Minnesota Wing - Apr 2005

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WingTipsThe official publication of Minnesota W ing Civil Air Patrol April 2005

by 1st Lt. Joseph Bradfield,

Worthington Squadron

Ground team leaders from

across Minnesota Wingconvened in Duluth March

19-20 for “Ground Team

Leader Proficiency

Training: Beyond theBasics,” the first of what itscreators hope will become

an annual event.

According to its founders,Maj. Doug Mitchell,

Duluth Squadron; Maj.

Chet Wilberg, HutchinsonSquadron; and 1t Lt.

William Reichert, ValleySquadron, the idea came,

while talking at the wing’sES Conclave in December.They decided, from

comparing observations of past year's exercises and

actual searches, that there

was a need for moreconcentrated ground team

leader training.

They agreed that groundteam leaders need to regu-

larly review basic skills,but they also envisioned

training ‘beyond the basics’

in new search and rescuetechnology and in the

Incident Command System,which has undergone some

modifications in the past

year. The discussion con-

tinued through emails andevolved into this training.

The weekend's sessions fol-

lowed the scope andsequence of established

ground team leader train-ing. However, the instruc-

tors added opportunities to

share ‘tricks of the trade’ –both from the most experi-

enced searchers, whose

admirable paperwork andmember task delegation

routines were worthy of imitation by other

squadrons, and also fromyounger senior members

adept at the newest elec-

tronic resources.

After a full day of class-room activities on Saturday

that went well into theevening, members were

assigned a place on one of

two teams, gave their con-tact information, created a

phone tree and retired. Theparticipants tried to rest,

anxious that sometime

before breakfast – they

weren't sure when – theywould be called to respondto a simulated emergency.

The call came just as some

of the members were goingto breakfast. They made

their phone-tree calls and

reported back to their leader

which members wouldattend, then they all met at

the mission base, a confer-ence room at the motel.

The simulation briefing

gave three SAR-satelite hitsnorthwest and southeast of

their base. The two teams

coordinated their searchstrategies before departing

rather than competing

against each other.

The rest of the scenario

played out as most SARexercises do. But at the

debriefing of this event,

instructors projected an

Experienced ground team leaders host proficiency training

Participants of the ground team leader proficiency training course held in Duluth

complete a classroom exercise. Photo by 1st Lt. Joseph Bradfield

Training / Page 3



by Col. Steve Miller,

wing commander

Civil Air Patrol held itsWinter National Board

meeting in March.

The first two days of theevent were for members to

meet with their senators

and congressmen and pres-ent them the ‘CAP Report

to Congress.’

All members of theMinnesota delegation to

Congress are members of the CAP Congressional

Squadron. Col. Kevin

Sliwinski, wing headquar-ters, and I meet with a staff

member of each of the sen-ator's and congressmen's

offices.

We presented CongressmanMartin Sabo and Senator

Mark Dayton with theirCAP membership certifi-

cates and CAP flight suits.

C/Capt. Brian Anderson,130th Squadron, accompa-

nied us in our meetingswith Dayton, Senator Norm

Coleman's legislative aide,

Congressman Mark

Kennedy and CongressmanJohn Kline's chief of staff.

While we were there, sev-eral major votes were tak-ing place so we didn’t get

to meet with all of ourMinnesota congressmen.

Maj. Gen. Dwight Wheless,

national headquarters, pre-sented the National Board

with a new emphasis onsafety. Each unit will soon

receive the nuts and bolts

of the program.

Some of the items that

came out of the National

Board meeting are:

m New picture ID cardswill be available to sen-

WingTips is a publication of Minnesota Wing Civil Air Patrol,

U.S. Air Force Auxiliary

P.O. Box 11230, St. Paul, MN 55111www.mncap.org

[email protected]

The views expressed, either written or implied, are not neces-sarily those of the U.S. Air Force, the Civil Air Patrol orMinnesota Wing. Submissions should be sent to the above

email address.

Wing Commander: Col. Steve Miller

Wingtips Editor: Maj. Shannon Bauer

Commander’s Column: National Board meeting updates

Col. Steve Miller

ior members for a smallcharge. The new card

looks very similar tothe Air Force ID cards.

m Senior members will beoffered the option of one, two or three year

memberships.

m An agenda item forthree levels of ratedmission pilots was

withdrawn by theauthor.

m The Air Force author-

ized 50 wing adminis-trative assistants, 25authorized in fiscal year

2005 and 25 more infiscal year 2006. We do

not know in which year

our wing will beauthorized.

m A national membershipcontest is in the works.The top prize for senior

members is a VIP trip

for two to the NationalBoard meeting, which

will includes registra-tion, banquet, hotel and

airfare, as well as a

two-year free CAP

membership. The topprize for cadets is a trip

to a cadet special activ-ity of choice, which

will include registrationand transportation, aswell as a two-year free

membership. Otherprizes for second

through fourth place

will be announced inthe national headquar-

ter’s monthly mail toall units.

m On the BDU shirts, sen-

ior members are nowauthorized to wear rank

on both collars. This

change is mandatory bySep. 31, 2005.

