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Great Lakes
Illinois Encampment Nurtures
Leadership Skills
ILLINOIS – Illinois Wing’s Group 22 hosted what
turned into one of the wing’s largest training
encampments at Naval Station Great Lakes over
two weekends in April, drawing 22 senior members
and staff and 82 cadets, mostly from the region’s
Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin wings.
The 2007 Illinois Wing Spring Encampment, which
is in its 16th year, teaches new cadets about U.S.
Civil Air Patrol and U.S. Air Force fundamentals and
allows experienced cadets the chance to further
develop their leadership skills.
Cadets attending the 2007 Illinois Wing Spring Encampment
receive instruction from a U.S. Navy dive instructor on how to use
Navy coveralls as a flotation device. Following the poolside instruction
the cadets put the theory into practice.
Photo by Capt. Dave Picek, Illinois Wing
Photo by 1st Lt. Tuck Rosenberry, Maryland Wing
Attendees participated in small-arms marksmanship training, the Navy’s physical fitness program, swim evaluations
and testing and basic seamanship training.
Capt. Bob Williams, Group 22 commander, said the experience provided members with a glance inside military
life as experienced by recruits at the formative stage of their careers in the Navy. “It’s good for the cadets to see
the recruits interface with the RDCs (recruit division commanders) and chiefs,” he said. “It’s not screaming,
shouting and general harassment like they have seen in the movies. The military doesn’t work like that today.”
>> Maj. Paul Hanna, Illinois Wing
Wicomico Composite Squadron cadets look over their entry in
the national Team America Rocketry Challenge before liftoff.
Middle East
Virginia Cadets Participate in Elite
Rocketry Challenge
VIRGINIA – Wicomico Composite Squadron cadets participated
in a mid-May Team America Rocketry Challenge held
at The Plains, Va. They were one of only 100 teams invited
out of 690 from 48 states that entered the competition.
TARC is an aerospace design and engineering event sponsored
by the American Association of Physics Teachers,
the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA for 7ththrough
12th-grade teams. The event involves designing
and building a model rocket weighing 3.3 pounds or less
using certified model rocket motors that carry a payload of one Grade A large egg for a precise flight duration of 45
seconds. The rocket must achieve an altitude of 850 feet, measured by an on-board altimeter, and return the egg to
earth uncracked.
The cadets on the Wicomico team, all of whom received their U.S. Civil Air Patrol Model Rocketry Badge as a result
of their participation, were Cadet Capt. Daniel L. Nicholson; Cadet 2nd Lt. Kevin A. Gravenor; Cadet Staff Sgts.
Patrick B. Naumann and Brandon M. Wojeck; Cadet Tech. Sgt. Jacob D. Terlizzi; Cadet Airmen 1st Class Garon E.
Clark and Kurt W. Webster; Cadet Senior Airman Zachary M. Jones; and Cadet Airmen Ryan K. Murray, Bretton S.
Rosenberry and Sooley Sanourath. Support was provided by senior members 1st Lt. Tuck Rosenberry and 2nd Lts.
Robert L. Bryant, Mollie Harrison and J.R. Walters. >> Maj. George R. Murray Jr., Maryland Wing
U.S. Civil Air Patrol Volunteer 53 July-August 2007