Thursday, November 30, 2017 • APG News B7 revisitcold casesintheir lab andmakeit laserlight interacts withmolecular vibra- II systemtothe Criminal Investigation FINGERPRINT available to our forces in Afghanistan.” tions of the object, causingthe laser light Laboratory in 2020,and expects that the The systemhas severalother applica- frequency to shift slightly,” explained other armed services andawide rangeof Frompage B1 tions.Itcan be used to identify narcotics as Ashish Tripathi, Ph.D., achemicalengineer lawenforcement agencies will covetitasa of the trace explosives residues found well as explosivecompounds,making it on the team. “That slight shift reveals the powerfulnew tool for building cases and between the fingerprint grooves. ideal for use at airportsand by law type of molecular bonds in theobject, getting convictions. The systemisfullyautomated so that a enforcement agencies. The system’slong- which in turn leads to the identity of those ECBCisaU.S. ArmyResearch, Devel- person with minimal training can simply term value to theU.S.armed services is to molecules.” opment and EngineeringCommand labora- insert afinger print anduse acomputerto enable warplannerstoget what is known as Guicheteausaid the team has big plans tory and is the U.S. Army’sprincipal mark itsboundary.The analysis of the “leftofboom.”The idea is to use the system for the future. research and development center for fingerprints andupto100 micro-particles as atool in performing the steady police “In fiscal year 2018 we will reach out to chemical and biological defense technology, can be done in 30 minutes. work it takestowhittledownthe numbers commercial vendorstobuild aGeneration engineering and fieldoperations.ECBChas “The Generation IChemical Fingerprint of insurgentsplanting IEDs. Evidence II system,” he said. “This system will be still achievedmajor technological advances for ImagingSystemismuchsmaller,much producedbythe technique known as smaller andmoreportable,havemore the warfighter and for our national defense, faster,and much easiertooperate than the Ramanspectroscopythatthe system uses sensitivity,beabletoidentify agreater with along and distinguished history of system we first built in our research effort,” has already been approvedasevidence in rangeofexplosivesand narcotics,and work providingthe armed forces with quality said Jason Guicheteau, Ph.D., aresearch U.S. courts. on curvedsurfaces such as awater bottle or systems and outstanding customer service. chemistleading the team. “The people at “Raman spectroscopyisamethod ECBC can.” the lab were excitedtoget started using it to uses that shines alaser on asubstance.The The team plans to deliver the Generation eraofhightechnology (e.g., UAS) and ARL researchersworktoimprovenumerical BY THE NUMB#RS STORMS weather predictionfor suchenvironments. Frompage B1 Zeng willfurther observe and model the "However,nocurrent model accurately downdrafts in thunderstormsand then predicts this because we have so little develop analgorithm to better represent informationonthem.Thisresearch has them in ARL's NWPmodels and provide revealed acouplingofthe twofactors, them to the NWPcommunity atlarge. David Cassidy providing abasis to understand and im- He hopes that the improvedalgorithm proveimpactpredictions." will be able to effectively predict surface Zeng'sresearchhas revealed anew gusts and super-cooled rain drops more patternofdownand updraft alternation accurately for UASinadverseweather. This week’sByThe Numb#rscelebrates thelifeand career of actor and further found the patternreduces the Zeng'sresearch developssituational and musician David Cassidy, who passed away at the ageof67on chance of super-cooled drops. understanding by providing an opportunity Nov. 21,2017, aftersuffering liver failure. This new discovery provides abasis to to improveweather forecasting forthe understand and further predict the two Armythrough better remote sensing rather factors. thandeploying additional in-situ sensors in According to Zeng,predictioninthe areas of interest. battlefieldenvironment is achallenge in the 1970 The year “I Think ILoveYou,”byThe PartridgeFamilywas released. With Cassidy on lead vocals, the song madeittoNo. 1on the Billboardcharts. 