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Minnesota may add to its list of aviation giants
A Lindberg trainer hailed from Hinckley? Family requests MN Wings help
Some of aviations greatest names have ties to Minnesota, names big enough to challenge Paul Bunyans and Babes claim for most indelible footprints on the states mythos. Minnesota Civil Air Patrol members can proudly hold their own around a cracker barrel armed with a nonstop list of notable dates and personalities: Where did Amelia Earhart learn to swim? With her family summering on Lake Okabena in southwest Minnesota at Worthington, naturally. Where were Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittles B-25s retted before the morale-boosting raid on Japan? In St. Paul, of course. From whom did Charles Lindbergh, of Little Falls, get his start in aviation? Now theres a question under debate. It may not only be another Minnesotan but a senior Civil Air Patrol member soon after CAP started. If you know anything about him, please contact Capt. Bradeld right away. Minnesota Wing has been asked to help provide its share of the biography for pilot and instructor Happy OMalley. Capt. David Ihme, Minn. Wing Historian, is searching our archives, but perhaps you yourself know something that will help piece together the rest of the puzzle. Heres what is known so far. Charles Harold Happy OMalley was born May 8, 1894, in Minneapolis. The family then moved to Hinckley, Minn., in 1902. OMalley joined the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917. He trained and ew with "Speed" Holman during WWI (Ring a bell? St. Paul Downtown Airport bears his name). OMalley owned an oil station and luncheonette about 4 miles north of Hinckley on Highway 61. There he had his own private air eld and took people for rides in his plane. A few years later he built Happy's Pavilion on the same site. Continued in Aerospace Education section, page 9
! Charles Lindberg, (le") while training the year before his ight. In the middle is Charles (Happy) OMa$ey, his instructor and %iend, and on the right their local mechanic (name unknown at this time). The picture was taken in Texas. The megaphone was needed because the plane was a single person, so the trainer ran beside the plane shouting instructions. The original picture hangs in the the Lindberg section in the Smithsonian.
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COMMANDERS CORNER
Over the past three weeks my "real" job has taken a back seat to Civil Air Patrol. Five days in Washington, D.C., for the Winter National Board meeting and Congressional Day at the Capitol, as well as seven days at National Headquarters at Maxwell Air Force Base for the Wing Commander's Course. We need to periodically take the time to thank those around us who allow us to volunteer - our families, our employers and our friends.
If you haven't done so yet, please sign up now for our Wing Conference the committee has done a lot of work putting together a conference to Fortunately for me and for most remember. On-line registration is available on our web site. of us senior members, we have excellent support from our We are starting into the busiest employers who understand the time of the year for CAP value of Civil Air Patrol volunteer activities. The good news is we service in our communities. have the budget to support an Also, many of our members are increased level of training and self-employed but take time away education. All of you should be from their work to volunteer at a putting the various events you're cost to them personally. And then interested in on your calendar now. there are the retirees who also Thank you all for your commit their free time to commitment to making the volunteer for CAP, when they Minnesota Wing the best in the could be spending time golng or North Central Region and one of boating or whatever activity the best in the nation. they've settled on for retirement. Jerry Rosendahl, Col., CAP MN Wing Commander
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Col. Jerry Rosendahl presented Grover Loening Awards to father-daughter members Capt. George Supan and Capt. She$y Supan Feb. 11 at the Anoka County Composite Squadrons award banquet. Col. Jerry Rosendahl, commander of Minnesota Wing, Civil Air Patrol, had the unique opportunity to present two Grover Loening Awards not only at the same awards banquet but to members who just happen to be father and daughter, Capt. George Supan and Capt. Shelly Supan, both of Anoka County Composite Squadron. The double presentation was made all the more exciting by the relationship of the recipients. The Grover Loening Award is the third milestone in the Civil Air Patrols Professional Development Program for senior members. Only about 350 of the more than 35,000 Senior members in CAP receive the award each year. To have two of them awarded the same night in one Squadron, and then for those two to be a father and daughter, is quite unusual. The presentations were just two of the many