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Semper Vigilans
Vol. 2, Issue 5 1 May 2008

Unit Commander Jason Sherwood, Major, CAP

Michigan Wing participates in Search and Rescue Exercise, April 5, 2008. Lieutenant Colonel Frank Roldan Deputy Commander of Seniors On Friday afternoon of April 4th, the Michigan Wing communications van, as well as various ground teams from across Michigan, came to Grand Haven to participate in a Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX). This type of exercise provides training for new members as well as recurrence training for qualified personnel. Several corporate aircraft arrived on Saturday to participate in the air portion of the exercise which included sorties over Port Sheldon and West Olive Townships. The aircrews used both visual and electronic methods to detect colored targets pre-positioned the night before in he area. Once a target was found by an aircrew ground teams were directed to the area to identify the target and practice procedures to bring emergency services personal to the scene of the accident. The Muskegon Composite Squadron, headquartered in Grand Haven, hosted the event by arranging for headquarters facilities at the Grand Haven Municipal Airport and by providing personnel at the Command Post.
SAREX Mission Aircraft flying over 16611 Port Sheldon Street, Port Sheldon, Michigan (one of the yellow canvass markers spotted by SAREX Air Assets) The Gippsland is an aircraft manufactured in Australia which CAP has purchased for use with the ARCHER imaging system.

Inside this issue:

Command Staff

Deputy Cmdr for Seniors Column

Calendar of Events 2008 Michigan Wing Conference Report

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Views on Leadership Last Months Promotions!

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New Spaatz Awardees

Contact Information

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Pilots and crews getting briefed for the mornings missions.

Cadets aid seniors in Operations during SAREX 08.

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Vol. 2, Issue 4 1 May 2008

From The Command Staff

From the Unit Commander Major Jason Sherwood
The Grand Haven Public Safety Department (GHPSD), in charge of both Fire and Police services in Grand Haven, has asked for our assistance for several upcoming dates in manning road blocks as well as to be there for the purpose of a homeland security stand point for the "what-if" situations that could happen at large events. While those who have completed CERT training are preferred, all members can be of essential use during these events. We would love to help them and build our relationship with our local Emergency Services organizations through events like these. More information will be announced during out Tuesday meetings and through the chain of command outside of the meeting nights. For now, any one who might be available for the following dates, primarily in the mornings, please let me know via e-mail or through the Chain of Command so I can add you to lists of availability for the dates to give to the GHPSD. The dates of current are 24 May, 31 May, 13 Jul, 26 Jul. One of our responsibilities of Emergency Services is the volunteering to assist other agencies were we can and build relationships with such agencies so we can, as the cadet oath states, "be of service to our community, state, and nation." Any and all help members can provide to help our squadron be a part of that responsibility is vastly appreciated. As always, we thank all members and their families for their continued support of the squadron and Civil Air Patrol as a whole."

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Roldan

From the Vice Commander SEMPER VIGILANS

Major James Coultier

Deputy Commander for Cadets

My thanks for all seniors that participated on our monthly Senior Staff meetings. I believe that this process will allow us to better plan the direction we want the squadron to follow. I encourage all to bring items and ideas to these meetings and to do their very best to keep on schedule when assigned tasks.

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Schedule of Events** (Noted by a Red date and ! on calendars to right.)

