ALABAMAWING CIVILAIRPATROL

NEWSLETTERSEPTEMBER2011
Col.LisaRobinsonLt.Col.BradLynn CommanderViceCommander
Contents Safety Dothan Squadron Gadsden Squadron Spaatz Association Scholarship Bessemer Squadron Professional Development South Baldwin County Squadron Inspector General Bentley Appointed to USAF Academy SAR Eval Grade Outstanding Ironman Competition Announcement National Staff College Applications Due 2011 Region Staff College Wing Emergency Services School Public Affairs 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 13 13

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Safety and Disaster Planning

No one knows how or when a disaster will strike. But everyone should be prepared. A disaster is a sudden event that causes great harm to people and property. The disaster might be severe weather, such as a hurricane or a tornado. Or it might be a flood, an earthquake, or a volcano. Disasters can be caused by people too. A large fire might threaten an entire community. Chemicals might spill from a truck. A terrorist attack might threaten air, water, or personal safety. Being prepared starts with having a conversation. Household members need to talk about the kinds of things that can happen where you live. Develop a family communication plan and assemble disaster supply kits that are stored in an identified place in the home.

If a disaster does strike, go to an inside room of your home, or to the room with the fewest windows. Bring your disaster supply kit with you. Listen to a batterypowered radio for news and instructions. Sometimes household members are away from home during a disaster. Or emergency officials might advise you to leave your home. In either case, you and your loved ones will need a place to meet. Pick a friend or relatives house outside your neighborhood. Be sure to pick this place before a disaster strikes so you can be prepared. Also, memorize the phone number of a relative that lives out of state. Use it if you become separated from your loved ones. Let that relative know where you are so your loved ones can find you. Your communication plan should include: Places in and out of your town where you and your family could meet. Phone numbers of in-town contacts. An address and phone number of someone out of town (this could be a friend or relative). You can write this information on a card that each family member keeps with them. Help your children feel safe. Discuss and learn together about the different types of weather that can affect your area. Tell your children that you or another grownup will be there to help if something happens. Talk about how a relief worker, firefighter, police officer, teacher, neighbor or doctor might help. Put a list of emergency numbers by each telephone in your home. Tell your children what each number is for. You should also list the work and cell phone numbers of family members.

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Article from: http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/aboutus/resourcecenter/pdfs/rc_article_p012.pdf Our tornado season is over until the fall, but hurricane season is upon us. The last few hurricane seasons have not caused too much damage, but luck cannot always be with us. Use the Home Safety Council as just a beginning. The Alabama Wing Newsletter of Summer 2005 was on hurricane preparedness. This year may be a good time to revisit that letter. Some of the links may be outdated. The articles are not.

Dothan participates in the Annual Night Out in July 2011

DOTHAN, Ala. The Annual National Night Out was held at the Dothan Civic Center in Dothan, Alabama on Saturday, July 30, 2011 and members of the Dothan Composite Squadron, Lt Col Brett Lewis, Capt Melissa Lewis, C/Capt Megan Paulson, C/ A1C Richard Irsik and C/Amn Keenan Allen, were there to represent the Civil Air Patrol.

The Dothan Police Department and Houston/Henry County District Attorney, Douglas Valeska joined forces with other local law enforcement agencies, the Dothan Fire Department, and numerous other organizations to promote crime and drug prevention throughout the Wiregrass Area. The event included performances from local bands, food, rides, demonstration from the bomb squad, the K9 team, the crime scene team and the SWAT Team. The theme of this years event was Unity of Community and the Dothan Composite Squadron was proud to be a part of such a positive happening. Dothan Police Departments Captain Keith Gray commented, The Civil Air Patrol is a positive influence on our children and makes valuable contributions to our Dothan community. Dothan Composite Squadron representatives spoke with visitors about the missions of the Civil Air Patrol and what we are able to offer the community through those missions. Their efforts not only strengthened CAPs ties with the community, but were able to communicate the capabilities to law enforcement and emergency management agencies.
Lt. Col. Bret Lewis Commander, Dothan Squadron

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Gadsden Cadets Serve as Color Guard for Ceremony

The Gadsden Cadets performed the Color Guard ceremony for the Alabama Army National Guard, Change of Command Ceremony. The Cadets helped welcome in the new Commander, Lt. Col. John Lipscomb. The ceremony was held at Ft. McClellan, Al headquarters on Sunday March 6, 2011. The cadets each received a Gold Commander's coin from outgoing Commander Lt. Col. Naugher.

