The CAP meeting on 24 November as been cancelled due to the holiday.
See everyone 1 December, have a great and safe Thanksgiving!
Jordan Edmund, 1st Lt, CAP
Commander | Oklahoma City Composite Squadron
18 November, 2009
30 October, 2009
Elliot Receives Mitchell Award
OKLAHOMA CITY COMPOSITE SQUADRON
CIVIL AIR PATROL OKLAHOMA WING
U.S. AIR FORCE AUXILIARY
5701 Air Guard Drive, Box 66
Oklahoma City, OK 73179-1008
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October, 29 2009
Contact: Tyler Nikkel
Oklahoma City Composite Squadron member Adison Elliot receives Mitchell Award
The Civil Air Patrol has presented Oklahoma City Composite Squadron member Adison Elliot with the coveted Mitchell Award. This award was established in the memory of General Billy Mitchell who is hailed as the most influential figure in military airpower history. The presentation of the Mitchell Award represents excellence, on behalf of Adison Elliot, in the areas of leadership, maturity, fitness, and academic strength as exhibited through Civil Air Patrol (CAP). Oklahoma Wing Commander, Colonel Bob Castle conferred the award.Elliot joined CAP's Oklahoma City Composite Squadron two years ago. A desire to become a flight officer in the Air Force is what initially led Elliot to the Civil Air Patrol. While researching online how to prepare for the Air Force Academy Elliot discovered that CAP offers valuable training for the armed forces and aeronautics. By setting specific short term and long term goals he has achieved numerous accomplishments. One the greatest being he soloed an aircraft through the National Flight Academy; an endeavor held in high regard by the entire aviation community. He also completed CAP encampment and was awarded the Encampment Ribbon. Furthermore, Elliot's leadership training and ability has helped him earn the rank of Second Lieutenant in his squadron. Elliot's next goal within Civil Air Patrol is to earn the Amelia Earhart Award. Beyond CAP his sights are focused on the Air Force Academy and becoming an officer and pilot in the military.
Alongside Elliot's involvement in Civil Air Patrol he is a junior at Bethany High School and enjoys a variety of extracurricular activities. Elliot has played the piano for 6 years and is proficient with the saxophone. He is also involved in the Bethany Marching Band and enjoys applying the discipline he has learned in CAP to his work with the band. Aside from music, Elliot is a committed debate member of the Bethany Mask and Gavel Club.
High moral character, leadership, a volunteer spirit, and maturity are the qualities that Elliot has displayed throughout his service in the Oklahoma City Composite Squadron. These are the same qualities Elliot plans to uphold in his future service as an Officer in the military. Therefore, the Oklahoma City Composite Squadron is proud to honor Elliot and thankful to have such a high caliber cadet as part of their squadron.
Picture: OK Wing Commander, Col. Castle (left) and 1Lt. Jordan Edmund (right) present the Mitchell Award to Adison Elliot.
Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 57,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited by the AFRCC with saving 90 lives in fiscal year 2008. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counterdrug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to more than 22,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for more than 67 years. For more information, visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com.
Civil Air Patrol's local unit, Oklahoma City Composite Squadron, meets every Tuesday night night from 6:30 - 9:00pm at the Will Rogers Air National Guard Base. The Oklahoma City Composite Squadron membership is comprised of cadets ages 12-18 and adults over 18. For more information about Civil Air Patrol in the Oklahoma City Area, phone (405) 830-1750 or visit http://www.ok113.org .
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10 September, 2009
Alva Fly-In 19 Sep 09
Participation Letters for the Alva Fly-In are due on 15 Sept!
Maj Russell Davis and Lt Col Bob Satchell have agreed to conduct Flight Line training and provide sign-offs. Each participant will need to bring an FLM or FLS SQTR to record training.
OKWG also has an opportunity to support the Vance Fly-In on 17 Oct 09. This is a one day civilian fly-in event. They are expecting 50-70 aircraft, and will need assistance in marshalling.
Please encourage all interested members to attend the Alva Fly-In for training, and to support the Vance Fly-In next month.
The Ops Plan has been posted to our website (www.ok113.org) under the documents section.
Maj Russell Davis and Lt Col Bob Satchell have agreed to conduct Flight Line training and provide sign-offs. Each participant will need to bring an FLM or FLS SQTR to record training.
OKWG also has an opportunity to support the Vance Fly-In on 17 Oct 09. This is a one day civilian fly-in event. They are expecting 50-70 aircraft, and will need assistance in marshalling.
Please encourage all interested members to attend the Alva Fly-In for training, and to support the Vance Fly-In next month.
