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1Citizens Serving Communities www.gocivilairpatrol.com

Peggy Sue was adopted by a family that ownsMercedes dealership in Burlington, Vt. The pug

a rescue pup, rode off to her new home in a brannew Mercedes sitting on her new pink dog bed andecked out in a jeweled pink collar. She is one ofdozens of dogs saved by a New York units new animal rescue program.

FEATURES2 Sept. 11 Revisted

Tragedy Affects CAPs Missions For America

8 Red Ribbon Week CAP Participates In National Anti-Drug Fight

16 Theyre No. 1Florida Cadets Are CAPs First CyberPatriot Champions

20 Tsunami!

Hawaii Wing Issues Warnings22 Coastal Patrol

California Wing Pilots Monitor Tsunami Threat

23 Earthquake ReliefCAP Units In Japan Respond To Tragedy

25 Aid For JapanFormer Cadet Works With Father To Help Victims

26 Mighty MississippiCivil Air Patrol Wings Assist With Historic Flooding

30 Tis The SeasonEach Spring Dakota Members Battle Rising Floodwaters

32 Tornado!Civil Air Patrol Responds In Storm-Ravaged South

35 Mercy FlightMissouri Wing Flies Vaccine To Tornado Victims

37 Ardent Sentry 11CAP Wings Help Test Heartlands Quake Response Plan

40 Wreaths Across America

Initiative A Year-Round Project For Many Squadrons44 Cessna Academy

Cadets Learn About Aircraft Manufacturing, Maintenance

46 Learning To FlyNational Flight Academies Expand Cadets Horizons

48 World Peace PrizeCAP Receives Award For Humanitarian Missions

50 Pilots And PawsRescue Flights Give Dogs A New Leash On Life

July-September 2011

DEPARTMENTS10 From Your National Commander15 Open Cockpit36 Crossword52 Achievements53 Region News

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ON OUR COVER A team of six cadets from three CAP squadrons inFlorida finished first in the All Service Division of CyberPatriot III, the Air Force Associations nationalschool cyber defense competition, besting entrants fro Junior ROTC branches of the U.S. Air Force, Army

and Marine Corps. In all, 660 teams were registeredthe competition designed to reproduce the same tsecurity threats encountered by highly skilled professicomputer administrators began last fall. Coveragethe cadets and CyberPatriot begins on page 16.Photo by Lt. Col. Wendy White-Carter, Virginia Wing

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The buzz of the Cessna 172s engine seemed anintrusion on the extraordinary and absolute quiet of Manhattans crystalline blue skies. In fact, the tiny Civil Air Patrol plane, tail number N9344L, was oneof the few aircraft aloft that afternoon in all of America. It was Sept. 12, 2001 the day after the

A decade after 9/11

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Flying almost directl y over the World Trade C enter

site, th is is what the CAP aircre w saw a day after the

terrorist attacks debris on rooftops and a n epicenter

of de s truction still smoldering more than 24 hours

later. In the end, it took 99 days to exting uish the fire.

This piece of ground in low e r Manhattan became th e

final resting pl a ce for nearly 3,000 peo ple.

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country was rocked by terrorist attacks, when the phrase9-1-1 took on a whole new meaning.

Departing Islips Long Island MacArthur Airport,the CAP plane was piloted by Lt. Col. JacquesHeinrich and also carried Lt. Cols. Andrew Feldman

and Warren Ratis. Feldman described his role as a mission specialist, while Ratis primary job was todocument destruction of the World Trade Center withaerial photographs. Ratis recalled their mood as very somber and determined.

As they approached Manhattan, they were surprisedto be challenged by a New York City PoliceDepartment helicopter, whose advance notice of theCAP mission had been stalled in the chaos. Ratis, who was working the radio, responded, We are on a mission approved by the U.S. Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration, and we intend to completeit. Ultimately, the challenge was handled by John F.Kennedy International Airport approach, which toldthe police CAP was not only authorized to be there butin fact had more authority than they did.

The CAP flight, requested by both New Yorks then-Gov. George Pataki and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and subsequently approved

through the Pentagon, provided the first direct aerialperspective of the disaster site for the state of N ew York. The photos were the first images w ed seenlooking down on the site and showed debris on top of buildings and damage to rooftops, said Dan OBrien,graphic information program manager at the time forthe New York State Office of Emergency Management.OBriens agency superimposed street grids over thebetter-quality photographs so emergency workers onthe ground, working in a desolated and convolutedlandscape, could tell where they were standing. Thephotos also were sent to the White House andPentagon for further analysis.

Vivid memories, visceral reactionsThe Cessna made three passes overhead, one at

2,000 feet and two at 1,300-1,500 feet. A crid smoke was evident as far out as a half-mile fr om the WorldTrade Center site. We did several concentric circles of

the site, getting closer each time, Ratis said. Westayed clear of the smoke plume emanating fr om t wreckage since we were not sure if it contained ahazardous materials a good idea, as it turned o

Feldman said one of the first things the air cre

noticed was a white powder covering everythinga radius of up to 10 blocks. It appeared like snhe remembered, but then reality set in. It wasplaster dust, ground-up concrete and crushedfluorescent tubes.

You have to know I really admired and lovedthose towers, recalled Ratis, who only months bhad left a job in an office on the first to wersfloor. Besides the amazing view, everything wasthere. Of course, I had watched video coverage oattacks and assumed some of my friends and forco-workers had not survived which turned outbe the case.

Even though I was a witness to the shelling abombardment during World War II to liberate Francfrom the Nazis, Heinrich said, I was shocked tothe senseless and unprovoked magnitude of the attaon our shores.

All three of the men aboard that historic flight

still CAP members today. Heinrich remains an actimission pilot for the New York Wings Long IslandGroup. Feldman advanced through CAPs ranks tobecome, first, director of communications for theNortheast Region and now moderator of the NationRepeater Coordinating Group as well as a memberthe National Communications Team.

While Ratis retains his affiliation in the New Y Wings Long Island Group, he acknowledged, Thday had a profound influence on my life. It ev

him to take a new career path: He now works aenforcement officer for U.S. Customs and BorderProtection, where he lives homeland security on adaily basis.

Based at Kennedy International Airport in Queenhe is also a member of the National Mobile RespTeam, which travels the U.S. to work major eventThe answer, he said, to how 9/11 affected mesimple word completely.


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CAP in crisis modeThe decision to turn to CAP the day after S ept. 11

was based on trust and capabilities. For the most part,military aircraft fly too fast to capture quality photographs from the air. The typical airspeed for one of CAPs small planes, however, is 80-100 knots, very conducive to the job at hand.

Moreover, CAP volunteers had begun to accumulatesome experience with aerial photography. At that time,across the country some 100 members were trained totake aerial photos.

Finally, CAP was a prudent choice financially.The average price for flying a CAP plane is $150 perhour, compared to thousands for military andcommercial aircraft.

That first CAP flight was one of about 40 Col. Rick

Greenhut would dispatch in responto Sept. 11. Having assumedcommand of CAPs NortheastRegion just two weeks before theattacks, Greenhut was forced to se

up his command post at FEMAsregional center in Maynard, Mass.,after finding himself without phonservice in Manhattan because all aphone lines were routed through t World Trade Center complex.

In the days that followed,Greenhut and other CAP leaderssent members on flights to transpblood products, medical suppliesand government officials; to provirisk assessment of criticalinfrastructure and waterways; andtake more digital photographs andvideo from the air. Among theequipment CAP helped transport was supplies for robots used by tU.S. Army at the disaster sites an30 donated Bose noise-cancelling

headsets, valued at $1,000 each, fuse by urban search teams.Members also assisted on the

ground, helping man communications at local airpor ttapped to accept commercial flights and at variousemergency management agencies. CAP chaplains,meanwhile, offered comfort and follow-up counselingvictims families.

Proving ground for wingsImmediately following 9/11 the door was wide

open for agencies to work with each other in defeour shores, Ratis said. Many organizations jumpeand are providing these services.

Our National Operations Center was not the necenter it is today, said Malcolm Kyser, CAPs chioperations support. Our entire mission profile haschanged, and the fulcrum was 9/11.