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Upcoming Squadron Events: 10 May -- Pending - O-flight Day and Clean out/inventory of supply* 11 May -- Mothers Day 17 May -- Pending - O-flights at Grand Haven Airport and Clean out/ inventory of supply* 20 May -- 3rd Tuesday Senior Member Staff Meeting, Crisis Communication to be discussed among other topics noted in April's Meeting 26 May -- Memorial Day Parade, Need Color Guard and any others interested to let Maj. Cloutier know ASAP. 31 May -- Pending - O-flight and Clean out/Inventory of supply Rain Date if 17 May cancelled* *O-Flights are in the works of being scheduled, the dates listed have been submitted to squadrons with O-Flight Pilots for further scheduling. I t will be announced during a Tuesday Meeting when this date is nailed down and Confirmed. Upcoming Wing Events: 03 May -- Wing Awards Conference 03-04 May -- Group 702 ES Training 16-18 May -- Wing Practice Mission in Monroe, MI 16-18 May -- AE Conference 24 May -- Operation Pine Tree, Communications Field Exercise 06-08 June -- SAR Academy Staff Training 14 June -- Flag Day (U. S.) 14 June -- Wing Staff Meeting 15 June -- Fathers Day 21 June -- ES Counter Drug Training 21-22 June -- ES SAR Management/ AFRCC Course 21 June -- Gaylord Air Show 27-29 June -- ES Wing Evaluated Mission 12-19 July -- Wing campment (Cadets) En-

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The 119th Muskegon Composite Squadron, glr-mi-119, meets every Tuesday starting at 1900 hrs (7:00 p.m.) at the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters Building, 650 South Harbor Drive, Grand Haven, Michigan. Any changes to this will be posted in the Schedule of Events. ** As events sometimes change, please be sure to constantly double check the calendar and be in contact with project officers. Most changes to Wing Level activities are sent to members through the Wing E-mail list. Submit your E-mail address and desire to subscribe to the Wings activities announcements to Major Sherwood. **

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MICHIGAN WING 2008 CONFERENCE REPORT

By Lt Col Frank Roldn, CAP The Michigan Wing 2008 conference was held on Saturday, 3 May, at the Radisson Hotel in Lansing. The conference opened with a General Assembly at which Col James Klynstra, National Guard Executive Planner, described the 2007 joint exercise and their plans for future events in 2008-2010. Lt Col Tim Neill explained an ongoing wing history project and requested input from the membership. Gabriel Watts described the 2007 events for Wreaths Across America and the plans to expand the project for 2008. Mr. Bob Belting, a high school teacher, made a presentation about ASET. This program is based on NASAs Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory where astronauts practice underwater in a swimming pool to simulate conditions they will find in space as the build the International Space Station (ISS). The students are trained in the use of SCUBA and assemble, underwater, a mock up frame equal in size to modules of the ISS. The students have to develop the entire work schedule and processes for the project they are given, including how to communicate without the use of radios. Problems are introduced while they work to train them to react to emergencies, etc. This program is being considered by CAP as another cadet summer activities. Capt Michael Sandstrom, Wing PAO, introduced the new wing marketing plan that is being adopted by National. The new slogan is; Citizens Serving Communities: Above and Beyond. He also highlighted the new public website, http://gocivilairpatrol.com. During lunch, Col Saile, Wing CC, gave a brief talk about the latest National Board. Many awards were presented and Lt Col Roldn was honored to accept our squadrons Mishap-Free Certificate of Achievement. He also accepted a similar certificate for the Western Michigan Group on behalf of Lt Col Redeker. Three 45-minute breakout sessions where held in the afternoon. Each session offered five different topics to pick from. Most areas of CAP where covered.

St a y i n fo r m e d ! Go t o t h e N at i o n a l CA P w eb s i t e for current and archived Aerospace Education Newsletters!

http://www.cap.gov/visitors/members/aerospace_education/ stay_informed/ae_newsletters/ AE current events link for May: http://www.aviationtoday.com/

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Views on Leadership
Edited version of Kirt Bowdens article:

Personal Views and Experiences in Creating a Successful Composite Squadron

This article was originally published in The CAP Officer in 1998

(For entire article, go to http://www.cadetstuff.org/archives/cat_activities.htmland look for this article)

1. Be real! Don't be something you're not. What I mean by this is that many people in CAP, cadet
and senior, tend to want to portray themselves as soldiers, marines, airman, pilots, rangers, etc. Although we attempt to follow many of the same rules as the "real military", we must first realize that we are our own entity. Instead of trying to be like them, be like us, the professionals of Civil Air Patrol. Realize the true importance of the standards set forth in writing for our organization. Abide by these standards and teach these standards to everyone, cadets and seniors. More importantly though, enforce our written doctrine.