achievements recognized that evening. Rosendahl also presented Cadet Capt. Don Raleigh the Amelia Earhart Award. Group 3 Commander Lt. Col. Don Sorenson presented Cadet 2nd Lt. Mikayla Fray the Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell Award. Sr. Members Betty Ziskovsky and Greg Grau received level one certicates. From the beginning Capt. Shelly Supan joined CAP in 2006 as a pilot and became very involved. In 2007 her father asked, How can I y with you? Shelly replied, Oh, just sign here and come to a meeting every now and then. It wasnt long after that her father was putting in 30 to 50 hours a week as the Squadron Public Aairs Ocer and ground team and aircrew member. Shelly served as his Ground Team Leader and Mission Pilot while he worked his way from Scanner to Observer. Contributions to squadron From 2009 through June of 2011, Capt. Shelly Supan served as Anoka County Composite Squadron Commander, while her father was promoted rst to 1st Lt. and then later to Captain. Her father served as Deputy Commander for Cadets as well as Public Aairs Ocer and Public Information Ocer for the squadron and for Group 3. In 2010 Anoka County Composite Squadron earned recognition as Minnesota Wing Squadron of the Year. The Squadron grew to 110 members to become the largest in the state and one of the top squadrons in Civil Air Patrol nationally. The Supans and the squadron are involved in many public events, including Discover Aviation Days at the AnokaBlaine Airport, Anoka Airport Promotion Group, parades and many Community functions.
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Top right: Lt. Col. DonSorenson, Group 3, Commander, presents Cadet 2d Lt. Mikayla Freythe Brig. Gen Bi$y Mitche$ Award. Right: Col. Jerry Rosendahl poses with Cadet Capt. Don Raleigh a"er receiving his Amelia Earhart Award. A$ photos courtesy of 1st Lt. Tim Frame and Capt. George Supan
Col. Jerry Rosendahl, Sr. Member Greg Grau, Capt. She$y Supan, Cadet Capt. Don Raleigh, Cadet 2nd Lt. Mikayla Frey, Capt. George Supan, Sr. Member Betty Ziskovsky, Lt. Col. Don Sorenson
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Top right: Grand Rapids Composite Squadrons Color Guard is an essential component for marking the dignity of the formal Change of Command ceremony held March 5th. Bottom: 1st Lt. Justin Binion, former commander at Grand Rapids Composite Squadron; Group 1 Commander Capt. Richard High; 2nd Lt. James Kochevar, new commander of Grand Rapids Composite Squadron.
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AEROSPACE EDUCATION
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CADET PROGRAMS
March temperatures in the 50s made for some enjoyable outside dri$ activities for cadets during the second Sta Training Weekend. Photo courtesy of Maj. Richard Sprouse.
Sixty cadets and ocers participated in the second Sta Training Weekend. Photo courtesy of Maj. Richard Sprouse.
This story rst ran in the March 12, 2012, edition of VolunteerNow. I can be found online at www.capvolunteernow.com
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Cadets speak out on impact made by CAP Cadet Programs & Leaders
by Maj. Paul V Brunt, Public Aairs Ocer 130th Squadron, U.S. Civil Air Patrol, Lakevi$e, Minn. an Ever wonder what impact we have on people? What we do for others and how we honor our commitments? What we do will be remembered for years to come, both good and bad. At the 130th Composite Squadron in Lakeville, Minn., we take our jobs seriously. We want to impact people in a positive way for the future as well as the present. If we commit to others, then we follow through and dont use excuses for what we know we are supposed to do. Adapt and overcome? I have asked former and current cadets to tell me how CAP has inuenced them and what it has done for them. I have asked for all feed back to allow usto change our program if we see areas that need attention. This can be something that other squadrons can try so we all can improve the CAP experience for both seniors and cadets. Cadet Lt. Col. Wi$iam Homan, 130th Squadron, Lakevi$e, Minn. Maj. Doug Ployhar led us through countless memorable, inuential, and humorous life experiences serving the community through emergency services. nearly every aspect through the Civil Air Patrol. My name is Luke Hubers, and I am a Cadet at the 130th composite squadron. My entire journey as a cadet started (and is continuing) with an interest in aviation. At a local ight school, I was told about the Civil Air Patrol and all it had to oer. The next week I stopped by one of the meetings and was surprised to see such involvement with each and every member. Within a month or two, I was an active member ready to engage myself in the program. Within ve months I had my aviation training and was a solo pilot in a Cessna 172. Now, roughly a year after joining the Civil Air Patrol, I am incredibly close to achieving my private pilot license. Step by step, ight by ight, I was able to grow nearer to what seemed an impossible goal.
