Texas Wing - Winter 2008

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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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Feb. 28; June 28; Oct. 28

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

Hurricane Ike Aftermath . . .Continued

Continued . . .


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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.


Continued . . .


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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,

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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

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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

Continued on page 20 . . .

Maj. Robert Brecount


14/41

7 7

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.

Capt. Arthur E. Woodgate


15/41

9 9

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

Maj. Robert Brecount

Texas Wing AF-Guided TrainingExercise


16/41

0 0

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.

LESA and PAO . . .Continued from page 16

H


17/41

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.

Michael Moody


18/41

3 3

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.

Capt. Tom Adams


19/41

4 4

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.

Four Tyler CadetsReceive theMitchell AwardLt. Col. H. (Butch) Ragland


20/41

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

Continued on page 28 . . .

C/SMSgt. Kayla Cassel


21/41

6 6

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


22/41

7 7

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


23/41

8 8

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.


24/41

9 9

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


25/41

3 3

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.


26/41

33 33

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


27/41

34 34

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


28/41

3 3

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.


29/41

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.

37 37


30/41

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


31/41

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


32/41

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


33/41

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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,

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