Asheville Squadron - Aug 2008

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G a z e t t eVol.1 Issue 3 “Semper Gumby” August, 2008

Getting ES quaified at Justice Center

Thanks for the donations

This month Senior Member Barbara Bow reported thatthe squadron received 34 three dollar coupons fromempty ink cartridges donated that can be used to buy

office supplies, ink and certificates. Keep those empty

cartridges coming. The donation box is in the kitchen.

Nearly a week’s worthof emergency servicestraining was soaked up bycadets from the AshevilleComposite Squadron andother squadrons at the Jus-tice Center in HendersonCounty.

Some of the cadets attend-ing the intense five-day train-ing had less the 24-hoursto recuperate from a week of state wing encampment before entering the programat the Justice Center.

The ES encampment

earned cadets their groundteam qualified rating.

Cadets worked in theclassroom, out in the wil-derness, vector MAMA andgot up close and personnelwith some snakes as part of their training.

Cadets learned to vector aircarft with the help of MAMA.

A proud graduating class from ES school at the Justice Center.

Snakes were brought in by a trained handler.

A typical meal at the Justice Center.



Ice in JuneTalk of Ice was in the air on the evening of

June 25, 2008. Sergeant Chris Denny of the

Henderson County Sheriff’s Department was

at the Justice Academy to brief the cadet corps

of the Asheville Composite Squadron on the

hazards of Ice in June, or any other month of

the year.

Sgt. Denny spoke about the dangers of Meth-

amphetamine production and use. The Cadets

were shown slides of various equipment used

in the production of Crystal Methamphet-amine, as well as the effects the drug has on

the body.

The cadets left the class with a greater under-

standing, and a heightened awareness of the

dangers of Methamphetamine’s.

We would like to thank Senior Member

Nancy Greene for arranging and organizing

and Teaching the class.

The cadets had been up for many hours, and

were kept alive with candy, and an interesting

topic of conversation.

Our thanks also go out to Detective SergeantChris Denny

for taking the

time out of his

busy schedule

to enlighten

the Cadets on

the subject of

Methamphet-

amine’s.

Asheville Cadets get Upclose with C-130

One of the great thingsabout having a squadronthat’s located at the airport

is some of the military air-craft that happens to stop

by to train in the moun-tains of Western North Car-olina.

During the month of Julycadet got to tour one of themany version of the C-130,one of the workhorses of the U.S. Air Force.

After getting permission,cadets were give fullaccess, which they took advantage by having a upclose and personel tour of

the aircraft.However, cadets were not

allowed to start engines,taxi the plane or take itaround the pattern. Thereare some people that you

just can’t make happy.



Chaplain’s corner

What are Moral Values?Moral Leadership - part 2

In the last issue of the Gumby Gazette the first CAPCore Value was about Integrity which is the very fiber of all of our core values. The second of these corevalues is Volunteer Service.

CAP adopted this core value because it reflects thevery essence of the organization - service to human-ity. As volunteers, CAP members willingly give their time, energy, and personal resources in performance of the mission. Moreover, many have made the ultimatesacrifice by losing their lives in the service of the orga-nization.

Civil Air Patrol was organized by over 150,000American citizens concerned about the defense of America’s coastline just before the entry of the UnitedStates into World War II.

Flying under the jurisdiction of the Army Air Forcesthey flew over one-half million hours defending our coasts against enemy ships and were credited withsinking two enemy submarines and rescuing hundredsof crash survivors.

What began on December 1, 1941 as a civilian effortto augment America’s defenses has become a multi-national volunteer organization that serves Americatoday with the same spirit of dedication and commit-ment.

Civil Air Patrol volunteers are a unique group of people who are asked to assist their communities in avariety of ways.

Through guidance and training programs of theUnited States Air Force, we participate in general avi-

ation search and rescue, work with disaster relief orga-nizations in our area, assist federal and state agencies inthe war on drugs, transport time sensitive medical anddonated live organs, support CAP’s communicationsnetwork, our cadet program provides youth with lead-ership skills that are second to none, and CAP workswith teachers and schools in special aerospace mem- bership, and now as members of the Homeland Secu-rity Agency we have a new concern for the defense of America against the threat of terrorists.

The many duties required to complete the CAP mis-sion calls for an effort of volunteers to serve in variousadministrative and training skills which are vital to the

success of the mission.At the very least, one or more volunteers as staff

officers are needed to fill these important positions:Commander, Vice Commander, and Deputy Com-mander, Administration, Aerospace Education, CadetPrograms, Chaplain, Communication, Finance, Logis-tics, Operations, Personnel, Public Affairs, Safety, andother staff as required by the Command in addition toall the other specially trained personnel who performthe physical duties such as air crews, ground teams,and trainers, etc.

