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light Loglight LogPell City Composite Squadron 118Alabama Wing Civil Air Patrol

From Our Commander,

I have been watching the news lately. Most of what is on the news has

to do with Storm Warnings from Hurricane Isaac. Constant updates,

new information, and the latest details are being released as soon as it

is available. The people charged with providing us information do a

very good job. We know where the storm is and where they are

expecting it to go. We know what the weather is now and what is

expected in the near future. We know where the shelters are and if we

need to evacuate. There is a lot of information for us to use in making

a decision.

There will always be Storms in our lives. There are things going on at

our work, at school, and at home. There are issues with our family and

friends. There are issues in all aspects of our lives. Nothing is

immune. There are even issues in the CAP. Most of the storms that

we face are forecasted in advance, much like a hurricane. We can see

it in advance and can track its progress and intensity. We usually have adequate advanced warning that a

storm is approaching. We will know if we are in the path of the storm. We have time to make preparation

I am not talking about the National Weather Service or our local news. I mean that we usually see some ty

of warning that something is not going as expected. Something is not right. Sometimes we get a warning

with advice on how to avoid the storm. On occasion the storms are not as severe as forecasted. These blo

themselves out without making landfall. These storms do not do any damage. We still must take these sto

warnings seriously. Otherwise we may be trapped by the storm. We are then hopeful that someone can

rescue us and bring us to safety. Some storms arrive without much warning. They arrive like a tornado,suddenly here causing damage. The warnings for these storms are much shorter. Sometimes we have onl

minutes to react. Sometimes we do not have any warning at all. In these situations we have to react

immediately to any warning that we get in order to protect ourselves.

Where am I going with this?

Sometimes we realize that we are not in a good position to ride out a storm. When this happens we need t

take immediate corrective actions in order to prevent or at least minimize any damage. We have to watch

Storm Warnings. There are a lot of Storm Warnings in our lives. We just have to pay attention and take

actions. A bad midterm grade may be a warning that some extra study may be necessary to avoid a storm

home when report cards come out. A negative evaluation at work may be a warning that extra effort may

necessary to avoid a storm at our work. We get notices of expiring qualifications from Eservices. We get

emails from our superior officers. We get adequate warnings of approaching storms.

Even if the weather is nice today, we must still watch the weather approaching. We know what we are

expected to do. We know we have to renew qualifications. We know we have to keep current in our

specialty. We know that a lot of our items have expiration dates. We often see the forecast in time to take

corrective action.

Dont wait until the last minute and expect to find a safe haven from the approaching storm.

Be Safe, and Watch the Weather

Jim Gosnell

Commander

Vol. 3, No. 9 September 2012Squadron

Commander

Maj. Jim Gosnell

eputy Commander for

Cadet Programs -

Capt. Cindy Bennett

nside this issue:

Commanders

Corner

1

Calendar 2

Safety 3

Seniors Corner 4

Safety Newsletter

nd Volunteer

Magazine

5

Did You Know 6

WESS Information

7-

9

Character

Development/PAO

10

CyberPatriot andron Man

11

Cadet Corner

Awards Ceremony

12-

18

Cadet Staff 18

NewsletterEditor2nd Lt.

Elizabeth Shurbutt


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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sa

3 4 5HappyBirthdayDonaldBrown

6 Cadet PT 18:00at Lakeside Park

SENIORS MT 18:30

Happy Birthday,Beth Taylor

7 8

10 11 12 13 Cadet Mt.18:00 CharacterDevelopment

Happy BirthdayAndrewDunscombe

14 15WESS Trainin

6ESS Staffaining

17 18HappyBirthday,JamesHouse

19 20 Cadet Mt.18:00Leadership

SENIORS MT.18:30

21 22HappyBirthdaCarrieGambl

3 24 25 26HappyBirthday,CindyBennett

27Cadet Mt.18:00

28 29

0appyrthday,

lainaoward

October 1 2 3 4 Cadet PT18:00 atLakeside

Park

SENIORS MT18:30

5HappyBirthday

TimothyGamblin

6

September 2012September 2012

Calendar . . . Page

Cadet Schedule and Uniform for September 2012:September 6 P.T. 18:00 at Lakeside Park

September 13 Character Development (BDUs)September 20Leadership (Dress Blues)

September 27Aerospace Education (BDUs)

We Welcome the Searcysto our Squadron!