The generosity of individuals such as Maj Paul Van Brunt helped Here are some examples of the me to achieve huge achievements I never thought possible such as a feedback that I received. private pilots license. Without a doubt, CAP has allowed me to Cadet Lt. Col. William Hoffman grow into the person I am, and I I will ever be grateful for the will forever remember the great experiences I have in CAP. I am mentors and experiences that will fortunate to have been guided and launch me into my career in the mentored by excellent adults and Air Force and in Medicine. youth in leadership, Thank you! communication skills, and excellence. I will always be grateful Cadet Sr. Airman Luke Hubers and remember inuences from Ever since the rst salute, rst people such as 1st Lt. Karen color guard competition, or rst Anderson. Her support pushed me to achieve excellence and achieve powered solo ight, I have been learning and advancing myself in a strong sense of condence.
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Hubers, continued ... With the help of Maj. Paul Van Brunt (my ight instructor) and of many others, I took the challenge and have come a long ways. Not very many people get the opportunity that I was able to receive, and for that I am truly grateful. Every takeo into the sky above allows me to live the dream I have been given. Now, I can only wonder what the future may hold, thanks to the support of so many around me in the Civil Air Patrol cadet program.
Cadet Jackson Kranz
changed my life completely. It has He donates his personal life to changed my view point on life and us cadets that y. Whenever we how great it feels to volunteer want to y and take a free lesson, with this wonderful organization. he is willing to do so and does not complain about having to go up CAP also gave me the ability with us or be at the airport. He is to get a job at Ace Hardware by excited for us and excited himself. showing me how to be a good person. He is an all around great guy. He treats us with respect and gives I have always wanted to y us advice and he is always there for and be a pilot ever since I was young. I never thought I would be us. able to because of nances and If it was not for Major Van personal doubts. But Civil Air Brunt, I would not be ying. I Patrol allowed me to do this. would not be able to y a plane by I took my Orientation ights myself, y cross countries, have with Capt. Alwin, who showed me condence to y a plane and know the basics of ight and encouraged a single thing about an airplane. I me and brought me to the point of would not be even close to the loving ight even more. So Id like point I am today with my ying career. He has made the dream to thank Capt. Alwin for volunteering on these outstanding come true. Orientation ights for us and pushing us to love ying more. There really is no possible way that I could thank him for volunteering his time and hard After I did my Orientation work he has gave to us. Maj. Van ights I nally got the chance to take ying lessons. The one person Brunt has made the biggest from our squadron volunteering to dierence in my life by far. teach us Cadets is Maj. Van Brunt. Thank you Maj.Van Brunt for making a miraculous dierence in When I heard that there was not a fee on the instructor, I was my life and keeping the dream blown away. My dream had nally alive.
