PATROL Apil - une 2012 FEATURES 3 Celebrating 70 National Headquarters CAP hoto byuan chneider, Women Made Important Contributions To War Effort Cadet Senior Airman Benjamin S. Geiss of the 8 8 A Job Well Don National Capital Wing’s Mount Vernon Air Force Chief Of Staff Helps Recognize Spaatz Cadets Composite Squadron visits with Gen. Norton A. 11 Gold Medal Schwartz, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, during the Spaatz Association’s 10th Annual Dinner and Cadet Lobbies Congress On Behalf Of War-Era Vets Awards Event held in Arlington, Va., on March 3. 16 Looing Ahead Schwartz served as keynote speaker. 1st Air Force Commander Sees Bright Future For CAP 20 Wyoming Rescue DEPARTMENTS Team Covers Great Distances To Rescue Fishermen 24 Rescue OnGold Creek 12 romthe Executive Director Member Pulls Man From Icy Alaskan Waters 60 RegionNews 26 CyberChamps 64 Achievemnts Colorado Cadets Give CAP Second Straight Title 31 Legislative Day SUBSCRIPTIONS Members Ask For Lawmakers’ Continued Support The annual subscription rate is $25, or $12.50 for retired 34 Ciic Leadership members. To subscribe, mail a check to Volunteer Sub- scriptions, CAP Public Affairs, 105 S. Hansell St., Bldg. Academy Gives Cadets Head Start In Public Service 714, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6332. 38 Days Gon By Living History Squadron Relives Early Days Of CAP ON OUR COVER 40 Heritage light U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Sid Clarke, in his first visit to Texas Cadets Share A Passion For Re-enactments Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters since being named 42 re-Super Bowl lights commander of Continental U.S. North American Aero- CAP Aircrews Participate In Exercise Amalgam Virgo space Defense Command Region-1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern), smiles for the camera before his flight 44 Saing Lives in a CAP Cessna 182 piloted by Alabama Wing Director Coast Guard Honors Former Cadet For Great Lakes Heroics of Operations Lt. Col. Chad Grondahl. While at National Headquarters, Clarke praised CAP as a true force multi- 46 TeenChef plier whose members are always quick to take on Air Cadet Cooks Up Burgeoning Career On Carolina Coast Force-assigned missions. Read more about Clarke’s visit, beginning on page 16. 50 A Real Lifesaver Photo by Susan Schneider, CAP National Headquarters Texas Member Comes To Aid Of Choking Girl 52 AE Allianes Civil Air Patrol Volunteer is oriented toward both internal (CAP) and external CAP Benefits From Partnerships With AFA, AMA audiences. For that reason, it uses the Associated Press style for such things as 57 icture his military abbreviations. Associated Press style is the standard used for most newspapers and magazines. Official internal CAP communications should Aerial Imagery Emerges As CAP Core Mission continue to use the U.S. Air Force rank abbreviations found in CAPR 35-5. Citizens eving Communities 1 www.gocivilairpatol.com EDITORIAL STAFF CIVL AIR PATROL NATIONAL COMMDER Maj. Gen. Chales L. Carr Jr. EXECUTIV DIRECTOR Don R. Rowland ASSISTANT EXECUTIV DIRECTOR hoto by1st Lt. Caol Vinon, Wing Michigan hoto by1st Lt. Caol Vinon, ohn A. alvador MANAGING EDITOR ulie M Deadelaben ASSOCIATE EDITOR Steve Cox GRAPHIC DESIGNER ab ibulick STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER uan chneider Chopper Expert Hosts Michigan Squadron CONTRIUTING WRITERS Dan ailey, isti Carr, Fankuliano, When members of the Michigan Wingʼs 176th elfidge Comoite ennifer S. ornegay, Minnie Lamberth, Squadon eceived a guided tour of the oeing CH-47 Chinookhelicopter at uan Mallett, Dr. eff Montgomey, enn elfidge ir National Guad ae, theywee in the hands of an exert — Rowell and Maj. Steven olomon. U.S. myMaj. Todd Fitzatick whoʼs been flying the choppers ince 2004, just befoe he deployed to Iaq. Fitzatickhosted the twohour viit, biefed MAGAZINE the goup on the helicopters and fielded questions fomsquadon members EDITORIAL BOARD and their families. Hee, Cadet iman 1st Class Colin Laye applies the dicuion with handon exeience. Col. oeph A. Guimond Jr. DeputyChief of Staff, upport Col. Michael Muell Father, daughter DeputyChief of Staff, Opeations assume Md. unit’s Maj. Steven olomon command posts Mayland Wing National ublicffairs Officer Leadehip in the Mayland Wingʼs Lt. Col. Donald ohanon Mount iyComoite Squadon is a RockyMountain Region Diecor of afety familyaffair, with Capt. Steve Wein- hold ecentlyauming command of ON THE WEB the unit one month after his daughter, Cadet 2nd Lt. Melia Weinhold, be- Weinhold, iman aicatheine hoto byCadet Go to www.capolunteernow.com daily for squadronan wing nws. came cadet commander. Steve Wein- hold pevioulyeved as squadon Civil Air Patrol Volunteer is published quarterly by Civil Air Pa- deputycommander for eniors and as leadehip officer. His daughter has trol, a