Meeting Notes: 2/22/2018

SAINT CROIX COMPOSITE SQUADRON

MEETING AGENDA

22 Feb 2018

17:50-18:25 Color Guard Practice

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18:30-20:15 Cadet Programs Meeting

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19:00-20:00 Tour Fire Station

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20:00-20:20 Senior Programs Meeting

Pledge

Introduction of Guests

Finance Officer Training – Maj Missy Slater trained 2Lt Jen Jara.

Memorial Day and Independence Day Flyover’s – Project Officer, Lt Col Paul Prior

Volunteer Pilots:

• Maj Charles Jents

• Lt Col David Yost

• Capt Jackson Maddux, MD

Cadet Orientation Flights – Project Officer SM Paul Curl

Schedule of Aircraft, Pilots and Cadets

Day/Dates​​​  Cadets​​​  Pilots​​  Aircraft

• Saturday, 24 Feb 2018​

Pilot:  Jents

Cadets:  Petry / Blake

Airplane:  C-182RG out of SGS

 

05-08 Apr 2018 Saint Paul Shrine Circus – Project Officer Lt Col David Yost

STX directs traffic and vehicle parking at Minnesota State Fair Colisum.

 

17 Jun 2018 Father’s Day Pancake Breakfast – Project Officer, Maj Michael Bordonaro

• Research EAA’s scheduled use of Gatis Valter’s hangar.

• Schedule with Gatis Valter’s hangar.

• Food Truck(s)?

1.) https://www.pancakeman.net/

2.) http://hotcakesonthego.com/

3.) http://flippinflapjacksllc.com/site/53eac5e5c3934009a15fc677b08d28e8/default?url=http{a8fc60e7c50ef162980899a54ed01881874bb95295c118c0a055ec12755c580a}3A{a8fc60e7c50ef162980899a54ed01881874bb95295c118c0a055ec12755c580a}2F{a8fc60e7c50ef162980899a54ed01881874bb95295c118c0a055ec12755c580a}2Fflippinflapjacksllc.com{a8fc60e7c50ef162980899a54ed01881874bb95295c118c0a055ec12755c580a}2FOur_Menu.html#3171

Public Affairs Officer(s) – Please be sure to submit all press release, articles and newsletters, in any format (electronic or paper) to MNWG PAO, Capt Jim Jagow. We need to get the word out about our activities and the word needs to be timely.

 

Pilot/Observer/Scanner Briefings Schedule – Project Officer, Maj Michael Bordonaro

FAA Wings Credit – Lt Col David Yost

• 29 Feb 2018 – Lt Col David Yost

 

Around the Room

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20:20-20:40 Commander’s Call

 

Pledge

 

Introduction of Guests

 

Safety Brief

The safety briefing will cover, at a minimum, the following:

a. Personal Safety

i. Do not arrive to the Readiness Center before 18:20, unless scheduled for Cadet Program activity, e.g. testing.

ii. Buddy System – no one walks around inside the building without a buddy, e.g. bathrooms, downstairs, other classrooms.

iii. Stay inside the building unless escorted outside for an activity or departing the building with parent/guardian.

iiii. Do not open doors to allow unknown outsiders to enter the building.

v. At all times – use indoor voices while in the building – No Yelling.

vi. No horseplay inside or outside the Readiness Center.

vii. REMEMBER – we are representing Civil Air Patrol.

b. Building Evacuation:

i. Keep Calm

ii. WALK on stairs and use handrails

iii. Locate 3 exits from building

iiii. Fire:  Rally in the east parking lot. Fire Drill!

v. Tornado: Rally in lower level locker rooms – seek an interior room with no windows to the outside.  Tornado Drill!

c. Hydration

i. Keep hydrated – summer and winter

ii. Sip water, don’t down an entire canteen at one time

d. Formation in Armory Room 1224A – “Training Device/Simulation Room”

i. Don’t lock your legs

e. Weight Room – STAY OUT of lower level weight room.

 

Commander’s Call Question

 

MN122 Statistics

Cadets in your Unit: 36

Seniors in your Unit: 38

Cadets in your Wing: 608

Seniors in your Wing: 796

All Members in your Unit: 74

 

National Cadet Count: 24944 (as of 31 Jan 2018)

National Senior Count: 33762 (as of 31 Jan 2018)

 

Stillwater Army National Guard Readiness Center Access Code – “1776#”

Code works ONLY 17:00-22:00 hour

 

Aviation Briefing

 

22 February 1974: At Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Barbara Ann Allen, United States Navy, received her Wings of Gold and designation as a Naval Aviator. She was the first woman to be so designated.

 

Barbara Ann Allen was born 20 August 1948 at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the daughter of a naval officer. She attended Long Beach City College and then graduated from Whittier College, Whittier, California. She was accepted to the U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School. Barbara Allen was commissioned as an Ensign, United States Navy, 18 December 1970. After assignments at the Amphibious Warfare Base, Little Creek, Virginia, and staff assignments at Atlantic Fleet headquarters, Norfolk, Virginia, she was accepted for pilot training at NAS Pensacola in February 1973.

