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The Coastwatcher Publication of the Thames River Composite Squadron C/CMS Ray Gave His Armstrong Speech on Connecticut Wing Leadership Failures CADET MEETING Missions for America 01 July 2014 Semper vigilans! submitted by Semper volans! C/SSgt Virginia Poe Cadets ran PT at Poquonnock Plains Park. They completed the mile run, push ups, and sit ups at the park and returned to the squadron for the sit and reach. The Coastwatcher Publication of the Thames River Composite Squadron C/CMS Ray gave his Armstrong speech on Connecticut Wing leadership failures. Cadets were reminded to keep Civil Air Patrol their goals in perspective and that every mistake is a lesson. 300 Tower Rd., Groton, CT http://ct075.org . Flight time consisted of lessons on CAP history. C/CMS Johnstone taught a class on CAP ranks. LtCol Stephen Rocketto, Editor [email protected] SENIOR MEETING 01 July, 2014 C/SSgt Virginia Poe, Reporter Submitted by C/SrA Michael Hollingsworth, Printer's Devil Capt. Eliot White Springs Lt David Meers & Maj Roy Bourque, Papparazis Maj Farley conducted a review of the old Vol. VIII, No. 24 01 July 2014 eServices system and a introduction to the beta test version of the new format. The review discussed the required entries for WIMRS flight data and SCHEDULE OF COMING EVENT also took a cursory look at the ground team requirements. Some time was spent experimenting 04 JUL-Squadron Picnic with ways to research data needed to fill out 07-11 JUL-ACE Academy I (GON) required forms. 09 JUL-MIT Aero-Astro Dept/USS Constitution 18 JUL, 2014-CTWG Golf Tournament Agreement seemed to indicate that the new system 19 JUL-02 AUG-Nat'l Emergency Services Acad. is a more rational layout but old habits will need to be broken by experienced user of the present 08-16 AUG-CTWG Encampment-Camp Niantic system. 11-15 AUG-ACE Academy II (GON) 23 AUG-Wing Wide SAREX-HFD SQUADRON MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS 20 SEP-Cadet Ball-USCGA (tentative) 01 OCT-CTWG Commander's Call and CAC C/Amn Alec deAndrade and C/1STLt Christian 17-19 OCT-CTWG/NER Conference Tynan completed Basic Encampment and Regional 16-18 OCT-NER AEO Course at Conference Cadet Leadership School respectively at the 18-25 OCT-NER Staff College-New Jersey Pennsylvania Wing's Encampment, Fort Indian Gap last week. LtCol John deAndrade earned a new aeronautical Virginia Poe, and C/SSgts Michael and Daniel rating, Certified Flight Instructor-Glider passing Hollingsworth both the oral and flight examinations at Hartness State Airport, Springfield, Vt. Majs Lintelmann and Farley and Cadet Meers and Davud and Michael Hollinsworth stand in front of our display. (Photo Credit” Maj Roy Bourque) Majs Scott Farley and Willi Lintelmann attended DeAndrade flying from the rear executes a perfect the Wings Seminar. Other seniors assisting were touchdown and brakes the Schweizer 2-33 to Majs Paul Noniewicz and Roy Bourque, LtCol within inches of the pre-selected stop line. John deAndrade, and 2ndLt Sonia Simpson. Col Dale Hardy, NHWG and NER Glider Program official was present to assist in the preparation for AEROSPACE CURRENT EVENTS the proceedings. LtCol Steve Rocketto was deAndrade's automobile chauffeur, pilot, and F-35 Farnborough Appearance on Hold general lackey. Interestingly, the Designated Pilot Examiner was Mr. William Stinson who flew to The on-time scheduled appearance of the F-35 at Hartness in an Aeronca 7AC Champion. the Royal International Tattoo and Farnborough air show is uncertain. Thee three USMC F-35Bs, now at Patuxent River Naval Air Station are COLUMBIA AVIATION EXPOSITION awaiting the fourth which is grounded at Eglin Air 28 June, 2014 Force Base. The grounding was precipitated by a submitted by 2ndLt David Meers fire in an F-35A last week. Thirteen members of TRCS attended the Columbia The plans were for the four aircraft to make a fly- Aviation Exposition at Groton on Saturday. The over during the naming ceremony of Great exposition featured a large range of products Britain's new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen including the elegantly aerodynamic Daher- Elizabeth. F-35s are planned to equip the ship. Socata TBM 900 and also included an FAA Wings Instead, a 1950 era deHavilland Sea Vixen, the last Seminar on aircraft accidents. one still flying will replace the four Lightning IIs. TRCS, led by Lt David Meers, set up a display and UAL to Assist Biologists in Tracking Tagged used the occasion for a CAP information and Fauna recruiting opportunity. Some 300 people were in attendance and many who stopped at our station United Air Lines has joined the Smithsonian were unaware of CAP and CAP's missions. Institution's Partners in the Sky and will have some of their aircraft equipped with radio gear for Six cadets manned the information booth; tracking wildlife. The Smithsonian is working on C/CMSgts Keith Trotochaud, Matthew Johnstone, developing VHF transmitters which weight just and Thomas Ray, C/MSgt John Meers, CTSgt 