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Volume 8, Issue 4Page 2

Command Staff NewsColonel John M. Eggen

Commander

Arizona Wing

We live in a time of change. Thanks to technology, which is constantly changing, we areable to access more information quicker, do work and tasks more efficiently and store vastamounts of information in a tiny amount of space. The Civil Air Patrol continues to be a leader inthe development and use of technology to help our members complete their missions and assistthe Air Force as requested.

The CyberPatriot competition is a new initiative by the Air Force Association in partnershipwith others that tests the ability of the students to defend a simulated corporate network from ex-ternal hostile attacks. Far more than being just a competition, it is designed to educate and moti-vate our cadets to become the cyber defenders the nation needs while promoting Science, Tech-nology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). According to Michael McConnell, Director of Na-tional Intelligence, The United States is the most vulnerable nation on the face of the earth to cy-ber attack for a simple reason we are the most dependent. The Air Force sees the need forcyber warriors who can secure the domain as the indispensible prerequisite for air and spacedominance.

The CyberPatriot team from the Williams Composite Squadron 304 won an all expensepaid trip to Orlando Florida to compete in the 2009 National CyperPatriot Competition. Squadroncommanders and cadets should check out the CyberPatriot page on www.gocivilairpatrol.com/,

click on members, cadet programs and then activities to find out how they can put together theirteams and prepare for the competition next year.

One of our own, Capt Justin Ogden of the Arizona wing is one of the pioneers in cell phoneforensics which uses cell phone data to pinpoint the position of victims during search and rescueoperations. He has participated in many SAR missions resulting in a number of rescues and survi-vors throughout the country as he is able to use this technology anywhere in the United Stateswithout leaving Arizona.

CAP is making it easier for members to quickly and efficiently accomplish tasks through theuse of technology. For example, the Operational Resource Management System (ORMS) used totrack and control all CAP non-expendable property is now done by computer. The Online FlightReleasing Capability used to release personnel and equipment to perform our missions is alsodone by computer. CAP Online Courses and Exams make if easier and more convenient for our

members to further their professional development.Technology is not without its aggravating challenges; but given the ingenuity and persever-

ance of our senior staff, the problems are being solved. It is my goal to enable our members tospend less time doing the work of CAP and more time enjoying what they like doing in our or-ganization.


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It is now Spring in Arizona, the temperature will soon start climbing and weare faced with two immediate events: Easter and Tax Day.

Easter is the most important religious day on the Christian litugical calendar.It is the day that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ which is thefoundation of the Christian faith (1 Corinthians 15:12-20). On the other hand,

Tax Day (April 15

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) is totally between you and the IRS.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover because of it symbolism and for its position in the calendar.According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Passover a new meaning symbolizing His bodysoon the be sacrificed and His blood soon the be shed. Get rid of the old yeast that you may be anew batch without yeast (1 Corinthians 5:7) refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast inthe house.

Early missionaries attempting to convert the tribes of the north realized the pagan festival of Easteroccurred at about the same time as their celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and slowlyallowed the pagan celebration to change to the Christian celebration as converts were won over tothe Christian message. The spelling eventually changed to the modern Easter.

In Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of the 40 days of Lent which is a period of penitence.In Eastern Christianity, the spiritual preparation for Pascha starts on Clean Monday (a public holidayin Greece) and lasts for 40 days.

As happens with many other Christian celebrations, many other games and traditions extend beyondthe church. Since its origins in pagan times Easter has been a time of celebration and feasting. Eggdecorating, egg hunts, chocolate Easter eggs, and marshmallow bunnies all mark the commercialaspects of celebrating Easter and tie it back to the pagan origin of Easter as a celebration in honorof the goddess of offspring and the fertility of spring when life blooms anew.Some groups such as the Quakers do not celebrate Easter (or any other church holidays) believinginstead that every day is the Lords day and one should not be elevated over the other. Other

Sabbatarian groups celebrate a Christian Passover that retains the features of the Passover ob-served by Jesus at the Last Supper.