Cadets holding Gold Commander's Coin. (l to r) C/TSGT Nathan Phillips, C/SrA. Jonathan Roberts, C/MSGT Joseph Stanley, C/SSGT Doug McClelland, C/SrA. Levi Kellum

In addition, to meeting both old and new commanders the cadets meet Brigadier Gen. Gailes, who was once a Civil Air Patrol cadet, told the cadets that he obtained the highest rank a cadet can achieve, the Spaatz Award # 525. Gailes reached the highest rank a Civil Air Patrol Cadet can achieve, C/Col. He was so kind to come and speak with the cadets and share his story about being in the CAP. He stated when he saw them walking across the stage that he had a flash back of his days at being a cadet. He directly related his service with CAP as a cadet to his success in life. He told the cadets that "when you are 18 you will have learned more than your peers who are 25." He explained that the leadership skills he learned while a cadet was far beyond that of young people his age. The big plus he said about being a cadet was HE GOT TO FLY AND FINALLY GOT HIS PILOTS wings, and scholarships for college, all from CAP.

The Spaatz Association Aerospace Leadership Scholarship Deadline to apply September 30th.
Are you a Civil Air Patrol cadet who: Earned your Mitchell Award, Earned your Solo Wings in a powered aircraft, Maintains at least a 3.0 GPA (normalized), and has not received or been selected for a similar scholarship or grant?

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Then you are eligible to apply for The Spaatz Association Aerospace Leadership Scholarship!!! The scholarship is intended to be used primarily to bring a cadet from solo to his/her private pilot's license. A limited amount of the scholarship may also be used to attend a CAP leadership activity, or to serve in a leadership position at a suitable CAP activity. The scholarship must be used within one year of awarding and while the winner is still an active cadet in good standing. You may apply by submitting: A resume of your CAP career; Proof of academic standing; 3 letters of recommendation: one from your Squadron Commander or Deputy for Cadets, one from your flight instructor, and one from an individual of your choice; No more than 2 written pages explaining: 1) What you've done for the Civil Air Patrol, 2) What the scholarship will be used for, and 3) How your use of the scholarship will benefit the Civil Air Patrol in the future; A full-length picture in CAP uniform, preferably service dress, but not a utility uniform. ***Note: This is not a CAP scholarship. The application requirements are different, and incomplete or incorrect applications will be disqualified. Please fulfill the above requirements exactly.***

Bessemer Cadets Earn Awards and Place Wreaths

Cadets Madison Smith & Jonathan Ricketts received Billy Mitchell Award at June Awards Banquet (pictured w/ Capt Vaught & Capt Rohar)

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Change of Command; C/1st Lt. Jonathan Ricketts (Deputy Commander), C/1st Lt. Austin Vaught (Cadet Commander), and C/1st Lt. Timothy Blake (Cadet Advisor)

Celebration at Alabama National Cemetery May 30th. Pictured left to right back row C/2nd Lt. Schaffer, Senator Bachus, C/MSgt Welkenback, C/SrAWarrington, C/2nd Lt Franklin,

C/Parker, C/CMSgt McCallum, C/2nd Lt Smith, C/Amn Hunkapiller front row - C/A1C Michl & Capt Vaught

Professional Development
February Awards
Joseph R Robbins Mark E Adams Robert C Stewart Shakti B Robinson Judy A Atwood LOENING Level 3 YEAGER Award DAVIS Level 2 DAVIS Level 2 YEAGER Award

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Eric Griffin Michael K Moore March Awards Crystal M Lauver Joseph L Viviano May Awards Alford Boyd Jr Steven E McMurtrey James A Hensley Gaythan D Belue Teresa Lynn Toney John W Gibson Robert G Newsome Jr Carlin B Sheppard James B Pyatt Rhonda R Pyatt June Awards Richard T Ballard Jerry W Ford David R Gilbert Anthony J Diez Eddie D Shurbutt Early Washam Scott S Peters Jerry A Sharp

YEAGER Award YEAGER Award

YEAGER Award YEAGER Award

YEAGER Award YEAGER Award YEAGER Award YEAGER Award LOENING Level III DAVIS Level II YEAGER Award DAVIS Level II YEAGER Award YEAGER Award

As of July 26, 2011, AL 132 Central Alabama Senior Squadron,100% of the squadron has earned the Yeager Award.

