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National Releases New Guidelines on ES Training

From The Commander:

Canandaigua Composite Squadron

New York Wing, Civil Air Patrol Canandaigua, New York
Volume 2 Issue 5, September 2001

Change in ES Training Requirements

From the Region Commander

Good luck to 1Lt. Sarah Waggoner, and C/CMSgt Aaron Parsons in their continued search to better themselves with a college education. Canandaigua Composite Squadron wishes you both the best, and we will surely miss your presence. Congratulations go out for recent promotions. In June, we promoted C/SMSgt Aaron Parsons; C/TSgt Yann Scutter; C/A1C Nicole Bradley. Recently, we promoted C/CMSgt Aaron Parsons, C/SrA Greg Horrocks, C/SrA Nicole Bradley. Way to go! Keep those promotions coming and reach for that Spaatz Award! I can feel it coming... Hooah!!! Congratulations to C/SMSgt Aaron Parsons for receiving the Sempi Fidelis award for music at Naples High School, and Nicole Bradley for a History and Spanish achievement award. It is so good to see the cadets not only gaining in the CAP program but also keeping the schoolwork up to date. Congratulations to C/SMSgt Mike Miller who received his FCC license. For July: Five cadets attended the 2001 NYW Encampment at Fort Drum. I take great pride in your representation of our Squadron. C/A1C Joe Miller not only attended and completed the encampment, he was recognized as the most improved cadet of the encampment. GREAT job!! Also C/SMSgt Aaron Parsons was picked out to be part of the color guard for the pass and review graduation. Again I am so proud of my cadets, keep up the good work. In the past month we have gained two more senior members and lost two great cadets. I would like to welcome C/LtCol Sarah Waggoner; and C/1Lt Jeff Radcliffe to the Senior Program. As cadets they both did an outstanding job, and I do look forward to working with the both of them in our Senior Program. They have truly proven they are a great asset to our Squadron. Welcome!! Congratulation to 1Lt John DeWolfe for completing the Level II of the Senior Program and achieving the Certificate of Proficiency. Nice job John... knew you could do it!! Maj. Stan Skrabut should be congratulated for a great job in the PAO position. He not only does a great job, but due to his fine work the Rochester D&C paper did a big article on the Civil Air Patrol. I hope everyone saw it! Great job Maj Skrabut!!! John E. Bradley III, Capt. CAP Commander

To The Members Of New York Wing From Richard A. Greenhut, Colonel, CAP Commander -- Northeast Region 20 August 2001 This past Friday night at the National Board Meeting in Cincinnati, our new National Commander, Brig Gen Rick Bowling, summoned me to a meeting where he informed me that Col Don Prouty, the Northeast Region Commander, had accepted a job on the National Staff and that I had been chosen to succeed him. As you may imagine, I was flabbergasted! Both Col Prouty and myself had just over more 2 years to run in our current positions, and neither of us had any expectation that promotions to jobs with greater responsibility were in the offing prior to the end of our terms. Col Prouty will be in charge of liaison between the Federal Emergency Management Agency and CAP in regards to the new Homeland Defense Initiative that will been a joint project of the Air Force, FEMA and CAP. As an employee of FEMA for many years, Col Prouty is the perfect choice for this important new position within CAP. While details as to our involvement with FEMA and the Air Force on this project are sketchy at this point, I'm sure we will be hearing a lot more about it in the coming months. As for myself, I participated in a Change of Command ceremony with Col Prouty (presided over by Brig Gen Bowling) after the banquet at the National Board Meeting this past Saturday night. Since New York Wing could not be without a Commander, I placed interim command of New York Wing in the very capable hands of Lt Col Austyn Granville, Jr., NY WG/CVS, prior to accepting command of the Northeast Region from Col Prouty. I would like Lt Col Granville to be interim Wing Commander for a brief period to allow me to accept resumes and conduct interviews with the finalists prior to my making a final choice for New York Wing Commander. Towards that end, I would like to set the following parameters and guidelines, and set a deadline for submission of resumes and applications: The minimum requirements for a Senior Member to be considered for Wing Commander are completion of Level IV,

