Anoka Squadron - Dec 2010

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Newsletter

October, November, December 2010

Minnesota Squadron awards, Earhart, two Mitchell’s, three 2d Lt’s and Grover Loening

Awards night is always a special event at Civil Air Patrol, MN Wing, Anoka County Composite Squadron. 16November 2010 was very special as C/Capt Matt Frame receiving the Amelia Earhart Award while C/ 2d Lt’sDonald W Raleigh III and Jonathan E Whitcomb were presented the Gen. Billy Mitchell Awards, 2d Lt’s CraigBorchardt, Mike Kenny and Ted Persing were formally presented their Lt bars and Maj Bill Menkevich receivedthe Grover Loening award.

All of the MN Wing Command and Chaplin were in attendance as presenters and guests which is unusual thatthey were able to attend an event at the same time. They were Wing Commander, Col Tom Theis, Vice

Commander, Lt Col Mike Moen, Lt Col Don Sorenson, Group II Commander; Chaplin, Lt Col Don Mikitta alongwith the Squadron Commander, Capt Shelly Supan.

Col Tom Theispresented C/CaptMatt Frame theAmelia EarhartAward bycongratulation himand saying, “thereare only a smallpercentage of the

Cadets who reachthe third highestaward level in CAP”. “Keep up the good work and I’m sure you will reach the second highest award real soon”.

Lt Col Don Sorenson presented the Mitchell Awards to C/2d Lt’s Donald Raleigh III and Jonathan Whitcomb. “ThMitchell Award is also a Major Award and for Whitcomb it took him to many years to accomplish but he did not gup”, said Sorenson. “In my earlier years in CAP I did not push myself to advance as I should have”, said Whitco“When I saw the younger Cadets passing me by I put more effort into CAP and it paid off”.



Group II Commander, Lt Col Don Sorenson presented the Grover Loening award to Maj Bill Menkevich. Bill sharwith the Cadets the meaning of the award.

Capt Shelly Supan, Commander and 1st Lt Don Raleigh, Deputy Commander for Seniors, awarded the 2d Lt Barto Craig Borchardt, Mike Kenny and Ted Persing. Lt Kenny said, “Ted and I received our Mitchell Awards the samnight when we were Cadets”. “This is another special event at Anoka Squadron”.

The Awards event was MC’d by Now 2d Lt Ted Persing.

Weekly Blogs written by Cadet Staff Sergeant Lucas J CooperEmergency Services and P.T.

On Tuesday, the 5th

of October, the Civil Air Patrol, Anoka County Composite Squadron had their weekly

Tuesday night 6:25-9:15 meeting.

The evening begun with opening formation, as with all other regular meetings. After opening formation,

C/Capt. Matt Frame presented an Emergency Services (ES) class. During this class, some cadets took CadetPhysical Fitness Tests (CPFT’s), which are required for their next promotion.

After the ES class and CPFT’s, announcements were held, topics were discussed and cadets were promoted.Following announcements, closing formation took place to end the meeting.

Promotions!

C/SrA. Brett Fox promoted to C/SSgt. A very important promotion as this is the first of the NCO grades. Also

C/Amn Jessup Studer promoted to C/A1c.

Awards Ceremony and Character Development

On Tuesday, the 16th of November, the Anoka County Civil Air Patrol Composite Squadron held their

weekly Tuesday night meeting. Being the third meeting of the month, the dress uniform was blues. Also an

Awards Ceremony was given, which is done by the squadron quarterly, to honor those who have reachedcertain levels of achievement.

The Awards were given by the Minnesota Wing and the Group 2 Commanders. Those who received

awards are: C/2Lt. Don Raleigh III and C/2Lt. Jonathan Whitcomb, who received the Bill Mitchell award.C/Capt. Matt Frame also received the Amelia Earhart award. These cadets put in very much effort to achieve

these awards. They are all recognized as outstanding cadets who are dedicated to the squadron and to the rest

of Civil Air Patrol.

After the ceremony, cake was served and everyone had a chance to congratulate the cadets who

achieved awards. After a short period of cake and discussion, Senior Member 1st

Lt. Frame had a CharacterDevelopment class, as is done every month. This class was directed towards integrity. It was about how

people should act in integrity challenging situations, how people should make the right choices, even if they

can get away with it.

Following the Character Development class, announcements were given and closing formation was

held to end the night.



Safety

The Satety Beacon is the official safety newsletter of CAP. Items were reviewed by our SafetyOfficer Capt Jody Veek. He suggested everyone access www.gocivilairpatrol.com click onmembers, on the lower left side click on safety, then select Safety Newletters. Now you can selectthe month you want to read. Accessing and reading The Safety Newletter should be a regularmonthly activity for everyone.

Welcome New MembersCadets:Thomas G HaneMichael D HusoNathan L LangenfeldKristopher J TaslerGrant S WarrenAlex D MavetzSimeon R MarchandJyles M Poland

Seniors:

Mary E AlbrightJoel A LangenfeldJason R Jones

Have a great day,

Capt George SupanPublic Affairs OfficerAnoka Composite SquadronNCR-MN-021Civil Air Patrol – "Citizens Serving Communities: Above and Beyond"[email protected]

612-910-4375

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