Rocky Mountain Region Operations Bulletin

May, 2013

Regulation Changes
Here is a list of regulation changes during the past month. Take time to reference the regulations for the full updates. CAPR 190-1, Civil Air Patrol Public Affairs Program Region PAOs as well as wing PAOs must create and maintain a website in accordance with CAPR 110-1; content may not be older than six months. Specifies rules of engagement for posting CAP experiences and accomplishments on personal social media accounts. Requires PAOs to promote and publicize community service projects. Clarifies that crisis communications plans are to be submitted annually. Limits Balsem Award entries to five per PAO/PIO. Streamlines entry process by requiring electronic entries and ability to enter a project only once; subcategories eliminated. Judging limited to NHQ/PA and National PA.

members. Therefore, to find out what problems are currently encountered at the local unit level in regard to access to military installations, and to find acceptable solutions to these problems, we have developed a questionnaire that can be accessed by unit commanders at https://missions.capnhq.gov/dynasurvey/survey/Survey2. cfm?ID=33 3. Please complete the questionnaire online by 3 June 2013. RMR Has a New Web Page In an effort to keep the Rocky Mountain Region informed, we have launched a new Web page. http://rmrcapnews.org/ 2013 CAP Annual Conference What: 2013 Annual Conference & Command Council Meeting Where: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, Colorado When: August 15-18, 2013 Registration will open in April on www.capmembers.com . Be sure to watch for special early bird rates!
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New Forms
CAPF 173 Pt1, May 13, Internal Financial Review Worksheet Part I CAPF174, May 13, Contributed Facilities Worksheet

Commander Notes
New Utah Wing Commander A National Headquarter Personnel Action announces the appointment and promotion of Col Jonathan Niedfeldt, as Utah Wing Commander. Thanks to Col Jerry Wellman for a job well done! Access OF CAP Members TO U.S. Military Installations 1. As the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, Civil Air Patrol works closely with Air Force, Reserve, National Guard and other U.S. military units. This close relationship, together with the fact that a number of our units meet on military installations, makes it necessary for some CAP members to have access to military bases. 2. One of the objectives in our 2013-2014 Strategic Plan is to explore military installation access for CAP 1

Command Council and Opening Reception -Thursday, August 15 General Assembly and Learning Labs -- Friday, August 16 CAP Annual Awards Program, Learning Labs, Cadet Day, and CAP Banquet Saturday, August 17 PLUS, two days (August 13-14) are set aside for additional professional development opportunities at the Preconference Workshops. Workshops will include the Public Affairs Officer Academy, Cessna G-1000 Ground School, GIEEP course and more. Bring your family and plan on coming early or staying later...Denver is an exciting vacation destination that features attractions designed especially for families, including museums, amusement parks, the Denver Zoo and the MLB Colorado Rockies games. For details

about these events and more, visit http://www.denver.org/. Come prepared to visit Vanguard, which will be on-site and ready to fulfill all your uniform and accessory needs.

Yeager Award Leaderboard WYWG - 56.3% COWG - 46.5% MTWG - 44.4% UTWG - 38.4% IDWG - 28.1%

Safety
National Safety Facebook Page Keep up on safety news by following the CAP National Safety Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/CivilAirPatrolSafety 101 Critical Days of Summer We have just entered the 101 critical days of summer that run from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Take time to review the safety guidelines listed below. http://bit.ly/101daysofsummer

Cadet Programs
Wright Brothers Award Joshua E Rumann, RMR-CO-021 Gage M Salyer, CO-099 Joel A Davis, CO-143 Jonathon D Zimmerman, CO-143 Nathan P Adams, CO-148 Joseph A Barrentine, CO-148 Wesley Q Truong, CO-148 Bryan S Calhoun, CO-159 Luis E Luzardo, CO-173 Wilder Z Gray, CO-181 Jon Austin Gomez, CO-186 Mark A Crittenden-Belongie, CO-803 Brandon Shaffer, CO-803 Matthew H Mazur, ID-069 Jonathan W Keller, ID-097 Alec C Martinez, UT-027 Branson H Fowden, UT-083 Scott G Johnson, UT-083 Danielle L Hill, WY-002 Mitchell Award Matthew W Golon, CO-072 Treyce R Larson, CO-072 Aaron M Lenihan, CO-141 Spencer J Erjavec, CO-148 Cameron D Davison, CO-186 Jacob A Olson, CO-186 Alana Macias, CO-803 Paul W Arent, ID-073 Christopher T Salcido, ID-097 Paul Emile Passe-Carlus, ID-801 Kelsey M Philpott-Litzenberger, MT-018 Michael P Ellbogen, WY-002 Earhart Award Kosette M Zablocki, CO-159 Eaker Award Jeffrey A Hart Jr, CO-031 Chad Laliberte, CO-803 Keep up the great job!

