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1. 33 2. 9 3. 6 4. True 5. Joash 6. Adah and Zillah 7. Keturah 8. Lydia 9. Candace 10. Vashti 6 Answers to Bible Trivia Submitted by Katherine M. A True Story: A Trip to Columbia Written by Emma G. On April Fools Day, 2014, my mom, my siblings, and I went to Columbia, SC, to do fun activities and play with my cousins. It was so much fun! Slowly, we drove the one hour and thirty minute drive. When we crossed the “Welcome to Columbia” sign we were as happy as a lark. We met Aunt Charlene at the Kroger Center to watch an orchestra perform and to watch different people do acrobatics while the music played. After we went to the Cirque du Soleil Concert we went to Aunt Charlene’s house, we played all afternoon and then we watched Frozen. :) Later that night we put on a puppet show for my mom, Aunt Charlene, and Uncle James (dad didn’t go with us). After the puppet show, we went straight to bed. The next morning we got up, ate breakfast, and headed to the SC History Museum with my mom. We saw a bunch of cool things. We did school work and ate lunch as soon as we got back to Aunt Charlene’s house. After we played some more, Aunt Charlene told us to start to get ready for the Keith and Kristyn Getty ( modern hymn writers ) concert. We ate dinner as fast as we could, we finished getting ready, hopped in the car and drove to the Getty concert. We met Uncle James there. When the concert started I was so excited! I wanted to scream! The concert was amazing! After the concert we met Keith Getty. We went to Aunt Charlene’s house, and we packed up, ate a snack, said good-bye to everybody and traveled back home. My two day adventure in Columbia had ended. Career: Meet Lt. Col. MacDougall from the Air National Guard Written by Lydia K. Lt. Col. MacDougall goes to our church, and he really wanted to take our youth group to the Air National Guard base where he works. We went last month, and I really loved it. We got to go in the simulator where they train pilots, tour a plane that was under inspection, learn about survival training, etc. So when I saw that the career article was open I thought I could interview him. He told me so many things that he did not tell us on the tour. On the tour, we toured the biggest plane in the US. It is called the Galaxy C-5. It was huge! Memorizing lots of Scripture is very helpful in the military, because you don't always have a Bible with you. If you were captured or in a scary situation, you wouldn’t have time to get your Bible out. They are cargo planes and they often times carry soldiers. When they are carrying soldiers they drop them into enemy territory, so they often get shot at. Their only defense system is flares and chaff. They both mess up the missile's course in some way and thus prevent them to hit the plane. When Lt. Col. MacDougall was in training, they taught him to stay alive for what matters in your life the most (i.e. family, career, etc.). But for Christians, he said that would be to live for God and serving Him. So memorizing lots of Scripture is very helpful in the military, because you wouldn’t always have a Bible with you; and if you were captured or in a scary situation, you don't have time to get the Bible out. Here are his answers to the interview questions. 1. What is your current position? I am a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard, assigned to help maintain a squadron of jets for worldwide military missions. 2. What positions have you had? I have primarily served in the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserves as a pilot. 3. What subjects do you have to study to be a pilot in the military? To be a pilot in the military — whether that be in the Active Duty forces, the Air National Guard, or the Air Force Reserves — you must be commissioned as an officer, which requires at least a college Bachelor-level degree of any major. Pilot candidates also must successfully score high on various qualifying tests that measure skills in math, verbal, piloting and navigation. It really helps your competitive position if you have a private pilot's license. 4. What do you like doing best during your job? Any position flying is better than any position on the ground. Continued on next page. Volume 3, Issue 3
Continued from previous page. My favorite type of sortie is flying daytime low-level terrainmapping missions in formation with other aircraft. A “sortie,” as defined by the Encarta dictionary, is “an attack on an enemy or an aircraft mission.” It can also refer to a person who is on a sortie. 5. Please describe a typical day at work. What I like best about being a military pilot is that there is no typical day at work. It could involve administrative office work on the ground, studying, flying locally for training, working out physically, flying real-world (non-training) missions, or a combination of those. However, generally speaking, on days that flying is scheduled, pilots arrive at the squadron a few hours ahead of take-off time to read up on any updates regarding the plane or things that could have an impact on the sortie. Then a series of briefings are held that spell out what the mission is about and what is to be expected from each flying member. This minimizes any surprises. If the sortie is to involve flying in unfriendly territory, then those briefings will include intelligence updates about the situation. The pilot then "steps to the jet" and accomplishes the mission. Afterwards, a debriefing is held amongst all the participating flying members and the sortie is discussed in order to improve each other and future performance. Questions such as, "How did it go," “Why did you do that?,” “What were you thinking?” and, "What could have been done better?" are asked. 6. What made you decide to be an ANG pilot? I felt that it was a career choice that made a difference. Also, there was a personal intense fun factor and adrenaline rush that my then current career, accounting, did not possess. No surprise there, huh. 7. Where was your first job? Well, my first real job was as a life guard when I was 15. But my first job out of college was as an accountant for a big auditing firm. I was stuck in an office and really disliked it. It's worth noting that one can serve part-time in the National Guard or Reserves and still hold a full-time job doing something entirely different. That was the route I took. I have a full-time job as a sales manager with a regular company, but I participate in the Air National Guard on the side. Juggling priorities and time between the two can be extremely difficult, so it's important that the full-time regular non-military job have a good bit of understanding and flexibility built into it. this interview. As I look back on my 25-year career thus far in the military, I think my memory highlights are the two deployments that I performed during our nation's operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which occurred during early parts of those campaigns. Very austere living and so much of the daily work was making it up as we went. The only constant was change and the flying was, well, hot...on a couple of levels. A note from Lydia: This a cool story that he told me. Once he was landing out in the Azores and so while they were waiting on the plane they got see a bull chase/fight. He said it was so cool. 9. What is the best thing about this job? It's different for every military pilot. Some like the flying, some like the mission of protecting and defending our nation, and some like the lifestyle and follow-on opportunities it may bring . . . such as becoming an airline pilot. For me, all of those are important, but I also like the immense responsibility that comes with being handed the keys to a jet, weapons, and crew at a very young age. It is a serious career that requires a sharp mind, fit body, and demands effective leadership, so maturity is a pre-requisite and develops very quickly in this environment. 10. Do you have to like certain things in order to do this occupation? You have to like altitudes and going fast. You also have to like—or at least be willing—to not get into a routine and being flexible with being away from home. Also, it's awfully important that pilots stay physically fit, eat healthily, and stay academically keen on all the systems of the plane, procedures of flying, and enemy tactics and capabilities. The effects of aerospace operations on the mind and physical body are significant. Oxygen pressures, G-forces, speeds, sensory cues and depravations affected by darkness, weather, fatigue, in-flight emergencies, and the inherent stresses of real-world missions, all help to make the pilot's sortie more difficult. And I haven't even mentioned the real prospect of having an enemy trying to shoot you down and what could subsequently happen if they were successful. 11. Have you ever earned any awards? Military flying generates opportunities and experiences that are broad, exciting and frequently challenging, even difficult. Given enough years in this business, all pilots will be decorated with numerous awards and citations simply by the nature of what they do. Yes, I have received many awards. I've even earned a few. Some of them are recognitions for unit excellence, or participating in various campaigns, or having achieved some qualification. But the ones that I respect the most are the ones that are earned for true and unique action. I have two in particular that were awarded to me for specific flying things in what we call "the desert." A special thanks to Lt. Col. MacDougall for his brave service to our country. 8. Have you had any interesting things happen to you while working in this job? Many. Actually, too many to recount in Volume 3, Issue 3
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