Whatever your faith or religious group, the New Testament teaches that the resurrection of JesusChrist, marked by the celebration of the Easter holiday, is a foundation of the Christian faith and isproof that God will judge the world in righteousness. AND , the belief that God has given Christiansa new birth into a living hope through the Resurrection of Christ from the dead.To end, we give thanks; that, having overcome the sharpness of death; He opened the kingdom ofheaven to all believers; and that because He lives, we too shall live. Thanks be to thee, O God; whogives us the victory; through our Lord Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, beall honor and glory; world without end. Amen.


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Safety Tipby

Lt Col Daniel F. Myers

AZWG Safety Officer

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Spring is in the air, and, in the Southwestern United States, so is the dust.

Wind, caused by pressure differential, creates dust storms over dry, arid land primarily fromApril until September. Problems include respiratory/breathing, driving and greatly reducedflying visibility.

Respiratory/breathing problems are experienced in outdoor activities and are of particularconcern to our ground teams and cadets. In the most severe situations, respirators arerecommended, or, at the very least, hygienic masks. Goggles or other eye protectionshould also be used.

The phenomenon known as the haboob is of particular concern. The National WeatherService Forecast Office defines a haboob as a violent dust or sandstorm. Althoughgenerally brief, dust storms/haboobs must be taken seriously due to blinding conditions onhighways, and in the air. Blockades of dirt, miles wide and thousands of feet high, canreduce visibility to zero.

If driving, a good idea to call 511 prior to any, extended trip where weather is suspect.However, if caught in a dust storm, the Arizona Department of Transportation makes thefollowing recommendations:

1. Never stop in the middle of the road.2. Pull off the road and turn off your lights.3. Run over tumbleweeds. They cant hurt your car.4. If pulled over, activate emergency brake and remove foot off of brake pedal.

Weather briefings are a must for all pilots. Flight Watch, 122.0, is a valuable ally in the air.Haboobs/dust storms are visible from a distance and, like thunderstorms, can be avoided. Ifan obstacle to your destination, land until all calm.

Wind is a prime cause of dust storms/haboobs. Lets keep in mind the 15 knot directcrosswind limitation on our Cessna aircraft. Although there are few multi direction runwayairports in Arizona, only a nominal distance exists to an airport suited for existing windconditions. For example, Deer Valley and Scottsdale.

We live in a great geographical area. Just a matter of planning, caution and common sensewhen we deal with adverse weather situations such as dust.


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Volume 8, Issue 4 Page 5

Cyber Patriot VenturesArticle and Photo by

C/MSgt Lynne M. Scholz, C/PAO

Willie Composite Squadron 304

From left to right: C/MSgt Lynne Scholz, C/SMSgt Daniel Haasch, C/SSgt ShannaAnderson, C/SSgt Adam Graunke, C/SSgt Daniel Scholz, and Maj Gen Amy Courter,

CAP National CommanderCyber Patriot. When we first heard those words, we had no idea what it would mean to us later on. It will be fun, we

thought. Well hang out with our friends, eat donuts, drink pop, and maybe learn something. We quickly formed a team offive main members, two alternates, and two observers.

The first round was one of the hardest rounds because we hadnt had any experience securing the system before. But weset up the computer, barely avoided a shower by the sprinklers, and got to work. We changed passwords and user names,installed patches, updated service packs, and turned off unnecessary applications. However, we had problems connecting tothe scoring system.

Round two was much better. This time we had some experience and we had put together a plan of attack. Everyone tooka turn at the computer and we were doing pretty good...until we tried to reboot. We had accidentally turned off too many ap-plications, so we couldnt start the system. We were very afraid we would lose everything, but thankfully our coach was able

to start the system up in safe mode and get us back on track. Only the top 36 teams were going on to the next round, and wewere happy when we made it.

In the third round we had three systems to lock down we only had one in each of the previous rounds. We were fairlycomfortable with the two Windows systems but the Linux system was definitely hard for us. We did our best though weworked hard and didnt give up. We were locked out of one of our Windows systems, but we didnt worry about it too muchsince it was close to the end of the competition day. We knew that the top eight teams would go to the final round in Orlando,Florida. We tried our best and were proud of what our team had done, however, we didnt make the cut. We were disap-pointed, but also determined to come back next year and blow away the competition.