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attainment of the rank of Major or above, at least 8 years in CAP in leadership positions and experience as a Squadron or Group Commander, or equivalent management experience in a professional work environment. An aeronautical rating is preferred but not mandatory. Resumes may be submitted via U.S. Mail, e-mail, fax or on computer disk or CD-ROM, in Microsoft Word, Wordperfect or equivalent format. Resumes must be received at MY HOME (address below) NO LATER THAN FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2001. You submission should be no longer than EIGHT typewritten pages, or the printed equivalent depending on the medium you use for submission. Following directions as well as setting goals is a prime part of the job, so applications that substantially exceed this limit in length, or are mailed to any address other than the one below, will be automatically rejected. There is no CAP Wing Commander application form, so please give me some insight as to how you would approach the job, what changes you would wish to make, what you see as our biggest opportunities for positive growth and why you feel that you are the best person for the job. That is purposely hazy, since the job description is contained in the regulations, but how you choose to explain how you would approach that job is a prime determinant of how you will actually do the job. I intend to announce my final choice for the four year term of New York Wing Commander sometime the week of 16 September 2001. We will have an official ceremony at the Northeast Region Conference in Mt. Laurel, NJ on Saturday 27 October 2001, but the actual date the new Wing Commander will officially take command will be sometime the week of 16 September. In closing, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your help and support these past 2 years. Both our Wing and Civil Air Patrol have gone through a great many changes and we have all dealt with a great many problems, both from without and from within. The members of New York Wing have steadfastly risen above the petty and the unimportant to continue to concentrate on our core missions and emphasize our core values. I feel that we have proven to anyone who cares to listen that our members have continued to overcome any and all obstacles and have created the best Wing in CAP. Not because of who might have been the Wing Commander, but because of what kind of people its member were. Volunteers, performing CAP's Missions for America. I am very proud of each and every one of you, Cadet and Senior alike. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your commander, and it will always be my fondest memory, no matter what other assignments I may hold in CAP, to be able to say I was the Commander of the best Wing in the Civil Air Patrol -New York Wing. Thank you all and may God bless you. //s// RICHARD A. GREENHUT, Col, CAP Commander, Northeast Region Civil Air Patrol

A Reflection on Fort Drum

The first thing that I have to say about Fort Drum is that it was an experience I'll never forget. I have to admit, I was a nervous wreck the first few days before Drum, but by the end of the encampment I didn't want to leave. The greatest part about Drum was all the wonderful people I met and the friendships I built over those nine days. The first few days were tough trying to adjust to all the new faces and different lifestyle, but things turned around. The greatest thing I learned at the encampment was the importance of teamwork and leadership. Without these qualities, things tended to be more difficult and would fall apart. It was amazing to watch the difference in performance of my flight from the beginning of the encampment to the end. We all learned that in order to earn the title of Honor Flight, teamwork was a major aspect. We realized that each and every one of us had to put in the effort in keeping our barracks squared away and learning our general knowledge for inspection, in order to win Honor Flight. When we finally did win Honor Flight near the end of the week, we all knew it was a great accomplishment. When the time came for everyone to leave, it was tough to think of life back home. The thought of not waking up at 5:30 in the morning to do PT and not seeing my flight members made me cringe. Looking back, Fort Drum was a great learning experience as well as a lot of fun. From the orientation flights, to the games of ultimate Frisbee, to the obstacle course, Fort Drum was definitely an experience of a lifetime!! c/SrA Nicole Bradley
AEPSM Update

Effective September 1, 2001, CAP's new textbook, Aerospace: The Journey of Flight will replace Aerospace: The Challenge for the Aerospace Education Program for Senior Members (AEPSM). This book, a 27-chapter, 640-page product, is the most comprehensive aerospace textbook in America. New tests for the program will be sent to every unit testing officer next week. The test will be administered by the unit just like it is for the cadet program. Other details can be found in the August addition of the AE Newsletter. Download the newsletter at http://capnhq.gov/nhq/aeroed/ETA/AEO_TOOLS.htm
Web Sites Worth a Look

