Iowa Wing Civil Air Patrol Newsletter

United States Air Force Auxiliary

Search And Rescue School and Mission Aircrew School

  Calendar

Cadets experience MRE's for the First Time at SAR School

  At the same time, across the base, 15 members learned how to do similar things while in CAP aircraft.  Topics ranging included navigation, flight planning, DF training, GPS operation, emergency egress, and many more. Lt. Col. Ralph Tomlinson directed this successful school and had help from several experience mission aircrew instructors to train these new crews. This school had members from 4 wings, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.   The second school for ground team training, the Survival School, will be 25-27 April 2003 at Camp Dodge.  The Mission Aircrew School, flight training portion will be that same weekend at the Ankeny Airport. Students will fly with qualified crews to put the skills they learned in the classroom to use.

Cadet Leadership School

By C/TSgt Jackie Elliott  

On 21-23 February 2003, 14 cadets from Iowa Wing and 2 cadets from Nebraska

Wing went to Camp Dodge to have take part in the Cadet Leadership School . The CLS consisted of a Cadet NCO School and Cadet Officer Basic Course. In the leadership portion of the NCO classes, C/2Lt Erin Lowry used many things to make it interesting and exciting to learn about leadership. We watched examples in teamwork by watching “Remember the Titans”, “G.I. Jane”, and “The Last Castle.” Not all of it was classroom though. There was always the famous food that every cadet has grown to know and love: pizza and tacos. When we weren’t learning in class or feeding our stomachs, the cadets went to the armory and learned how to drill the flight and how to do color guard. We stood through 2 inspections by SFO Ruffin and got to learn about responsibility the hard way.  Once the basics were down we had an exhilarating game of Cat and Mouse. I got to use my command voice and I know that each cadet came back with something positive to help them in their future CAP positions and problems in life. It was fun, full of learning, and teamwork. Going again to the next NCO School or Cadet Officer Basic Course is definitely a top priority that I would suggest for any of our cadets to attend.

Cadet NCO School Graduates Included:

C/SSgt James Adams IA078
C/TSgt Justin Colvin IA091
C/SSgt Luke Conrad IA078
C/Amn April Deverwaere IA078
C/TSgt Jackie Elliott IA091
C/A1C Matt Kelly IA002
C/SrA Drew Schlosser IA091
C/Amn Liz Shehorn IA091 

Cadet Officer Basic Course Graduates Included:

C/2Lt Jeff Carstensen IA041
C/SMSgt Krisdeena Eisenbacher IA041
C/2Lt Louise Fawcett IA078
C/Capt Deborah Hanus NE092
C/Capt Veronica Hanus NE092
C/Capt Lief Poore-Christensen IA005
C/2Lt Jeff Schwan IA043
C/SMSgt Brad Smith IA078

 Leadership Weekend

While the cadets trained in the Cadet Leadership School , the seniors were hard at work in their own classes.  Six seniors participated in the Squadron Leadership School directed by Maj. Brandon Butters.  These seniors learned about customs and courtesies, safety, operations, emergency services, cadet programs, aerospace education, professional development, finance, supply, personnel, and communications.  Nine seniors participated in the Unit Commanders Course directed by Maj. Ron Scheitzach.  UCC taught new commanders and deputy commanders about command, planning, goal setting, organization, adverse member actions, responsibility, and CAP command organization.  Both courses emphasized many of the keys to being part of a successful CAP unit and how to promote the three missions of CAP.

Squadron Leadership School Graduates

SM Diana Andrews IA092
SM Joe Bright IA091
2Lt Sue Grant NCR001
SM Shannon Juhl IA078
2Lt Betty Kelly IA002
2Lt Jimmy Kelly IA002

Unit Commander's Course Graduates

Capt Leo Bertling IA051
1Lt John Bruegger IA005
2Lt Gary Colvin IA091
2Lt Anita Elliott IA091
1Lt Kim Kirschman IA002
Maj Mike McCoy IA041
Lt Col Mercer Richardson NCR001
SFO Troy Ruffin IA091
1Lt Bruce Tiemann IA078

Washington Brinton cadets
 assist Army National guard.