2. Looks count! Do everything within your power to make yourself look good; like a professional. Then, do everything you can to make your squadron members look good --just like you.
DO NOT allow members of your squadron to get away with anything like wearing part of a uniform or a uniform without proper insignia. No matter how much that person wants to go on that mission or help out at a recruiting drive, they'll only make you look bad.

3. Uniformity goes along with being professional. We are the auxiliary of the US Air Force; the
fourth leg that holds the Air Force high in the sky. Everyone looks the same or everyone looks bad. This means that either everyone wears their BDU sleeves down or no one wears them down. If your squadron has a squadron hat or T-shirt, then they all wear it or none at all. Enough said about that.

4. The only thing that should be last minute is a REDCAP. Always be aware of what activity
is coming up. You built your schedule now use it. If you know that your annual air show is coming up May 15th, don't wait until May 1st to organize it. My thought on scheduling is that if it's not planned a month ahead of time it's not planned properly.

5. Communicate and distribute all information. E-mail is the best way to communicate today.
People forget about a phone call, and they forget about email too. But the next time they open up their email account it will hopefully still be sitting there and remind them they were supposed to call their cadets. Always put out information multiple times. By multiple, I mean every chance you get.

6. T-Flight, or Training Flight, is one of the best concepts to ever come about during my tenure as DCC. With the help of an experienced cadet whose maturity level exceeded his age, we
developed an 8-week program for all new/potential cadet members. T-Flight could take up pages of this paper so I won't go into it in great detail. Basically you take your new recruits, make them wear the same thing (white t-shirt and jeans), teach them everything in Chapter I of the leadership book, and have them graduate together wearing a complete uniform (usually BDUs).

7. Give your cadets responsibility. This is probably the newest thing I did at my squadron. It wasn't
until 1999 that I got the idea to start having some of the older, higher-ranking cadets teach emergency services classes. It's not as easy as just telling them to teach any old task, I had to first give classes to them on giving classes. I taught them everything I know about standing in front of a group of people and giving a

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Last Months Promotions!

Promotion Night, 29 April 2008

Dr. Robert Goddard Achievement Award

CAP Core Values

INTEGRITY, VOLUNTEER SERVICE, EXCELLENCE, and RESPECT

If you are a regular unit member, would you try to do whats best for the unit, even if it meant some inconvenience? How about something minor, like giving up a Saturday to take cadets on a field trip. How about something not so minor, like going out at 0200 on a cold January morning to search for an ELT, even though you know with 99% certainty that it would be a false alarm. How would you know it WASNT real?

"Th' yellow one is fer national defense, th' red one wit' white stripes is fer good conduct, and th' real purty one wit' all th' colors is fer bein' in this theater of operations." Bill Mauldin, Stars and Stripes Cartoon 1943- 1945

Adam Bricker, Promoted from C /SMSgt to C/CMSgt (Addressed as: Chief) with completion of the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Achievement Award

Wright Brothers Achievement Award

Major Jim Cloutier, Deputy Commander for Cadets and Testing Officer who helps cadets with testing and tutoring

Aaron Trute, C/SrA to C/SSgt. Wright Brothers Achievement Award #9468

Addressed as: Sergeant

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Carroll Composite Squadron's Reed named ME Region Cadet of the Year

6-year CAP member achieved Spaatz award in '05 May 05, 2008 Capt. Brenda A. Reed Public Affairs Officer Maryland Wing
acob Reed of the MARYLAND -- Cadet Col. Jacob Reed of the Carroll Composite Squadron has been named the Cadet Col. J Carroll Composite S quadron Cadet of the Year for the Middle East Region. is awarded Middle East Region Cadet of the Year by Col. The award was presented by Col. Charles Glass, commander of the Middle East Region, during Charles Glass, the region's the region conference banquet in Richmond, Va. commander.