Then, sometime in mid-January, we got the call from our team coach that one of the teams couldnt make it to the compe-tition, and we were next in line. No words can express how excited our team was to suddenly be told that you get to go toFlorida to compete with the best teams is amazing! With only a month to prepare, we had a lot of work to do. From that timeon, e-mails were flying back and forth. But when the day of competition came, we were confident that everyone would do thebest they could.

And they did. This time we had to take care of seven systems. We not only had to lock them down like in the previous

rounds but there was also a team attacking our systems. We had problems with some of the systems. On the Vista ma-chine we were locked out for a long time, and on one of the Win 2000 machines we were having problems with the webpages. But we worked as a team, had fun, learned a lot, and did our best. We didnt win we didnt even come in second orthird but were proud of ourselves, and in our mind we won.

It wasnt all work in Florida though; we had a lot of fun. There was an AFA exposition that had some very cool stuff in it.There were several flight simulators that we got a chance to fly. The room was filled with different booths filled with interestingthings it was really fun to go around and look at all of it.

There were also many important people there. We would walk around the hotel and see general after general. During thetraining day, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force went around and met all of the teams. We were also able to have dinner withthe National Commander of CAP. We talked with several members from foreign military services everywhere we went peo-ple were stopping us and asking us about what we were doing. So not only was the competition fun, we had fun at the expo-sition and meeting people.

So what about next year? Next year were coming back! Well work on training ourselves and other team members. CyberPatriot has been a great learning experience, and we hope more cadets will be interested and join us.


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Davis-Monthan AFB

Air Show a Big Success

with over 20,000 attendingSubmitted by

Lt Col A. Pete Feltz, DAE

The trip taking the AE Museum trailer to Tucson for the DM Air Show had some exciting mo-ments when the right rear tire on the trailer blew out. People driving by were waving at us tobring attention to the blown out tire, we pulled off the side in a very narrow shoulder and withsome trouble managed to put on the spare tire. Fortunately we only had to drive about a mile

to a truck tire facility in Toltec. Amazingly they had a replacement tire of the correct size. Therest of the trip going and returning to Falcon Field was uneventful. Thank you Lord.

On Saturday, there was a massive crowd estimated at 150,000. I wish to thank all those whohelped set up our display. The photos show how well the display looked. We had may visi-tors and comments and appreciation for bringing our display to the Show. Sunday wasn'tquite as busy with an estimated attendance of 50-75,000. As for the cadets, we had about 80cadets working in various positions including selling Show programs and renting chairs. Theprograms sold out in early Sunday afternoon and I believe all the chairs were rented outalso. There was a lot of enthusiasm from the crowd which is pretty normal for air shows. TheThunderbirds flew on all three days and as always was a great show.


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Teamwork Tackles Obstacle CourseArticle and Photo submitted by

Lt Col Bob Anderson, SCCS 101

Pictured right: Cadets take

on the overhead bar section

of the obstacle course.

The Nogales High School AFJROTC unit and Group 1 squadrons joined forces to take onthe Obstacle Course at Fort Huachuca on 13 March. This joint operation was organizedby AFJROTC and provided all participating units a great opportunity to have fun and get toknow each other. Santa Cruz Composite Squadron 101, Tucson Composite Squadron

105, Neotoma Composite Squadron 109, and Doolen Cadet Squadron 803 took part.Based on the feedback from the cadets, the activity was a definite keeper, and they arelooking forward to the challenge of the Leadership Reaction Course later in the year.


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Casa Grande Composite Squadron

316 participate in

Arizona City FestivitiesArticle and Photo submitted by

SM Victoria Doherty, CGCS 316/PAO

Front row: 1Lt Leo Deckelmann, C/Amn Izaak Million, C/Amn Ryker

Gillespie, C/AB Jacob Benson, C/AB Wesley Rice, C/SrA Lawrence

Short. Back Row: C/A1c Sierra Durant, C/Amn Sean Kolder, 1Lt

Robert Rice, C/TSgt Ryan Kelley, 1Lt Pat Kelley, Ben Phelps, SM

Kevin Phelps, 2Lt Bill Doherty, and Capt Jerry Painter.