private, charitable, benevolent corporation and auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force. Please send all correspondence to Public been a member of CAP ince 2007. he alo eves as a vice chaiwoman of Affairs, 105 S. Hansell St., Bldg. 714, Maxwell AFB, AL Mayland Wing Goup 1ʼs Cadet dvioyCouncil, and over the ummer 36112-5937; telephone 877-227-9142, ext. 250; email: he attended the Specialized Undegaduate ilot Familiaization Taining [email protected]. Opinions expressed herein do not necessar- ily represent those of CAP or the U.S. Air Force. Civil Air Patrol Coue at Laughlin ir Foce ae, Texas, and Cadet Officer chool at Volunteer welcomes manuscripts and photographs; however, Maxwell ir Foce ae, la. A thid member of the familyjoined the squadon CAP reserves the right to edit or condense materials submitted in anuay, a few dayafter he turned 12. and to publish articles as content warrants and space permits. Civil ir atol Volunteer 2 Apilune 2012 The formation of Civil Air Patrol on Dec. 1, 1941, Tprovided America’s women with new and exciting alternatives. We will probably never know why — in a time when women were sheltered from being drafted into military service and still closely identified with the role of homemaker — CAP made little formal distinction between the ways men and women could serve in the organization. True, many women took on support jobs for CAP, functioning as secretaries and clerks, positions that fit with accepted social mores. Even so, the door was open to those who wanted to work on the flight line or fly missions. The women who served CAP at its beginning epitomized courage. Not only did they find a proactive way to help their country during World War II, but they also delicately danced between traditional expectations and modern possibilities. Third installment in a four-part series Citizens eving Communities 3 www.gocivilairpatol.com At its inception, CAP proved a progressive outlet for women By Kristi Carr l who wanted to learn to fly. Betty Jean Thomas Schulz wanted to learn to fly Though living in Portland, Ore., at the time, and saw Civil Air Patrol as the way to do it. Her son, Schulz went to The Dalles, east of Portland, for her Lt. Col. Wayne Schulz of the Oregon Wing, said she flight training. According to her son, her CAP work got the flying bug when her cousin took her for a ride involved mostly practicing, getting her pilot’s license in a Stearman while she was still in high school in and moving CAP planes to where they were needed. Colorado. When CAP showed up on her radar in During a solo student flight, while ferrying a CAP 1943, it was one of the few avenues open to civilians airplane, she had a close call when the throttle wouldn’t close completely on her first landing attempt. Her instructor, also a CAP member, was standing next to the runway watching her For ettyean Thomas chulz CAP was her ticket to fly. Civil ir atol Volunteer 4 Apilune 2012 Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, home to more than one war hero. “They ignored me for awhile,” she said, “but I was totally entranced with the idea of flying.” Eventually a group of seasoned pilots emerged who became interested in helping young people get into flying, and they held a meeting at the airport terminal building to start a CAP squadron. Carter joined as soon as she could. As a squadron member, she was required to take classes, sanctioned by the U.S. Army Air Forces and taught by an instructor from the local teachers college. Her first class was in parachute rigging. “I’m chulzhelped aie funds for the war effort though acive not too sure I’d want to use it,” she conceded, “but I membehip in the United evice Oganization. did learn how to pack it.” Flying as an observer during the war, she helped fly, and on a subsequent attempt he grabbed the spot illegal burning that had the potential for plane’s strut as it went by, reaching into the cockpit sparking forest fires in the state, which had endured and cutting the ignition. Her son, a CAP pilot himself several years of drought at the time. Though she now, said he “suspected there must have been a pretty never owned her own plane, she was quick to settle good headwind for him to be able to do that.” on the Piper Super Cub as her favorite. “Flying Even before her CAP days, Schulz had been doing her patriotic duty. Active with the United Service Organization, she helped raise funds for the war effort and eventually became president of the USO’s Portland Chapter. In fact, she met her future husband, who was transitioning from the field artillery to U.S. Army Air Corps pilot training, after a USO dance at Portland Air Base. After CAP trained her as a pilot, Schulz hoped to join the newly established Women Airforce Service Pilots, a group of female pilots charged with assuming in-country duties to free up male pilots for work overseas.