That’s a lot of volunteers but that is what it takes tomakes an efficient organization.

As a minimum, this core value implies a commit-ment for all CAP members to place the organization’s purposes first and foremost.

This process starts with the member’s agreement toobey the rules and regulations of CAP and the Air Force. In this regard, self-discipline is a must.

All these duties require a high standard of moralvalue. In our modern society that standard is beingchallenged by a moral philosophy that is culturally based to a person’s individual choice.

This means that people hold to the concept that rightor wrong are not absolutes.

Essentially it says that anything goes because life isultimately without meaning. If this view is acceptedthen morality would be neutral.

Moral relativism is a view that is based on a theoryof the origin of life. Either life evolved by accidentor was created by design. This is a serious issue that

should powerfully challenge each individual person todiscover the truth of this view and to the origin of life.All things created are subjected to a set of God’s morallaws.

Moral relativism says anything goes,,,but does it? Animmoral culture is self-serving, therefore is not gearedto the service and self-sacrifice of volunteers that arefound in CAP.

“Erase all thought and fear of God from a commu-nity, and selfishness and sensuality would absorb thewhole man”, William McGuffey author of McGuffey’sReader and mainstay of America’s public schoolsystem from 1836 till the 1920’s. (to be continued)

By SM James Matthews

Asheville Cadet Chief Master Sergeant JosephHouston received multipleawards while attending theRegional Cadet LeadershipSchool at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in

Goldsboro, North Carolinethis summer.Beginning July 6th and

lasting through the 11th,cadets from through outthe Mideast Region, whichconsists of the North andSouth Carolina, Virginia,West Virginia, Delaware,Washington DC andMaryland, underwenttraining conducted by acombination of Civil Air Patrol members and Air Force Personnel.

A total of 18 Cadets fromthrough the Region weresent to Leadership School.Activities that cadets had toconduct during attendanceincluded researching arandomly assigned topicwhich cadets would givea speech about and a drilldemonstration.

Upon completion of theschool, Cadet Houston had been awarded two separateawards, one of whichwas for Outstanding DrillLeadership and the other for Spirit.

When asked about theSpirit Award, Houston statedthat it was given to the cadetwho remained dedicated,even during bad times.

He remained humble,stating that while there,“nothing was really bad.”

In all, only four awardswere given, two of whichwent to Cadet Houston.These awards, also mark hisfirst regional awards.

Houston is next looking to

make an impression duringGlider Academy, where heexpects to get some flighttime.

Houston Cleans Up at Regional Cadet Leadership School

Cadet Chief Master Sergeant Houston (center).

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Member’s Volunteering Pays Off for CAP

CAP Lt. and Best Buy Employee John Greene (left to right) watches as Best Buy Store Manager presents $5,000to Asheville Squadron Commander Ltc. Bob Bauer.

By Lt. Clint Parker

Members of the AshevilleSquadron volunteer a lot of

hours to make Asheville atop rate outfit.

However, Lt John Greenehas found a way to make hisvolunteerism pay doubledividends for the West-ern North Carolina unit.Greene works for Best Buyand Best Buy likes their employees to give back tothe community.

So to recognize Greene’svolunteer work, Best buyrecently donated $5,000

dollars from the Children’sFoundation to the squad-ron on behalf of Greene’stime spent in community

with the CAP recognized by his employer, Greenesaid, “Absolutely, it givesthem a sense of commu-

accepted the award for the unit. “Our expensesare very high because wehave a large squadron...it’s

Arden was one of only 50that won the PresidentialVolunteer Serivce Award.

“Our employees are

pasionate about volun-teering their time to thecommunity,” said AdrianDallara, Store Manager atthe Adren Best Buy.

Asked how it made himfeel to be able to give awaythis awards, Dallara said,“Thankful that we haveemployees that are com-mitted to the community.”

“This award is certainly welcomed,” said Ltc. Bob Bauer, commander of the Asheville Squadron, who

accepted the award for the unit.

service at CAP.Lt. Greene is the squad-

ron’s financial officer and puts numbers hours of work into a cause he believes inand loves.

Asked if it was nice tohave his volunteer work

nity involvement ... andit may motive them to getinvolved with their com-munity as well!”

“This award is certainlywelcomed,” said Ltc. BobBauer, commander of theAsheville Squadron, who

imperative that we back itup with dollars.”

This is the second awardthe Asheville has gottenfrom the Arden Best Buystore for a total in grantmoney of $8,000.

The Best Buy store in

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