VOLUME 2009, ISSUE 8 AUGUST 2009

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072ND DES MOINES METRO CADET SQUADRON | RED OAK DETACHMENT

Fly Iowa 2009

Fly Iowa 2009 was held on Saturday July 11th at the Independence Airport. The weather was beautiful and it was a great day to watch the planes come and go. Several senior members and cadets were on hand throughout the day from all over Iowa to get some quality experience in flight line marshalling and crowd control. A CAP plane was also on hand with an information table to inform the public about who we are and what we do. Available for the public to view was everything from ultra lights to a Blackhawk Helicopter complete with an hour long air show. If you missed Fly Iowa 2009

be sure to make plans to attend Fly Iowa 2010. Check out the website for additional pictures.

Summer Iowa Games 2009

New Senior Member Meeting Days & Time

The decision has been made to change the senior meeting days and time as it was just too hard to get attendance on Sundays due to scheduling conflicts.

Inside this issue:

Summer Iowa Games have come and gone for another year and despite a few entertaining moments, all lunches were delivered to hungry volunteers. Thank you to Maj. Murphy and his family for flying in on Saturday and helping us out on the lunch crew. You guys were a huge help!

Inside this issue: Squadron News

Safety Briefing Squadron News

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Effective August 1st, senior members will be meeting on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:30 pm. Meetings will still be held at the Red Oak Airport and will be held during the Cadet meetings.

Safety Briefing& Upcoming Events

Calendar

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Upcoming Events Squadron News & Calendar

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Upcoming Events
Ankeny Fly In Where: Ankeny, IA When: Aug. 22, 2009 If you are interested in going and helping out with this event please email 2Lt Brace ASAP! Dubuque SAREX Where: Dubuque, IA When: Aug. 22, 2009 If you are interested in going let us know ASAP as this date conflicts with the Ankeny Fly In. Burlington SAREX Where: Burlington, IA When: Sept. 12, 2009

Senior Members
Cadets

Cadets
News From Around the North Central News From Region Prop & Triangle

Around the North

NEWSLETTER

Safety Briefing H1N1 Flu Info (a very brief overview)

From www.fema.gov

What is novel H1N1 (swine flu)? Novel H1N1 (referred to as swine flu early on) is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This new virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. Other countries, including Mexico and Canada, have reported people sick with this new virus. This virus is spreading from person-to-person, probably in much the same way that regular seasonal influenza viruses spread.

vere illnesses and death has occurred as a result of illness associated with this virus.

spread mainly person-toperson through coughing or sneezing of infected people. Take everyday actions to stay healthy. Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way. Stay home if you get sick. CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them. Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds and other social distancing measures. Find healthy ways to deal with stress and anxiety. Call 1-800-CDC-INFO for more information.

Can I get infected with novel H1N1 virus from eating or preparing pork? No. Novel H1N1 viruses are not spread by food. You cannot get infected with novel HIN1 virus from eating pork or pork products. Eating properly handled and cooked pork products is safe.

How long can an infected person spread this virus to others? At the current time, CDC believes that this virus has the same properties in terms of spread as seasonal flu viruses. With seasonal flu, studies have shown that people may be contagious from one day before they develop symptoms to up to 7 days after they get sick. Children, especially younger children, might potentially be contagious for longer periods. CDC is studying the virus and its capabilities to try to learn more and will provide more information as it becomes available.

Is novel H1N1 virus contagious? CDC has determined that novel H1N1 virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human. However, at this time, it is not known how easily the virus spreads between people.

What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people? The symptoms of novel H1N1 flu virus in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. A significant number of people who have been infected with this virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting. Also, like seasonal flu, se-

What You Can Do to Stay Healthy Stay informed. This website will be updated regularly as information becomes available. Influenza is thought to
The Sentinel - The Official CAP Safety Newsletter

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Schedule of Events

25 July2 AugustBlue Beret Oshkosh, WI 4 AugustCadet Meeting Aerospace Education Red Oak, IA Airport 1830-2030 11 AugustCadet Meeting PT & Testing Red Oak, IA Airport 1830-2030 11 AugustSenior Meeting Red Oak, IA Airport 1930-2030 18 AugustCadet Meeting Emergency Services Red Oak, IA Airport 1830-2030 19-23 AugustAnkeny Fly In 22 AugustDubuque SAREX 25 JulyCadet Meeting Moral Leadership, Drill & Testing Red Oak, IA Airport 1830-2030 25 JulySenior Meeting Red Oak, IA Airport 1930-2030 29 AugustSAREX (rain date)

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The Calendar . . .
All to frequently Im hearing the following phrase, But I didnt know when or where it was going to be! Let me take the opportunity to once again stress that we have a CAP calendar permanently located on our website. The Google calendar is ongoing and is updated as frequently as possible to ensure the most accurate information in a timely manner. There is also a month-by-month calendar located within the monthly newsletters to help us all focus on upcoming events. There is also a calendar located on the Iowa Wing website with events listed for Squadrons from all over Iowa. Do not hesitate to use these resources! We will periodically send out notifications for upcoming events, but it is also your responsibility to be checking the calendar on your own time to make sure that youre not missing out on anything we might be involved in.