 

After receiving her pilot’s wings, Lieutenant Allen served with FLEET LOGISTICS SUPPORT SQUADRON THIRTY (VR-30) at NAS Alameda, California, flying the Grumman C-1A Trader, a twin-engine Carrier On-Board Delivery (“COD”) transport. She also became the first woman in the Navy to qualify in a jet-powered aircraft, the North American Aviation T-39 Sabreliner.

 

Barbara Ann Allen married Lieutenant Commander John C. Rainey, U.S. Navy, whom she had met during flight training. They have two daughters, Cynthia and Katherine.

 

In 1977, Lieutenant Allen (now, Rainey) transferred to a Naval Air Reserve squadron, Fleet Logistics Support Squadron FIFTY-THREE (VR-53) at Dallas, Texas, where she flew the four-engine Douglas C-118B Liftmaster.

 

In 1981, Lieutenant Commander Barbara Ann Allen Rainey was recalled to active duty and assigned as a flight instructor with Training Squadron THREE (VT-3) at NAS Whiting Field, Florida.

 

Sadly, on 10:20 a.m., 13 July 1982, while practicing touch-and-go landings at Middleton Field, Alabama, LCDR Barbara Ann Rainey and her student, Ensign Knowlton, were killed in a crash. While in the traffic pattern, their Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor, a single-engine, two-place training airplane, Bu. No. 160955, suddenly banked to the right, lost altitude and crashed. The cause of the accident is unknown. It is attributed to pilot error, but the engine had been operating at reduced power and there may have been a “rollback.”

 

A product liability lawsuit, Beech Aircraft Corporation v. Rainey, was decided in the plaintiff’s favor by the Supreme Court of the United States.

 

Weekly Color Guard Practice at 17:45 on Thursdays – 2Lt Kimberly Larson opened the Cadet Color Guard to all Cadets.

Cadet Orientation Flights – Project Officer SM Paul Curl

Schedule of Aircraft, Pilots and Cadets

Day/Dates​​​  Cadets​​​  Pilots​​  Aircraft

• Saturday, 24 Feb 2018​

Pilot:  Maj Charles Jents

Cadets:  Petry / Blake, Joseph

Airplane:  C-182 RG out of SGS

 

22 Feb 2018 Stillwater Fire Station Tour – Debrief

 

03-04 Mar 2018 MNWG Volleyball Tournament and Lock-In – $20/Cadet fee includes CAP climbing wall, pool, movie room, various games and activities with food and beverages. Early bird registration closes at 23:59 on 24 Feb 2018.  After that, fee increases to $25.00. Transportation to/from Saint Cloud will be finalized on Thursday, 29 Feb 2018.

 

02-03 Jun 2018 Discover Aviation Days at the Anoka County Airport. This is the largest free fly-in event in MN that features many warbirds and other aircraft.  They have requested help from the Anoka County Composite Squadron as usual.  CAP is tasked with parking all aircraft, presenting the colors, staffing a recruiting booth, and generally helping to keep the public safe around these complex machines.

 

There will be a new layout for aircraft parking this year that covers a larger area and as a result we will need more personnel than in previous years. The Anoka County Composite Squadron will not be able to do this alone, so we will be looking for individuals willing to help with the following roles with certain minimum requirements.

 

*   Ramp Supervisors – FLS Trainee rating or higher or FLM with substanti=

al previous experience, some preferably at this event.

*   Assistant Supervisors – FLM Rating with multiple flight line marshall=

ing experiences.

*   Flight Line Marshallers – FLM Trainee Rating.  Preferably with at lea=

st one previous flight line marshalling experience.

*   Crowd Control Personnel – General Emergency Services (GES), no previo=

us flight line experience necessary.

*   Van Drivers (1-2) – CAP Driver’s License

 

Again, the dates are 02-03 June and shifts will run from 0600 to 1730 each day.  We will have two shifts per day and anticipate needing about 50 personnel for each shift.

 

Anoka Squadron is not yet accepting applications.

 

05-08 Apr 2018 Shrine Circus – Next week, Lt Col David Yost will send around a clipboard with a volunteer work schedule to park vehicles.

 

Around the Room:

• Cadet Commander, Maj Jonathan S. Keller

• Deputy Commander of Cadets, Capt Steve Keller

• Deputy Commander of Seniors, Maj Michael Bordonaro

• Other???

 

Commander’s Call Question

Question:  What type of aircraft did the U.S. Navy use for flight training when LCDR Barbara Ann Rainey and her student, Ensign Knowlton crashed?

Answer:  Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor.

 

DISMISS Cadets

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20:45-20:55 Closing Formation

 

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”  –Anne Frank

 

Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-born diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of “The Diary of a Young Girl” in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world’s most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.

 

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Updated: February 28, 2018 — 11:01