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Newsletter No.

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May 2008 Blaine Aviation Weekend
Saturday May 17, 2008 was a most unusual day at Blaine Airport. 28 WWII airplanes arrived and were marshaled to there parking locations by the Civil Air Patrol. CAP Squadrons from throughout the State came to help Anoka Composite Squadron for the big event.

Anoka Composite Squadron Color Guard presented the Colors at the start of the weekend event.
Thousands of people from all over came to get close to and take pictures of the great planes. The P38, P40, B25s, T6s, Stearman and hundreds more airplanes arrived. Cars were backed up onto Hi way 10 and some decided the wait was to long. The pancake breakfast line came out of the building and extended several hundred feet.

Anoka Composite Squadron Color Guard

Class Room Flight Line Training Anoka Composite Squadron Trained for six week to be prepared for the big event. The training included class room, flight line, and live airplanes on the flight line. The training like all CAP training prepared all members for the big event.

Flight line training

Dont Bite, said, Cadet Bjorkman in front of a P40 & 1Lt Supan in front of a P38 Above Photos by 2nd Lt G Supan

CAP members from Minnesota Wing, Red Wing, St. Paul, No. Hennepin, St. Croix, Wesota, and St. Cloud Squadrons worked together with the host Anoka Squadron to provide marshaling, crowd control, games for the kids, and CAP recruiting during the EAA Chapter 237 Blaine Aviation Weekend. The young people enjoyed the bottle rockets more then the airplanes. A Big Thank You to all that helped.

Capt Bosshart marshalling a P38. Maj Dalton, Col Chuck Datko and T-6 Two Photos By Tim Hennagir, ABC Newspapers, Coon Rapids Pictures of CAP members were in the article by Tim Hennagir, ABC Newspapers, Coon Rapids as well as the CAP press release in ABC News on line media.

A little bit of the Blaine Aviation Weekend was on KARE 11 news Saturday night May 17 at 6:00 PM. The following link is part of the video that I provided to KARE 11. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=511497 It's like we always say, "It takes a lot of people to put anything together and only a small bit might hit the news". If YOU ALL didn't help to put it together none of it would of hit the news. A big thank you to everyone that was involved over the past several months in preparing for the event. It was a great

success. CAP members have already received a number of complements. EAA Chapter 237 Regional Director and also the event Chairperson both said "they could not of done it without CAP". A Special thank you from KARE 11 for the video that saved there news day as there team did not get to the event in time. Tim Hennagir ABC Newspapers said we did a great job. Wings Aviation Services of St. Paul has invited the Anoka Composite Squadron to line marshal and crowd control for there fly-in event on June 7 as a result of the good job that everyone did. CAP members today and in the future

The Tigers are young, eager to learn, and say, I can do it May 5th the Anoka Composite Squadron Color Guard did the Color presentation at the Tiger Boy Scouts meeting. The young Tigers were very impressed. On May 13 the Tigers joined the Anoka Composite Squadron members and had there own flight. C/Amn Hanna Olsen arranged the group of Tigers next to a flight of CAP cadets. Olsen instructed them on the formation movements and how to march. With all of the parents watching it was quite an experience. One of the mothers said, How can she get them to do that when they dont listen to me when I ask them to do something. All of the Tigers enjoyed the evening and so did the parents.

To the Rear

Future CAP Pilots

Fund Raiser Bagging Day at Cubs Northtown May 24 was a great success. Thank you to all that took the time to raise money for the Squadron. Everyone had a good time. Pizza was provided by 1Lt Shelly Supan so a big thanks for thinking of us.

Advanced Observer and Field Training Advanced observer training and air operation was conducted at Anoka Composite Squadron in conjunction with the St. Paul SAREX on May 31 and June 1. Updating there skill for existing observers and getting signed off on SQTRs for new observers was the goal for the weekend. Pilots would complete check rides and help train the observers. Field members spent two nights and days at the St. Paul Arsenal honing their skills. The weather provided some natural challenges while they camped out.

Promotions
C/SSgt Mark Farrand to C/MSgt C/AB Steven Zingsheim to C/Amn C/AB David Peterson to C/Amn C/AB Alyssa Oldenburg to C/AMN

C/MSgt Mayhew to C/SMSgt C/TSgt Bjorkman to C/MSgt C/TSgt Frame to C/MSgt C/SSgt Tholen to C/TSgt C/SA Lysholm to C/SSgt C/AB Thoe Peter to C/Amn

Sorry, I missed that night and did not get pictures

Safety
The Sentinel is the official safety newsletter of CAP. Items were reviewed by our Safety Officer 1Lt Jody Veek. He suggested everyone access www.cap.gov/safety, find and read The Sentinel for the month of May. Access the web site, click on Newsletters (Archived), 2008, then May to pull up the May issue. Accessing and reading The Sentinel should be a regular monthly activity for everyone. 1Lt Veek also reviewed flight line safety and the required items. Sun screen, sun glassed and cover tether. He showed everyone how to make a tether and where to purchase the parts.

New Members Cadet Stephen Rraschayko Cadet Harison Klever Cadet Brittany Kvale Cadet Jesse Macklin Senor Member Denise Kvale Welcome to all.
If you have any comments please contact me. Have a great day,
2Lt George Supan Public Affairs Officer Anoka Composite Squadron NCR-MN-021 Civil Air Patrol "Citizens Serving Communities: Above and Beyond" gsupan@comcast.net 612-910-4375 www.mncap.org/anoka/

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