Certain events will need feedback from you as headcounts might be needed and/or transportation might need to be arranged. When these notices go out, please respond ASAP! Thank you.
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E-Services
It is extremely important that we all make sure our information in e-Services is correct and up to date. This doesnt just mean your contact information, although that is very important as well. Im referring more to our SQTRs. I know that a lot of us have been working on various SQTRs lately, whether they be for GTM, FLM, or UDF. First and foremost we need to be sure that were properly filling out our paper worksheets. While its all well and good that those are filled out and up to date, if our e-Services SQTR worksheets arent up to date then we wont be certified and recognized by National. If youre not sure how to enter this information into eServices, let us know. We would be happy to set aside some time at a meeting to make sure were all on the same page and that we keep our records in order. Also dont forget that if you keep your paperwork with you then you are responsible for it. If you choose to keep it in our Squadron files then thats where they will remain and you will have to let me know if you need them.

First Aid Certification

I think the majority of us are in need of our basic first aid certification in order to complete any number of our SQTRs so we have been in talks with MCMH to set up a day where we can participate in the necessary classes. If we want to have a class just for us as a CAP group then we will need a minimum of 6 people present at a cost of about $35 per person in advance of the class. This certification is good for 2 years. No date has been set yet but if you are interested in completing your basic first aid certification please let us know so that we can begin finding a suitable date and making sure we have the minimum number of participants. Not required but highly recommended is the CPR training. This would be a separate class from the basic first aid and would most likely take place on a different day. If you are interested in this let us know and we will gather information and see if we can find a day that works. An additional fee will apply (I believe).

SUI Assignments
We will be discussing and working on he SUI assignments that were recently handed out from Capt. McLaughlin. As were all new to this process it will be a learning experience so if you have no idea what youre doing, dont feel like youre alone! Please review the email with the assignments and write down any questions you might have. We will compile these and send them to Capt. McLaughlin to make sure all our bases are covered. For each area you are responsible for, you will need a binder (any color) and a copy of your respective areas guide to be placed in its binder. If you would like to start reviewing your respective area before our next senior meeting I would recommend it and bring any materials you think you might need. Just a reminder, our next meeting is Tuesday August 11 at 7:30pm.

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Cadets delve into advanced technology at national academy

Sr. Mbr. Donna OSteen-Mixon Assistant Public Affairs Officer Pikes Peak Senior Squadron Colorado Wing

COLORADO Cadets from 14 wings all eight Civil Air Patrol regions explored the cutting edge of aviation technology from July 18-25 at the Advanced Technologies Academy at Peterson Air Force Base. Five highly advanced technological applications were unveiled to the 26 participating cadets in program activities throughout the week: the Satellite Tool Kit; the Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyper-Spectral Enhanced Reconnaissance, or ARCHER, system; the Satellite Digital Imaging System; and night vision and infrared capabilities. The Satellite Tool Kit is a state-of-the-art computer application. Through it, cadets learned about satellite missions and how to use the squadrons computer to track satellites, the space shuttle, and the International Space Station in orbit. Maj. Jennifer Niswender, the academys ARCHER operator and deputy commander of cadets for the Thompson Valley Composite Squadron, describes it as an imaging system capable of seeing a broader spectrum of light wavelengths than the human eye. The camera captures and processes images in real time. Its application to CAP search and rescue is in the systems abilities in anomaly recognition and signature matching. CAP is the first organization to field actual rectified hyper-spectral imaging capability. Students receive classroom training on ARCHER before making ARCHER flights in a CAP Gippsland GA-8 Airvan.

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New Cadet Meeting Sc hedule

Effective July 1st we instituted a new meeting schedule for cadet meetings. Week 1 will focus on Aerospace Education. Week 2 will focus on cadet physical fitness and testing. Week 3 will focus on Emergency services. Week 4 will focus on moral leadership, drill & ceremonies, and testing. Please note that testing will occur ONLY on weeks 2 & 4 so come prepared to test in your respective promotion areas. If you dont know what you need to be testing on, please let 2Lt Erickson know so he can look it up for you.

All meetings are located at the Red Oak Airport and will begin at 1830 and end at 2030. Cadets MUST report to C/SrA White NLT 6pm Monday night and let him know if you will be in attendance at that weeks meeting. If you will not be able to attend, you must provide a reason why and C/SrA White will note this in the records. August Week 1 8.4.09 Aerospace Education UOD: BDUs Maj Murphy Week 2 8.11.09 CPFT & Testing UOD: PT gear 2Lt Erickson Week 3 8.18.09 Emergency Services UOD: BDUs Lt Shackleford Week 4 8.25.09 Leadership/Drill/Testing UOD: Blues 2Lt Erickson

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Cadets reach sky at Minn. Wing Flying Academy

Capt. Richard J. Sprouse Public Affairs Officer Group 2 Minnesota Wing

MINNESOTA -- Regardless of the distance traveled, training young glider pilots is a job Sr. Mbr. Steve Dee loves doing for Civil Air Patrol. Even better is doing so when one of the cadets taking a solo flight also happens to be a fellow resident from south of the MasonDixon Line. So how does a glider instructor pilot from the Tennessee Wing connect with a cadet from the Georgia Wing at - of all places - the Minnesota Wing Flight Academy?

