CADETS EARN AWARDS The local squadron of Civil Air Patrol, Table Rock Lake Composite Squadron 147 is called a composite squadron because it consists of senior member and cadets. Our squadron started off 2015 with three cadet members attending Kansas Wing Winter Cadet Encampment from Dec 27, 2014, through Jan. 3, 2015, at Kansas Wing Headquarters at the Joint Regional Training Center in Salina, Kansas. Cadets learned important life skills such as how to work in a group, how to make their bed, how to keep organized and even how to manage time effectively. On top of learning about emergency services and aerospace, cadets were exposed to numerous hands on activities to stimulate their minds to aid in the learning process. Cadets walked into the encampment as cadets and emerged a week later as leaders. Cadet M/Sgt Annalise Russell, Cadet T/Sgt Lucas Lewis and Cadet S/Sgt Joshua Green attended the encampment and Squadron 147 is proud of each of them for their accomplishments. Also at the Squadron meeting on January 8, 2015 Cadet Joshua Green was honored with an award for Cadet Of The Quarter for the 3rd quarter of 2014. Congratulations to Cadet Green on earning that recognition. The 2014 Cadet Of The Year trophy was presented to Cadet Lucas Lewis at the January 8th meeting. Cadet Lucas was selected for this honor which was announced at the Christmas banquet in December, but he was unable to attend due to being out of town at that time. Pictured above on the left is C/SSgt. Joshua Green with Cadet Of The Quarter award, and on the right C/TSgt. Lucas Lewis with the Cadet Of The Year trophy. Congratulations to all of these outstanding young men and women and we are looking forward to many good things from them in 2015. The Missouri Wing of the Civil Air Patrol is composed of over 1,000 members organized in almost forty units located throughout the state. Formal disaster relief and search and rescue training exercises are held on a regular basis several times each year. Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with more than 61,000 members nationwide, operating a fleet of 550 aircraft. CAP, 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 (Air Force Rescue Coordination Center) with saving 54 lives in fiscal year 2011. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and drug interdiction missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to nearly 27,000 young people currently participating in the CAP cadet programs. CAP received the World Peace Prize in 2011 and also participates in Wreaths Across America, an initiative to remember, honor and teach about the sacrifices of U.S. military veterans. Civil Air Patrol has been performing missions for America for over 70 years. To learn more about the Civil Air Patrol, visit gocivilairpatrol (CAP National Headquarters’ website), or mowg.cap.gov (Missouri Wing website).
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 02:44:06 +0000
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