ANDREWS COMPOSITE SQUADRON

DC-033
PLAN OF THE MONTH- February 2014
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Pride Professionalism Personal Responsibility

SQUADRON COMMANDER
Maj. B. Pettigrew, CAP
Pettigrew.b@natcapwg.cap.gov

DEPUTY COMMANDER FOR SENIORS

Capt W. Pritchard, CAP
Pritchard.w@natcapwg.cap.gov

DEPUTY COMMANDER FOR CADETS

Capt. J. Sanzone, CAP
Sanzone.j@natcapwg.cap.gov

COMMAND CHIEF
CMSgt R. Inoa, CAP
usafluv2fly@gmail.com

Twitter: @ACS_CAP_CDR

Twitter: @ACSDepCdrSenior

Twitter: @ACSDepCdrCadets

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

CADET COMMANDER
C/2nd Lt Anna Harris

Maj M. Acevedo, CAP

acevedo.m@natcapwg.cap.gov
CADET FIRST SERGEANT
C/SMSgt William Knight

CADET FLIGHT COMMANDER

TBD

ALL CADETS AND SENIOR MEMBER OFFICERS AND NCOs SHALL READ THE PLAN OF THE
MONTH AND ORDERS OF THE DAY AND BE RESPONSIBLE FOR OBEYING ALL ORDERS
CONTAINED HEREIN. INSTRUCTIONS AND DIRECTIVES APPEARING HEREIN CARRY THE FULL
FORCE OF ORDERS ISSUED BY THE SQUADRON COMMANDER.

MONTHLY EMPHASIS ITEMS

Safety Blitz and Black History Month

ORDERS OF THE DAY

Thursday 6 February 2014
UOD: Blues (Tie/No Tie)
TIME
1830-1840
1840-1900
1900-2000
2000-2010
2010-2040
2010-2040
2040-2100

ACTIVITY
Arrival/Setup/Sign-In
Opening Formation/Pers Insp/
Pledge of Allegiance and Cadet Oath
Character Development
Break
CyberPatriot Practice
Black History Presentation
Commanders Call/Promotions

LOCATION
Classroom
Classroom

POC/LEAD
C/Commander
CC and C/CC

Classroom
Classroom
Office
Classroom
Classroom

Chaplain Lowther
C/Commander
C/1Lt Harris
Maj Pettigrew
CC/DCC/DCS

Thursday, 13 February 2014

UOD: PT
TIME
1830-1840
1840-1900
1900-2000
2000-2040
2040-2100

ACTIVITY
Arrival/Setup/Sign-In
Opening Formation/Pers Insp/
Pledge of Allegiance and Cadet Oath
PT/Cadet PFTs**
Drill Team/Color Guard/Drill
Commanders Call

LOCATION
Gym
Gym

POC/LEAD
C/Commander
CC and C/CC

Gym
Gym
Gym

DCC
Lt Mustico/C/CC
CC/DCC/C/CC

*PT NIGHT Location- Camp Springs Community Church Gym, 8040 Woodyard Rd Clinton, November-April.
**PFTs will only be given to those cadets in need of one. PFTs will not be mandatory for all participants.
Saturday, 15 February 2014
Senior Meeting
UOD: Blues/Polo Shirt Combo/Corporate
TIME
0900-1200

ACTIVITY
Senior Meeting

LOCATION
Classroom

POC/LEAD
Capt Pritchard

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

UOD: Civvies
TIME
1900-2000

ACTIVITY
Planning Meeting

LOCATION
Squadron Office

POC/LEAD
CC

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Admin Night
UOD: BDUs
TIME
1830-1840
1840-1900