YEAGER Award YEAGER Award YEAGER Award LOENING Level 3 YEAGER Award YEAGER Award DAVIS Level 2 YEAGER Award

South Baldwin County Cadet Squadron AL133 Holds Awards Ceremony

Al 133 held an awards ceremony on 20 June, 2011. In attendance was the Honorable Congressman Jo Bonner to present the squadron's first Mitchell Award to Sam Cockrell. Several other certificates, awards, and promotions were presented during the evening.

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Capt Hanes, Congressman Jo Bonner, C/2nd Lt Cockrell, Mr. and Mrs. Cockerel.

Capt Hanes presents Lithograph to Congressman Bonner

Inspector General
Major Gary Bishop Alabama Wing Inspector General 8040 Laurel Oaks Lane Tuscaloosa AL 35405-9712 ig@alwg.us 205-307-8999

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C/2nd Lt. Michael Bentley Earns Academy Appointment

LtCol Jack Bentley, father and squadron cadet activities commander and Capt Tom Lyon, Squadron Commander.

C/2nd Lt. Michael Bentley of the Mobile Composite Squadron accepted an appointment to the United States Air Force Academy. He will enter the class of 2015 when he officially reports on 23 June of this year. Bentley is the son of CAP Lt. Col. Jack and Jane Bentley of Mobile, Lt. Col Bentley is the Cadet Activities Commander of the Mobile Composite squadron. C/2nd Lt Bentley was honor cadet of his flight at encampment. He attended National Emergency Services Academy (NESA), Cadet Officer School, and served on staff as the Dining Facility NCOIC at a Florida Wing winter encampment. He is currently his squadron's Cadet Commander and primary representative to the Wing Cadet Advisory Council.
Maj. Anthony Whitson Mobile Composite Squadron PAO

Alabama Wing Civil Air Patrol Earns Outstanding on Biennial Evaluation

Tuscaloosa, Ala.Low ceilings, IFR conditions and the high heat index did not prevent the Alabama Wing from earning an Outstanding on their recent biennial evaluation. The United States Air Force evaluates every wing in the United States on the wings ability to perform certain required activities when called to action by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC), the Alabama Emergency Management Agency (AEMA) and other local and state organizations that might need the wing to respond in the event of a man-made or natural emergency, or an overdue aircraft.

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Ground Branch planning a sortie.

All of these problems were simulated in the exercise. An aircraft on a training flight was reported overdue, a resident of the county was lost in the woods, and an Aerial Digital Imaging System flight was flown to photograph the bridges over Lake Tuscaloosa after a report of damage. Two ground teams were dispatched. One was sent to the area where the county resident disappeared into the woods using a home built ultra-light. The other team was guided to the location of the practice beacon representing the site of the missing aircraft. Both teams retrieved the practice beacons and returned to the incident command post.

Taking roll during the simulated bomb threat.

Twenty-nine flights hours were logged using twenty-sorties. Pilots from squadrons from Muscle Shoals to Dothan signed in for sorties at this exercise.

Capt Tom Lyon, Maj. Ray Harkey, and Maj. Ed Barnes working on an air sortie

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Over seventy CAP volunteers from across the state signed in for this evaluated practice search and rescue mission. Cadets and senior members worked staff, flight line, air crews and ground teams because they believe in the missions of the Civil Air Patrol. An outstanding rating made the work of the staff, ground and air crews at the mission and in other training exercises worth all of the effort.
Maj. Pat Mitcham, Alabama Wing, PAO

