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On Thursday, June 8th,

Woodfield Composite

Squadron went soaring.

It marks the first glider

orientation flights forthe summer.

The day started with the

assembly

of the

CAP

Blanik L-

23 glider.

This was

accom-

plishedwith the

assistance of several

CAP and Sky Soaring

members. CAP mem-

bers in attendance were

senior members Capt.

McNichols, Lt.

LaLonde, and SM Mi-

ess, and cadets included

C/Amn Miess, C/MSgt

Tomaszewski, and

C/A1C Gallman.Capt. Snyder was giving

orientation flights in

the CAP

glider all day

with Cadets

Miess,

Gallman and

Tomaszewski

receiving

flights. Sen-

ior members

LaLonde and Miess also

got the chance to go

along on a glider flight.

Sky Soaring is located

out in Hampshire, IL

just off of I-90. For

more information, and

to learn when Sky Soar-

ing will be flying next,

contact Capt. Snyder or

visit Sky Soarings web

site:

www.skysoaring.com

The staff has come to the

conclusion that the cadets

are getting bored with

drill. This is all going to

change. The staff has de-

cided to introduce some

innovative drill move-

ments, which are cur-

rently being used by Great

Lakes Region Drill Team.

In order to perfect these

drill movements the staff

is asking for everyone to

arrive at the meeting at

1845 hrs. These extra

minutes will be used for

opening formation so we

can get the meetings

stated at exactly 1900 hrs.

With this time I am sure

that Woodfield Compos-

ite Squadron will look the

best and will be the best

trained cadets in the state,

and we should have sev-

eral cadets trained in drill

to form 2 or 3 drill teams.

Woodfield Staff Changes Drill Routine C/1st Lt Wells

CAP Glider Flights at Sky Soaring

If flying were the

language of man,

soaring would be

its poetry

Inside this issue:

Johnson Flight Encampment 2

Color Guard/Drill Team 2

ES/Ground Team Training 3

Memorial Day Events 3

Fathers Day Breakfast 4

Promotions 4

VOLUME 1 ISSUE 4

JULY/AUGUST

Capt. Snyder gives one on one

instruction to C/Amn Miess

CAP glider in tow up to 3,000 ft.

Lt. LaLonde with Capt. Snyder

in flight over Sky Soaring


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Page 2 Volume 1 Issue 4

C/TSgt Kyle Tomaszewski

My experiences at Johnson Flight Encampment

h a v e b e e n s o m e o f t h e b e s t

moments in my Civil Air Patrol involvement.This year, 2006 JFE, was much

different from the last year I went. My instruc-

tor pilots, CAP

Capt's Wally

Gleason and Pat

Klick, have been

remarkably help-

ful to my glider

pilot career.

Compared to

last year, this

year was much

better with the

weather situation. I remember last year one

day we walked outside and it looked

like we were walking into the end of the world,

t h e s k y w a s b l a c k a n d t h e

clouds stretched for as far as we could see.

We were only weathered out one

day this year, but that didn't stop every glider

s t u d e n t f r o m a c h i e v i n g

their solo/pre-solo certification. Every glider

c a d e t , e x c e p t t w o , e a r n e dtheir pre-solo wings, and three of us earned

our so lo ' s . My f i r s t so lo in

any aircraft was on Thursday, June 15th,

2006 at JFE. There was a nasty

crosswind that day, but I held back my anxi-

ety built up and completed the 9

minute flight. It was funny because even

though my instructor pilot was less

than 100 LBS, the glider flew SO much

differently with him not in it with

me. I released at 1500ft, and actually hit adecent thermal. "Hey, I could

ride this thing for a while because no one

is telling me to take the glider

down!" I thought to myself. But, the nice

cadet that I am, I entered the

pattern, greased the landing, and was

surprised to see that I wasn't greeted

with a bucket of cold water. I did get

nailed with the water at a later time

during that day. The only problem that I

had with my solo was that the back

door on the glider flew half way open dur-ing my downwind leg. I almost

reached back to close it, but instead con-

tinued to fly the glider and make

sure that I do not get distracted with my

landing pattern. I had fun, worked

hard, and am

going to con-

t inue my

glider flights

at Sky Soaring

until I earn

my PGL by

the end of this

summer.