ACTIVITY
LOCATION
POC/LEAD
Arrival/Setup/Sign-In
Classroom
C/Commander
Opening Formation/Pers Insp/
Classroom
CC and C/CC
Pledge of Allegiance and Cadet Oath
1900-2000
Safety Blitz
Classroom
Capt Pritchard
2000-2010
BREAK/Trash Detail
Flt Cdrs/Flt Sgts
nd
2000-2030
Promotion Boards
2 Classroom
DCC & C/CC
2000-2040
Testing/Admin*
Squadron Office
Lt. Terry/Capt. Purvis
2000-2040
Drill Tests*
Parking Lot
Capt. Purvis
2000-2040
Tutoring (Cdts NOT testing)
Classroom
DCC
nd
2000-2045
Uniform/Clothing Issues
Squadron Office
2 Lt Jung
2045-2100
Commanders Call
Classroom
CC/DCC/ C/CC
*NOTE- If you plan on taking a written test or drill test, you must notify your Cadet Chain of Command so they can brief Lt.
Terry and Capt. Purvis so they can pull a test/administer a drill test for you.
Thursday, 27 February 2014
UOD: BDUs
TIME
1830-1840
1840-1900
1900-1950
1950-2045
2045-2100

ACTIVITY
Arrival/Setup/Sign-In
Opening Formation/Pers Insp/
Pledge of Allegiance and Cadet Oath
Safety Blitz
Aerospace Education
Commanders Call

LOCATION
Classroom
Classroom

POC/LEAD
C/Commander
CC and C/CC

Classroom
Classroom
Classroom

Capt Pritchard
Lt Douglas
CC/DCC/ C/CC

MONTHLY ACTIVITIES- February

14-16 February
UOD: Civvies
TIME
TBD

ACTIVITY
CyberPatriot Competition

LOCATION
Squadron Office

POC/LEAD
Capt Sanzone

15-16 February 2014

UOD: BDUs/Corporate
TIME
0830-1730

ACTIVITY
SAREX*

LOCATION
Davison Army Airfield

POC/LEAD
Wing HQs

*SAREX NOTE- This is to officially announce a SAREX scheduled for 15-16 Feb at Davison AAF. While the item has been on the
calendar for month and months, the recent stand down of the Ops Center caused us to pause for a bit until we understood what
alternate posture or new normal we could develop. Much of that has fallen into place, but there will still be growing pains. However,
all if sufficiently firm to proceed with this planned SAREX. Mission will be executed as a TASK type mission given the number of
moving parts already in process. After our new normal is normalized, we can return to SCENARIO training. This is why you have a
2 week vice a 4 week notice
Register for the SAREX at the following URL: http://dcsarexfeb14.eventbrite.com/
Wing is soliciting staff for ops; air ops; ground ops; and comm as a minimum. Please identify yourself if you are so interested in one
of those training spots. ALL SQUADRON VEHICLES MUST BE READY TO SUPPORT THIS MONTHS SAREX.
PARTICIPANTS IN THE SAREX MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING- Current 101 Card, CAPF-161 (Emergency Notification Form)
and appropriate SQTRs if in a training status.
22-23 February 2014
UOD: BDUs/Corporate
TIME
0900-1600

ACTIVITY
Corporate Learning Course

LOCATION
Wing Headquarters

POC/LEAD
Col Heinlein

ANNOUNCEMENTS- NOTES
VOLUNTEER NOTES:
The unit is STILL looking volunteers in the following capacities:

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A Senior Member to serve as 1 Lt Betts relief as Emergency Services Officer when he executes his AF PCS this
September. The interested volunteer must be a minimum of GES Qualified, GTM and Technician rated in the ES
specialty track. Interested SMs please see Maj Acevedo, Ops-O, for details.
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Senior Member and Cadets to form an IT/Media Team. Our former C/Cdr, C/1 Lt Harris, has done an excellent job
getting our squadron website operational; however, he cannot do it all alone. Maj Acevedo has set up our Facebook Fan
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Page and 1 Lt Steele our internal FB page and Instagram account. Any cadet or senior member that desires to join the
IT/Media team to contribute, please see OPS and C/Lt Harris for details.
Activities Committee- Looking for interested Senior and Cadets to form an Activities Committee. This committee will work
directly with the Command Staff as we plan the schedule to hard schedule activities for the entire unit. The committee
will be led by a Senior Member OIC and Cadet Assistant OIC/NCOIC. If you wish to volunteer for the OIC role or to
become a member of the committee, please contact your respective Deputy Commander (DCC or DCS).