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One of the first things visitors to CAP National Headquarters at Maxwell Air Force Base,

Ala., see as they enter the building is this painting, showing a CAP plane flying over the

World Trade Center the day after Sept. 11. Pennsylvania artist Diane Kraus used

photographs taken by the first CAP aircrew to fly over the site to create the painting,

rendered primarily in acrylics using an airbrush, with details later added in oils. This

technique, Kraus said, creates the soft effect of the clouded skyline with the sharpness

of the aircraft. The painting was commissioned by the Southeast Region and presented

as a gift to CAP in 2004. Prints of We Were There are available through the artist s

website, www.dekraus.com.

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remembered the old days. CAPs work was mostly search and rescue with a little disaster relief thrown in,handled mostly at the state level.

Raymond and Kyser were both working for CAPoperations at the time of the terrorist attacks, along with

John Desmarais, now CAPs deputy director of operations. All three have witnessed a NOCtransformation.

After 9/11, Desmarais said, lots of resources cameour way, like the grant CAP received for its narrowband(radio) transition. Perhaps most importantly, our leadersat the time set the tone and w ere willing to take onmore responsibility and do it right.

New mission opportunities Just a few months after Sept. 11, CAP provided

major support to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah,flying over 100 sites three times each day to verify they were secure. Other large-scale homeland security missions for CAP since those days have includedresponse to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Gulf oilspill last year.

Today, the organization is routinely active in missionsthat include serving as targets for military training,

assisting with drug enforcement and border patroland providing aerial reconnaissance over waterways andcritical infrastructure.

CAP has seen an especially significant increase in

demand for its aerial photography, which got a workin 2010 when members took thousands of digital imin response to the oil spill. At the time of the Septerrorist attacks, aerial photography for CAP was ininfancy, with a very limited number of knowledgeabl

members. Today, several thousand are trained in thisThe modern National Operations Center can now

help deliver a true national response. All missions are tracked by WMIRS, CAPs Web

Mission Information Reporting System. More than halof CAPs aircraft fleet is configured with camera win

Following the lead of national emergency agencieand the military, CAP has standardized training somembers can slot easily into a larger mission inv omany other entities and with the same lev el of professionalism.

But the key has been CAPs recognition by theDepartment of Defense, including its integration into Air Force Norths daily flying operations.

None of this was the case before Sept. 11.Greenhut, who later became CAPs first national

director of homeland security, had the final word.I believe our performance in the aftermath of 9

cemented CAPs credibility with the government and

the military, changing the very tenor of our organizso that CAP is now recognized as a very capable,effective and reliable asset for the protection of America. s

Today s CAP National Operations Center is a far cry from what it was 10 years ago. Now with specialized software to track missions

across the country, it has realized its potential as the nerve center of an organization poised to respond to America s needs.

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Texas squadron raises funds for platoons deployed to AfghanistanCadets in the TexasWing s MarauderComposite Squadron

raised enough money toequip three U.S. Army andMarine platoons serving inAfghanistan with specialprotective helmet padsthat improve wearers

comfort and safety. Thefundraising campaign began as the initiative of Cadet Lt. Col. Daniel Shellhouse.The service members receiving the donation were grateful and touched.According to their emails, sent from forward combat areas, the upgraded helmetkits are a major improvement over their government-issue pads, as they drawmoisture, conform to the wearer's head and offer greater protection from

concussion injuries. The helmet pads are supplied through Operation Helmet,founded by Dr. Bob Meaders of Bentwater, Texas seen here accepting asymbolic $2,600 check from Shellhouse, Cadet 2nd Lt. Matthew Burrlel andCadet Airman Jesse Sakal.

EDITORIAL STAFFCIVILAIR PATROLNATIONAL COMMANDERMaj. Gen. Amy S. Courter

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORDon R. Rowland

ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTORJohn A. Salvador

MANAGING EDITORJulie M. DeBardelaben

ASSOCIATE EDITORSteve Cox

GRAPHIC DESIGNERBarb Pribulick

S TAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSusan Schneider

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS1st Lt. Janet Antonacci, Kristi Carr, Capt.Todd Epp, Jennifer S. Kornegay, MinnieLamberth, Mitzi Palmer, Jenn Rowell, Capt.Mike Schaefer, Capt. Matthew Scherzi, 1stLt. Lindsay Shipps, Maj. Steven Solomonand Lenore Vickrey

MAGAZINEEDITORIAL BOARDCol. Joseph A. Guimond Jr.Senior Adviser, Support

Col. Michael MurrellSenior Adviser, Operations

Maj. Steven SolomonNational Public Affairs Team Leader

Lt. Col. Donald JohansonRocky Mountain Region Director of Safety

Maj. Al PabonNorth Central Region Director of PublicAffairs

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Pennsylvania color guard helps opennationally viewed U-S-A gameColor guard cadetsrepresenting thepennsylvania Wing s Group4 were front and center forthe start of a nationallytelevised major leaguebaseball game May 1 thatsoon became deeply etchedinto the nationalconsciousness before thenight was over. The colorguard team Chief MasterSgt. Evan Floyd, CadetTech. Sgts. Gregory ScottVincent and Drew Switzer,all from QuakertownComposite Squadron 904,and Cadet Senior MasterSgt. Emily Absalom ofBangor Slate Belt Composite Squadron 807, seen here presenting thecolors during the singing of the national anthem helped open the gameat Citizens Bank Park, where the hometown Phillies took on the New YorkMets in front of a crowd of more than 43,000 and a national ESPNaudience in the millions. Some three hours later, during the ninth inning,the crowd erupted into a stirring chant of U-S-A in response to thequickly spreading news of Sept. 11 terrorist attack mastermind Osama binLaden s death in Pakistan during a raid by U.S. Navy Seals.

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Civil Air Patrol once again will joinother organizations across the nation incelebrating Red Ribbon Week during the last week of October. The annualobservance, the oldest and largest drug

prevention campaign in the United States, is a reminderof the sacrifice of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent Enrique Kiki Camarena, who waskidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug cartel inMarch 1985 while investigating a multibillion-dollardrug scam.

Congress designatedRed Ribbon Week fora Drug-Free America

in 1988. The wearing of red ribbons beganin Camarenashometown of Calexico, Calif., afterhis death as a way tocommemorate his lifeand service, andbecame a symbol of prevention to reducethe demand for illegaldrugs. Today, CAP isone of many organizations thatrecognize Red Ribbon Week, which this yearis Oct. 23-31.

CAP is involved with the Red Ribbon

campaign as part of its Drug Demand ReductionProgram. According to CAP regulation, the campaigallows people and communities to demonstrate a vstand against drugs and to show their personalcommitment to a drug-free lifestyle and the creationDrug Free America through the symbolic act of wea red ribbon. CAPs goal is to encourage 100 perall wings and 90 percent of all squadrons to particin the campaign.

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CAP PlansRed Ribbon Week Activities By Lenore Vickrey


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ribbons presented to them following a reading of the Red Ribbon story.

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reduction administrator, is already hard at work preparing his units for the weeks activities.Information will be mailed to all unitcommanders and DDR officers in August andSeptember, including distribution of red ribbons.

Through dissemination of the Red Ribbonmaterial, more squadrons in the Tennessee Wing will learn about the DDR program and willhopefully become an active DDR unit, Shaffersaid. This is an added benefit in addition to theimportant remembrance of DEA Agent EnriqueKiki Camarena.

Shaffer said the Tennessee Wings campaignhas the potential to display nearly 2,000ribbons and to educate the same number of people about the dangers of drugs and theCAP DDR program.

Every CAP member will be given tworibbons: one to wear themselves, another togive to a family member or friend. By providing the ribbons, members will have theopportunity to briefly explain the DDR program andthe significance of the ribbon.

Members are encouraged to be creative in their

ribbon displays, said Shaffer. For example, they can bedisplayed inside car or aircraft windows withouthindering visibility; tied to trees or light poles; oraffixed to notebooks, backpacks, a mailbox, a bicycleor clothing.

The Wisconsin Wing is actively involved in DDR work year-round, with the Red Ribbon campaign anintegral part of its drug prevention education efforts.