Reed has been a Civil Air Patrol member since 2002. During his tenure as the Carroll squadron's cadet commander, the unit earned the Regions Squadron of Distinction Award for best cadet program. He has attended five Tri-Wing Encampments and was chosen as cadet commander for the 2008 encampment, which annually trains 160 new cadets. In addition, he very active in activities in the Maryland Wing, recently serving as coordinator for the Wing Cadet Conference and project officer for the Cadet Speak-Off. Reed has attended five national cadet special activities -- the Civic Leadership Academy, Air Force Space Command, Air Force Weather Command, Advanced Technologies Academy, and Air Education and Training Command Familiarization Course. He also participated in three National Cadet Competitions and has served as commander of the Maryland Wing drill team the last three years. He has been a member of the National Cadet Advisory Council and has participated in Legislative Day in Washington, D.C. for four years. During the summer of 2007, Reed attended the Maryland Wing Solo School Academy, where he soloed in a Cessna 172 and passed the Federal Aviation Administration's private pilots exam. He was awarded the Aaron Charles Joslin Flight Scholarship for the school and the Spaatz Association Aerospace Scholarship to continue his pilot training. Reed earned CAP's Gen. Carl A. Spaatz Award in 2005. His decorations include six Commanders Commendations, a National Commanders Commendation and a Meritorious Service Award. He graduate this spring from the Carroll Community College and will transfer to the University of Maryland Baltimore County this fall as a junior, majoring in international economics. He has worked full-time for the Department of Defense since 2006. He is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and the Toastmasters Club of Fort Meade, Md.
Carl A. Spaatz Award: The Carl A. Spaatz Award is the highest Cadet Award and denotes exceptional performance in the Cadet career. This award has existed since 1964. The award honors the late General Carl A. Spaatz, who became the first U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff on September 26, 1947. General Spaatz (pronounced spots) was also CAPs first National Board Chairman, a position he held from May 26, 1948, to April 27, 1959. The Cadet must successfully complete all phases of the CAP Cadet Program and the General Carl A. Spaatz Award examination. This award is certified and awarded only by National Headquarters. (See CAPR 52-16) The Spaatz is CAP's highest achievement for a cadet, one earned by only about one-half of 1 percent, with less than 1,700 awarded since the honor was instituted in 1964.

Reed has been a Civil Air Patrol member since 2002. During his tenure as the Carroll squadron's cadet commander, the Unit earned the Regions Squadron of Distinction Award for best cadet program.

Cadet Col. Elizabeth Dumont of the Michigan Wing's Highpoint Composite Squadron receives Civil Air Patrol's Gen. Carl A Spaatz Award from Lt. Gen. John L Hudson, commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, at this years Great Lakes Region Cadet Competition. Dumont served at cadet coordinator of the regional competition, marking her third year serving on staff for the event.

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David J. DArcy, 1Lt,, CAP Editor and Public Affairs Officer 16611 Port Sheldon Street, West Olive, Michigan 49460 Recruiting: 616-786-4220 Email: david.darcy2001@yahoo.com

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For more information on articles in this newsletter, please email the Public Affairs Officer, 1Lt David DArcy, CAP at david.darcy2001@yahoo.com or directly to the unit commander, Major J ason S herwood, CAP at glmi119@hotmail.com If urgent, you may also call the PAO at 616-786-4220. 119th members are also encouraged to send pictures and/or stories to that email address for publication. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, reply to the email message it came in and simply type, Unsubscribe. If you know of anyone who would like to receive the 119th ENews, have them e-mail the Public Affairs Officer so they can be added to the list. Also check out the these other web published Newsletters: Safety: The Sentinel: http://level2.cap.gov/documents/Sentinel.pdf
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Photo taken during the judging phase of the Muskegon Model Rocket competition 2008 Michigan Aerospace Challenge April 25 & 26, 2008 (Launch phase cancelled due to weather)

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