"It's a great group of positive cadets and adults that make the Minnesota Flight Academy such a success, so I look forward to coming back each year," Dee said. Dee, a retired colonel who served 30 years in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve, is a pilot for FedEx when not sharing the finer points of flying gliders with cadets. He has been making the trip to the Minnesota academy for nearly 10 years. This was the first visit to "the land of sky blue waters" for Cadet Airman Basic Nathan Bernth of the Georgia Wings Peachtree CityFalcon Field Composite Squadron.

"My dad saw a flight academy was being held in Minnesota, so he made all the arrangements for me to be here," Bernth said. "I also wanted to solo in a glider, and coming to Minnesota made that a possibility."

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Neb. members show 4H members wilderness survival techniques

2nd Lt. Scott Richardson Public Affairs Officer St. Croix Composite Squadron Minnesota Wing

earn their aviation merit badges. Immediately after the flights were concluded, EAA members arranged a one-hour tour of three to four hangars for two groups of eight Scouts and one adult leader. Two St. Croix senior members and two cadets Maj. David Kenan, 2nd Lt. Scott Richardson, Cadet Chief Master Sgt. David Trudeau and Cadet Sr. Airman Casey Petry -- conducted the guided tours of the squadron hangar. They started with an introduction to CAP and then provided a close-up view of the units Cessna, including a chance to sit in the plane.

MINNESOTA A local Boy Scout troops recent visit to Lake Elmo Airport included exposure to Civil Air Patrols mission and goals, thanks to a guided tour of the St. Croix Composite Squadrons hangar. Members of White Bear Lake Boy Scout Troop 434 were at the airport for airplane flights as part of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles First Flight program, conducted monthly by local EAA Chapter #54 to help the Scouts

Then came a personal tour of the cadet area upstairs and a three-minute video on CAP cadet programs, followed by a question-andanswer session. A walk through the rest of the main floor squad room followed, with the squadron members handing out literature on CAP and answering any additional questions. Most of the visitors seemed very interested in the organization.

-> Maj. David Kenan, St. Croix Composite Squdaron recruiting officer, talks to Boy Scouts about Civil Air Patrol during their tour of the unit's hangar at Lake Elmo Airport.

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Prop & Triangle

By Colonel Leonard A. Blascovich, CAP National Historian

'It was because of those damned little red and yellow planes!'" Talking to today's generation of CAP members and "civilians", I'll try to put things into perspective.... First, a reflection on today's light aircraft versus what was available in the thirties and forties. Whereas today's are usually fully metal-covered, with powerful, high-reliability engines, space-age instrumentation, ILS, DME, GPS you name it; communications and radar equipment that give weather and route advisories; plus the aircraft usually is loaded with creature comforts. Nice bucket seats and noise dampening, plus the availability of longrange fuel tanks. Yet there is still a reluctance to fly over a body of water, no matter how large or small. Say ...when was the last time anybody took off from a grass strip? Because most, if not all, airport tarmacs and strips today are covered with asphalt or concrete.

Now thinking back to '42 gives a whole new meaning to flight... the aircraft was usually fabric-covered, and with wartime status and restrictions most engine parts were hard to come by - while most mechanics performed miracles to keep them running. Instrumentation was the basics: altimeter, compass, turn & bank, and a radio (electron glass-tube type) - parts for them were almost non-existent.

bailing wire, spit and prayers.....

That's why Tom Brokaw called this group America greatest generation. And rightly so. Subs, U-boat's, The German Menace, the plunder of the Atlantic Shipping Lanes. The one question I get asked most especially in this, our sixtieth year of our founding, is truly how many did we (CAP) sink, where and by whom.... Let's start with the written hard cold facts as we know it from the various author's publications and the embellishment of many...

On a mission day you usually took off early in the morning at "O Dark-Thirty" from a dew-covered grass field (usually built by and for CAP, and guarded by us also) and flew into the rising sun (East) and out some 50 miles off the coast and over the foreboding Atlantic Ocean, then patrolled until it was necessary to fly back now into the setting sun (West).

Robert E. Neprud, was a contract writer hired by the United States Air Force in 1947 to write the History of the Civil Air Patrol. His book, the "Flying Minutemen", is, and still remains, the definitive true wartime history of this organization.

Now comes the hard part - landing a plane - and you with bone weariness of a long flight time. Besides testing one's endurance, and above all kidneys... and remembering also you might be still be carrying a bomb or torpedo held on by

From history.nhq.cap.gov

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