It has been said that DDR is an optional pr ogram,said Maj. Donna Daniels, Great Lakes Regioncoordinator and Wisconsin Wing administrator. Intodays world it is a necessary program. As CAPmembers, we have an opportunity and a responsibility to reach out to the schools in our communities andsupport their work in keeping our youth drug-free.

Earlier this year, Daniels wing began a new initiative,Are You the One, which gave every senior memberand cadet the opportunity to sign a pledge to upholdlocal, state and federal laws regarding drugs and alcohol.

The pledge program, which includes a short videonarrative, was shared with the local community, givothers the opportunity to learn more about CAP ato receive a newsletter with the tools needed to up

the pledge.To prepare for Red Ribbon Week, some Wiscons

squadrons will adopt one or two elementar y schoolclassrooms, Daniels said. Each teacher will be givencare package with the new DDR activity book,recruiting brochures for cadets and senior members,facts about CAP, crayons, stickers, pens and a packCAP red ribbons. As Red Ribbon Week approachesquadron is encouraged to contact its teachers andthem to come in to teach a DDR lesson, she saidSenior members will be called on to bring CAP caa potential recruiting opportunity.

I have seen drug trends rise among our youth,Daniels said. There is a need for DDR officers. Iencourage anyone who has a passion to see our cadsucceed to get involved and help us reduce the demfor drugs.s

For more information, visit www.capmembers.com/ddr.

Students at Parkview Elementary School in New London, Wis., show a

unity of purpose as they sport Red Ribbon Week ribbons. The students

school counselor, Shandee Kempf, preceded presentation of the ribbons

with a lesson on good choices and bad choices, peer pressure refusal

strategies and the importance of being drug-free.

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As I prepare to transition from my CAP role as your ncommander, I am pleased to report all we have accomplishetogether over the past four years.

The best leadership is rarely easy; in fact its generally really hard. Seyou as your national commander has been one of the best, har dest and mdiverse jobs I have had!

Significant change has been achieved, however, through our collective leadership, dediand patriotic service. We addressed CAPs organizational life first. Priorities included strplanning and managing CAP according to that plan, developing and implementing an ethpolicy and adopting a different incident command system. Our success hinged on the crneed to partner with the National Headquarters and volunteer staffs, as well as CAP-U.

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Nevada Wing Capt. Pat Dwyer shows CAP s full-motion video system to CAP National Commander Maj. Gen. Amy S. Courter.

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Force. In the process, we identified and adoptedsafety education enhancements and created a publictrust team, new logistics programs and diversity initiatives.

Of course, there were rough spots we were

steering aHUGE

aircraft loaded with at first 56,611and now more than 61,000 members. CAP waschanging, as was the landscapearound us, and we needed to find ways to let each person know he orshe was needed, while at the sametime letting all members know they might be needed to work in a different way than the comfortableroutines of the past. We needed toprovide a roadmap and the tools toget from where we were to where we needed to be. Despite thesignificance and complexity of this work, we met our goals and ar e well-positioned for the future.That huge CAP aircraft with all of us on board navigated through a planned metamorphosis.

Charting The Course At times that metamorphosis

required each of us to give moreof ourselves and required morefrom our entire organization. Allthis change begs a question: Why would anyone in an unpaidposition choose this difficult path?Its a simple answer: Because CAP needed to changeto survive in a changed world and to thriv e in a new environment. We needed to get back to thebusiness basics of assessing our current state, taking stock of the current socio-economic situation,identifying the changes outside of CAP to which w emust respond, identifying other customers whom wecould serve, listening to our customers and potentialcustomers needs, dreaming of the possibilities,reaching out to our most important asset ourmembers to see where you could take us, setting the strategy and, finally, executing our plans.

Was that all? It certainly seems like more thanenough, but it was not. Each of us has ideas abo where our organization should go, and w e had tolisten hard and chart the right course. So, mixed with the strategic planning and tactical ex ecution

stages were very important and very fragile emotiochange management and large organizationalleadership steps that werethe duty, responsibility andprivilege of one servant of CAP your nationalcommander.

CAPs metamorphosis hasbeen marked with grace,dignity and patriotism.

We have a proud historof nearly 70 years of service to our nation (wereach that milestone inDecember). We have comefull circle from our early beginnings during World War II, scanning ourshores for danger, to lastyear achieving our longest

continuously operatedmission responding tothe Gulf oil crisis. Half oour regions suppliedpersonnel to sustain thismission, which includedmore than 100,000 aerial

images and more than 20,000 unpaid professionaman-hours. Flying over water DeepwaterHorizon wow! We saved our nation millions o

dollars, because we were an efficient and effectalternative for this mission. Had we anticipatedthis? No, we didnt think we would ever face sman-made disaster. But we were ready, becauseembraced national-level planning, we hadpreviously adopted the Federal Emergency Management Agency process as our incidentcommand standard and our members were willinto be involved.

Courter looks on as Cadet 1st Lt. Josh Dovi, left, andCadet Tech. Sgt. Michael Wilson defend their

network during the CyberPatriot III finals. Dovi and

Wilson and four other cadets from central Florida

were members of Team Wilson, CAP s first cyber

defense national championship team.

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Financial Planning In our recent past, we struggled with funding

for good reason, as budgets are tight everywhere.Still, we were ready for the financial downturn of 2008, because we were already reaching out to ourcustomers most notably the U.S. Air Force. Weperfected our customer service, working diligently tofind ways to earn their respect. I think of that eachday, as I pause and remind myself of CAPscustomers. My emphasis on respect as a keystone hasmeant CAP earned respect at a much greater rate inthe last few years. I hope this is the beginning of thriving partnerships with the Air Force, the AirForce Association, FEMA and all others that no w,and in the future, partner with CAP.

CAP is a great example of an organization that

has not rested on good enough but instehas reached for the best, as in bestpractices. One example of the benefit ofthis hard work is that by enhancing ourfinancial controls through nationwide

programs, we have received threeconsecutive unqualified (A+) audits. Itdoesnt get any better than that! That onindicator tells our members, ourcustomers, our donors and our partners wknow where the money we received fromthem is, that control over it is not in thhands of simply one person but in theoversight of many, and that our funds ainvested properly in our programs.

CAPs TransformationThere is so much Ive been privileged

to achieve during my tenure as yournational commander. I wish I had timeremind you of what else weve done especially the behind-the-scenes work but I hope this, my final column, helpsyou understand and fully appreciate your

important role in CAPs transformation. Iyou are a little tired, well, now you kn

why (and why I am, too)! H owever, I hope youalso energized and ready to get even more involvin your Civil Air Patrol, the USAF auxiliary.

It has been a pleasure working with you, ourmembers, our CAP-USAF partners, our NationalHeadquarters team and all of our par tners andsupporters. The teamwork was outstanding! I lookforward to my transition to the National AdvisoryCouncil to joining the prestigious andmotivating team of past national commanders whoserved as trusted advisers during my tenure.

Thank YOU for giving me the honor to ser veyour national commander.

Semper Vigilans!


Courter, left, shares a laugh with aerospace education members Jeannine

Woods, center, and Kimberly McCommon before a teacher orientation flight

in Illinois. Woods and McCommon teach at charter schools in Chicago.

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Member awarded French Legion of Honor MedalCivil Air Patrols volunteers can expect to

accrue row upon row of medals and ribbonsreflecting their service, activities andaccomplishments as members of the organization.

Receiving a decoration from a foreign government, though, isa distinction w ith a difference, one recently earned by Lt.Col. Richard A. Ortega of the Florida W ings Orlando CadetSquadron. Ortega seen here, second from right, with Lt.Col. John Lynn, Florida Wing director of aerospaceeducation, left; French Consul General Gael deMaisonneuve, second from left; and Lt. Col. David Moseley of the Florida Wings Eagle Aerospace Academy CompositeSquadron received the French Legion of Honor from Maisonneuve for his participation in the Omahalanding at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The recognition formally known as theOrdre national de la Legiondhonneur,or National Order of the Legion of Honor was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in Maythe highest combat decoration awardedby France. Recipients earn the degree ofchevalier,or knight, and are namedby a decree signed by the president of France, as approved by the Legion of Honor Committee in Paris after reviethe candidates combat services.

