of Keene pesented by the
Dallas office of the Immigation Nationalization
Seice accoding to INS and officials who spoke
befoe the newly swon-in Ameican citizens fom
6-conties.
Among the 3 new citizens wee eight membes
of the amed foces fom the Ai Foce, Amy, Nayand Maines. Late the seice membes wee asked
to join and lead in the pledge of allegiance, flanked
by locale and state leades who spoke ding the
ceemony.
Ding the ceemony Ciil Wa e-enactos fom
Clebnes own Teys Texas ranges: fied off two
3-inch odinances (cannons) with esonding booms
echoing in the backgond, while msicians fom the
commnity and the college played patiotic composi-
tions and natie Texas tnes.
Johnson County Squadron Participatesin July 4th Nationalization Ceremonyand Community Parade
Senio Offices Majo robet Benton, the nits
commande and nit Safety Office, nd Lietenant
Kenneth Cowell wee in attendance, celebating with
the oeflowing cowd of family and fiends of the
new Ameicans.
Cowell was pesonally eminded of the memoy
of his gand paents who immigated to Ameica
fom rssia yeas pio to the Commnist oethow
of the rssian Empie in 900.Then again at 6 pm at the Clebne Jly 4th
paade, Cadets Splock and Codeo took to the
steets caying the united States and Texas flags
flanked by ifle baies, Cadets Aiman Maia Cye
and Aiman Fist Class Kelly Gomez binging local
citizens to thei feet to hono the colos of the Nation
on a -mile paade ote assisted by Senio Offices
Benton and Cowell.
The team was the only maching nit in the
paade that consisted of oaing fie tcks and police
motocycles, stylish classic and antie ehicles,political candidates on foot, home-made floats and
hose-monted nits fom the sheiffs pose to hose
enthsiasts in the conty.
Ding the paade, family,