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Safety . . . Page 3

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September has always been a special month for me. When I was younger, I was starting back to school, which was awelcome relief from picking cotton, fruit, and other odd jobs that I performed to make a few extra bucks. It meant a longawaited relief from the high temperatures of July and August. And it also signaled the entrance into the football season! Itusually results in a few leaves turning their beautiful fall colors and.did I mention football? But, it also reminds us that thelongest day of the year is many weeks behind us and the shortness of the days is becoming readily apparent. We mustnow focus on becoming night current if we are not already so qualified. Going beyond current, we should be working onbecoming night proficient! It will soon become the norm that, if we go flying after work or have an early morning SAREX togo to on the weekend, we will likely be flying in the FAA defined area of Night.

What are the rules for flying at night? Well here are a few:

- The FAA declares that you must not carry passengers in your aircraft at night if you have not, in the last 90

days, performed at least (3) take offs and landings to a full stopduring the period of one hour after sunset

and one hour before sunrise. Be sure to log these landings.

- You must turn on your navigation lights and beacon immediately upon sunset. However, if the PIC

determines that the anti-collision light is a hazard to other aircraft, it may be turned off until airborne.

- The VFR rules for class G airspace change at night to the same as for controlled airspace. An exception

to this is that if you stay in the traffic pattern of an airport and within mile of the runway, then class G day

rules apply.

- Also remember that the CAP requires us to increase our minimum altitude from 1,000 AGL in the day to

2,000 AGL at night.

Helpful hints:

- Be sure you know where all of the aircrafts light switches are located and how they operate before starting

the engine. Use the minimum lighting level to preserve your outside night vision.

- On a G1000 equipped aircraft, be sure you know how to adjust the brightness on the screens, high bright

can be almost blinding at night.

- Part 91 rules dont require the pilot to have a flashlight but I cant imagine anyone attempting a night flight

without at least one on board. I like to have one that straps to my forehead with adjustable tilt, two levels of

LED white light and one LED red light in addition to a separate, hand-held LED light. LEDs are great

because of their compact bright, light and long battery life.

- If you use paper charts, remember that a red light will make a yellow highlighted route almost invisible on

the map. Red marks are also diminished with a red light.

- Weather planning is always important but even more so at night. It is easy to fly into a cloud in night VFR

so be sure you know where the cloud bases are. It has been said that night VFR is an oxymoron so be

sure you are current on your use of the critical attitude instruments in case you are taking off into a black

hole (PLR comes to mind) or inadvertently fly into a cloud.

- Take extra care with the preflight of the aircraft paying attention to the condition of all the exterior lighting.

- If you are an IFR pilot, practice some approaches at night occasionally to get the flavor of doing

procedures to minimums at night. Of course, practice this with a qualified safety pilot or a CFI.

Night flying can be a pleasing experience, the ride is usually smoother and the summer heat is less at night. If you areflying over or near cities, the view can be spectacular. Be ready to go night flying this fall, grab one of our excellent CFIsand do some practicing soon!

Stay Safe!Ron Harlan, 118 Safety Officer

Reminder: Read the newsletter and receive a Safety Briefing Credit.Please email Ron Harlan at - [email protected]


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Seniors Corner . . . Page 4

Attention all SENIORS !!!

We have had a fantastic month of flying! August will be a record month this year at 35 hours, pleasekeep up the great work. We will not meet the region goal of 250 hours, but will meet the Wing goal of200. Remember we had very bad weather the start of last year and most flying was put to a halt forbudget reasons.

Please if not already done so, take the new online training for ICUT. Currently we lead the wing innumber of completions. For those of you with BCUT and ACUT, it should take you less the 20 minutesto complete. ICUT is the new requirement for Comm training and will be required for most ESqualifications. It can be found in the new Learning Management System in eServices.

Also in the next few weeks, we will be conducting UDF training for Senior members. This too will bemore than likely become a requirement for ES aircrew qualifications. Please come and join in the fun!