My participation in Civil Air Patrol started last April. Since then I have noticed stupendous
Cadet Jackson Kranz, 130th Squadron, Lakevi$e, Minn. improvement all around in myself as well as people around me in Civil Air Patrol. At my very rst meeting I was scared to see how disciplined all of the cadets were, and thought I could never do that. Now when I see new Cadets, I say to myself, I cannot believe I got this far. Things I have learned are customs and courtesies as well as self discipline. Civil Air Patrol has
become true by being able to aord to pay for lessons, all because one person wanted to make a dierence in our lives. All that we have to pay for is the gas and tach time, which is great. He is a superb instructor even though he is not getting paid for it. Any question I have ever asked him he has known. Anything I ever do wrong in the cockpit, he corrects it. Best of all he cares for us, he wants us to succeed and have fun at what we are doing.
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EMERGENCY SERVICES
Monitoring frequency 121.5 from time to time is a public service from any air crew. For Civil Air Patrol pilots and crews, its just part of what they do. But it pays o, as one Minnesota ight instructor likes to point out, proving it twice within a couple days of each other. On March 16, as part of a cross country training ight, Cadet Kranz and instructor Maj. Paul Van Brunt from the 130th Composite Squadron had just departed Chippewa Valley Regional Airport, in Eau Claire, Wisc., for a direct VFR ight back to Airlake Airport near Minneapolis. Van Brunt said it was a nice day around 6 p.m. local time. He recalled noting that there were some gusty winds in the area and spotty showers to the east. After communicating with the tower, CAP 97465 had departed Eau Claire, climbing to 4,500 feet. Shortly after takeo and 6 miles east of Eau Claire they picked up an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) signal on the emergency frequency 121.5 with the planes direction nding equipment and then began monitoring it on the No. 2 comm radio.
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Upcoming events
24-25 Mar C182TAA G1000 Training Course 29-1 Apr St. Paul Shrine Circus 31-1 Apr Advanced Observer Course 31 Mar Farmington ATC Tour by MN104 13-15 Apr MN hosts NCR Cadet Competition
13-15 Apr Encampment Prep School-1 14 Apr Annual Aircraft Operations Meeting 14 Apr National Check Pilot Standardization Cli... 14 Apr Woodbury Expo 2012 17 Apr Degree of Honor - Salute to Youth Banque... 18-22 Apr VEX Robotics World Championship
21 Apr The event will take place at the Federal Cartridge facility, located in the City of Anoka along Main GRAND RAPIDS, FLAPJACK BREAKFAST Street near the Coon Rapids border on June 23 from about 5 a.m. to noon. All volunteers will be fed. NCR Regional Staff College to be held in Participants will not likely wear CAP uniforms for June the event, as a CAP ground team response is not Mark your calendar for June 3-8 for the 2012 anticipated to be a part of the drill itself. North Central Region Sta College at Outt Air All interested in participating, please respond to Force Base near Omaha. Lt. Jim Schilling no later than 1 April 2012. at For more information contact Col. Donley. See jschilling@ci.blaine.mn.us ier, next page.
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NorthCentralRegionStaffCollege
RegionStaffCollegeisaformalinresidencecourseheldatOffuttAFB,NE. ThiscourseisrequiredforcompletionofLevelIVandallowsCAPOfficersa chancetobetterpreparethemtofulfillthedutiesandresponsibilitiesthatare associatedwithcommandandstaffpositionsatSquadronlevelandabove. Someofthethingsyouwillhaveanopportunitytolearnaboutare:leadership stylesandskills,managementtheoriesandworkingwithvolunteers.Wealso workoncommunicationskillsbothwrittenandspoken.Youwilldelivera10 minutespeechonaCAPrelatedtopic.Youwillalsobegiveninformationon problemsolving,corevaluesandplanningCAPrelatedevents. Allofthislearningwillbedoneinagroupsetting.Somethingswillbedone inalargegroupsettingandmuchwillbedoneinasmaller,seminargroupset ting. ThebestpartofRegionStaffCollege:gettingtomeetalltheotherpeople fromtheotherwingsandregions.Youwillbeabletonetworkwiththesepeo pleandmakelifelongfriends!Bestofallyouwillhavefun!!!