New York Wing Encampment 2001

The NEW YORK WING ENCAMPMENT web site contains souvenirs from the encampment which ended a few weeks ago. It contains everything the PAO had available about the encampment, including: - - Pictures (all the digital pictures taken at encampment) - - Newsletters (all seven daily newsletters, downloadable or viewable on line) - - Yearbook (downloadable or viewable on line) - - Email addresses of attendees (cadet staff, cadets in flight, and seniors)

Squadron Web Site

http://mdln.hws.edu/cap/index.html

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When the Cadet Programs site has found a new home, this material will be transferred there. For those of you who'd like to relive your encampment experience on line, you are welcome to visit the current site at http://mdickinson.com/cap/ encampment Cadets and parents who see pictures they like may order copies of them on line. Malcolm Dickinson, Major, CAP Public Affairs Mentor, 2001 NY Wing Encampment

Junior High School. He is presently working as the Ontario County Historian.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Cadet Awards

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) wants to recognize outstanding CAP cadets in each squadron and have established an annual award. The eligibility criteria is listed below: Eligibility criteria for the Cadet NCO Award: (1) Be in good standing academically (2) Be progressing satisfactorily in the CAP Cadet Program (3) Demonstrate outstanding leadership in Civil Air Patrol (4) Be of high moral character (5) Display outstanding military bearing and conduct both in and out of uniform (6) Patriotism (commander or member of color guard, drill team, etc.) and actively promote Americanism (7) Demonstrate growth potential (assumes higher levels of responsibility) (8) Must not have been a previous recipient of the award . Eligibility criteria for the Cadet Officer Award: (1) Be in good standing academically (2) Be progressing satisfactorily in the CAP cadet program (3) Demonstrate outstanding achievement in community service and the cadet program (aerospace and leadership) (4) Demonstrate outstanding leadership in Civil Air Patrol (5) Be of high moral character (6) Demonstrate a high level of professionalism in appearance and action (7) Patriotism (commander or member of color guard, drill team, etc.) and actively promote Americanism (8) Demonstrate growth potential (assumes higher levels of responsibility) (9) Must not have been a previous recipient of the award . The unit commander will forward their selection (on a CAP Form 120 with attached justification) directly to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Headquarters at (a copy will also be sent to the Group and Wing Headquarters): Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Youth Development Scholarship and Recognition Programs, 406 West 34th Street, Kansas City, MO 64111. The complete mailing address and telephone number of the unit commander will be provided for the convenience of the local VFW officials in contacting the CAP squadron concerned. The VFW Headquarters will prepare the award elements and forward them to the unit for presentation. If at all possible, a VFW representative should present the award. There currently is no suspense date for submitting your requests for recognition. Do not forward your applications to national headquarters (this would only slow down the process of recognizing your deserving cadets).
Meeting Schedule

Aerospace Education Practice Tests

This URL will enable you to take a number of practice tests related to your Aerospace Education textbooks: http://mdln.hws.edu/cap/modules/index.html

CadetStuff.org
This is a great site related to cadet issues. You can find resources for leadership, recruiting, drill, etc. There is also an ongoing story about how Civil Air Patrol was during the 1950s. The URL is http://www.cadetstuff.org
Open House

On 19 September beginning at 7PM, the Canandaigua Composite Squadron will hold an open house at the Canandaigua Army Reserve Center. All members of the public are invited. The Squadron will conduct briefings on the cadet, search and rescue, and aerospace education programs. As a unit, we need to aggressively get the word out. Pick up brochures from Captain Bradley or Major Skrabut Cadet Senior Master Sergeant Mike Miller is the point of contact for this event.
Waggoner Promoted to 1st Lieutenant

FARMINGTON, NY---Sarah Waggoner has been promoted to First Lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol. 1st Lt Waggoner is a Leadership Officer in the Canandaigua Composite Squadron, and has been a Civil Air Patrol member for seven years. She is a student at Embry-Riddle University in Florida.
Herrmann Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant

CANANDAIGUA, NY---Melissa Hermann has been promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol. 2nd Lt Herrmann is a Professional Development Officer in the Canandaigua Composite Squadron, and has been a Civil Air Patrol member for six years.
Pierce Promoted to Major

