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15 AUG. 20

The newsletter of U.S. Civil Air PaComposite Squadron 11 (CA-435) Palm Springs

COMMANDERS CORNER Duo endure intenstraining at AcademCAMP ATTERBURY, IN.

It was just a stroll

through the woods for

Lt. Don Cook. Ordinary,

that is, until he heard

the screams.

The sounds grew

louder as the ground

team leader and his

crew neared a road-

side clearing. Then he

saw it: blood, bodies,

trauma. He saw it

and he took charge.

The simulated mass

casualty incident en-

acted during the Na-

tional Emergency Ser-

vices Academy (NESA)

in July tested the wits

and wisdom of Cook

and fellow Squadron 11

senior member Lt. Sam

Aguilar.

The Palm Springs

duo endured a week

of intense land navi-

gation, line search

and trauma response

training July 15-21

while pursuing ground

team certifications in

the jungle-like terrain

of Camp Atterbury,

a facility located 45

miles from downtown

Indianapolis, In.

Working to earn his

Ground Team Leader

badge, NESA tested

Cook both mentally

and physically.

After the second day

I was fighting the urge

to just go home, h

said. It was intens

but Im no quitter.

The lieutenant stu

it out and graduate

from the academy

did Aguilar, who ea

Ground Team Mem

III status during the

training event.

Aguilar, who is a

former Marine with

extensive [CONT. ON

Lt. Sam Aguilar, left,a cadet teammatetend to a victim dua mass casualty c

scenario at NESA in[Photo courtesy Maj. Gary Brockman

NESA WAS THEBEST ORGANIZEMOST INTENSEAND THOROUGTRAINING IVE EV

DONE. THERE WNOTHING EASYABOUT IT.

LT. DON C

Notes from a Corporate Learning ClassRecently I attended a CLC class at March

ARB over the weekend of 7-8 July. At itscompletion we all felt the content and pre-sentation of material had been excellent.

Following are some things I think are valu-able for us all and some that were new tome, and may be to you, too:

1. It is 2007 and the time has come to use on-line forms whenever possible. Paper is not theway to go electronic communications is hereto stay. It is more efficient and there are fewererrors. Remember, every time you send some-one a piece of paper it has to be put into thesystem by someone typing in the information and that opens the door to errors.

2. We need to get our Membership Board ontrack and start using it. It only makes goodsense to sit down with new members and ask

them why, where and when and let them askus questions, too.

3. There are a lot of scholarships out there forour cadets including two $5,000 Ferman Schol-arships. Would someone volunteer to get thatinformation together and present it to the ca-dets perhaps a cadet volunteer?

4. One-half of the money in CAP is currently insquadron bank accounts. At the end of thismonth that will all change and Wings will havecontrol over all bank accounts. And, we will begetting a credit card from Wing.

5. CAP spends $4.5 million to sponsor a NAS-

CAR racing team. And, we need $5.5 million toupgrade all the corporate aircraft with BeckerDirectional Finding Units.

6. There is a Fly a Teacher program. Let us getteachers in Coachella Valley into our airplane!

7. In your membership information underMIMS please go in and delete your CaliforniaDrivers License number.

8. You can download a free program to convertdocuments to PDF at www.primopdf.com.

Thanks for all you do. Be safe, have fun.

John Craig, Capt., CAPSquadron Commander

Palm Springs Composite Squadron 11


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CAP FLIGHT 15 AUGUST 2007

Earning their stripes...

PALM SPRINGS Cadets Patrick Phillips, left, and Casey Hutcheson, ce

ter, are each pinned with their first stripe and promoted to the grade Cadet Airman by Maj. Simon Housman, Deputy Commander for Cadeduring Commanders Call on Wednesday, August 1. [Photo: Lt. Crystal Chatham, CA-4

Reynolds namedCadet CommanderPALM SPRINGS Ca-

det Sr. Airman Joseph

Reynolds was named

he squadrons new

Cadet Commander onWednesday, August 1.

Reynolds steps into

he shoes of Cadet

Master Sgt. Brandon

Bottemer who enlisted

n the U.S. Air Force.

Reynolds, who previ-

ously served as Flight

Sgt., is ready for the

challenge. I have

plans, he said of theappointment, but Im

till a little nervous.

The airman cited

cadet program staff

members Maj. Simon

Housman and Lt. Sam

Aguilar for their helpduring the transition.

Theyre lifesavers.

Theyre always there

to help and give me

pointers, he said.

Housman noted in-

herent leadership traits

in the cadet.