The Ops Plan has been posted to our website (www.ok113.org) under the documents section.
09 September, 2009
Disabled Earthlink Accounts
https://www.capnhq.gov/news/news8Sept09.htm
We recently notified all EarthLink account holders that we would discontinue the use of accounts that had no usage for the last past three months. On 1 September 2009, EarthLink disabled those accounts that were affected. If you were affected by this action you may reactivate your unit account by sending an email to Joe Hall or Joy Darwin. Accounts may take up 36 hours to reactivate once submitted. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.
We recently notified all EarthLink account holders that we would discontinue the use of accounts that had no usage for the last past three months. On 1 September 2009, EarthLink disabled those accounts that were affected. If you were affected by this action you may reactivate your unit account by sending an email to Joe Hall or Joy Darwin. Accounts may take up 36 hours to reactivate once submitted. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.
07 September, 2009
ES Reminders for the FTX
A few things before the FTX:
1) If you have not entered things that you have been signed off on into the eServices SQTR, it does not exist. You must get your sign offs into the system before Wednesday, 9 September if you want to participate.
2) If you have not requested Commanders approval for training on the SQTR, you will not be able to train for that specialty at the SAREX, also complete this by Wednesday. To get Commanders approval, all you have to do is enter the date on the SQTR, check the box and hit submit. It will pop up on my screen for approval.
3) After Wednesday, print your SQTRs. I may not be able to print any for you at mission base, you need to bring them with you. CAP does not except any SQTRs except for the ones printed from eServices.
4) Upload a picture into eServices, technically your 101 card is not valid without it.
5) After Wednesday, print your 101 card from eServices, you will not be allowed to participate without it.
6) On Tuesday at 1730 I will be tutoring in IS 100 and IS 700. If you have not passed it yet, come to the tutoring session and I will help you pass it then.
Jordan Edmund, 1st Lt
Commander | Oklahoma City Composite Squadron
1) If you have not entered things that you have been signed off on into the eServices SQTR, it does not exist. You must get your sign offs into the system before Wednesday, 9 September if you want to participate.
2) If you have not requested Commanders approval for training on the SQTR, you will not be able to train for that specialty at the SAREX, also complete this by Wednesday. To get Commanders approval, all you have to do is enter the date on the SQTR, check the box and hit submit. It will pop up on my screen for approval.
3) After Wednesday, print your SQTRs. I may not be able to print any for you at mission base, you need to bring them with you. CAP does not except any SQTRs except for the ones printed from eServices.
4) Upload a picture into eServices, technically your 101 card is not valid without it.
5) After Wednesday, print your 101 card from eServices, you will not be allowed to participate without it.
6) On Tuesday at 1730 I will be tutoring in IS 100 and IS 700. If you have not passed it yet, come to the tutoring session and I will help you pass it then.
Jordan Edmund, 1st Lt
Commander | Oklahoma City Composite Squadron
04 September, 2009
Squadron Internet Technology
All - Please read the whole email, it's all good news!
I have been in the process of bringing our Squadron into the digital age through our website. It is my hope that the Wing may follow our example in the future. We are now using multiple forms of social networking to increase interest in our squadron and to help get the word out about our news. Young people especially pay very close attention to these networking sites, especially Facebook and Twitter.
In Facebook we are running adds, targeting youth who are interested in many of the aspects of CAP and in the last few days we have had several people click through to our website. We are also updating Twitter on a regular basis and are following many of the official CAP "tweets" throughout the country, and in turn they are following us. This really gets our news out there nationwide, and this is a growing trend in the CAP Public Affairs circles. The more we can drive up the buzz about CAP the more likely we are to gain membership.
In Facebook we are running adds, targeting youth who are interested in many of the aspects of CAP and in the last few days we have had several people click through to our website. We are also updating Twitter on a regular basis and are following many of the official CAP "tweets" throughout the country, and in turn they are following us. This really gets our news out there nationwide, and this is a growing trend in the CAP Public Affairs circles. The more we can drive up the buzz about CAP the more likely we are to gain membership.
We have been approved by Google to receive the full version of Google Apps for Non-Profit organizations. This means that everyone can have an ok113.org email account if you would like one. Those of you that have a duty position email may also have another email (example: name@ok113.org) if you would like one. I have the ability to merge the emails into a single login account.
If you would like an email, let me know what you want your login name to be and I will set it up for you and send you the information to login for the first time.
We now have a much easier address to get to your email login, it is: mail.ok113.org.
The emails are also fully pop and imap compatible, if you use something such as Outlook for your email, feel free to set the ok113.org email up in it. If you need assistance let me know.