The end of this month is

our annual Minnesota WingConference. Take advan-

tage of this great opportuni-ty to recognize our mem-

bers for their outstanding

work in CAP. It is also agreat time to make new and

renew old acquaintances. Iam looking forward to see-

ing you there.

-Semper Vigilans

WingTips April 2005

The wing is transitioning from the ‘mnwg.cap.gov’

domain to <mncap.org> during the next few months.

All e-mail addresses that were in the [email protected] will now be [email protected].

This applies to all e-mail lists and personal e-mail address-es. For now, both addresses will work; but on May 1, the

<mnwg.cap.gov> domain will be eliminated.

Any web page links or favorites will need to be updated.

For more information, contact Maj. Chet Wilberg,

Hutchinson Squadron, at [email protected].

Minnesota Wing changes domains



Minnesota Wing conferencefast approaching

The 2005 Minnesota

Wing Conference will beheld at Breezy Point

Resort, near Brainerd,

Minn., from April 29 toMay 1.

Take advantage of this

great event and see yourold friends and meet

some new ones. Learnmore about Civil Air

Patrol and what’s going

on throughout the wing.Cheer on the award win-

ners and thank them fortheir volunteer service.

Conference registration

forms are availableonline at

<http://www.mncap.org/

xp/conf.htm>. The formswere also mailed.

For more information onBreezy Point Resort, see

<http://www.breezy-pointresort.com/>.

Thinking about complet-

ing that Level IV? Alimited number of

"intern" positions are

available for the confer-ence. If you are interest-

ed, contact Col. DennisRock at

[email protected].

For more information onthe conference, contact

Lt. Col. Bill Rutten,

Minnesota WingConference public affairs

officer at [email protected].

interactive topographic maponto a screen. Global posi-

tioning system, or GPS,

information plotted by thecomputer program showed

the participants their path tothe simulated crash site.

The projected landscape

clearly showed whysearchers received erratic

signals from the emergency

locator transmitter, or ELT.It neatly documented their

efforts to deduce its loca-tion in spite of the interfer-

ence of the river valley'shilly terrain.

Wilberg has already begun

planning next year's“Beyond the Basics” course

and said he hopes that this

year's participants will lead

some of those sessions.

Ten senior members attend-ed, in spite of the severe

snowstorm that hit some of the southern squadrons:

-Lt. Col. Tim Goodner

-Lt. Col. Keith Bishoff -Maj. Darlene Benjamin

-Capt. David Benjamin

-Capt. Dan Fosterling-Capt. Brian Freseman

-Capt. Mark McCormick

-1st Lt. Joel Roggenkamp-1st Lt. Joseph Bradfield

-2nd Lt. Donald Roessler

In addition to Mitchell,

Wilberg and Reichert, three

additional presenters leadsessions during the week-

end's training, includingCapt. Ernest Moen, 2nd Lt.

Chris Reichert and 2nd Lt.

John Snyder.

Training /

Participants of the ground team leader proficiency

training course held in Duluth complete a classroom

exercise. Photo by 1st Lt. Joseph Bradfield

April 2005 WingTips Page 3

Col. Stephen Miller, Minnesota Wing commander,

presents Minnesota Senator Dick Day with his mem-

bership in the Minnesota Legislative Squadron. Day

represents District 26 (Owatonna, Waseca and

Faribault area) and recently joined CAP.



NONPROFIT ORG.

US POSTAGE PAIDPERMIT NO. 7109

ST.PAUL, MN

Minnesota Wing Civil Air Patrol,U.S. Air Force Auxiliary

P.O. Box 11230, St. Paul, MN 55111

Senior member and cadetofficer promotions

Major

Kevin Bauder, North HennepinDon Dalton, Red Wing

Gerald Rosendahl, Owatonna

Captain

Lonell Koppes, Crow Wing

David Mansheffer, Anoka

Jeremy Price, Pipestone

1st Lt.

Dalen Kruse, St. Croix

Robert McDonald, St. Croix

2nd Lt.

Laura Broker, North Star

The 2005 Minnesota Wing Cadet Leadership Academywill accept staff applications until April 10. See

<www.mncap.org/cp/mla> for more information.

by Lt. Col. Bob Johnson, Crow Wing Squadron

Crow Wing Squadron lost a good friend and fellowsquadron member when Jake Pfingsten died in Germany

Feb. 12.

Pfingsten died as a result of an illness he contracted whileserving a three-week deployment with the Minnesota

National Guard. His family was able to be with him, and

they have expressed their deep gratitude to the Army fortheir support during this difficult time.

Pfingsten and his family have been key members of Crow

Wing Squadron for many years, including his grandmotherMary Lou, sisters Jolene and Sarah, and parents Beth and

Tom.

His grandmother said of him, “Everybody loved Jake. He

had friends all over. He was very polite. He was every-body's friend and he loved to do service for other people.”

We miss him, and we will continue to keep his family inour thoughts and prayers.

Crow Wing Squadron, Army loses member

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