Please continue to work on any training available online. We will continue to try to increase ourAircrew numbers and recruit new Seniors to fill our active members. If you have any questions aboutICUT, please email me at [email protected] or give me a call. We will do our best to make this a funactivity for all. Our goal here is to ensure we have plenty of resources available when we are calledupon. Its the reason we all joined !

David L Taylor1stLT, Senior Deputy Commander

[email protected] -cell

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01-Nov-12 PD Review Mentor Discussion Scanner AC

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Page 5

Safety Beacon -Official Safety Newsletter of theCivil Air PatrolSeptember Issue

Click on the link below to see the latest copy of this newsletter:

http://www.capmembers.com/media/cms/Safety_Beacon__September_2012_BDEFE4038A051.pdf

Share the JoyOne of our responsibilities as Pilots is to share the joy we have of aviation with

others in a safe manner. In the CAP one of the opportunities we have to do that isby giving Cadet Orientation Rides (O-Rides). These are aircraft flights that last

about one hour following a syllabus that has been approved. Each Cadet isallowed five funded Powered Flights, and five funded Glider Flights. If you have

not had the pleasure of giving the First Flight to a Cadet you are truly missing agreat experience.Major Jim Gosnell

Civil Air Patrols Volunteer magazinefor July-September is now availableonline!

http://cap.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vcap12/i3/p1

If your household has more than onCAP member and you receivemultiple copies of this magazine, yomay choose to opt out to help saveCAP money.

A digital version of the magazine is

available online

http://www.capvolunteernow.com/cap_volunteer


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DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know that the devil is in the detail? This saying has

been around for only about 37 years. Many use it to drivehome a point. It points to the fact that you failed because you didnt pay attention to the little things tha

are just as important as the big ones.

Some of you may have heard of the proverb For Want Of A Nail.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.For want of a shoe the horse was lost.For want of a horse the rider was lost.For want of a rider the battle was lost.

For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

You dont have to look far to see how failure to pay attention to detail can be catastrophic. Some of us

remember that when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, it was found to be due to the failure of an

O-ring. Thiokol only certified the O-ring down to 40 degrees. Who knew that the temperature would

get down to 18 degrees?

I once knew a person who wanted to order1200 boxes. That was okay but, they forgot to look at the

unit of issue. A unit for this particular box was Bundle. There are 25 boxes in a bundle. You can

imagine the surprise when she received 30,000 boxes instead of 1200. It put a huge dent in her

supply budget. I knew a machinist who did the same thing and ended up with 6 times as many cutting

blades as needed.

How many of you have ever taken a picture and found out later that you had your finger over the lens?

Go on, admit it. Or forgot to take the lens cover off? Or turn on the flash? Or worse yet, forget to put

in film or a memory card? Yes, you know who you are.

The point is, we have natural laws and we have educated guidelines for how we should do things.

When we fail to keep our vehicle or airplane properly serviced, it breaks down. (Sometimes in flight.) I

we dont pack all of our required gear for a mission, we may fail the task.

Check your gear on a regular basis. Do the proper maintenance to care for it. Notice the small things

that dont appear to be right. Bring them to the attention of someone who needs to know. By the way,

the phrase the devil is in the detail is derived from an earlier phrase, God is in the detail. Given a

choice, which one do you want in the detail? And now you know.

Eddie Shurbutt, Capt.

SER-AL-118


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Wing Training . . . Page 7

WESS 2012-2013

By now, all applications for WESS Positions have been turned in and

staff listing will be posted on the September 7. If you applied, keepchecking the WESS webpage for updates.

http://wess.alwg.us/

WESS REQUIREMENTSBASICGSAR

(GTM3)

ADVANCEDGSAR

(GTM2/MRO)

TEAMLEADER

(GTL/UDF)

WILDERNESSADVANCED

FIRST AID

AIRCREW(MS/MO/MP)

Achievement 1(cadets)





Level 1(seniors mem-bers)



Level 1(seniors members)


General ES General ES General ES General ES General ES

WESS MedicalForm

WESS MedicalForm

WESS MedicalForm

WESS MedicalForm

WESS MedicalForm

OP SEC OP SEC OP SEC OP SEC OP SEC

Safety Curren-cy

Safety Currency Safety Curren-cy

Safety Currency Safety Currency

GMT-3 GMT-3 GMT-3 18 Years Old

18 Year Old 15 Years Old

Cost:There is a fee for all participants and covers the entire cycle. This money is used to provide allthe training materials for the participants.