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Legislation is pending in both houses of Congress that, if passed, would award a single Congressional Gold Medal toCivil Air Patrol for its service during World War II. You can

help in two ways: Contact your legislators, requesting their support for two

bills introduced in February 2011. A minimum of 67senators and 290 representatives must sign as co-sponsorsbefore the measures can be considered for passage.

If you were a CAP member during World War II or you know of someone who was, please register online at the

website listed below. CAP is looking for all members who were 18 years or older and served in CAP between Dec.7, 1941 and Aug. 15, 1945. Correspondence can bemailed to Civil Air Patrol WWII, 105 S. Hansell St.,Maxwell AFB, AL 36112. Questions? Contact Holley

Dunigan at [email protected] or 1-877-227-9142, ext. 236. Check CAPs website,

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Civil Air Patrol often rousts its members from a good nsleep, requires them to keep their skills up-to-date and exp

compliance with a myriad of rules. Since all members arevolunteers, there is no pay for this devotion.

So besides the gratitude expressed by those who benefit from CAPand our members self-satisfaction from knowing theyve met a critical n what do the more than 61,000 CAP members get in r eturn for their se

CAP offers them respect and appreciation, commodities that can besometimes hard to find.

With an organizational structure borrowed from the military, CAP provides a career laddemembers to continue to advance in rank. And its not hard to do. With the support of the

squadron members and a broad spectrum of professional development choices, volunteers canin rank by completing predetermined tasks. Proficiency and understanding are demonstrated bstraightforward tests, many of which are offered online for the ultimate in convenience. CAPpathways that can take a member from the local unit to the wing to the r egion and evenservice. A members uniform tells the story as ribbons, medals and patches are added.

CAP also offers its members an extensive awards and decorations program. During the ansummer national conference, honorees in all areas of service including safety, search andchaplain services, aerospace education, cadet programs, counterdrug, ground team, logistics anfinances are recognized. Moreover, CAP works diligently to advance its members namesnational service awards, and CAPs routine support of community and military organizationsmany other honors.

At the root of all this recognition is CAPs culture of respect. In addition to helping mnew skills and rewarding their accomplishments, we strive to keep them informed, to addresconcerns and to offer them money-saving benefits. CAP leaders learn early on to make it apersonally thank fellow members and to give credit to those who actually did the wor k. Adelivered in a handshake, becomes a treasured memento because its recipient understands itspecially minted to commemorate exceptional service.

In todays climate of automated telephone systems and mass mar keting, individual attentioessential than ever. If you would like to be recognized and appreciated in a volunteer organconsider joining CAP in its missions for America. F or more information, go to www.gocivilairpatrol.com.

Don Rowland

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What did you do this weekend?

Civil Air Patrol 1st Lt. Mark Strobridge, deputy commander for

seniors for the Florida Wings Seminole CompositeSquadron, said CAP cadets in squadrons across America have amazing answers to that question.

One weekend at the end of March, six Florida Wing cadets became a shining example of that tr uth when they became the first CAP team to win theCommander-in-Chiefs Cup in the All ServicesDivision of the Air Force Associations CyberPatriotIII, the nations largest high school cyber defensecompetition.

Team Wilson, as they call themselves, is made upof cadets from three Florida squadrons: Cadet Tech.Sgt. Isaac Harding (team captain) of the OrlandoCadet Squadron, Cadet 2nd Lt. Shawn Wilson(assistant team captain) of the Seminole CompositeSquadron, Cadet 1st Lt. Josh Dovi of the CitrusCounty Composite Squadron and Cadet Chief Master Sgt. Evan Hamrick, Cadet Tech. Sgt.Michael Hudson and Cadet Senior Airman ReidFerguson, all of the Seminole squadron.

In addition to the Commander-in-Chief s Cup,each of the six cadets received a $2,000 academicscholarship from Northrop Grumman and a tour of Washington, D.C., near the finals site in NationalHarbor, Md.

As one of 660 teams registered when this yearsCyberPatriot began, just making it to the finals wasa major accomplishment for Team Wilson. Fourother All Service Division teams one each fromthe Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy Junior

ROTCs were after the same prize.The Air Force Association created CyberPatriot in 20

replicate real-life cyber security situations faced by compadministrators. It provides high school students hands-onlearning about cyber security while inspiring, educating

By Jennifer S. Kornegay

Cadet Tech. Sgts. Michael Hudson, left, and Isaac Hardingconcentrate on defending their network during the final round ofCyberPatriot III. Hudson and Harding were part of Team Wilson, thesix-cadet team from central Florida that won the All Service Divisionof the national cyber defense competition.

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motivating them to be the nations next cyber defenders.The CyberPatriot teams defend their computers andnetworks from attempted intrusions that could includespam, phishing and other malicious attacks.

LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE At the moment they knew theyd reached their

ultimate goal, each cadet had different reactions linkedby a common element: overwhelming happiness.

For Hudson, the entire experience was life-changing,as doors he never even knew existed have been openedfor him thanks to CyberPatriot. Ireally didnt know much about it orhow big it was when I star ted, hesaid. It has given me a clearer pathfor my future. It helped me identify my major in college and what my career goal is to work for a cyberdefense company. Im really excitedto have that specific direction.

Hamrick, too, has narrowed hisgoals and believes the real-worldexperience and connections he gained will benefit him. I have a muchbetter idea about what all computerscience entails, he said. And it hasgiven me a foothold in the industry because of the many people I met.

Dovi, who is applying foradmission to the U.S. Air Force Academy and wants to work incomputer security in some form,also pointed to the networking opportunities offered by thenational competition. Thesponsors of CyberPatriot are big defense and computer companieslike Boeing, Google and NorthropGrumman, and they are all therescouting, he said. They follow the winners, so it has put my name and all our names inthat field as good potential employees.

After long harboring dreams of space exploration,Ferguson now knows exactly which role he wants to play

in that field: computer or communications specialist. Wilson is interested in game design and knows

CyberPatriot experience will look good on his r esumIt shows I have skill and I am willing to wor k hsaid.

Harding also knows CyberPatriot will enhance hisprofessional viability, helping him break into the woof cyber engineering. Too, Its nice to show it offfriends, he joked.

OUR NATION NEEDS DEFENDERS

The teams mentor, Gary Palmer, to whom bothStrobridge and Harding givemost of the credit for theteams success, stressed thatCyberPatriot benefits morethan the participants.

Our Air Force and ournation need defenders, andCyberPatriot is developing thepeople we need to protect ounational security, he said.

Palmer is an employee of MITRE Corp., a nonprofitorganization that does researchfor the Air Force. Hevolunteered to teach Team Wilsons cadets the technicalskills they needed toparticipate in CyberPatriot.

When I met the kids, I wa little worried at first. They seemed disorganized, he said.But as we went on andpolished some rough edges, I was inspired by their hard woand professionalism. I knew bthe end they were the team tbeat. They were great.s

To find out how any high school or cadet team can becoma part of this unique national high school cyber defense competition created by AFA, go to www.uscyberpatriot.org.

Team Wilson from left, front row, Cadet 2nd Lt.Shawn Wilson, Cadet Senior Airman ReidFerguson, Cadet 1st Lt. Josh Dovi; back row,Cadet Tech. Sgt. Michael Hudson, Cadet ChiefMaster Sgt. Evan Hamrick and Cadet Tech. Sgt.Isaac Harding pose triumphantly with the

Commander-in-Chief Cup. In addition to the trophy,each of the six cadets on the team received a$2,000 academic scholarship from NorthropGrumman and a tour of Washington, D.C.


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ALWAYS VIGILANT!

Ever vigilant, always prepared, Civil Air Patrols 61,000-plus members arethere to help their fellow citizens cope

with natural disaster. Never was that moreevident than this spring, when hundreds of CAP members from more than 15 wings willingly left hearth and home to battle theelements. In the nations Pacific region, CAPmembers warned their fellow citizens of anapproaching tsunami. Tornadoes in the Southand in Missouri left deep swaths of destructionand death. In addition, record snow and icemelt in the Dakotas and heavy rains in theMississippi River basin wrought historicflooding. Through it all, CAP members worked courageously to serve and help protecttheir communities.

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outside lower portion of each planes fuselage, said Hawaii Wing Commander Col. Roger Caires.