With summer in full swing, and some more

key holidays coming up, the opportunity

for Woodfield Squadron to partake in

Color Guard activities is here. Only a few

weeks ago, we were asked to present the

colors at the swearing in of new US citizens

in downtown Chicago. There was a huge

chance to get our faces in the media and

make more people aware of CAP. On July

4th, we will again have the opportunity to

march in the 4th of July parade in Elgin.

If you are able to attend, please do. Ask

Lt. Gallman, or Capt. Snyder for more

details and the place and time to meet.

Johnson Flight

Encampmentstrives to

provide a safe, low cost,

high quality flight

experience that will

help shape tomorrows

aerospace leaders.

Color Guard and Drill Team Needed

Johnson Flight Encampment

From June 9-17th, 3

cadets from Wood-

field Squadron partici-

pated in the Johnson

Flight Encampment atColes County Memo-

rial Airport in

Mattoon, IL. I wasnt

there, so Im not going

to ramble on and try

to make stuff up.

Heres what one of the

cadets in attendance

experienced.

Cadets Brady and Tomaszewski with

instructors Capt. Gleason and

C/Col Angelini

Cadets Tomaszewski, Brady, and

Greenlee at JFE, 2006

Members of Woodfields Color

Guard perform for onlookers


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Page 3Woodfield Pride

SM D. E. McNichol

Over the Memorial Day

weekend we were re-

quested to support theVeterans Day sale of Bud-

ding Poppies. We

had several Seniors and

Cadets respond to the

task.

Overall we collected

$650.00 and turned it

over to the local VFW

hall.

This is a special day for all

our Veterans like myself,

and this is were the Pop-

pies history started:

The poppy of wartime

remembrance is the redcorn poppy. This poppy is

a common weed in

Europe and is found in

many locations. Artificial

paper versions of this

poppy are in many coun-

tries worn to commemo-

rate those killed in World

War I. The poppy is a

reminder for all of us to

honor those who serviced

in this countrys freedom

in peace time or in strife.

Remember the Veterans

and wear it proudly.

Next year lets all getout there and help our

people.

both ground teams and air

crew. This was a terrific in-

troduction to the MSA spe-

cialty and more training will

be taking place to get people

qualified in this specialty.

GTM3 training was a bigsuccess. Woodfield Compos-

ite Squadron now has four

ground team members,

which also received state

certification. The ground

team class was put together

by Capt Welch, Commander

of Forest Park Composite

Squadron

and Chief

Schwartz of

MelrosePark Public

Safety

(MPPS).

The class

consisted

of approxi-

mately 27 students from

both CAP and MPPS and

The past couple of months

have seen quite a bit of

emergency services activity

both in training and mis-

sions. For training, members

from Woodfield Composite

Squadron covered two spe-

cialties; Mission Staff Assis-tant (MSA) and Ground

Team Member 3 (GTM3).

The MSA training was cov-

ered over three squadron

meetings. A special thank

you goes out to Lt. Holod of

Fox Valley Composite

Squadron

for assisting

our squad-

ron with anexcellent

mission

board class

and for shar-

ing her ex-

periences.

We are also in the process of

preparing mission boards for

several excellent instructors.

Meeting once a week for five

weeks we covered safety,

search and rescue tech-

niques, map and compass

reading and much more. For

actual field work, a mission

was held at one ofthe forest preserves

in Melrose Park and

consisted of several

searches including

an after dark search.

The training must

have been good,

because the group

field performance

received an out-

standing review

from Capt. Welchand Chief Schwartz.

This was a great

experience and only

the beginning of

what Im sure will be an ex-

cellent emergency service

team at Woodfield Compos-

ite Squadron.

Memorial Day Poppy

Emergency Services Training 1Lt Knickerbocker

Itseasytomakeasmall

fortuneinaviation. You

startwithalargefortune.

Woodfield Cadet Greenlee familiarizes

himself with direction finding gearwhile other CAP members and Melrose

Park Public Safety personnel look on


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