Aerospace Education
Registration Open Now For 2014 CYBERPATRIOT! http://www.capmembers.com/aerospace_education/gene ral/afa-cyberpatriot/ National AE Newsletter Get your information packed AE newsletter at http://members.gocivilairpatrol.com/aerospace_educatio n/stay_informed/index.cfm National Newsbrief Latest AE e-news Newsbrief from CAP NHQ at: http://members.gocivilairpatrol.com/aerospace_educa tion/stay_informed/ae_newsbriefs.cfm Yeager Award Recipients 1st Lt Keith V Christian, CO-099 Capt Daniel J Weller, CO-136 1st Lt Delbert H Schneider, MT-053 1st Lt Christopher L Marks, UT-007 2d Lt Courtney I Andrascik, UT-027 Capt Wayne M Manning, UT-083 2d Lt Bruce G Connelly, UT-083 2d Lt Lavon C Connelly, UT-083 Keep up the great job! Help your wings succeed in Aerospace Education, encourage your members to complete the Yeager Award requirements. 43.96% of Rocky Mountain Region senior members have earned the Yeager Award. Can we push it to 45% by 30 June?

Professional Development
Region Staff College The 2013 Region Staff College is now accepting applications for students. All members who have completed Level III of the Senior Member Professional Development Program are eligible to attend. The college will be 20-27 July on Peterson AFB. A course fee of $125.00 if you register by 30 April 2013 or $150.00 from 01 May 2013 to 30 June 2013. This fee covers course materials, and special outings. Your fee does not cover meals or overnight accommodations or your travel expenses. To register, mail your CAPF 17 endorsed by your chain of command with payment to Capt Edie Graham, CAP, Region Staff College, PO Box 19160, Denver, CO 80219. Forms may also be electronically submitted to edie@grahamfamilyministries.com. However, you will not be considered formally registered until payment is received. Garber Award Recipients Maj Nathan P Skinner, CO-160 Loening Award Recipients Maj Morris D Hall, CO-080 Capt Tammy N Mattics, CO-169 Davis Award Recipients 1st Lt Mark W Irving, CO-141 1st Lt Michael W Brunstein, CO-162

Annual Training Plans Annual Wing Training plans are due by 31 July. They are to uploaded into WMIRS. See CAPR 60-3, para 1-7 for more guidance. Aircraft news FYI...Cessna stopped making C182 with gas engines, they are going to turbo diesels that use Jet-A which is fine. The problem is they are heavier yet, it basically makes the C182 a 2 person plane. So NHQ is considering to start buying Cessna 206's, hopefully turbo's for our new aircraft or a Canadian aircraft. CT206 are a great plane for us other than they burn 18 GPH at cruise for the turbo's, but you can reduce power and save on fuel, fly at 55-60% power and use 14-15 GPH 135 Kts instead of 75% and 18 GPH @ 145 Kts @ 8000 MSL. We are planning to bring the C206 to one of your exercises so you can see the plane and how it performs. It is a horse for takeoff and climb performance, but about the same speed as a C182. It has 1200 lbs of useful load with a gross weight of 3600 and an empty weight of 2404 or about 670 lbs in useful load with full fuel in CAP configuration. Service ceiling is 27,000 MSL with a turbo. For more info on a CT206H download a POH @ http://textron.vo.llnwd.net/o25/CES/cessna_aircraft_doc s/single_engine/stationair/stationairtc_pim.pdf

Public Affairs
Soliciting material for the next issue of The RMR Record Major Nash, RMR Director of Public Affair (al.nash@rmr-cap.us), is seeking submissions for a new issue of our quarterly regional newsletter. A reminder the target audience is every CAP member in every unit in the Rocky Mountain Region. The newsletter content differs from the information shared in the monthly Operations Bulletin. Major Nash is focusing on events and people, rather than announcements. Specifically, he is looking for photos with captions, brief columns from program areas, or rewrites of material already used in a Wing magazine, newsletter, or Facebook page. He would like to receive your items by August 15, and intend to publish the next edition of "The RMR Record" as an email distributed PDF file on or around August 20th.

Operations
More funding for Training and Cadet O-ride Budgets CAP has received additional funds at this time and this funding is for your training and cadet o-ride budgets. Please commit all your training funds to training missions by 31-May so we can see where we are at. If you have unused funds that you are not going to commit let us know and we will see if another wing need some more. If you need additional funding please submit an IAPP with a budget to us and we see what we can do. The issue is we all have to have all of our funds committed to ask for more and get it. We also now have more cadet o-ride funding.

CAP Recognized with Three PRCA Awards TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Civil Air Patrol was honored with three awards during the Public Relations Council of Alabamas 2013 annual conference held April 28-30 in Tuscaloosa. The 2011 Financial Report received a firstplace Medallion Award and an overall grand prize Judges Award. The Civil Air Patrol Volunteer, the organizations national magazine, was also recognized with a second-place Award of Excellence. Evaluation of the Financial Report contained the following comments: Amazing project! You took a boring financial document and made it interesting. Feedback regarding the magazine included these observations: Its clear that you know and target your audience very well. a great publication for many purposes. Medallion Awards recognize the best work produced by PRCA members within a given year in 25 categories. Entries are judged based on the factual materials and documentation presented. With the exception of the Best of Show or Judges Award, which are compared to all other entries to determine a winner, judging is based on the merit of each entry. Points are awarded for research, planning, implementation, evaluation and creativity, with half of the points weighted in implementation. PRCA consists of a network of more than 400 public relations professionals in the state of Alabama through chapters in Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, East Alabama, North Alabama and West Alabama. The mission of PRCA is to promote professionalism and higher education in public relations. The Medallion Awards ceremony occurs each yearin conjunction with the organizations annual conference. For more stories about CAP, go to http://www.capvolunteernow.com/ or CAPs Facebook or Twitter pages. RMR Web Page See what is going on in the region by going to the RMR Web page at http://rmrcapnews.org/. RMR Facebook Page See what is going on in the region by going to the RMR Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/RMRCAP. RMR Twitter Follow RMR on Twitter @RMRCAP.