In both cases, CAP crews were looking for anyone near the shormight not have heard warnings on the radio or television. More tha80,000 people in Hawaii live in the tsunami inundation zone, and thdoesnt include tourists or campers.

Tsunami warnings are major missions for the Hawaii Wing and havfor more than 50 years. Aircrews are trained to get the job doneprofessionally and quickly. They fly predetermined routes and often halimited time to get the word out. In the February 2010 tsunami evenreports from Hawaii indicated nearly everyone had evacuated to highin preparation for the giant wave.

The beaches, remote towns and outer islands that we warn witonboard sirens and PA speakers are in some cases the only form warnings the public will receive. Lack of cellular reception and baroads for emergency vehicles leave only the Hawaii Civil Air Patrthis job, said 2nd Lt. Adam Orens, mission operations officer. Wto be thorough and make sure we are flying the entire coastline bsame time maintain a safe environment for our aircraft and crews.know we are doing our job when we receive waving flashlights of acknowledgement from people on the ground.s

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the National Park Service. Thishouse in Kamaohe Bay was

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Capt. Clifford R. Waeschle of the Hawaii Wing s Kauai Composite Squadron makes his

preflight inspection before flying the island state s first tsunami warning mission in the

aftermath of the earthquake in Japan.

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Just moments afterthe magnitude 9.0earthquake devastated parts of Japan, the California Wing spooledup its response.

Following the first tsunami surge, Lt. Col.Steve Asche, incident commander, ordered flight

crews to launch five damage assessment flights along the coast, with a dedicated high bird communications aircraft also operating inthe north part of the state.

The surge in the first cycle had measured from slightly less than 2 feet inmany places to more than 8 feet in the Crescent Beach area of northernCalifornia. Officials in harbors in several locations reported numerous vessels sunk. Atleast four people were suspected of being swept out to sea, though only one fatality resulted. With the third wave surge historically the most dangerous and while strong aftershocks continued to hit Japan, the damage assessment mission continued until sev eral wavecycles had passed.

The California Wing, with its exceptionally strong and experienced personnel some with almost 20years of disaster relief experience conducted 21 flights for damage assessment in the immediate afterthe tsunami. s

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Within hours after themagnitude 9.0 earthquakestruck the Japanese main

island of Honshu on the afternoon of March 11, U.S. military personnel bega

assisting the Japanese people with searchand rescue, survey, recovery and relief ef

through Operation Tomodachi, adapted fromthe Japanese word meaning friendship.

U.S. support was headquartered at Yokota Air Bathe northwest outskirts of Tokyo. Yokota hosts Headqua

U.S. Forces Japan, 5th Air Force and the 374th AirliftIt is home as well to Civil Air Patrols Yokota CadetSquadron, also known as the Tokyo Patrol. The squa was revitalized in the fall of 2010 after being dormantfew years.

In the wake of the disaster, most cadets were evacuathe squadron didnt respond to the tragedy as a unit.Nevertheless, its remaining members coordinated acts of volunteerism in the best spirit of CAP.

Most of the units senior members are in the militarare government civilian employees, and many were callduty through their primary jobs. The squadronscommander, Maj. Mike McGurl; its aerospace officer, MScott Aston; and Lt. Cols. Austin Hamner, search andofficer, and Brian Irish Porter, operations officer and

A friend in need

This photo shows some of the destruction caused by the magnitude

9.0 earthquake that struck the northeastern end of Japan on March

11, creating a deadly tsunami that killed thousands of people and

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deputy commander for seniors, began immediate 12-hour shifts in their respective military roles, supporting the U.S. militarys emergency response.

Senior squadron members not called to duty and theremaining cadet members still had many oppor tunities

to help. After the earthquake, Tokyos two commercialairports diverted 11 airliners into Yokota, but two wereunable to leave. Nearly 600 stranded passengers spentthe night, most sleeping on cots and fed b y baseagencies and the American Red Cross.

More than 300 base residents swamped the RedCross with offers to assist at the shelters or ev en toprovide accommodations in their homes. Capt. JakeKadish, assistant operations officer, assisted in laterstages of the effort, including cleanup and disassembly of temporary lodging.

Porter, along with Senior Member Benjamin Rosco

Rosciglione and Cadet Chief Master Sgt. MichaelVisnyei, helped unload Red Cross aid boxes from apallet in the reception area for military forces enter Japan on their way to disaster ar eas. We felt weto roll up our sleeves and pitch in with everyone

Team Yokota to assist our Japanese hosts, VisnyeiTasked in his active-duty Air Force job with trai

aircrews on how to survive if shot down in a comenvironment, Rosciglione, the squadrons deputy commander for cadets, said, Its an incredibleexperience to work side-by-side with our sister servU.S. agencies and Japanese partners to execute themission through the day, and then alongside our caand senior members to help the Red Cross sustainrelief effort throughout the night.

Maj. Richard Krakoff, the squadrons deputy commander, was one of those turned away b y theCross, but he was able to help in other ways. Theafter the quake he walked into the Air F orce officcoordinating the flow of aircraft and supplies and b working with personnel there.

Another member, 1st Lt. Sean Harris, director ofinformation technology for the squadron, used his ITskills in setting up computer and data links to faci

and track the nearly 8,000 U.S. government personndependents who left Japan voluntarily because of uncertainty over the possible radiation hazard fromdamaged nuclear power plant. Nearly 1,500 of thosefamily members left Japan from Yokota.

Meanwhile in the north, Rosciglione, also deputy commander for the Misawa Cadet Squadron, monitomembers families who were without heat and powe while he also worked 14-hour days in the M isawaForce Base command post; other members helped cdebris on base.

Back at Yokota, Visnyei, his squadrons cadetcommander, remained and worked at the Red Crosscanteen, which provided support packages and foodrelief workers. When asked to comment on his actiVisnyei summed up the spirit of CAP ser vice andvolunteerism: Its great to put seven years of CAPtraining to good use, being able to step up and mareal difference.s


Cadet Chief Master Sgt. Michael Visnyei assists American Red

Cross operations in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake

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Days after the earthquakerocked Japan, a former CAP

cadet from the Maryland Wing joined inthe relief effort thousands of miles away. When Ari Katz, a student at AmericanUniversity in Washington, D.C., heard thenews and saw the scenes of devastation, heimmediately asked his father RobertKatz, a homeland security consultant who was working with Google and CarnegieMellon University in Pittsburgh to senddata to Japan if he could provideassistance.

Ari Katz joined a team of intelligenceand logistics analysts working with the National

Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide pre- and post-quake high-resolution imagery and other vital data tothe U.S. military, urban search and rescue teams andvolunteer responders in Japan. His role was to prioritizecontinuous requests for data, then coordinate with theappropriate source and delivery agencies to push it outto ground teams in Japan.

For several weeks, he spent anywhere from eight to 12hours a day on these efforts while keeping up with hisstudies as a student in the School of I nternational Service.

Katz became a cadet with Civil Air Patrols Bethesda Chevy Chase Composite Squadron in Maryland at age13. He has served as a first responder with theBurtonsville Volunteer Fire Department in Montgomery County, Md., and he also participated on-site as a partof relief efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

He points to his experiences as a CAP cadet as a vitaltraining ground.

I have been active in operations as a ground team

member, in leadership as a squadron flight comman

and as a technology explorer in many special summprograms, such as the Advanced Technologies Acadeand the Air Force Space Command FamiliarizationCourse, Katz said.

It is the incredibly powerful combination of allthese specific experiences, plus the overall U.S. Aircultural and discipline indoctrination, which merged with my international relations/counter-terrorismundergraduate studies and my firefighting/paramedicpublic service to give me the background I neededeffective in the Japan and Haiti relief campaigns.

Helping others is important to Katz.I am fortunate to have had so many professiona

personal development opportunities in CAP, in schoolthe fire service and in my own travels, he said. gained and grown so much from both formal curricuand informal experiences. I feel compelled to give bthe global community that has helped contribute to mgrowth, especially in times of need.s

By Minnie Lamberth

Ari Katz, a former CAP cadet from the Maryland Wing, served on a team of

intelligence and logistics analysts providing pre- and post-quake imagery in the

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The mighty Mississippi Riverand its tributaries and floodwaysoverflowed their banks in late April, May and early June, disrupting lives andcommerce in many of Americas lowermidwestern and southern states.

