nebraska wing - feb 2010

Nebraska Wing Bulletin Robert K. Todd, Colonel

Nebraska Wing Commander

19 February 2010

Wing Administrator—Madeline Kennedy— mkennedy@newg-cap.org

Editor-in-Chief—Amanda Kumm— believenme24@yahoo.com

“It will be grand in 2 ZERO 10!”

Unit Commanders:

Please be sure to share the bulletin

with your squadron. Print it out and

post it at your location, or take 5

minutes at your meetings to share

the information from Wing. We can

all stay connected and be on the

same page. Looking forward to see-

ing you all, and meeting some new

faces at Wing Conference.

~ 2nd LT Amanda Kumm

NEWG CALENDAR Reminding everyone to check the wing calendar website

for any date changes and updates. This calendar is kept

current, so when a bulletin is not available, you can go to

http://www.newg-cap.org/calendar08.asp

LTC Dan Kirwan keeps the calendar updated for us.

UNIT

BUDGETS:

Madeline is still in need of unit

budgets for FY 2010 from:

COLUMBUS

CAPITAL CITY 99th PURSUIT

LEE BIRD TRI-CITIES

10 Oct 09—17 Feb 10

Offutt SM Lauren Tweedt Cadet Benjamin Reher

Fremont Cadet Jacob Lafferty

OCS SM Christopher Lazoritz

SM Neil Gabeilson

Pine Ridge Cadet Isaiah Little Moon

Siouxland Cadet Colin Howe

Tri-Cities SM Steven Stebbing

Legislative Members Maj (Senator) Michael Gloor Maj (Senator) Robert Krist Maj (Senator) Norman

Wallman

Aircraft Locations

359CP Chadron

593CP Lincoln

915CP Sioux City

975CP Millard

988CP Seward

Our Sympathy goes out to Major

Roxanne Sykora for the recent loss

of her mother, Delores Worley.

Please have these

in by 15 March or

Wing will be

required to submit

one for you!

CAP Policy of Nondiscrimination:

It is Civil Air Patrol policy that no member shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to

discrimination in an CAP program or activity on the basis of race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, or disability

(formerly handicap). It is CAP policy that no applicant meeting CAP’s minimum age requirements will be denied member-

ship in CAP on the basis of race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, or disability (formerly handicap).

Capt Mike McClellan of Capital City Senior Sq earned Paul E. Garber, Level III Award 22 Dec 09

Captain David Bratton of Lee Bird Comp. Sq earned Paul E. Garber, Level III

Award 23 Dec 09 Major Sharon Sanford of Northeast Nebraska Comp Sq earned Benjamin O. Davis, Level II Award 20 Jan 10 and her Grover Loening, Level III Award 5 Feb 10 SM David Jones of Offutt Comp Sq. earned Yeager 5 Feb 10 2 Lt Chris Goodrich of Omaha Comp. Sq earned Yeager 15 Feb 10 C/2LT Jordan Ruegg, Seward Comp Sq earned his Gen. Billy Mitchell Award Dec 09

Orientation Flights

November

Brady Beiermann—

Fremont

January

OFFUTT Ryan Barrett,

Austin Gloe, Kifton Opocensky, Adrian Palmer, Connor Ullom & Shawn White

SIOUXLAND

Isaac Allen, Josiah Allen, Halie Edgington, Joseph Schoepfer &

Jospeh Zimmerman

WING CONFERENCE ITEMS 10 March deadline is quickly approaching for your conference

registrations (only 2.5 weeks away) and Wing Award

nominations. Don’t delay any longer as we need your

submissions, NOW! Reminder that all attendees will need to

bring a CAPF-60, Emergency Notification Form with them.

Hotel number for reservations at the Regency Lodge prior to

8 March is 402-397-8000 and you must say you are with the

Nebraska Civil Air Patrol to get the group rate.

WING STAFF POSTIONS AVAILABLE (these will give you the opportunity to fulfill your Level IV training)

Director of Communications, Personnel Officer,

Finance Officer, Emergency Services Officer,

Logistics Supply Officer & Cadet Programs Officer.

We need your help on Wing Staff. If anyone is

interested in these positions, please contact LTC

Darrel McMillan, Wing Chief of Staff at 402-850-6205

or email him at hurrisnow@hotmail.com

AEX Program If your unit signed up this past October for the Aerospace

Education Excellence (AEX) program, please inform the Wing

Director of Aerospace Education. Enrolling in the AEX pro-

gram helps the wing compete for the National Aerospace

Education award. To apply and report online, go to

http://www.capnhq.gov and enter e-services.

Take a Virtual Space Station Spacewalk A new video game is now available online based on actual work

astronauts performed on their missions. Visit

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/

station_spacewalk_game.html

(Please copy and paste this link into an internet webpage)

Wing Conference is Coming! Mark your calendar now so you won’t miss the Nebraska Wing Conference. It will be

held on March 26-28 in Omaha at the Regency Lodge. This year our new wing com-

mander will be announced and there will be many things to see and hear!

FREE Money for Teachers! The Air Force Association (AFA) grant cycle deadline for educators is March 31. All

educators can download an application at http://www.capmembers.com/

aerpsace_education_specific/

educator_grants_and_scholarship_information.cfm

Reports Looking forward to 100% reporting from the units on

their Aerospace Education Quarterly Reports for this

2010 calendar year. YOU CAN ALL DO IT!!!

FEBRUARY 22– George Washington’s Birthday

MARCH 2 - Wing Staff Meeting and Commander’s Call-In Wing HQ Camp Ashland 5 - Vehicle and Aircraft monthly reports for Feb due at Wing HQ 8 - Deadline for Wing Conference Hotel reservations at Regency Lodge Omaha, NE 10 - Deadline for Wing award nominations at Wing HQ 13 - SAREX in Lincoln, contact is LTC Darrell Nelson at darrellnelson1@windstream.net 14 - Daylight Savings Time begins 17 - St. Patrick's Day 20 - Spring Begins 26-27 - Wing Conference at Regency Lodge Omaha, NE 26 - Deadline for Red Cloud News articles 28 - Palm Sunday

FUTURE DATES 5 April - Quarterly Reports (AE, PA, DDR, H-1 Report) to Wing HQ 10 April - SAREX at Norfolk, NE 19-22 April - Chaplain Service Staff College at Bellevue, NE 24 April - SLS/CLC at Camp Ashland Contact is LTC Dennis Curtis at denniscurtis1@cox.net 8 May - SAREX at Chadron, NE 6-11 June - NCR Staff College-Offutt AFB, NE Contact is Col Donley at mfdonley@sio.mideo.net

17 June-1 July -National Flight Academy, Camp Ashland 10-16 July - NEWG Sumer Encampment, Camp Ashland 18-23 July - 2010 Special Olympics—Visit website at http://www.2010specialolympics.org and to sign up as a volunteer go to http://2010specialolympics.org page13243.asp Click on Volunteer Positions-Special Olympics for more details and requirements 23-25 July - NCR Public Affairs Academy Camp Ashland contact is Major Al Pabon at al.pabon@mncap.org