This fee is due at the October Event.

$10 activity fee for all staff members.$25 activity fee for all GSAR and Aircrew participants.$80 fee for Wilderness Advanced First Aid.


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WESS 2012-2013All WESS Participants are required to fill out and send in a Medical Form

The form can be accessed at the following site. Fill it out online, save it tyour computer and print it out.

http://wess.alwg.us/documents/wess%20medical.doc

Gear (also refer to: Gear Requirements and Explanation)

There is generally concern over the amount of equipment that must be purchased in order to participate.The following details a list of equipment that is necessary to participate in the training. If you do not haveeach item on this list, you will not be able to participate.

At some point during the cycle, each individual must have all the equipment listed in task O-0001 in order

o graduate. However, not all the equipment is required up front; we try to curtail the amount of equipmenhat is required to participate in the first few weekends. After participating in ES training, many individuals

decide that emergency services activities simply do not interest them. Consequently, new (and possiblyunused equipment) goes to waste.

However, if participants feel that ES activities do interest them, they can acquire equipment over time, ashey complete their training.

Most of this equipment can be purchased relatively inexpensively through military surplus and discountstores.

GSAR Courses Aircrew Course Wilderness Advanced FA Course

1 complete ulity uniform (BDUs, Blue Ulity Uni-

form), including all required name tapes and patches,

cutouts, and grade insignia in accordance with CAPM

39-1

Uniform cap

Combat boots, at least one pair (well broken in)

Blue belt w/subdued p and buckle for wear w/ BDUs

Coat appropriate for climate

Underclothes and socks sucient for three days

Toilet kit, including: soap & toothbrush (in cases),

toothpaste, razor and shaving cream (as necessary),

comb or brush (as necessary), items of feminine hy-

giene (as necessary), deodorant or anperspirant,shampoo, other items as necessary (enough to last

you for your enre stay).

At least two quarts of water

Internaonal orange reecve vest

Pocket knife and whistle

Flashlight (With Red Lens)

Pocket note pad (3" x 5"), pen and pencil.

Inexpensive wristwatch.

Shelter material, preferably 8'x 10' (spare military

poncho meets the need).

Food for two days

Sleeping bag, bedroll or poncho liner

Compass (Lensac type)

Whistle

Complete Utility Uniform (BDUs,Blue Utility Uniform, AF Flight Suit, orCAP Blue Flight Suit) including allrequired name tapes and patches,cutouts, and grade insignia in accord-ance with CAPM 39-1. (Golf Shirt &Grey Slacks combination is not au-thorized.)Underclothes and socks sufficient for

three daysToilet kit, including: soap & tooth-

brush (in cases), toothpaste, razorand shaving cream (as necessary),comb or brush (as necessary), itemsof feminine hygiene (as necessary),deodorant or antiperspirant, sham-poo, other items as necessary(enough to last you for your entirestay).2 Breakfast Meals (no cooking al-

lowed), $5 cash for lunch.Atlanta, Memphis, & New Orleans

VFR Sectional Charts (actual paper

charts i.e. not on iPad, need not becurrent)Sectional PlotterAviation HeadsetPens, Pencil, Notebook/padSleeping bag, pillow

1 complete ulity uniform (BDUs, Blue Ulity Un

form), including all required name tapes and patc

es, cutouts, and grade insignia in accordance with

CAPM 39-1

Uniform cap

Combat boots, at least one pair (well broken in)

Blue belt w/subdued p and buckle for wear w/

BDUs

Coat appropriate for climate

Underclothes and socks sucient for three days

Toilet kit, including: soap & toothbrush (in cases)

toothpaste, razor and shaving cream (as necessar

comb or brush (as necessary), items of femininehygiene (as necessary), deodorant or anperspi-

rant, shampoo, other items as necessary (enough

last you for your enre stay).

