Texas Wing Earns Sixth
Unit Citation
At a recent staff meeting Texas Wing was
given a bright red ribbon to add the five
already decorating our Wing flag.
State Director Ed Brown was volunteered to
read the citation. He was surprised at the
length, two closely spaced pages,
summarized here.
1 Summer and winter encampments for 469
cadets.
2 Advanced leadership training for an
additional 407 cadets.
3 90 cadets earn Mitchell award. Two
receive Spaatz award.
4 Aerospace membership increased by 240
percent and doubled the number of AE
Officers.
5 Fly-A-Teacher program was continued with
NASA.
6 Several special Homeland Security programs
were planned and implemented.
7 Won Excellent rating in AF Compliance
Inspection and Outstanding in OpsEval.
8 Started the Lone Star Emergency Services
Academy in 2008.
9 Enhanced the Winter Ground Team School in
Brownsville.
10 Hundreds of members volunteered to help
in Hurricane Ike, delivering food, water
and ice, flying hundreds of aerial sorties and
producing just over 40,000 digital images of
the damage, the largest civilian aerial
photography mission in history. In addition
CAP also provided critical support to FEMA,
the State Operations Center, the National
Weather Service and the USAF.
11 Showcased the ARCHER system in special
ops for Homeland Security
12 Provided critical humanitarian relief to our
neighbors and communities.
The citation is displayed on the Wing
Website -
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Here is a very good summary
of changes to CAPR 60-3, written by Maj
Anthony Gorss CAP
Complete rewrite of CAPR 60-3, Emergency Services:
Interesting changes to the
regulation, and worth reading over
if you have the time. Some things
that caught my eye were ES quals are
transferred when
you transfer. Having
been in 3 wings for last 6-years,
this was not always the case. CERT is now
recognized as training, and we can
transport CERT
teams in corporate
assets. Ground teams are designated
as able to be utilized during all
missions, and labeled as such for
night and hazardous
weather operations.
Criteria for save/find credit
changed. High crime areas are defined for
resource protection. Firearms can be
designated as required
by state law. It is
also noted now that members are to
keep old 101 cards for proof of
training.
New
specialty ratings for ES:
Qualifications Added
SMC - AFRCC SAR
Management Course (Only available in
the Multi and Single Person tabs)
National Inland SAR
Planning Course (Only available in
the Multi and Single Person tabs)
Wing Alert Officer
(Only available in the Multi and
Single Person tabs to Wing
Commanders, Wing DOs and Wing ES
Officers)
Unit Alert Officer
(Only available in the Multi and
Single Person tabs to Unit/Group
Commanders, Unit/Group DOs and
Unit/Group ES Officers)
Community Emergency
Response Team
Mountain Flying
Certification (SQTR has been
updated)
Water Survival
Airborne Photographer
(Only available in the Multi and
Single Person tabs)
Aerial Digital
Imaging System Operator (Only
available in the Multi and Single Person tabs)
NOC Augmentee (Only
available to NHQ)
Qualification Name
Change
over to IC1s, AL2s
were transferred over to IC2s and
AL3s were transferred over to IC3s.
Incident Commander Level 1 now requires a final approval
at the Region level.
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Here is important news from the FAA
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Notice Number: NOTC1826
FAA Issues SAIB on Garmin Nav
Radio Auto-tune Feature
On
August 7, 2009, FAA issued a
Special Airworthiness
Information Bulletin (SAIB) to
owners and operators of aircraft
equipped with Garmin G1000,
Perspective, and Prodigy
Integrated Flight Decks
installed with a Garmin GFC 700
autopilot. The SAIB addresses
the autopilot's navigational
radio auto-tune feature while
performing a VOR or ILS
approach. Changes to navigation
frequencies that occur between
navigation database cycle
distributions may cause a
mismatch of frequencies between
what is tuned automatically on
the LOC/ILS and what is shown on
the approach chart or applicable
NOTAM. If there's a mismatch of
frequencies, FAA recommends the
pilot manually tune to the
correct LOC/ILS frequency and
assure the correct inbound
course is selected, then
manually fly the approach or
choose a different terminal
procedure. Garmin says it plans
to resolve the issue in a new
software release. For more
details, you can access SAIB
CE-09-47 on
http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/safety/alerts/SAIB/
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