Social Media Managers Were looking for someone with an interest and social media experience to serve as primary administrator of both accounts. For details, please contact RMR/CS or RMR/PA.

Chaplain
Chaplain Staff College 2013 - NCR/RMR Our 2013 Chaplain Corps Staff College training for 2013 was Squadron Leadership School. We used those of our Chaplain Corps who had specialties certified for SLS and then brought in additional instructors. The attendees were from the North Central and Rocky Mountain Regions. The college was held at the Columbian Fathers Retreat in Bellevue, Nebraska. We opened training to any CAP members who needed to have SLS. There was a very minimal fee for the college with the participants providing their own meals and housing. We began on Monday afternoon and went through Thursday evening in order to accomplish all the required training. It was good to offer SLS for our chaplains and CDIs to go through the SLS course and get updated with the new information relevant to the changes weve seen throughout CAP in recent years. CLC is scheduled as our curriculum for 2014. Shown below is a photograph of the college. Five Chaplains from RMR attended the training.

Communications
ICUT Qualification If any radio operator does not have ICUT, and wishes to complete the requirement but is having difficulty doing so, please contact Major Blucher atrmrpao@juno.com so he can help you finish the process. 2013 Command Council Events for Communicators Wed. morning 8/14 - joint session with Operations (no times have been given). Wed. evening 8/14, 1800 to 2200 or later Communicators session with NHQ and National Communications Team. Note: 8/14 is not on the region calendar at this time.

Inspector General
Senior IG Course There will be a Senior Inspector general (IG) course scheduled during the Annual Conference to be held in Denver, CO in August, 2013.

Historian
Historical Input Still waiting for some wings to submit historical reports to the Region Historian for submission to National Headquarters. Please submit them ASAP. Region historian would like information for past 24 months. See CAPR 210-1 for content details.

Upcoming Events
The most accurate calendar can be found at https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=3jk96 su67rb51lidmlckj40o2c%40group.calendar.google.c om&ctz=America/Los_Angeles MTWG - Ops Eval, May 27 - June 2 Idaho Wing Conference, Boise, ID, June 7-8. Encampment, COWG, USAFA Prep School, CO, June 15-23. Wyoming Wing Conference, Casper, WY, June 28-29. Corporate Learning Course, Twin Falls, ID, July 6-8 Encampment, IDWG Gowan Field, Boise, ID, July 19-28. RMR Staff College at Peterson AFB, CO, July 20-27 Mountain Flying Clinic, TBD, WY, July 20-21. IDWG Ops Eval, July 29 - August 4. Trend Analysis Reporting due, July 31. ** Annual Training Plans due in WMIRS, July 31. Wing Encampment at Camp Guernsey, WY, August 3-11. Unit Commander's Course, Burley, ID, August 3-4. 2013 CAP Command Council and Annual Conference, Denver, CO, August 15-17. WYWG - SAV, August 23-25. COWG - SAV, September 6-8. CANCELLED - Senior IG School, TBD, September 6-8. Moved to National Annual Conference. National SAR School Inland SAR Planning Course, Idaho Falls, ID, October 21-26. Safety Surveys are due, October 1 - January 31. Annual Inventory due, January 31. Trend Analysis Reporting due, January 31. Safety Surveys due, January 31. Annual awards due Region, February 15.

Emergency Services
Skills Evaluator on 101 Card RMR Staff - If you have taken Skills Evaluator Training (SET) and are current in a ES Specialty and have been current for a least one year then Lt Col Schein has approved you as a Skills Evaluator. If you reprint your 101 card you will find the SET Diamond symbol on your qualified specialties. If you have questions drop him a note at rick@rschein.com Aircrew Emergency Training Course Here are the procedures to get credit for ACET in Ops Quals: https://www.capnhq.gov/news/Documents/ACET_Cours e_Credit_Instructions.pdf

Help Wanted
Open Region Positions The following region staff positions are available. Please submit resume to rmr.cos.cap@gmail.com if you are interested; naturally, run applications through your chain of command.. Also include a brief outline on support what you would like to see accomplished in the position. Cadet Programs Dev Officer/ RMR Recorder Cadet Activities Officer Maintenance Officer Director of Fund Raising and Resource Dev RMR Training Center Director Region Newsletter Editor Asst Legal Officer Director of Engineering and Facilities RMR CAC Primary Rep. to NCAC

** - Denotes new items since last bulletin.