Cadet Reynolds

brings uncommon self

discipline to the lead-ership responsibilities

of Cadet Commander.

ALM SPRINGS Maj. Si-mon Housman, center,hows cadets how to

measure the camberf a T-33 aircraft winguring the cadets aero-pace education classn Wednesday, AugustThe class covered the

ntroductory modulef Aerospace Dimen-ions, the cadets study

ourse for phases I and [Photo: Lt. Crystal Chatham, CA-435]

Hands-on aerospace PHASE I CADET CLASS COMES TO LIFE

Local church donates to SquadronRANCHO MIRAGE

Roles reversed for

Squadron 11 recently

as the organization

built for reaching out

was lent a hand.Rancho Mirage

based Community

Church of Joy includ-

ed the squadron in

ts quarterly missions

donation.

The church project is

designed to support

local civic and volun-

teer groups, accord-

ing to Chaplain Gene

Ness, a member of the

parish.

Under the direc-tion of Pastor Dr. Rich

Dorst, Community

Church of Joy also

donates to Meals on

Wheels, Buddy Rogers

Symphony, and local

rescue missions.

The churchs $125

donation to CAP is

earmarked for training.

Donations allow

us to fly more, said

squadron finance of-

ficer Lt. Herb Cook.We can do training,

he said, but dona-

tions like this means

we have funds so our

volunteers dont have

to pay to train.

This is the churchs

second such donation. LOGbook

[PERSONNEL]

New members S/M PHIL CORVINUS S/M MONICA ROSE CADET JESSICA WILSON

Promotions S/M SAM AGUILAR to 2nd LT., June 5 LT. JOHN BAUGHMAN to CAPT. CADET CASEY HUTCHESON to CADET AIRMAN, A CHAPLAIN GENE NESS to CAPT. CADET PATRICK PHILLIPS to CADET AIRMAN, Aug S/M GEORGE THORNALLY to 2nd LT., June 5 S/M GLENN WARNICA to 2nd LT., June 5

Qualifications & Notables LT. SAM AGUILAR > Ground Team Member III LT. SAM AGUILAR > NESA Graduate MARY BAUGHMAN > Mission Scanner LT. CRYSTAL CHATHAM > SLS Graduate CAPT. JOHN CRAIG > CLC Graduate LT. DON COOK > Ground Team Leader LT. DON COOK > NESA Graduate MAJ. BRUCE MARBLE > Counter Drug Mission Obs MAJ. BRUCE MARBLE > CLC Graduate

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15 AUGUST 2007 CAP FLIGH

Mission touted in Eagle CaGraham recognized by GroupMARCH ARB Maj. Danny Graham received a cer-ficate of appreciation during the Group 3 ban-uet Saturday, July 18 at March Air Reserve Base.

Graham was recognized for his participation as a

heck pilot during a June flight clinic at Montgom-ry Field in San Diego. During the two-day clinicosted by Squadron 57, Graham conducted Formand 91 check rides. Capt. Frank Tullo also partici-

pated in the weekend training.

School supply drive underwayALM SPRINGS The Squadron 11 Back to Schoolrive to collect backpacks and school suppliesontinues through Wednesday, August 22. Donat-d bags will be fully stocked with binders, folders,

rayons, pens, paper, pencils and more necessarychool supplies before donated to Family YMCA ofhe Desert which will distribute the packs to lesserprivileged children throughout the Coachella Val-ey. The squadron is poised to surpass a goal ofmore than 50 fully supplied backpacks.

Openings remain for SARCityARSTOW Staff positions are still open for SARCity,cheduled for October 12-14 in Barstow. Squadron is acting as host for the U.S. Civil Air Patrol op-rations during the multi-agency event. CAP willonduct air and classroom instruction for Mission

Scanner qualifications. Staff positions for the eventre being filled by squadron members; personnelrom other units will be recruited as needed to fillacancies. 10-12 corporate aircraft will be on handor the training activity and 100 students are ex-pected to go through the scanner school. Seniormembers interested in attending SARCity shouldontact the events project officer, Capt. Roy

Heimburger, for more information.