By Linda Wenger

 “Face down, face down,” the medic ordered. His green and brown camouflage face paint glistened with sweat, in spite of the raw winter wind blowing through the show barn on the Washington County Fairgrounds, Saturday afternoon. Four members of Washington County ’s 134th Medical Company of the Army National Guard grappled with a soldier experiencing psychiatric problems. Two or three soldiers finally pinned her down on top of a stretcher, while two other soldiers secured another stretcher on top of the out-of-control patient. Straps from the Army green stretcher beneath the struggling soldier were flung over the top of the second stretcher and fastened down, making what is known as a “sandwich.” Having secured the unruly soldier, four medics carried the sandwich to a the fence encircling the show ring, and propped up the soldier against the top rail of the fence. “This causality was a psych patient,” Sergeant Paul Ramirez explained. “She was getting in the middle of everything. This is typically what [the medics] do. They suspended her like this so that her weight is holding her into the stretcher.” The show barn on the fairgrounds served as one staging area during Saturday’s 134th Medical Company’s training exercise. Fortunately, the psychiatric patient was one of 30 volunteers who portrayed the various wounds and/or other medical problems soldiers could expect to see during a mass casualty event. “We’re just doing some realistic medical training that is really designed to stress the medics,” training NCO Barbara Duder explained the day before the training session got under way. “We’re going to be using moulage, which is a form of casualty simulation make-up (blood, guts and gore), to give [the medics] as realistic a scenario to treat. The people playing the casualties are going to have a part to play. It will be a little bit like a theater production.” The Guard’s version of theater began Saturday morning in the armory, in the make-up room. The volunteers, including Washington County Civil Air Patrol cadets and Washington Junior High School students, spent a few hours creating realistic-looking wounds, complete with blood and shrapnel. The volunteers were then driven to various locations to await the arrival of the medics and Guard ambulances. “[The exercise} started out with land navigation,” Ramirez said. “[Soldiers] were driving around to different sites [in the county.] They had plotted points on maps that they had to go and find. As they were in the middle of their missions, we called and told them all — ‘We have a mass casualty back here at the fairgrounds.’” After receiving the calls, the Guard personnel, with 10 vehicles “out in the field,” began picking up their patients and preparing them for transport. Then, they drove to the fairgrounds, where the senior medic determined which injuries would be treated first Sergeant First Class Jerry Keeler said that the field ambulances could carry four patients on stretchers and up to eight patients who could walk on their own. The ambulances can be sealed against chemical or biological attack. Once each patient was treated, the medics returned to the armory to be checked out by Duder and others, who evaluated their performance. The soldiers evaluated themselves, Duder added, by filling out a report card, identifying what they did right and what they may have done wrong. Back at the show barn, Ramirez said, “We’ve got some more patients stacking up in those vehicles back there,” as he returned to his own job.

Reprinted with permission from the Washington Evening Journal.  

Memorandum of Participation in FAA Flight Safety Clinic

  The following members of  IA092 participated in the February 12, 2003 Flight Clinic that the FAA Flight Standards District Office conducts periodically around the state. This Clinic was hosted at the Washington Airport by IA092, and featured a meal prepared and served by 1Lt Gary Schieffer, and several cadets. Assisting also, and attending were:

LtC Doug Tindal, Capt Mike Roe, Cadet Bobby Roe, Cadet A.J. Schweitzer, and Cadet Lizz Neil.

Topics covered by Roger N Clark of the FSDO and a flight controller from Cedar Rapids included: 2002 Iowa aircraft accidents, and an analysis; ATC procedures; Temporary Flight Restrictions; and Monitoring 121.5 in flight.

  A free-will donation was collected for the meal, and after expenses the Squadron received approximately $50 for its account.