Other new things:
1) We are now on Twitter and tweeting regularly, these tweets also update on the OK113 website and Facebook page. If you have Twitter, please follow us, our user name is OK113CAP. Using Twitter in CAP is a new public affairs grassroots initiative that we are trying to gain traction on, the more official CAP Twitter accounts are followed the better for us.
2) We now have a Facebook fan page, it can be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oklahoma-City-Composite-Squadron-Civil-Air-Patrol/123814838963. All news from the website are also updated to our Facebook page, this will help keep news flowing to our members that don't check the website often, but live on Facebook.
3) You will soon be able to log in to your email within the website.
4) We will soon be able to host video on our website through Google Apps.
5) We will soon be migrating our calendar to Google Apps., you will be able to view upcoming activities through your ok113 email account as well as through the website. I will be giving a number of you access to edit the calendar, so that you can update it with upcoming events.
6) We have a new newsfeed that includes both the Twitter account and the Blogger account.
7) We will soon have a National News feed on our website.
8) The Members page has been redesigned, it is now a Links page, with key links to Squadron, Wing and National websites. Keep an eye on this page as it will be continually upgraded.
9) We have document hosting on the website, if there is an important document that you want our membership to have access to, I can upload it.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions, I would be glad to implement them.
Jordan Edmund, 1st Lt
Commander | Oklahoma City Composite Squadron
If you would like an email, let me know what you want your login name to be and I will set it up for you and send you the information to login for the first time.
We now have a much easier address to get to your email login, it is: mail.ok113.org.
The emails are also fully pop and imap compatible, if you use something such as Outlook for your email, feel free to set the ok113.org email up in it. If you need assistance let me know.
Other new things:
1) We are now on Twitter and tweeting regularly, these tweets also update on the OK113 website and Facebook page. If you have Twitter, please follow us, our user name is OK113CAP. Using Twitter in CAP is a new public affairs grassroots initiative that we are trying to gain traction on, the more official CAP Twitter accounts are followed the better for us.
2) We now have a Facebook fan page, it can be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oklahoma-City-Composite-Squadron-Civil-Air-Patrol/123814838963. All news from the website are also updated to our Facebook page, this will help keep news flowing to our members that don't check the website often, but live on Facebook.
3) You will soon be able to log in to your email within the website.
4) We will soon be able to host video on our website through Google Apps.
5) We will soon be migrating our calendar to Google Apps., you will be able to view upcoming activities through your ok113 email account as well as through the website. I will be giving a number of you access to edit the calendar, so that you can update it with upcoming events.
6) We have a new newsfeed that includes both the Twitter account and the Blogger account.
7) We will soon have a National News feed on our website.
8) The Members page has been redesigned, it is now a Links page, with key links to Squadron, Wing and National websites. Keep an eye on this page as it will be continually upgraded.
9) We have document hosting on the website, if there is an important document that you want our membership to have access to, I can upload it.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions, I would be glad to implement them.
Jordan Edmund, 1st Lt
Commander | Oklahoma City Composite Squadron
OKWG/TXWG Winter Encampment, Senior Help
FOR WIDEST DISTRIBUTION TO SENIOR MEMBERS
Good Morning all,
Texas Wing has approached us with the opportunity of doing a joint Winter Encampment. One thing we are taking into consideration is participation in a winter encampment and it NOT taking away from the participation in our OKWG Summer Encampment. Oklahoma’s Encampment is our priority. Col Castle and I need to know if we would have enough people who can help with the winter encampment (held during Christmas break – typically starting Dec 26 or 27) without backing out of the summer encampment. Last summer I was a bit short in senior staff and needed more help.
If you have always wanted to help out at an Encampment but aren’t able to get time off work in June, but are able to in December – please let me know ASAP with a reply to this email.
Thank you for your dedication to our cadets!!
Nancy
Nancy Bartlett, Capt., CAP
Good Morning all,
Texas Wing has approached us with the opportunity of doing a joint Winter Encampment. One thing we are taking into consideration is participation in a winter encampment and it NOT taking away from the participation in our OKWG Summer Encampment. Oklahoma’s Encampment is our priority. Col Castle and I need to know if we would have enough people who can help with the winter encampment (held during Christmas break – typically starting Dec 26 or 27) without backing out of the summer encampment. Last summer I was a bit short in senior staff and needed more help.
If you have always wanted to help out at an Encampment but aren’t able to get time off work in June, but are able to in December – please let me know ASAP with a reply to this email.
Thank you for your dedication to our cadets!!
Nancy
Nancy Bartlett, Capt., CAP
Oklahoma Wing
Director of Cadet Programs
Director of Cadet Programs
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