Civil Air Patrols Missouri Wing, along with CAP members from the Illinois, Kentucky andMinnesota wings, was among the first to respond to therising floodwaters along North Americas largest riverbasin. In most cases, the volunteers work wascomplicated by an unusual number of spring storms thatdumped heavy rains throughout much of the region.

Missouri Wing among first units to respond Aircrews from Missouri flew photo reconnaissance

missions in mid-May at the request of the Stone CEmergency Management Agency, the Missouri NationGuard and the Federal Emergency Management AgeThirty flights produced hundreds of high-resolution

photographs as well as full-motion video.Civil Air Patrol has provided much-needed aeriareconnaissance during this state emergency duty, sMaj. Gen. Stephen L. Danner, adjutant general ofMissouri National Guard. The Missouri NationalGuard and Civil Air Patrol are an example of howassets work together to give Missourians the bestsupport possible.

As the threat of extensive flooding along theMississippi moved further downstream, members from

CAP answerscall as mightyMississippi rages

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other wings took up the cause in Louisiana, Arkansas,Mississippi and Tennessee. Many of those wings were stillat work as the flooding reached historic levels in late May and early June, with the Louisiana Wing providing muchof the CAP response.

Major mission for Louisiana WingFlood-stage flows from the Mississippi River reached

Louisiana in mid-May. In order to relieve pressure ondownstream levees and to reduce the risk of breaching inpopulated areas, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers openedthe floodgates of the Morganza Spillway in northeastLouisiana to reduce the flow of the Mississippi past BatonRouge and New Orleans. This action diverted a large shareof the rivers flow down a designed floodway through thecenter of the state, through a relatively sparsely populatedarea and ultimately to the Gulf of Mexico.

Two days before the opening of the spillway, theLouisiana Wing was tasked by the Louisiana GovernorsOffice of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness

to begin aerial reconnaissance of potentially affectedareas, both within the floodway and at cer tain locationsalong the Mississippi.

On May 16, aircrews began providing detailed photosalmost daily to emergency managers. Wing resources

marshaled for this mission included 10 aircraft andthan 100 trained pilots, observers and scanners. Groteams were also available if needed for what was tbecome a multi-week mission.

Once the spillway was opened, the Louisiana Wi

was further tasked by FEMA and the Louisiana ArNational Guard with monitoring the waters progressthrough the floodway. In the path of the flood wasnations largest wilderness swamp, along with hundreof isolated hamlets, camps and small settlements jeopardized by the rising waters. Digital images proby CAP were used to assist local and state emergeresponders.

High-tech tools put to good use Aircrews flew daily missions using high-end imag

technology, such as Geospatial InformationInteroperability Exploitation Portable, or GIIEP,equipment. In addition to monitoring the floodwatersthey also identified and photographed potential pollu

sites and searched for people inharms way. CAP mission staff members provided the photos toU.S. Air Force image analysts.

As the mission was coming toclose in early June, wing aircrewshad flown nearly 270 hours insupport of the flooding response.

A time/location-stamped photo from a

Louisiana Wing aircrew provides the status of the Exxon Mobile

refinery protective booms near Baton Rouge, La. Inset, Lt. Col.

Mickey Marchand, Louisiana Wing incident commander, center,

is joined by state director John Zaremba, left, and mission pilot

1st Lt. Francis Guillory as he sifts through flooding images.

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During the flights, they took more than 7,500 geotaggedimages for emergency management officials. The wingsincident commander, Lt. Col. Mickey Marchand, noted,Our customers have been very pleased with the quality,

coverage and timeliness of the images we are providing. Within the first two weeks of operation, CAPs roleexpanded to include reconnaissance of flood-devastatedareas along key waterways in north central Louisiana and along the Mississippi from Vidalia to belowBaton Rouge.

Petroleum leaks reportedIn several instances, CAP aircrews identified leaks

from petroleum tanks. These were referred immediately to the National Response Center for resolution. TheLouisiana Department of Environmental Quality and theCoast Guard were also notified.

Gerard M. Stolar, federal coordinating officer forFEMA, visited the Louisiana Wing mission base inBaton Rouge at the height of the flooding r esponse.During his visit, he expressed his and his agencysappreciation for CAP volunteers dedicationand skill.

Col. Art Scarbrough,Louisiana Wing commander,commented, Im very prouof the men and women of this wing who have

responded to this emergencyin classic CAP fashion. Theare dedicated to performing their duties in a safe andprofessional manner.

Livestock savedThe mission base for th

Missouri Wing was at Spirof St. Louis Airport inChesterfield. Tasks includedaerial reconnaissance of theTable Rock Lake and Lake Wappapello dams anddownstream spillways; the

city of New Madrid and the New Madrid floodwand levees; the cities of Branson, Caruthersville aSikeston; and the St. Johns Bayou drainage systemand levees.

While inclement weather limited our ability tomissions every day, through the hard work of ourvolunteer aircrew and mission staff we were able tprovide the aerial photos requested, said Lt. Col.Carolyn Rice, mission incident commander and GatSenior Squadron commander.

Once again, our members rose to the challengecompleted the mission, she said.

A highlight of the Missouri Wing mission includmore than $100,000 in livestock saved after CAPpromptly notified authorities about animals in distres

The mission also marked the wings first operatiouse of GIIEPs full-motion video system. GIIEP feaself-contained communications equipment and otherhardware that allow for real-time and near real-timemotion video, digital imagery and in-flight chatcapability with federal, state and local emergency operations centers.

Its through continued training that our members


This aerial photo shows rising waters from the Ohio River flooding much of Shawneetown, Ill.

The Ohio flows into the Mississippi River at Illinois southern tip. In fact, the Ohio is the

Mississippi s largest tributary. Flooding was evident along both rivers in early May, as captured in

photos like this one taken by an Illinois Wing aircrew.

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respond quickly to natural disasters such as theMississippi River flooding that affected the entire state,said Missouri Wing Commander Col. Erica Williams.The use of new technology such as the GIIEP systemallows us to continue our strong relationship with the

National Guard when Missouri needs us.

Missions accomplished With the Louisiana Wing leading the way, CAP

wings in the Mississippi River region logged morethan 200 sorties, accumulating 375-plus flying hoursand an estimated 5,000 man-hours in responseto flooding.

Before the floodwaters made their way to Missouriand Louisiana, other CAP wings upstream responded tothe flooding. In early May, Illinois Wing aircrews flew six

times for their state, taking photos of the rising waduring preparations for Ardent Sentry 11, a nationalhomeland security and disaster response exercise hellater in the month.

Lt. Col. Michael Mouw, the wings Group 1

commander, said extensive flooding in the southerntip of Illinois forced evacuation of the cities of Caand Metropolis.

We had members of the Illinois Wing that wereevacuated from their homes but stayed active in resto the state a true testament to their professionaand dedication, he said.s

Lt. Cols. Amos Plante, Louisiana Wing chief of staff, andDavid A. Miller, Missouri Wing director of public affairs,contributed to this report.

Sandbags hold back floodwatersBy 1st Lt. Lindsay Shipps

When floodwaters along the Ohio and Wabash rivers started to rise in April, the Indiana DepartmenHomeland Security requested assistance. The rivers were exceeding flood stage because of significant rai were cresting very close to record 1997 flood levels. Lives and property were at risk.

Overall, more than 11 inches of rain had fallen in the E vansville area, just short of the record 11.measured in 1996, according to the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky.CAPs Indiana Wing worked closely with the Vanderburgh County Emergency Management Agency, w

functioned as lead agency. Though aerialphotography was in high demand for flooding missions this year, the wings response wasconducted primarily on the ground, where forfive continuous days 60 members assisted with sandbagging that saved homes from totalloss and the infrastructure from collapse.Members helped fill more than 300,000sandbags for distribution throughoutVanderburgh and Posey counties. They alsodevoted more than 4,000 man-hours in supportof incident management, public affairs, media and government relations, evacuations, aerialreconnaissance, damage assessment and checkson residents welfare.