At least two quarts of water

Internaonal orange reecve vest

Pocket knife

Flashlight (With Red Lens)

Pocket note pad (3" x 5"), pen and pencil.

Inexpensive wristwatch.

Food for two days

Sleeping bag, bedroll or poncho liner


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If youre interested in participating in any of the schools offered by WESS, please letMajor Randolph or Capt. Bennett know as soon as possible. You need to begin NOWacquiring gear. If there is something that you need and cannot find, please let someoknow. If you have extra gear that youd like to share, please bring it to a cadet meeti

When purchasing a sleeping bag, remember that it gets cold in the winter. A mat to gunder your sleeping bag is also helpful.

WESS 2012-2013 Schedule

14-16 September -Staff Training12-14 OctoberWESS 13-0116-18 NovemberWESS 13-02

18-20 JanuaryWESS 13-0422-24 FebruaryWESS 13-0622-24 MarchWESS 13-05


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Character Development and PAOs CORNER . . . Page 1

WHERE TO FIND US ON THE INTERNET:

Civil Air Patrol

www.gocivilairpatrol.com/

Cadet Services

http://www.capmembers.com/

Alabama Wing of Civil A ir Patrol

http://www.alwg.cap.gov/

Pell City Civil A ir Patrol

http://www.pellcitycap.org/

Wing Emergency Services School (WESS)

http://wess.alwg.us/

Photo F iles on Fl ickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bethshurbutt/

collections/72157615727997818/

On Facebook: Civil Air Patrol, AL WingCivil Air Patrol, Pell City

Composite Squadron, SER-AL-118, Civil Air Patrol

CADET PROGRAM EMAILGROUP:

A Yahoo Email group has been set up make communication between membeeasier. Invitations were sent to all the cadmembers.

If you are not receiving updates areminders from the Yahoo Group, you molikely are not a member of it yet.

Please contact Beth Shurbutt at:

[email protected] and request that sadd you to the group.

You can also go to the Yahoo Group site ajoin:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PellCityCAP/

Our cadet squadron recently was invited to use the facilities of Edgewood Church for the AwardsCeremony and (again for) Fun Night. The church was very gracious in opening its doors to us, and Iknow everyone appreciates it.

On both occasions, food was served and our cadets and senior members once again came through witha wonderful selection and variety of delicacies. I didn't see one person leave hungry because there was

not enough food to eat.

When food is served, there is always a need for "clean up", before the lights are turned off and doorsshut. It is at this time that the "troops" align themselves into different camps.

There is the one camp that looks for something to do, such as wiping down tables and chairs, washingdishes, emptying trash, and vacuuming. They don't need to be asked or begged, they just jump right inand get to work..

There is another camp that all of a sudden has important business that needs to (be) talked about beforthey leave. They seem to ignore the first camp of volunteers who are trying to get things back in order.

Then, there is the camp that quickly disappears and are nowhere to be found. They usually reappearafter all the work is done and ask if they can help.

I'm not pointing fingers or fussing at anyone. This seems to be characteristic of most groups. I'm notsure what the solution is. We may try dividing our squadron in to groups that rotate the jobs, or we mighjust all try to pay a little closer attention to the needs around us the next time we meet.

By the way, I talked with the head of the kitchen committee at Edgewood, and she said she couldn't tellwe'd been there! Great job, Pell City! Let's continue to leave things as good, if not better than we findthem. -2nd Lt. Elizabeth Shurbutt


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CyberPatriot Program and Iron Man. . . Page 11

CyberPatriot ProgramCyberPatriot is also coming up. For those of you who don't knowwhat that is, CyberPatriot is the premiere national high school

cyber defense competition created to inspire high school studentoward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology,engineering, and mathematics(STEM) disciplines critical to our nations future. CAP is allowedcompete and has made it extremely far into the finals. I believeone of our teams even won last year. The nice thing is, you don

ave to know ANYTHING about computers. We already have 2 members interested and oneed one more to make an efficient team. Dates are below. If you're interested contact C/Cacott ([email protected]).