SAFETY NOTE:

ASK YOURSELF- IS YOUR SAFETY QUAL CURRENT IN E-SERVICES?!?

FROM YOUR SAFETY- O: Reminder- If your safety qual is not current in eServices, under
instruction/regulations you will NOT be permitted to participate in any CAP activities until you are
current. If you miss a meeting, you can take a safety module here:
http://www.capmembers.com/safety/safety_education/
The MER Safety Blitz is this month!!! This means setting aside a meeting to do a safety sweep of
all ACS spaces, equipment, and vehicles.
OUR GOAL IS 100% UNIT COMPLETION OF SAFETY CURRENCY FOR FEBRUARY AND ALL OF 2014!!!!!!!
BE PREPARED TO SUPPORT THE SAFETY BLITZ!!!!!
BLACK HISTORY MONTH NOTES:

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL AIR PATROL UNIT- DETROIT, MI. Turned down by white squadrons in Detroit, Loving and
fellow pilot Earsly Taylor received authorization to form the all-African-American unit Civil Air Patrol Squadron 639-5. Executive

officer Neal (second from left), commanding officer Earsly (far right) and their all-black CAP squadron trained with the help of a used
Waco and Loving's second glider (behind, right). The planes were owned by another new venture: the Wayne Aircraft Company,
begun by Loving and Taylor. (From the Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University)

LT WILLA BROWN- FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE CAP OFFICER AND AVIATOR- When she decided to learn to fly, she
studied with Cornelius R. Coffey, a certified flight instructor and expert aviation mechanic at one of Chicago's racially segregated
airports. She earned her private pilot's license in 1938. Later, Brown and Coffey married and established the Coffey School of
Aeronautics at Harlem Airport in Chicago, where they trained black pilots and aviation mechanics.
Together with Cornelius Coffey and Enoch P. Waters, Willa Brown helped form the
National Airmen's Association of America in 1939, whose main goal was to get black
aviation cadets into the United States military. She continually lobbied the
government for integration of black pilots into the segregated Army Air Corps and the
federal Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), the system established by the Civil
Aeronautics Authority to provide a pool of civilian pilots for use during national
emergencies. Subsequently, when Congress finally voted to allow separate-butequal participation of blacks in civilian flight training programs, the Coffey School of
Aeronautics was chosen for participation in the CPTP.
Brown became the coordinator for the CPTP in Chicago. Later, her flight school was
also selected by the U.S. Army to provide black trainees for the Air Corps pilot
training program at the Tuskegee Institute.
Willa Brown eventually became the coordinator of war-training service for the Civil
Aeronautics Authority and later was a member of the Federal Aviation
Administration's Women's Advisory Board. She was the first black female officer in
the Civil Air Patrol and the first black woman to hold a commercial pilot's license in
the United States.

SENIOR MEMBER PROMOTIONS

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SM Clay to 2 Lt.
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2 Lt Mustico to 1 Lt.

SENIOR MEMBER PROGRAM RATING ACHIEVEMENTS

2d Lt Douglas- Aerospace Education Technician Rating.
Maj Pettigrew- Cadet Programs Senior Rating.

ANDREWS COMPOSITE SQUADRON- AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION AE/STEM Grant Recipient ($250.00)!

HAILS AND FAREWELLS

HAIL- SM Ricardo (IS2, USCG).

FROM THE COMMANDER

My comments for this month will be short, hard hitting and to the point.
This past month, I briefed our Strategic Plan for 2014 to the squadron, which is our roadmap for where we want to go and where we
want to be as a unit for this calendar year. As we execute the Strategic Plan and Monthly Emphasis Items that will drive our
schedule for 2014, I will leave with you three salient quotations from the briefing (youve heard them many times before):
If you want to see the results, you have to do the work.
You will only get as much out of CAP as you put into it.
Make an investment in CAP and reap the benefits.
If you want to compete, you have to show up.
Be prepared to support our efforts with best effort each day and a continued pursuit of excellence!

BRYAN A. PETTIGREW, Major, CAP

Commander