CAP worked in partnership with 30 agenciesand organizations assisting with the response.

Indiana Wing Commander Col. Richard Griffith, left, and wingChaplain Capt. Clyde Angel, second from left, look on as Lt. Col. MattCreed, wing vice commander, shakes hands with McCutchanville FireDepartment Division Chief and Incident Commander Will Nalin.

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Its a spring ritual in NorthDakota. The snow finally melts, causing flooding, andthe dedicated citizen volunteersof Civil Air Patrols North

Dakota Wing spring to action, assisting with the local,state and federal response as the waters rise.

True to form, the spring of 2011 was much thesame as the springs of 2009 and 2010 in this N orthernPlains state too much water from too much snow intoo many places affecting too many people. This year,though, it was more widespread. The Red River, which

flows north from near the South Dakota border toLake Winnipeg, again proved troublesome for GrandForks and Fargo, as well as Moorhead, Minn., andother communities. Other rivers hit historic or nearhistoric flood stages, including the Sheyenne, James,Des Lacs and Souris rivers. Hardly an area of the state was spared from high water.

In response, aircrews from the North Dakota Wing flew nearly 170 hours of flooding missions in F ebruary,

March and April. The flights included photoreconnaissance and geotagging of images, which w euploaded into the North Central Regions still-new ARGUS Automated Reconnaissance Geotagging-image Upload System. Disaster relief officials usedimages to plan for expected flooding as w ell as todamage from past or ongoing inundations.

Missions did not stop at state or ev en internationborders. The wing was also responsible for taking pof flooding near Minnesota. Aircrews even flew toCanada to check snowpack conditions that could affflooding in North Dakota.

By the end of April, the wings five Cessna 182two Cessna 172s had made 65 flights. A erialreconnaissance produced an average of 100 photos pflight and ultimately provided thousands of geotaggeimages, map-coordinated in ARGUS, for easy use bstate and federal disaster planners.

Participants included the wings six senior, cadetcomposite squadrons in Bismarck, Valley City, Jamestown, Dickinson, Minot and Fargo. Besides

North Dakota Wings

statewide response invaluable in2011 flood fightBy Capt. Todd Epp

Floodwaters cover much of Interstate 29 west of Oslo, Minn., as

trucks attempt to navigate the superhighway. This aerial photo was

one of thousands taken by the North Dakota Wing. Emergency

officials used the images to plan for expected inundations as well

as to assess damage from past or ongoing flooding.

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After tornadoes tore throughthe South in late April, Civil AirPatrol members throughout theregion organized flights and

prepared for the ground team work that would immediately follow.

Emergency and weather officials havecalled the event one of the largest tornadooutbreaks in history, leaving more than 300dead and thousands injured or homeless. Thedamage is estimated to be $2 billion to $5billion by EQECAT, a catastrophe risk modeling firm in California.

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In Alabama, more than 44,000 individuals andhouseholds have registered for disaster assistance withthe Federal Emergency Management Agency, and morethan $21 million has been approved to help survivors.

Its really hard to describe other than

what youve seen in pictures, said Maj.David Hester, director of communicationsfor CAPs Alabama Wing. You can havean area thats completely untouched within just a few feet of an area thats completely devastated.

After the storms hit, CAP pilots andcrews from the Alabama, Mississippi, NorthCarolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee andVirginia wings flew nearly 100 sorties andcaptured thousands of photos of theaffected localities. They also providedairborne communication as neededthroughout the region.

In Tennessee, CAP crews took hundredsof aerial damage assessment photos over theeastern part of the state from two planesthe first day of the mission and thr ee planesthe second day, Capt. Rob Borsari, the

wings emergency services officer, said.As we entered the storm track, it was very obvious,said 2nd Lt. Larry Stewart of the Choo-Choo SeniorSquadron in Chattanooga, who served as a missionscanner/photographer on the first damage-assessmentflight. It looked like a lawnmower had cut a half-mile- wide swath through the area. We could see a number of places where houses were completely gone. Only thefoundation and basement remained.

After the tornadoes, western Tennessee was also hit with heavy flooding, and CAP members fle w moredamage assessment missions there, Borsari said. One week after the storms, about 50 volunteers from the wing participated in ground crew missions in GreeneCounty, one of the hardest-hit areas, where an estimated300 homes were destroyed, he said.

The Alabama Wing made 31 flights to take aerialphotos for Virtual Alabama and other agencies, said Lt.Col. Larry Mangum, commander of the 117th ANG

Composite Squadron in Birmingham.Mangums stepson, Benjamin Shea, is a cadet fir

lieutenant in the squadron. He participated in theground crews assisting in Cordova, northwest of

Birmingham.

It was a humbling experience, said Shea, whogot an impression of thepower of the storms frombuildings and structures thathad been picked up andcrumpled into balls of debri

Hester also participated asone of the ground teamleaders. He went to Cordovat the request of an agencythat dealt with the elderly and senior living centers thahad been unable to get intouch with just over 60

clients in the region.The CAP ground teams

canvassed the area to locateeach of the individuals, man

of whom were homeboundand had no relatives nearby to check on them.In all, the Alabama teams identified about 60 of

people on the list and found out if they had any immediate needs. The teams located residences of tother individuals but werent able to make contactthem or their families. Hester said there was no evthey were in distress.

Teams were also deployed to Hanceville, in nort Alabama, to support the local police depar tment indistributing FEMA handouts to residents as well asdelivering food to the elderly affected by the storm

Alabama Wing members worked in the air andground despite their own losses, Hester said. We hleast one member who lost his mother and br otherstorm, he said. Several members had significantproperty damage. Many who participated put asidedealing with their own damage to carry out the mThis reflects the true spirit of many CAP members

Cadet 2nd Lt. Jessica Ernest of the Chilton

County Composite Squadron serves as a

mission radio operator in the Alabama EMA

Emergency Operations Center in Clanton.

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Hester said more than 60 members participated in the Alabama missions, and members are still volunteering forrelief efforts in their communities.

In Tennessee, eight senior members and cadet with Cleveland Composite Squadron gathered atsquadron building after the tornadoes and headedout to members homes that had been hit by tstorms.

Once there, they lent a hand clearing brush,chopping up trees and generally lifting spirits, saCapt. Diane VanderVeen, squadron commander. Thgroup, she added, put in 17 grueling hours of work over two days in very hot, humid conditioThey worked alongside many other church and soagencies lending assistance to the citizens of BraCounty, which was ravaged by the tornadoes.

The Cleveland squadron members know thecleanup and rebuilding will take months, perhapsyears. Well be ready to lend a hand when caupon, VanderVeen said.s

Capt. Mark Landrum, public affairs officer for the Tennessee Wing, contributed to this report.


Lt. Col. Larry Mangum, bottom left, is one of many responders at

work in the Alabama Emergency Management Agency Emergency

Operations Center after the tornado outbreak. Mangum, commander

of the 117th ANG Composite Squadron in Birmingham, served as an

incident commander for the Alabama Wing, which provided aerial

reconnaissance photos of the devastation.

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CAPs Missouri Wing made a significantcontribution to relief efforts in Joplin, Mo.on Memorial Day weekend with delivery of 200 doses of urgently needed tetanus

vaccine. The vaccine, donated by Barnes-Jewish Hospitalin St. Louis, required expedited delivery because of itslimited shelf life.

The vaccine was vital in the aftermath of thedevastating May 22 tornado that wiped out much of thissouthwest Missouri city,including a major hospital St. Johns RegionalMedical Center. In all,153 people lost their livesin the Joplin tornado,described by the National Weather Service as thenations deadliest since1950.

Thousands of others were seriously injured inthe tornado, with many still requiring medicalattention like thatprovided by the Missouri Wings mercy flight.

Capts. Pete Pilcher and Gil Franck, both members of the wings Gateway Senior Squadron, flew the four-hourroundtrip mission from Spirit of St. Louis Airport inChesterfield on May 28. The special delivery wasconducted at the request of the Missouri-1 DisasterMedical Assistance Team.

Working cooperatively with our community partners, we were able to provide valuable assistance to our fellow Missourians during this difficult time, said Lt. Col.David Miller, Missouri Wing public affairs officer. A

physician in private practice, Miller knows the valuesuch mercy flights during emergencies.