Casa Grande Composite Squadron 316 participated in the Arizona City Daze bazaar andparade on Saturday February 27

th. The cadets sponsored an information booth at the Arizona

City Daze event where they passed out information on CAP and sold Fire Fixin kits to help

raise funds for their squadron. These funds help defray the cost of field trips, uniforms, rank,

and overall operating expenses. This was the first time the newly formed CAP squadron took

part in a local community event. A total of 15 members marched in the parade.


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Group IV utilizing Social Media to

Communicate with MembersArticle submitted by

SSgt Phillip Kittelson, Gp IV PAO

Group IV has gone social. Social media that is. The Group IV Public Affairs Of-fice is leading the way by using Facebook, blogs and Twitter to spread it's messageabout what the group does for the Civil Air Patrol and for Arizona.

CAP regulation authorizes PAOs to use social, and other, media to broadcasttheir unit's message. Using social media is a powerful tool, which can reach thousands

of potential members who have no idea what the Civil Air Patrol does, or that it evenexists.

Technology has evolved to the point where instant contact is available just aboutanywhere in the world. The Group PAO has our blog setup to email squadron com-manders and their PAOs when posts are put on the blog, which speeds up informationand news sharing across the group says Major Matthew Fields, Group IV Commander.It's amazing what we can do these days.

The use of social media by units, shows that CAP can change and adapt to it'senvironment to recruit future and retain it's current members.

Next for the PAO office, is to add content to the Group IV Youtube channel. Ifyou have video, or related material, please contact the Group IV Public Affairs Officer.


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Arizona Wing revamps

Ground Operations OrganizationArticle submitted by

SSgt Phillip N. KittelsonCentral AZWG Ground Team PAO

The weather isn't the only thing popping in Arizona. Recently Arizona Wing revamped itsGround Operations Branch, and created regional ground teams capable of responding toany event or mission assigned to them.

The new system, which organizes ground teams at the wing level, creates a central pointof contact for all missions, and realigns the organization to closely match Incident

Command System (ICS) principles.

Developed by Capt Dallas Lane, Arizona Wing Director of Ground Operations, the systemcapitalizes on CAP's most abundant, and important, resource: its members. In the fireservice, they rely on '1/3 manning.' Meaning that in order to field a fully functional team atany given time, you'll need at least three times the required team members, said CaptLane. To have a working ground team, you needed a ground team leader, and up toeight members, which created the need for a minimum pool of 27 fully qualified membersto field a complete team. No squadron in Arizona, by itself, currently has that capability.

Early systems relied on ground teams at the group level, but that system caused varying,

and conflicting, procedures from group to group. Now under one roof GroundOperations can standardize training, procedures and alerting rosters without having toorganize with units several hundred miles away.

With the standardization in training Arizona Wing was able to bolster its ranks of qualifiedmembers. An Emergency Services Academy program was created to bring quarterlytraining to different areas of the state.

The ES Academy gave members who couldn't travel an opportunity to get their feet wet,and see what Emergency Services is all about. Capt Lane says. Once memberssuccessfully completed the Academy, they are awarded a 101T card as a Ground TeamMember 3 trainee. We've had a huge response and interest in the program.


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Arizona Wing

Promotions


Thelma S. Camus, MD, VVF205

Mike Reid, CGCS 316

Daniel Haasch, WCS 304

Jairus Nero, SHCS 301

Zachary Dieman, DVCS 302

Ryan Kelley, CGCS 316

Zachary J. Rossi, DVCS 302

Shanna Anderson, WCS 304

Nick Branson, WCS 304

Patrick A. Feeney, DVCS 302

David Fowler, WCS 304

Sean T. Bordelon, DVCS 302

Andrea Eskew, SHCS 301

Cody D. Cossano. DVCS 302

Christian A. Fala, DVCS 302

Ryker Gillespie, CGCS 316 (Feb 10)

Sean Kolder, CGCS 316 (Feb 10)

Wesley Rice, CGCS 316


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