CANANDAIGUA, NY---Preston Pierce has been promoted to Major in the Civil Air Patrol. Major Pierce is a Historian and Testing Officer in the Canandaigua Composite Squadron, and has been a Civil Air Patrol member for one year. He is a retired teacher from Victor

Typical Cadet Meeting Schedule. During a typical meeting the following schedule will be used:

Squadron Web Site

http://mdln.hws.edu/cap/index.html

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1900 Opening formation 1905 Aerospace Current Events 1915 Drill and Ceremonies/Inspections 1905 1940 - Testing 2000 Schedule class/activity 2055 Closing formation Typical Cadet Monthly Schedule. Specific topics will be covered each week as follows: Week 1 Emergency Services and Leadership Exercise, Uniform: BDUs Week 2 Aerospace Education, Uniform: Blues Week 3 Drill Instruction/Inspection, Leadership, Uniform: Blues Week 4 Physical Fitness, Safety, and Moral Leadership, Uniform: Physical Fitness Week 5 (as necessary) Performance Boards, Uniform: Blues Typical Senior Meeting Schedule: The first 30 minutes is reserved for a general staff meeting or to carry out normal squadron duties. The next 60 minutes will consist of squadron training. The next 25 minutes is scheduled for squadron duties. The last 5 minutes is reserved for closing formation.
Tailwind

Sometimes great things happen when you least expect them. The important thing is to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills. You cant always control the first two of those factors, but having the right skills is mostly a matter of motivation and seizing opportunities. In 1910, Blanche Stuart Scott seized a great opportunity. That led to a second opportunity, and that led to her great achievement. Blanche Scott was born in Rochester about 1892. It was an exciting time. Rochester was alive with talk of automobiles and would soon have a car company of its own. Young Blanche was smitten with the automobile. By her own account, she was driving when she was 13. Within a short time she was tearing around Rochester in her parents little Cadillac and making quite a name for herself. Drivers licenses, and traffic laws, were just being developed so Blanche and other drivers were free to do as they pleased. In 1910 Blanche Scott decided to drive to California. There were only 217 miles of paved road in the whole nation at that time. Most roads were little more than wagon roads through cow pastures. However, Blanche Scott was confident she could make the trip. She wanted to demonstrate that a young woman could handle an automobile, but she didnt have the money for the trip. To pay for her trip, Blanche Scott made a publicity deal with the Willys-Overland company, one of the largest automakers in the nation. She would criss-cross the nation visiting WillysOverland dealerships in return for the financial support she

needed. Her trip was wildly successful and brought her as much publicity as it did Willys-Overland. As a result, a representative of the Curtiss Aviation Company approached Blanche one day. Its headquarters was in Hammondsport, near Penn Yan. The Curtiss company offered Blanche Scott the opportunity to learn to fly and a position with their airplane stunt pilots. Having Scott on the bill would be a great way to promote aviation, the Curtiss men thought. They hadnt counted on Glenn Curtiss, himself. Glenn Curtiss did not think women should fly. He did not approve of the deal his men struck with Blanche Scott. As a result Curtiss put a governor on her throttle making it impossible for her to get up enough ground speed for take-off. Then, on September 5, 1910, Blanche Stuart Scotts greatest opportunity arrived and she was ready. No one knows what caused it. Perhaps a gust of wind. Maybe a lucky bounce. The governor might of come loose, or a sympathetic mechanic may have loosened it. At any rate, Blanche Scott bounced up during a fast taxi, reached an altitude of 10 feet, and became the first woman pilot. For six years Blanche Stuart Scott starred in Curtiss air demonstrations as the Tomboy of the Air. She took deathdefying nose dives toward fairground crowds. She took off from race tracks with ten-foot clearances. She did everything the mens team did and more, including 41 broken bones. When World War I broke out Blanche Stuart Scott abruptly decided to stop flying. She sold her plane and took on other jobs. While she wanted to make a mark for women, she did not want to be considered a freak. She just wanted to be a good pilot, not a good woman pilot. She began to realize that might not happen so she turned her talents in other directions. As late as her 1969 interview she was still vexed by the few women who took an interest in aviation. In later years Blanche Stuart Scott was a Hollywood script writer, a film producer, and a radio broadcaster. All of those jobs, like aviation, involved new technologies. In 1954 the Air Force hired her as a publicity consultant for the new Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. After all, who knew more about publicity for aviation than the first female test pilot, and the first female commercial pilot. Blanche Stuart Scott died in Rochester on January 12, 1970. Much honored, she had lived a long and inspiring life. In 1980 the US Postal Service honored Blanche with a stamp, first issued in Hammondsport, naming her the first woman pilot. Appropriately, it was issued as a companion to a stamp honoring Glenn Curtiss. Several biographies of Blanche Stuart Scott exist. Julia Cummins, a former Rochester public librarian, and wife of the former Director of the Wood Library, wrote the latest biography of Blanche Stuart Scott just last year.. Major Preston E. Pierce