The transport of needed blood, tissue and medicinanother high-priority mission CAP is often called upoperform and performs exceptionally well, he said

Were very grateful for the rapid delivery of ourvaccines by the CAP flight, said Austin Worcester,executive officer and administrative section chief forassistance team. The hospital staff can't express its

appreciation enough for all thehelp it is receiving.

MO-1 DMAT serves Missourresidents at the direction of thgovernor. During disasters theteam provides medical care incooperation with the StateEmergency Management Agencyand the Department of Health& Senior Services.

The team is equipped torespond to a disaster and todeploy a mobile emergency rooand field hospital withcapabilities approaching thosefound in a hospital setting.Operating out of tents or

available local structures, the team provides state-of-thart equipment and a broad spectrum of medical care

Less than one week after St. Johns was destroyed1 DMAT established a field hospital adjacent to theruined medical center with the assistance of the MisNational Guard, Mercy staff, contractors, laborers oftrades and a variety of state and local agencies. Nowknown as St. Johns Mercy Field Hospital, the facilitprovides emergency room services to ensure medicalrestored to the residents of Joplin.s

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Capt. Pete Pilcher prepares to secure the tetanus vaccine for

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Answers on page 49

1 This air reserve station compositesquadron in Ohio received CAPsSquadron of Merit and Quality CadetUnit awards

6 Top World War II pilots10 Its 1200 in military time

11 Sky 13 _____vigilans! 15 Time delay 17 GPS system (2 words)19 CAP HQs Air Force base22 Steer24 Chicago airport26 Business attire27 Rowboat need29 Military eating area

30 Aviation pioneer who built the SpruceGoose

33 Permit35 Self-esteem37 Assist38 Cold weather condition

40 They mark the territories of nations41 Touch down43 First African-American Air Force officer

to achieve generals rank, Benjamin ____44 Airplane designed to take off and land on

water47 Receptacle48 Color of Mars49 Negative50 Took a solemn promise

Civil Air Patrol Crossword

Across

Down1 What the Brits called U.S. soldi

in World War II2 Submersible warship usually arm

with torpedoes3 Start the mission, e.g.4 Part of a plane5 Military officer, for short7 Relief pilot8 Military address9 Latitude12 Computer memory 14 Organization permanently

established in 194816 Atlantas state18 Earlier20 Military rank 21 Threw away, of something

encumbering

22 Top CAP rank, national ____23 Plunged straight down25 16th U.S. president28 Like31 Busy airport32 Keynote of the legacy of CAP

the country and community 33 Successful completion of Level

management professionaldevelopment qualifies the CAP

officer for the Grover ____ Aw34 Successful completion of Level

executive professional developmequalifies the CAP officer for thGill Robb ___ Award

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Emergency responders train to cope with such obstacles asdestroyed bridges, flooded highways and communications blackoutsin the event massive earthquakes hit a densely populated region of the U.S. But the latest national homeland security and disaster

response exercise was held in an area that may surprise some: the Midwest, whereresponders convened along the New Madrid fault.

Though not typically associated with major ear thquakes, this area is home to one

Ardent Sentry 11Exercise Tests EarthquakeResponse Plan In Nations HeartlandBy Jenn Rowell

Mission pilot Capt. Jack

Gray of the Missouri Wing

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Ardent Sentry 11. More than

250 flights were launched

from eight wing mission

bases during the exercise.

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of the countrys more active seismic zones, stretching 150 miles across Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennesseeand Kentucky. Earthquakes here can also affect Alabama, Mississippi and Indiana.

The regions last massive quakes, ranging from

magnitudes 7.0 to 8.6, hit in 1811 and 1812 andliterally created new geographical features in theregion. But on the 200thanniversary of those quakes, theconcern is the area along the New Madrid fault, now far morepopulated and developed, maybe unprepared.

Thats where the National New Madrid Fault Response Plan,tested this year in the course of theannual Ardent Sentry exercise,comes in, making sure propersystems are in place and working before such a naturaldisaster might occur.

The exercise, dubbed Ardent Sentry 11, includeda number of federal, state

and local agencies and a large contingent of Civil AirPatrol members. Col. JamesRushing, then CAPsSoutheast Regioncommander, was the senioragency liaison for this yearsexercise, coordinating CAPoperations with otheragencies at New Madrid Area Command in LittleRock, Ark.

In our role as the U.S. Air Force auxiliary, CAP is a nationwide organization with a tremendous amount of resources it can provide to the nation in a disaster, nomatter how large, said Rushing. CAP has 550 aerialreconnaissance and transportation aircraft and almost a thousand vehicles that are ideally suited for this typemission. In addition, the organization has hundreds of

highly trained aircrews, ground team members andemergency operations personnel who are fully qualifin the same National Incident Management Systemtraining that federal, state and local officials r equire

Rushing was joined in the New Madrid fault exe

by members from six CAP wings Arkansas, IlliMississippi, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee fr

four CAP regions. The New Madridplan also included support from the Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa,Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio,Texas and Wisconsin wings. In all, 3members and 57 CAP aircraft wereinvolved.

All CAP wings have agreements wtheir state governments to respond inthe event of earthquakes measuring aleast magnitude 6.0 by assisting withinitial disaster assessments andgathering information for governors who may be requesting a PresidentiaDisaster Declaration.

Practice, practice,

practice! A New Madrid magnitude 7.7earthquake was simulated at 9 a.m.Central time on the morning of Ma16 near Memphis, Tenn., followeda second quake, magnitude 6.0, 240miles away near Mount Carmel, Illknocking out all communications fothe first 24 hours. Over the next fdays, exercise participants werechallenged with coordinating

responses without the luxury of land lines, cell phor the Internet.

CAP members used their nationwide network offrequency and very high frequency interoperable radto communicate during Ardent Sentry 11. Thesecommunications assets are ideal in a disaster scenarlike an earthquake or hurricane because they areinfrastructure-independent, which means they do not


CAP members have been educated, soif the worst happens,our members know

how to handle it. Lt. Col. Michael Mouw,

Illinois Wing

Air Operations Branch Director Maj. Tom Cardwell

briefs members of an Illinois Wing aircrew from

left, Maj. Joe Long, Capt. Rod Rakic and 1st Lt.

Rusty Wright before their Ardent Sentry 11 flight

from wing headquarters in DuPage.

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rely on cell towers or a satellite network that can easily get overloaded, said Rushing.

CAPs primary role in the exercise was providing aerial reconnaissance for photography and assessment of damage and conditions on the ground. CAP aircrews

flew 255 sorties over the eight affected states, accounting for 505 flying hours. CAP ground teams also worked 81tasks over the four days of the exercise.

To work through a scenario like this gives us a better feel for what we really need to do when the realevent happens, Rushing said.

Lt. Col. Michael Mouw, the Illinois Wings Group 1commander, acted as lead agent for his state and asproject officer for the wing during the ex ercise. Mouw said the CAP reconnaissance missions focused oninfrastructure and transportation, taking photos of bridges and overpasses to gauge structural damage andalso assessing waterways and roads.

Its taken for granted when everythings working great, but when you lose a bridge or two, it can mean a major detour in the planning for relief efforts, he said.

The participating states were eager to test their ownemergency response plans in addition tothe national response plan, Mouw said.

Aware and prepared The March quake in Japan has raised

concerns in the U.S. about the number of nuclear plants a major quake might affect.Several nuclear facilities are located in theNew Madrid fault region as well as along other active fault lines in the U.S.

The events in Japan clearly drivehome the devastating effects of a similarlarge earthquake along the New Madridfault, said Lt. Col. Randy Fuller, theMissouri Wings director of emergency services. This is what we train for training we hope we never have to usebut we are ready when needed.

CAP members have been educated,so if the worst happens, our membersknow how to handle it, Mouw said.s

Maj. Keith Riddle of the Mississippi Wing performs pre-operational checks on a CAP aircraft

mounted with an electro-optic infrared sensor system used to shoot full-motion video. The

equipment was used to photograph simulated disaster areas associated with Ardent Sentry

11, a homeland security and disaster response exercise that tested emergency responders

ability to handle earthquakes along the New Madrid fault.

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