Wing Conf. at March ARBMARCH ARB The annual CaliforniaWing Conference is just weeks away.Scheduled for September 28-30, theonference is being held at nearby

March Air Reserve Base in MorenoValley. See What the New DawnBrings is the theme for this yearsonference, which features a varietyf activities including special toursnd a dunk tank with Wing Com-

mander Col. Jesse Muniz. Registration,

payment, and more information canbe found on the wing web site.

flightLINES[NOTES]

Aerial photos of a 2005 distress find near BorSprings show the site and an overall view ofmountainous terrain where the aircraft was foThere were no survivors. [Photos: Maj. Bruce Marble, CA-435]

BORREGO SPRINGS A

Squadron 11 air crew

is cited in the latest

edition of Eagle Call for

a distress find dating

back to 2005.

Named to the maga-

zines Top Five Finds

list, the mission to find

a downed Lancair is

hailed for thorough use

of radar tracking, which

aided in an expedited

find by squadron mem-

bers Capt. Frank Tullo,

Maj. Roy Hofheinz, and

Maj. Bruce Marble.

With no viable ELT

signal to locate, the

air crew was tasked to

perform an early morn-

ing search over a radar

track developed during

overnight analysis.

Less than an hour af-

ter wheels up, the crew

spotted the wreckage.

We were lucky, said

Hofheinz. As we flew

south toward the last

known position sud-

denly we began to get

an ELT sound.

Within moments, the

Lancair was in sight.

We were getting the

signal less than a mile

from the target. It was

a very weak ELT be-

cause it had crashed

and burned, but the

ELT was not dead.

The ELT signal was

unknown to AFRCC, he

said.

This was one of t

first occasions whe

we relied on this

excellent new tech

ogy of tracking var

radars to pin down

something that wa

otherwise lost.

It was a good mis

sion because it wa

successful, but it w

a sad one as you c

see of the wreckag

it was just scattere

over the place.

NESA offers challenge[CONT. FROM Psearch and rescue

background, respond-

ed to NESAs culmi-

nating mass casualty

scenario as his teams

medic.The NESA training

was different than

what hes under-

gone in the past,

he said.

The medi-

cal scenarios

were meant to

be no-wins. You

come away knowin

what you did right,

also knowing that y

could do better. Th

werent easy situati

with simple solutionAguilar said.

The exercises de

nitely gave us food

thought.

The duo plans to

duct ES training at

squadron level to a

semble an active a

ready ground team

AFRCC MISSION: 05M2

DISTRESS FIND 18-19 OCT. 2

33 23.6 N X 116 36.

IC: CAPT. BOB KEILHO

AFRCC MISSION: 05M2

DISTRESS FIND 18-19 OCT. 2

33 23.6 N X 116 36.6

IC: CAPT. BOB KEILHO

Lt. Don Cook, left, attended NESA in July

earned qualification as a Ground Team Leade[Photo courtesy Maj. Gary Brockman, NESA]


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U.S. CIVIL AIR PATROLPalm Springs Composite Squadron 11

P.O. Box 2663Palm Springs, CA 92263

CAP FLIGHT 15 AUGUST 2007

UPCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS

AUGUST 11-19 .................Cadet Encampment, Camp San Luis Obispo

AUGUST 15 ........................................................ MTG:E.S. TRAINING [BDUS/POLO]

AUGUST 18 ....Cadet Orientation Flights, Palm Springs [BDUS/FLIGHT SUIT]

AUGUST 19 ......................................................Glider Flights at Los Alamitos

AUGUST 22 ....MTG:AIR & GROUND E.S. TRAINING [BDUS/POLO/FLIGHT SUIT]

AUGUST 25 ...............Wings Over Big Bear Air Fair 2007, Big BearAUGUST 29 ...................................MTG:ELT Search to Fun Night [CIVILIAN]

SEPTEMBER 5 ...........................MTG:COMMANDERS CALL [BLUES/AVIATOR]

SEPTEMBER 12 .......MTG:PHYSICAL TRAINING/E.S. TRAINING [PT/POLO]

SEPTEMBER 19 ............................................... MTG:E.S. TRAINING [BDUS/POLO]

SEPTEMBER 26 .............................................. MTG:E.S. TRAINING [BDUS/POLO]

SEPTEMBER 28-30 ............. California Wing Conference, March ARB

ON THE HORIZON

OCTOBER 12-14 ........................... ............................. ....................... SARCity, Barstow

OCTOBER 13-19 ..............National Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AlabamaOCTOBER 26-28 .............. BCS/ATS, Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado

WEEKLY MEETINGS ARE HELD FROM 7-9 P.M. (1900-2100 HRS)WEDNESDAY EVENINGS AT THE PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUMPACIFIC (SOUTH) HANGAR, 745 N. GENE AUTRY TRAIL.

GUESTS ARE WELCOMED AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND

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