Encampment Weekbook Deadline

Changes to CAWG's 2010 Encampment Weekbook are due by tomorrow, Fri., Oct. 22, 2010.

Go to www.cawgcadets.org for a low-resolution copy of the weekbook (it will NOT print well).

Why are we doing this?
You are being given the opportunity to "proof" the weekbook. Please review it online and make note of any obvious errors.* Send us the page number and what the correction should be.
Send those notes to weekbook@cawgcadets.org NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010.

We will incorporate those changes before we print and distribute the weekbooks. A high-resolution version (about 52MB) will also be posted online.

What will we correct (to the extent possible)?
My name was misspelled - YES
It's not my name with my picture - YES
I wasn't in that flight/squadron/position - YES
I was there, but I can't find my name - YES
I got promoted right after encampment, would you change that? - NO
I don't like my picture, can I send you a new one? - NO

Attn. Encampment Grads!

The 2010 CAWG/NVWG Encampment Weekbook is just days from being finalized!

Go to www.cawgcadets.org for a low-resolution copy of the weekbook (it will NOT print well).

Why are we doing this?
You are being given the opportunity to "proof" the weekbook. Please review it online and make note of any obvious errors.* Send us the page number and what the correction should be.
Send those notes to weekbook@cawgcadets.org NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010.

We will incorporate those changes before we print and distribute the weekbooks. A high-resolution version (about 52MB) will also be posted online.

What will we correct (to the extent possible)?
My name was misspelled - YES
It's not my name with my picture - YES
I wasn't in that flight/squadron/position - YES
I was there, but I can't find my name - YES
I got promoted right after encampment, would you change that? - NO
I don't like my picture, can I send you a new one? - NO

Aircrew picture in newspaper

Local aircrew members were featured in Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 Desert Sun newspaper, page B2, Community Snapshot. Capt. Michael Swift of San Bernardino Senior Squadron 5 and Senior Member Dan Mikkelsen of Torrance are shown walking to the aircraft for a training flight at last weekend's SARCity aircrew training program in Palm Springs, Calif.

APPLICATION DEADLINE TODAY

TODAY - 15 OCT. IS THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR the second Air Force Security Forces Familiarization Course scheduled for Nellis AFB (near Las Vegas) over winter break, Dec 26-Jan 2. More info at ncsas.com, see link here –

http://ncsas.com/index.cfm/air_force_security_forces_familiarization?show=career_fair&careerFairID=39

Sq. 31 Announces Cadet of the Month, September 2010

Congratulations to C/AB Kevin Puig who was named Rialto's Billie LeClair Cadet Squadron 31 Cadet of the Month for September 2010! Cadet Puig joined Civil Air Patrol's cadet program in June. Way to go!

Sq. 11 Cadet Promotions - September 2010

Congratulations to the following Squadron 11 cadets who promoted to the grade noted during the month of September!

1 September: C/CMSgt Karl Hofmann
1 September: C/A1C Sarah Lawler
8 September: "Administrative Officer" C/1Lt Ricardo Villalta
8 September: C/A1C Isaac Plentl
9 September: C/CMSgt Joshua Huntington
15 September: C/Capt Dylan Mayo
15 September: C/Amn Rebecca Cain
22 September: "Administrative Officer" C/1Lt Leandra Lee

Sq. 11 Senior in Marine Corps Newspaper

Marine volunteer takes service to new height

FROM THIS WEEK'S OBSERVATION POST NEWSPAPER AT THE TWENTYNINE PALMS MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER
http://www.hidesertstar.com/articles/2010/10/02/observation_post/news/news08.txt

Marines are encouraged to be active in their local community, but an instructor with the Combat Center’s Marine Corps Communication-Electronics School took that challenge to new heights - literally.

Staff Sgt. Robert Hofmann, who also serves as an assistant deputy commander with the Palm Springs, Calif., Civil Air Patrol’s Composite Squadron 11, was awarded the Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager Aerospace Education Achievement Award after completing CAP’s Aerospace Education Program for Senior Members Sept. 26.

Hofmann, who joined CAP in 2008, said the best part about receiving the award is now he can use what he learned to contribute to CAP’s mentoring program for children and young adults ages 12-20.

“I took a 100-question exam,” Hofmann said. “It took me about two hours to complete and was an elective part of completing the next level of my professional development in the CAP.

“It felt good, as it is the first step in my education in aerospace knowledge, which is a very important part of CAP and CAP's Cadet Program,” continued Hofmann, a native of London, Ontario, Canada. “Teaching the cadets about leadership, drill and physical fitness is a skill set that the Marine Corps has given me, but there is still the aerospace education aspect of CAP, which I also need to learn to be able to fully teach and mentor the cadets.”

The CAP is a nonprofit organization with 59,000 members nationwide. The patrol, in its Air Force auxiliary role, performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions, as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center, and was credited by the AFRCC with saving 72 lives in fiscal year 2009. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counter-drug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to the more than 24,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs, according to its website, http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com.

“Many of these people, both young Marines and cadets, come from backgrounds where they have had little or no guidance in their lives, and these young people have taken the first step to bettering themselves,” Hofmann said. “By having enlisted in the Marines, or by having joined the cadet program with CAP, they have shown that they want to do something more. It is at that point where I can help them with becoming better people and citizens and mentor them for success.”

Hofmann also challenged more Marines and sailors to step up and reach out to their communities.

“There are so many organizations that need help, and it is very gratifying to give that help,” he said. “I have met some of the hardest working people I have ever known in the CAP, and they aren’t doing it for anything more than the simple feeling of a job well done.

“A lot of people think they don’t have time to volunteer, but any effort to lend a hand is appreciated.”

The organization’s Palm Springs Composite Squadron 11, meets Wednesday nights from 6:30-9 p.m. in the south hangar of the Palm Springs Air Museum. For more information about CAP in the Coachella Valley, call 666-9343 or visit http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com.

Cpl. R. Logan Kyle
Combat correspondent