or the competition rounds, we only compete six hours out of the weekend, so you don't hafree up your whole weekend.

onday Oct 1 -Wednesday Oct 12, 2012 Combined Practice Round Friday Nov 2 -Saturdov 3, 2012 Round 1 Friday Nov 30 -Saturday Dec 1, 2012 Round 2

riday Jan 11 -Saturday Jan 12, 2013 Semifinals Round 3 Friday Jan 18 -Saturday Jan 19013 Round 3 Back-up Date Friday Feb 1 -Saturday Feb 2, 2013 Consolation Round 3.5

IRON MAN COMPETITIONOctober 19-20, 2012Auburn University

The Iron Man team was finalised Thursday night. The team is composed of:

C/2ndLt Watkins

C/2ndLt Howard

C/SMSgt HowardC/2ndLt BrackerC/SSgt Searcy

SM Finlay

If you are on the team and have not done so, please email C/Lt Watkins([email protected])with your name, grade and time in CAP. If youd like to be o

the team, please contact C/Lt Watkins as soon as possible.C/Maj Randolph
mailto:watkins.j.075%40hotmail.commailto:watkins.j.075%40hotmail.commailto:watkins.j.075%40hotmail.com


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Cadet Awards . . . Page 13

Cadet 2nd Lt. Thomas Bracke

Cadet 2nd Lt Thomas Bracker had earned the Billy MitcAward. He is 16 years old and is in his Senior year ofhomeschooling. He resides in Oneonta, Alabama, with parents, Robert & April Bracker; 4 brothers; 2 sisters; afoster brothers. Thomas is a well-rounded young man wtime is divided between academics, church, Civil Air Patand family responsibilities. When younger, Thomasvolunteered at the local animal hospital, and now joins hfamily in volunteering at local nursing homes twice a moHe is active in the Blount County Youth Soccer league areferee, where he spends many of his weekends in the fThomas is also a blessing to his family as he willingly hewith many tasks which are not fit to print, but are truly aservice to the Lord. Thomass faith in Jesus Christ helps

shape his worldview, which in turn influences how hespends his time. Thomas has been active in Civil Air Patfor four years. Currently he holds the grade of Cadet 2ndLieutenant, and is heavily involved in the emergencyservices portion of CAP. He completed his Basic GSARcourse at Wing Emergency Services School, along with Incident Command System school a year later, where hreceived honor student twice. At National EmergencyServices Academy, Thomas finished the Advanced GSAcourse, as well as staffing Communications the following

year. His pla

for the futureCivil Air Patroare to receiveGround TeamLeaderqualification,attend severaNational CadSpecial ActivincludingNational Blue

Beret andAdvancedTechnologies

Academy, anparticipate inPell CityCyberPatriotteam. Thomplans to attennursing schoupon gradua


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Cadet 2nd Lt. Allaina A. Howard

Cadet 2nd Lt Allaina A. Howard has earned the Billy Mitchell Award. She is 16 years old and is a senior Pell City High School. She lives in Pell City, Alabama, with her mother, Katherin Howard, along with heriblings. Allaina joined CAP in November 2009 and has held squadron staff positions of flight sergeant anight commander. She attended AL/MS Wing Encampment 2011 (was the Delta Flight Honor Graduate) Sas attended WESS Basic School in 2011 and the Advanced School in 2012 (was the Advanced

D3istinguished Graduate) This summer she staffed at the National Emergency Services Academy in 2012Allaina's personal activities include Varsity athletics: participating in Cross Country, Track and Field. Shearticipates in the Army JROTC where she is a member of Color Guard, PT Team and Orienteering Team

She is the recipient of multiple individual and team awards in school, local, regional, and state activities. Huture goals in CAP are to earn the Spaatz Award and become Cadet Commander. Outside of CAP she po go to college and is considering a career in the Air Force


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Cadet Major Peter J Randolph