96 The number of episodes of “The PartridgeFamily” Cassidy appeared in. The showran from 1970-74. 14 The number of studio and livealbums in his solo discography. His 1972 album, “Cherish,”reached as high as No.15onthe U.S. charts. His 1973 album, “Dreams areNuthin’ Morethan Wishes,” ranked No.1inthe United Kingdom. 1 Cassidy’s rankinginTVGuide’s2005listof“TV’s25GreatestTeen Idols.” DID YOU KNOW? Throughout 2017 the Civil Air Patrol celebrated its 75th year The Civil Air Patrol (CAP)isacongres- while the older members serveasinstruc- sionallychartered, federallysupported tors, supervisors,and operators.All mem- non-profit corporation that serves asthe berswear uniforms while performing their officialcivilian auxiliary of the United duties. States Air Force. CAP is avolunteer Nationwide,CAP is amajor operator of organization that performs three congres- single-engine general aviation aircraft, used sionally assigned keymissions: emergency in the execution of its various missions, services, which includes search and rescue including orientation flights for cadets and (byair andground) and disasterrelief the provision of significantemergency operations; aerospace education for youth Thousands of young people ages12 through and the general public;and cadet programs 21 areintroduced to aviation through CAP’s forteenage youth. In addition, CAP has cadet program. The 16-stepprogramallows recently been tasked withhomeland securi- young people to progressattheir ownpace ty and courier servicemissions. CAP also through aerospace education,leadership performs non-auxiliary missions for vari- training,physical fitnessand moral leader- ous governmental and private agencies, ship. such as locallaw enforcement and the Due to extensive flying opportunities, AmericanRed Cross. The program is manyCAP members becomelicensed established as an organization by Title 10 of pilots. theUnited StatesCodeand its purposes During World WarII, CAPwas seen as a defined by Title 36. way to use America’scivilian aviation The CivilAir Patrol wasconceived in the resources to aid the wareffortinstead of late 1930s by aviation advocateGillRobb grounding them. The organization assumed Wilson, who sawthe need to supplement manymissions including anti-submarine America’smilitary operations.With the patroland warfare, border patrols,and help of NewYorkMayorFiorello courier services.CAP’scoastal patrol flew America’scommunities; saving lives and The HarfordComposite Squadron is LaGuardia, in his capacityasthen-Director 24 millionmiles,found173 enemyU-boats, preserving liberty. located atAberdeenProving Ground. of the Office of CivilianDefense,CAP was attacked 57, hit 10 and sank two, and Duringthe 113th United States Congress, Formoreinformation, visitthe Harford createdwith AdministrativeOrder 9, signed dropped 83 bombs and depthcharges from 2013 to 2015,the U.S. Senate andHouse CompositeSquadronFacebook page at by LaGuardia Dec. 1, 1941. throughout the conflict. By theend of the of Representativesvoted to pass abillthat https://www.facebook.com/CAP.MER.M Membership in theorganization consists war, 64 CAP membershad lost their lives in would awardthe Congressional Gold Med- D008. of cadetsranging from ages12tojustunder the line of duty.After the end of WorldWar al to the World WarIImembersofthe Civil Sources: 21, and seniormembers 18 years of age and II, CAP became the civilian auxiliary of the Air Patrol,“in recognition of theirmilitary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Air_ older. Thesetwo groups eachhavethe United States Air Force. serviceand exemplaryrecordduring World Patrol; http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/; opportunity to participateinawidevariety On Jun14, 2011,the Civil Air Patrol was WarII. http://mdcap.org/ of pursuits; the cadet program contributes awarded the Roving Ambassador of Peace CAP National Headquarters is located at to the development of the junior members by theWorld PeacePrize AwardingCouncil MaxwellAir ForceBase,Alabama. The CAP withastructured syllabusand anorganiza- for makingahuge impactgoingabove and Maryland Wing is headquartered in Wood- tionbased on USAFranks and paygrades, beyondtomakeaprofound differencein stock, Maryland. Tell them yousaw it in the APG News Submit letterstothe editor to [email protected].