Iron Man Competition 2011

This year's Iron Man Competition will be held a little earlier than normal due to a change in football schedules here at Auburn University. The dates will be Friday and Saturday, November 4--5, 2011. As always, Friday evening will be your check-in time, in-processing, safety/ORM briefings, and the first part of the competition. Saturday, all day, we will continue the competition. We look forward to being able to get everyone out no later than 5pm this year, as some of the issues that kept us a little late last year have been addressed and tweaked. Things to look forward to this year: 1) New Friday night schedule and in-processing procedure 2) Completely new Compass/DF event 3) Captain Christopher Tate 4) Fantastic new run route with a lot of fun and difficult challenges along the way. 5) What else could you be doing with your time? Re-lacing your tennis shoes?!? Checking the elastic in your socks?!? Get down here and have some fun and fellowship with other CAP members from around the Wing and Region! Again, November 4th-5th will be the dates for this year's CAP Iron Man Competition. We look forward to seeing everyone out there. Registration packets will be put out to the squadrons and uploaded to the website as soon as possible once the ALWG FY12 budget is finalized/approved and we know exactly what the final IMC budget will be. For more information on the competition in general, visit the website at www.areyouanironman.com. Time to start getting those brains and lungs into shape!!!!!
Capt. Christopher Tate Auburn Squadron, Commander

Photo by Capt. J. Lartigue, Ironman 2006

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National Staff College 2011

National Staff College (NSC) is the capstone course in professional development. NSC 2011 will be held from 15-22 Oct 11 this year at Maxwell AFB, AL. Attendance at National Staff College is restricted to those members who hold the grade of Major (or above), who have completed CAP's Region Staff College (or equivalent), and who have the endorsement of their wing commander. Applications are being accepted now. Deadline to apply is: 20 Sep 11. For more information and to apply to NSC 2011 the following link provides all the needed information: http://capmembers.com/cap_university/course_schedules/national_staff_college_nsc.cfm

2011 Southeast Region Staff College

(l-r) Capt. Kilgore, Maj. Boyd, Maj. Gosnell, Maj. Mike Moyer (CAP NHQ), Lt. Col. Landry , Maj. Iddins 2011 Southeast Region Staff College is now in the history book. Held at McGhee-Tyson ANGB in Knoxville, TN there were 24 students from 8 different Wings (including 3 outside the SER) and 11 instructors (including 2 from Puerto Rico!) in attendance. The SERSC is the premier region college that prepares field grade officers (primarily majors and major-selects) to assume leadership positions of higher responsibility within the CAP. The Alabama Wing was well represented by Maj. Al Boyd, Maj. Jim Gosnell, Maj. Chris Iddins, Capt. Rick Kilgore and Lt. Col. Austin Landry. Alabama Wing had the largest contingency of student participants in the college. All those attending felt the week long training was well worth the commitment and are eager to utilize those skills learned to make CAP the best organization possible.
Capt. Rick Kilgore Director Professional Development ALWG CAP

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Alabama Wing Emergency Services School.

Four different schools: Basic GSAR (GTM3), Advanced GSAR (GTM1) Ground Team Leader (GTL) Basic ICSS (IS 100/200/700/800, MSA, MRO, ACUT).

This event is open to all eligible cadets and senior members. All participants must be a member in good standing, have OPSEC, GES, and must be safety current. WESS is held at the USAF Vigilant Warrior Remote Deployment site in Titus, Alabama. The training will start in October, and end in April. The cost for the training is $15. Additional information and registration may be found at www.wess.alwg.us.
Lt. Col. Michael Long Activity Director

National Emergency Services (NESA) Graduates list will be in the next newsletter.

Public Affairs
If your squadron is not represented in this long overdue newsletter, it is because I have not received items from your squadron. You are working on your own newsletters, writing articles for your facebook pages and blogs. However, the newsletter is not a cut and paste operation at this level. Please send the articles you want printed in the wing newsletter as an email. Attach photographs as jpgs to the email. Look at the new way that PAOs are to submit items to CAP Online News and VolunteerNow. All of those rules apply to submitting items for this newsletter: No embedded photos, names of people in photos, correct uniforms, paragraphs (not notes, or side remarks to a photo), authors name and rank, photographers name and rank. If the single column newsletter works better than the two column newsletter, please send an email to pmitcham@knology.net. This format was a request and so this is a trial issue. The next newsletter deadline is October 25, 2011. The wing is looking forward to seeing what every other squadron is doing. This is the one way that information about the wing is shared with everyone.
Patricia Mitcham, Major, CAP Alabama Wing Public Affairs Officer pmitcham@knology.net home: 256-880-0623 cell:256-880-0623 1919 McDowling Drive

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