Squadron Web Site

http://mdln.hws.edu/cap/index.html

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Where do we stand at the moment?

These next couple of charts will show you where we stand in regards to cadets, senior members, and a squadron for 2001.
30 25 20 15 10 5 0 May Mar Jun Oct Nov Feb Dec Apr Aug Sep Jan Jul
20% 100%

80%

Cadets Cadet Goal

Phase 1 60% Phase 2 Phase 3 40% Phase 4 Spaatz

0% Jan-01 Feb-01 Mar-01 Apr-01 May-01 Jun-01 Jul-01 Aug-01 Sep-01 Oct-01 Nov-01 Dec-01

Cadet Recruiting
100%

Cadet Progression

20
80%

15 10 5 0
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Level 1

Seniors Senior Goal

60%

Level 2 Level 3

40%

Level 4 Level 5

20%

0% Jan-01 Feb-01 Mar-01 Apr-01 May-01 Jun-01 Jul-01 Aug-01 Sep-01 Oct-01 Nov-01 Dec-01

Senior Progression Senior Member Recruiting

45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 May Mar Jun Oct Nov Dec Apr Aug Sep Jul Feb Jan

Total Total Goal

Only seven members from this years goal!!! Recruit! Recruit! Recruit!

Total Squadron Recruiting

What's Happening in New York Wing

- Indicates a Suspense
September

26-28

November

NER Conference, Mt Laurel, NJ

14 15 19 22 12

October

Group Meeting at RIT Counter Drug Training (Various Broadcast Sites) Open House NYW SAREX 3 Group Meeting at RIT Annual Awards Selection Canandaigua Squadron Training National Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL

Leadership Encampment Senior Command Staff Applications Due @ NYWG HQ/CP 1 ES Encampment Senior Command Staff Applications Due @ NYWG HQ's 9 Group Meeting at RIT 17-18 Canandaigua Squadron Training
December

17
20-21 20-27

1 9 14

CAP 60th Anniversary CAC Meeting @ MEG HQ's (Tentative) Group Meeting at RIT

Squadron Web Site

http://mdln.hws.edu/cap/index.html

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Senior Member of the Year Applications Due @ NYWG HQ's Cadet of the Year Applications Due @ NYWG HQ's 15 Cadet NCO of the Year Applications Due @ NYWG HQ's 15 Air Force Sergeants Association Award to Outstanding CAP Cadet NCO of the Year Applications Due @ AFSA 15 Air Force Association Award to Outstanding CAP Cadet Applications Due @ Air Force Association

15 15 15
15-16

Brewer Aerospace Award Applications Due @ NYWG HQ's National Special Activities Applications Due @ NYWG HQ's Scholarship Applications Due @ NYWG HQ's Canandaigua Squadron Training

Have you seen our web site lately? Check out

http://mdln.hws.edu/cap/ index.html

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Communicator of the Year Applications Due @ NYWG HQ's

Have News?
Contact Major Stan Skrabut at 315-781-8208 or E-mail sskrabut@rochester.rr.com

Canandaigua Composite Squadron 112 Lyceum Street Geneva, NY 14456

Squadron Web Site

http://mdln.hws.edu/cap/index.html