Cadet Major Peter J Randolph is our Cadet Commander

He is 18 yrs old and is a homeschooled senior this year. lives in Boaz, AL with his parents, John and Ellen RandoHe joined CAP in 2006. He graduated from WESS Basicand Advanced schools and has completed multipleemergency services achievements. He attendedEncampment at Camp Blanding, Florida. He served on sat the National Emergency Service Academy this summeand then attended Cadet Officer School in Montgomery, This past January, 2012, he was awarded the Boy ScoutEagle Award. He is currently serving as the Alabama StaPresident of Children of the American Revolution.He

travelled to Washington, DC in April to be sworn in and wgo back this next spring to give his reports. He has so mchoices and is still making decisions about which careeropportunity he will take. He has been a very busy youngman and his parents are very proud of him for all his hardwork. Peter received an Outstanding Cadet OfficerAward given by the Veterans of Foreign Wars


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Cadet Captain Brian J. Scott

Cadet Captain Brian J. Scott earned his AmeliaEarhart Awardon 24 May 2012. Brian is 16 yrs. old

and is a homeschooled senior. He lives in Anniston, ALwith his parents, Terry and Jeannie Scott, along with hi3 sisters. He joined the Pell City Composite Squadronof Civil Air Patrol in August 2008 where he has heldpositions as flight sergeant, flight commander, executivofficer, and cadet deputy commander. He has servedon the Cadet Advisory Council and as physical trainingofficer, communications officer, and cadet informationtechnology officer. He attended the AL/MS WingEncampment, graduated from the WESS AdvancedSchool, and also graduated from the Regional Cadet

Leadership School in Edinburgh, IN. In 2011 he went tothe Advanced Technologies Academy at Peterson AFBin Colorado Springs, CO. This year, he returned to ATAat Peterson AFB as a staff member. In the past few yrsBrian has won multiple awards in the State ACTETechnology Fair, competed in the Cyberpatriot CyberDefense Competition, and participated in several AMTApiano auditions. He enjoys programming computers,singing in the Concert Choir, playing piano and helpingout his little sisters. Brian's goals as a cadet are toobtain the Spaatz Award and his pilot's license. He is

considering acareer in theUS Air Force,workingtowards adegree inNetworkDefense. Hisparents andthree sisters,thank the Lordfor him andare so veryproud of hisaccomplish-ments.


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Cadet 2nd Lt. Jonathan DavidWatkins

Cadet 2nd Lt Jonathan David Watkins has earned theBilly Mitchell Award. Jonathan is 19 years old and isfrom Gadsden, AL. He graduated from Pathways

Academy. He is the son of Ron and Sharon Watkins.He enjoys singing in the Youth and Adult Church Choibeing crazy with friends and mom, acting, swimming,and running. His future goals are to get certified inwelding, refrigeration, and become an EMT atGadsden State in Gadsden, AL. He then wants tofurther his education at Auburn University to obtain adegree in one of the branches of Engineering.Jonathan also plans to further his Military training

through the ROTC program at Auburn University. Inthe CAP program, Jonathan has completed anEncampment as a cadet and as Staff, Ground TeamLeader through the Alabama Wing EmergencyServices School, Non-Commissioned Officer AcademyNational Emergency Services Academy as AdvancedStaff. He has also received the Wright Brothers

Award, 4 Unit Citation Awards, and the Billy MitchellAward.


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Award Ceremony and Cadet Staff. . . Page 18

A Big Thank Yougoes to CongressmaMike Rogers for taki

time out of his busyschedule to come tour ceremony and tEdgewood Church fmaking their wonderfacility available to o

squadron.

l Photos can be accessed at:

tp://www.flickr.com/photos/bethshurbutt/sets/72157631233068888/

Pell City Cadet Staff

Here is the staff slotting for the next 6 months (Sept 1st -March 31st

2013). We will only be in 1 flight unless otherwise directed.

Cadet Deputy Commander -C/Capt ScottExecutive Officer -C/2ndLt Watkins

Flight Commander -C/2ndLt HowardBack-up Flight Commander -C/2ndLt Bracker

Flight Sergeant-C/SMSgt Howard

Back-up Flight Sergeant -C/MSgt SmithES Officer -C/CMSgt Bedford

andolph, Peter, C/Majoradet Commanderell City Composite Squadron

pell city squadron - sep 2012

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