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One of our own, 1Lt James Traylor (USAF
1st LT James Traylor receives honor
MSgt, retired), was honored with a
Alabama Searches for Missing Flight 3 dedication at the Air Force Enlisted Heritage
Maxwell Composite supports exercise 3 Research Institute located at Maxwell-
SARTEC visits Huntsville Squadron 4
AL 055 and AL 119 at Flying Activity 4
Gunter AFB, AL.
Inspector General Contact Information 4
Wing Finds Missing Aircraft Site 5 Graduating the Army Air Forces Flexible
Tuscaloosa in Missing Person search 6 Gunnery School as an Aerial Gunner on
SER Winter Encampment 6 November, 8 1942, Traylor was
School Enrichment Program 7 subsequently assigned to the 384th Bomb
Boaz Middle School Squadron 7 Group, 544th Bomb Squadron. He served on
Wreaths Across America 7
the Boeing B-17F-80-BO, "Vertical Shaft",
Winter Safety from AL118 9
Paws in the Park 9
SN 42-29956 during WWII.
Non Distress Find by AL 032 10
Be Ready Day at Tuscaloosa 10 On his eleventh mission, August 17, 1943,
Model Aeronautics Jamboree 11 his Flying Fortress was lost at approximately
CWO4 McGonegal Returning 11 14:30hrs to enemy fighter fire on a bombing
Then and Now Pictures 11 mission to Schweinfurt's ball bearing
Veteran’s Day 12 factories during the Eighth Air Force's
Critical Incident Stress Management 13
Mission #84 - twin raids on Resengensburg
Wing Staff 15
and Schweinfurt occurring upon the first
anniversary of US heavy bomber operations
1Lt James Traylor honored from the United Kingdom.
for USAF service
In conjunction with the Alabama Emergency The crew, 1st Lt. James Glenn, 1st Lt. Sam
Management Agency, the US Coast Guard, Snead, and Capt. Gerry Otero, arrived at
and the Alabama Department of Natural Clanton airport, and were briefed on the
Resources, CAP members completed ramp missing aircraft in the simulated exercise.
searches at airports along the presumed The last communication received from one
flight path and served as spotters on USCG crew put the aircraft at about five minutes
and DNR boats in river searches. away from the airport at heading 360. At
approx. 1755 we saw smoke coming from
Three ground teams were available on the ground and turned about ten degrees due
Saturday and five were available on Sunday.
Tours of the Search and Rescue aircraft and The Ground Teams arrived in York,
the Ground Team vehicle were provided Alabama around 11:00 pm local, where
with explanations about how each are used parts of the airplane had been found near the
together or separately to locate downed road by the local police department. The
aircraft, missing persons, performing ground and UDF teams were directed 10
damage assessments or disaster relief miles into a remote area of swampy forest of
operations. A practice emergency locator dense vegetation. Wreckage was located in
transmitter and direction finding equipment multiple locations, miles apart.
were demonstrated, to give an overview of
one of the methods used to find a downed
aircraft.
Camp Blanding
Stark, Florida
29 December 2007 -- 5 January
The Tuscaloosa Squadron launched a SAR 2008
sortie on Thursday morning piloted by
Major Jean Spruill, Capt. Mark Gurganus, www.serencampment.com
and Deputy Rodney Jones of the Lamar
AL118 Information/Recruiting
Mobile Squadron also participated December Booth At Paws in the Park
2006. Squadrons without a National Cemetery
will be able to sponsor a wreath using the
information provided by Capt. Tate.
The U.S. Civil Air Patrol's (CAP) Redstone Skeet wrote “I got to fly the aircraft like I
Composite Squadron recently supported the was taking dual instruction again with the
Academy of Model Aeronautics District V other pilot monitoring me while I was flying
Jamboree on the weekend of 22 September. the aircraft. On the downwind I had to put
The Jamboree was held in Harvest, AL and the gear down as in training so it was great
hosted by the North Alabama Radio Control fun after 56 years to fly the bird.”
Association. The CAP was asked to provide
assistance with traffic control and parking.
The Cadets did an outstanding job and
marshaled over 100 cars.
Cognitive
Spiritual
Physical
Emotional:
Withdrawal, inability to rest, pacing, change in alcohol or drug consumption, hyper‐
alertness
*Abuse of others, self‐medication, immobility, violence
Spiritual:
Anger at God, withdrawal from Faith‐based community, crisis of faith
*Cessation from practice of faith
* In all areas means that a person may want to look for the next level of care or seek
medical evaluation.
John Hawkins and Pat Mitcham attended the CISM Course at Maxwell in September. CISM
is now a part of Civil Air Patrol and should be addressed during missions. We all should be
aware of what stress does to us. Some stress is unavoidable, but under some situations we
may all need to talk about what has happened, what is going on, and what our reactions to
events has been or might be. Look at the chart above.
Think about these reactions during the next mission, at home, or even at work. They may
not occur at all. They may occur 24 hours or two weeks later. If they do, find ways to
reduce stress. CISM can help if you ask. As the details on CISM for the Alabama Wing are
defined, the members will be notified.