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by
Brian Berry, LTC, CAP
Commander,
Sandy Springs
Cadet SquadronDecember 2008
Excellence in All CAP’s Missions
• Cadet Program
• Aerospace Education
• Emergency Services
Cadet Program
• SSCS is a CADET Squadron• All Our Activities Involve Cadets
• Our Cadets’ Achievements are Our Unit’s Achievements
• Our Cadets Have Achieved A Lot!
• Cadet Achievements•Academy Cadets, Competitive Wins, and Accolades
•Encampments and Summer Special Activities
•Cadet Program Achievements
Summer Special Activities
National Emergency Services Academy(Camp Atterbury, IN, 27 JUL - 2 AUG 08)
• Lousine Agasarkisian• Colin Istvan• Joseph Lawler• Beau Vegter
SENIOR STAFF• 1Lt Amy Vegter
Summer Special Activities
Air Force Space Command Familiarization Course (Patrick AFB, FL)
• Timothy Fisher
Advanced Technologies Academy(Peterson AFB, CO)
• Christine Caldwell
Summer EncampmentsAlabama/Mississippi Wing Encampment
(Gulfport Air National Guard Base, MS, 14-20 JUN 08)
• Melissa Ogden
Summer Encampments
Georgia Wing Encampment(Ft. Benning, GA, 22-28 JUN 08)
STAFF
• Beau Vegter (Training Officer)
• Sakorey Srongprapa (First Sgt)
• Christine Caldwell (First Sgt)
• Joey Lawler (Flight Sgt)
• Lousine Agasarkisian (Public Affairs)
Summer EncampmentsGeorgia Wing Encampment(Ft. Benning, GA, 22-28 JUN 08)
• David DeMeritt
• Joel DeMeritt
• James Fisher (2nd Encampment)
• Kento Gamblin
• Julian Lidback (2nd Encampment)
• Weston Lord
Southeast Region Encampment(Stark, FL, 28 DEC 07 – 5 JAN 08)
• Rebecca Gallagher
• Megan Gallagher
Georgia Wing Glider Encampment(Rome, GA – JUL 08)
• Tom McArthur (Staff)
Color Guard
GAWG’s Finest!
• Georgia Wing Competition (8 MAR 08)• First Place!
• Won 5 of the 7 events!• Christine Caldwell - Female Fleet Foot Award• Sakorey Srongprapa - “Knowledge of Excellence” Award
• Southeast Region Competition ( Patrick AFB, FL)• Overall Third Place
• 2nd Place in Standard Drill• 2nd Place in Written Test• 3rd Place in 5 other Areas
Color Guard“Bud” Aiken’s Funeral (Canton’s Georgia National Cemetery, 27 MAR 08)
• SSCS’s Founding Father
Cadet Achievements
OUTSTANDING
Cadets!
Erin Caldwell• US Naval Academy
Anqi Zhao• US Coast Guard Academy
Brian Rasmussen2007 GAWG Cadet of the Year
Nathan McCaskey• US Air Force Academy Christopher Troke
• US Naval Academy
Other Activities
International Air Cadet Exchange– Great Britain
– Australia
• Capt Megan Gallagher• Assistant GAWG Director of Cadets• Master Rating in Logistics and Cadet Programs• Paul Garber Senior Program Award• Commissioned as USAF 2nd Lieutenant
• MAJ Mike Reed• Scott Crossfield Aerospace Master Rating
• 1Lt David Warford• Earned CAP Credit for US Army Training• Awarded “Certificate of Proficiency”
• Senior Training• Corporate Learning Course – Bill Meyer• Yeager Aerospace Award – Amy Vegter• Incident Command System ICS-300 Course – Brian Berry
Senior Member Achievements
Senior Member Achievements
OUTSTANDING
SENIORS!
2 National Balsem Awards for
Outstanding Media
Best Senior Members
in the Wing!
Aerospace EducationInternal (Our Folks)
• Flight Orientation Flights
• 12 Powered O’Flights! (3 Dates)
• No Glider Orientation Flights
• Ron Bradford Memorial Academic Bowl Award
(at Georgia Wing Conference, MAR 08)
Aerospace Education
Internal (Our Folks)
• Model Rocketry
• SSCS Rocket Night (June)
• GAWG Rocket Course Weekend (June)
Animated Image
Aerospace EducationExternal (The Public)
• Wings Across Marietta Airshow
(Dobbins ARB, 17-19 OCT 08)
Emergency ServicesA Historical Focus for Our Squadron
• ES Training: 7 Activities
• Group 2 SAREX (9 FEB)
• (Death of the Ambulance)
• FROSTBITE 08 Exercise (22-24 FEB)
• Resaca and Tunnel Hill Reenactment FTXs
(MAY and SEP)
•Squadron FTXs (MAR, JUN, NOV)
Emergency Services
Actual Air Force Assigned Missions – 4 Callouts
• ELT (Smyrna – 16 Mar) – NoSig
• ELT Msn (Tennga - 19-20 MAR) – Find
• ELT (Cobb Co. – 4 MAY) – Find
• ELT ‘Batman’ Mission (Whitesburg– OCT) – Find
• ELT Alert (NE of KATL - 27 OCT 08) – Stood Down
Emergency Services
Actual Air Force Assigned Missions
• 100% Mission Success Rate (When Called Out)!
• 3 FINDs (1 NO SIGs, 1 Stand-Down after Alert)
• Missions We Prepared for But Didn’t Fully Participate In:• 4 JAN – Missing Person (Merideth Emerson) – Alerted, Not Called
Out
• 25 JAN – ELT (Hartsfield) – Pre-Alert, Stood Down
• 28 FEB – ELT (Marietta) – Pre-Alert, Stood Down
• 21 MAR – ELT (Atlanta) – Pre-Alert, Stood Down
• 2 MAY – Missing A/C (N. GA) – Alerted but A/C Found Safe
• 23 JUN – ELT (Cobb Co.) - Pre-Alert, Stood Down
• 18-23 AUG – Hurricane Support – Alerted, but Not Called Out
• 5 OCT – ELT (Extreme N. GA) - Pre-Alert, Stood Down
• 9 DEC – ELT (Calhoun) - Pre-Alert, Stood Down
Emergency ServicesGround Team Ratings: Still Number 1 in the Wing!
• Ground Team Member Level 3:
• 22 (Peachtree City, the next highest unit, has 15)
• 17% of GAWG’s Capability!
• Ground Team Member Level 2:
• 13 (Rome has 8)
• 17% of GAWG’s Capability!
• Ground Team Member Level 1:
• 7 (Bartow Etowah has 4)
• 19% of GAWG’s Capability!
• Ground Team Leader:
• 9 (Wing HQ has 6)
• 22% of GAWG’s Capability!
Sandy Springs – A Proud History
And A Bright Future
In Memory of
C.R. “Bud” Aiken
‘Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God’John Gillespie Magee, Jr.