0.15 grams, 1/20th the weight of a penny! The very light tagging devices will enable the was also driven by a strong sense of national pride biologists to track extremely small creatures such based on her imperial history, cultural excellence, as the monarch butterfly or the american wood and performance in World War II. thrush in near real-time. To the proud Russians, World War II was known The data realized will be used to study the as the “Great Patriotic War” and they suffered migration patterns of the creatures in an attempt to enormously when the Nazis invaded. Over one understand better their life cycle patterns and million civilians and one million troops died possibly mitigate the circumstances that endanger during the 28 month siege of Leningrad alone. certain species. Compare this to the total of 420,000 U.S. casualties during the entire course of WW II. The Traditionally, tracking has been accomplished Russians justifiably believed that they bore the using single aircraft, an expensive and limited largest burdens in the struggle agains fascism and method or GPS tagging devices relayed by that their sacrifices were not only not recognized satellites. This second method requires more by the West but also may have been increased by expensive and much heavier tags which limit their western delays in establishing a “second front” in use. Europe. Moreover, the Stalinist regime saw the capitalist AEROSPACE HISTORY West as an ideological and economic rival and recognized the danger posed by western fear of A Short History of Aerial Photography communism. The regime was founded and led by by conspirators and a conspiratorial mind-set existed Stephen M. Rocketto among the members of the politburo. One might summarize this as a maxim: Do unto others as they Part Four would do unto you, only do it first! The Cold War-Middle Phase The intoxication of peace, demobilization, budget (1954-1975) cuts, and a loss of interest by the politicians and military brought about by the end of hostilities led A Look Back at the State of Military and Strategic to the disestablishment of the Office of Strategic Intelligence about the Soviet Union Services, our WW II version of the CIA. The very nature of Stalin's police state and Soviet proclivity The period between the end of World War II and for secrecy made obtaining good information the middle of President Dwight Eisenhower's first about anything Soviet almost impossible. Even term of office was a time in which almost nothing telephone directory access was restricted. was known about the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet Union. As George Kennan pointed out, The sources of information at the start of the Cold nations do not have allies. Nations have interests War were many but unreliable and incomplete. and if you wish to understand Soviet foreign German prisoners of war had been used to assist in policy, look to Russian interests: nationalism even rebuilding the Soviet economy and when they before communist ideology. This was also stated were repatriated between 1946 and 1949, could by Winston Churchill: "I cannot forecast to you supply details of factories, mines, and military the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a installations on which they had worked. German mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a technicians and scientists who had been taken to key. That key is Russian national interest." the Soviet Union also had valuable information when they were returned to the west. Displaced Russian was justifiably wary of the West given persons and defectors also were debriefed by past experiences from Napoleon to Hitler. She western intelligence officials. Those files of the German armed forces and intelligence agencies and barren landscapes. The balloons were which had been acquired proved useful. Military snatched in mid-air by Fairchild C-119 Flying attaches managed to use their limited travel Boxcars equipped with devices to snag the opportunities to surreptitiously take photos and parachuted instrument packages or they were collect soil and water samples. Captured or recovered from the sea by Navy helicopters or collected equipment were examined for markings ships. Although little useful intelligence data and part numbers which might reveal details about resulted, the recovery techniques were the basis location of a factory or the quantity of production. for recovering the early film canisters ejected by Finally, western aircraft exercising their right to the Corona spy satellites. The lost balloons, many fly from West Germany to West Berlin used their of which were retrieved by the Soviets, led to a opportunities in the “Berlin Corridor” to barrage of diplomatic protests which were photograph everything of interest as they flew over answered by predictable US claims that the Russian bases. balloons were just part of a meteorological research project! Alas, this flow of information was poorly handled.
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