This meeting, an aerospace class, headed by C/CMSgt Batemen, was taught, focusing mainly on Predator Drones. He then demonstrated to the cadets (left) how to fly a smaller drone, the Tello Edu by DJI, letting them fly it during the process. Afterwards, drill practice was done and drill tests were executed, the latter enabling C/A1C […]
Category: Weekly Meeting
July 26th, 2021
This meeting, the cadets participated in a Civil Air Patrol Olympic event hosted by C/1st Lt Britten. The challenges included exercising motivational skills, expert knowledge, brainstorming capabilities, and communication talent, among other things. Awards were given to the first-, second-, and third-place teams according to the speed in which the tasks were completed. Afterwards, a […]
19 July 2021
Again, the squadron met at a hangar in Lake Elmo Airport. More cadets got to use some Orientation Flights, and the other cadets participated in a normal meeting. Cadets played kickball as a physical training game. Then, they learned about Civil Air Patrol’s Emergency Services through Sergeant Brigg’s briefing on his experience at Hawk Mountain. […]
12 July 2021
This week, St. Croix Squadron met at a hangar at Lake Elmo Airport to learn about character development and aerospace. Some cadets got to fly an orientation flight, which comes free as a perk of joining Civil Air Patrol. For character development, cadets learned about the importance of perspective in everyday life. They learned about […]
14 June 2021
This week, St. Croix’s cadets gathered for aerospace and a leadership class. Sgt. Lindee taught the aerospace class on Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo. The class was very informative since not many people know the real story of Charles Lindbergh. We watched a documentary and discussed our thoughts […]
7 June 2021
To start off the month of June, St. Croix Squadron met for an Awards Ceremony. Awards Ceremonies only occur a few times every year, so they are always special. To name a few, the awards given out included a Billy Mitchell Award (Lieutenant Menk), Cadet NCO of the year (was Chief Menk), Cadet Officer of […]
17 May 2021
For the third Monday of the month, the cadets met for some PT testing and aerospace. The PT testing included push-ups, sit-ups, sit-and-reach, and a mile run, so the cadets achieved a great workout in the nice weather. The aerospace class taught by Sergeant Lindee was all about aircraft principles and aircraft systems (ex. aircraft […]
10 May 2021
The squadron’s cadet side met this Monday in some nice weather. To start off the meeting, we held opening formation outside, then came back inside for thirty minutes of getting to know each other outside of Civil Air Patrol life. Next, many cadets had the opportunity to practice some drill and take drill tests outside, […]
3 May 2021
This week entailed a leadership class, customs and courtesies class, and drill practice. The leadership class was taught by Lt. Ekstrand, and it was about logical fallacies in everyday conversation. After that, the new cadets participated in a customs and courtesies class about common practices in Civil Air Patrol. Then, everyone went into the gym […]
26 April 2021
To close out April, we had some aerospace and leadership test awards for a few cadets that got 100% correct on their tests. We started the meeting with an Emergency Services class taught by Sgt. Briggs, then had a Character Development class taught by Chaplain Burton. Both of these classes were significant for their focus […]