Lewis County Squadron - Sep 2008

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NEWSLETTER OF

Inside this issue:

Leadership Column 2

BCTS Weekend Info 3

New Webpage Notice 3

Sept-Oct Birthdays 3

Websites of Interest 4

Upcoming Events 4

LCCS HAS AN ACTION-PACKED SUMMER Published by Lewis Co. Sq., CAPPO Box 56Chehalis, WA 98532

Editor: 1st Lt Ruth A. Peterson

Lewis County Cadets have had a very busy summer. We have had some cadetsparticipate in just about every event, and some have been able to participate in just afew. That is the beauty of Civil Air Patrol - there is something that fits just about everycadets lifestyle.

Here are a few of the events that we partici-pated in this summer:

We had a visit from the IACE cadets. Therewere some from the UK and two from Turkey.They had a great time at the shooting range, an af-ternoon in the glider, and then an evening barbequeat the Carmicks home. It was a perfect day, andeveryone enjoyed themselves immensely.

We had several color guards at different events in-cluding several Memorial Day and 4th of Julyevents, the Napavine Parade, the Air Fair, and theSW Washington Fair.

We helped with many tasks at the Chehalis Air Fair,including flight line marshalling and crowd control.

A yearly event that is used as afund-raiser for our squadron is the STP bicycle event. The cadetsunloaded mountains of luggage from semi trucks at the Centralia Col-lege Campus and organized those mountains so the luggage ownerswould be able to locate their belongings. What a huge task!

The LCCS Civil Air Patrol booth at the fair was manned by bothcadets and seniors as they helped find lostchildren (and parents), performed a colorguard at the opening ceremonies, andtalked about CAP to people who stoppedby the booth.

We had several cadets that attended thisyears Basic Encampment, Cascade FalconXIII. Three attended as basics and fivecadets attended as staff members. Our ownLt Col David Peterson was the Cadet Com-mander for the encampment.


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CIVILCIVILCIVILCIVIL

AIRAIRAIRAIR

PATROLPATROLPATROLPATROL

Drug

Free and

Proud!

Motivation is one of the main subjects of instruction in the CAP cadet program.

Motivation is necessary to accomplish many of the goals that are set for cadets by theSquadron, fellow cadets, and themselves. However, it is a difficult subject to teachbecause motivation can quickly deteriorate into constant criticism which has the ex-act opposite of the desired effect. A cadet or element that is criticized regularly with-out encouragement and instruction will quickly become demoralized.

There have been many instances where an NCO or officer finds reasons to criti-cize a uniform, D & C, or any number of other issues. While it is necessary to pointout errors, gigs, and departures from the regulations, it is equally important for NCOsand officers to encourage and instruct. If a group of cadets is consistently wrong orless than perfect, the fault often lies with the lack of instruction and motivation pro-

vided by those of higher rank.

If a cadet wants to be in a position of authority, he or she must be willing to pro-vide encouragement and instruction. Dont just tell a cadet his uniform is out of regs.Spend a few moments being a mentor. Tell him what is wrong and how to fix it.Tell him how to look up the regs online. Help him to fix his uniform that day andencourage him to have it in good condition for the next event. Come up with a con-test and have a great prize for the winner. Establish a contest between elements andencourage the cadets of each element to help each other to create the best element inthe Squadron.

There are many ways that you can motivate cadets to be at their best. Usually itrequires some serious effort on the part of those with a higher rank and position.

Dont ever think that being promoted to a higher rank or position means that you

dont have to do as much work. Those in leadership positions are obligated to work

even harder as they train the newer and younger cadets to become the next leaders in

CAP.

The extra effort required by true leaders will benefit not only their squadron but

in the end, it will provide the greatest benefit to the cadets themselves. Those who

take the time to teach skills to others will strengthen those same skills in themselves.

Those who motivate a group will find that the group becomes a closer team and thatthe team will then begin to teach and encourage each other leading to success of the

team which in turn reflects on the success of the leader. In the end, a good leader

places himself and his team into a situation where everyone wins. I challenge every

cadet in Lewis County Composite Squadron to find ways to motivate each other to

become the best CAP unit in the Wing.

Adventures in LeadershipMotivation vs Criticism

by 1st Lt Ruth Peterson


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C/SSgt Jordan Bell C/SMSgt Josiah Beresford SM Lori Corder

SM Sherrie Hail C/Amn Jacob Judge Maj Sue Carmick

C/2d Lt Ashley Lobb Cadet Meghan McCormick C/Amn Tonya Rider

SM Dean Rivers C/Amn Tom Witt C/Amn Krystina Wulff

September - October Birthdays

Hey cadets! Check out an awesome new site we have! Our cadet program is on Myspace now! You cancheck out the site at www.myspace.com/lewiscountycap. What is it, you say? Oh, it's got a TON of awe-some stuff - we have a bunch of pics posted of events we've done over the past couple years, there are linksto things like practice AE and LL tests, so you can be prepared when you are ready take them. We evenhave calling tree posted on it every week, so if you absolutely can't get ahold of your element leader, you

still know what's going on the next weekend! Check it out, and be prepared. We are also going to see aboutmaking a lot of cool changes to the awesome cadet zone of the squadron website too!

P.S. You don't have to join Myspace to look at it. It's a public profile and anyone can take a look! Andparents, we made sure that anything that might be offensive and not cool is avoided by any means we can,outside of Myspace's own advertising that we can't change!

Lewis County Composite Squadron will be hosting a Basic Cadet Training School on October 17th 19th.This will be an opportunity for new cadets and airmen to get together and learn tons of new things. Theschool will have classes on CAP history, CAP activities, Drill and Ceremonies, and Customs and Courte-sies. All the Cadets that attend this event will have the opportunity to promote by the end of the weekend.It will be a lot of hard work and tons of fun!!

This event will be held at the beautiful Mayfield Lake Resort. Check-in will begin at 5pm on Fri-day night and the Cadets will be busy until graduation on Sunday at 4:30pm. The cost will be $20 for theentire weekend.

All other squadron members are encouraged to attend as well, since there will be activities plannedfor them. C/Lt Col Peterson and C/2d Lt Shea have a weekend packed full of training and fun scheduled.

I hope to see every one there. If you are a Basic Cadet or an Airman then please get a registrationpacket from Lt Bell or Lt Tibbits. It has all the information you will need. Also it will be uploaded to theLCCS website.

Basic Cadet Training ScLewis County Composite Squadron


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Important DatesAdd to your Calendar TODAY!

DATE TOPIC

Sept 4 & Oct 2 Business & Planning Drill

Sept 11 & Oct 9 Operations Training

Sept 18 & Oct 16 Senior Training

Sept 25 & Oct 23 Cadet Programs

Civil Air Patrol

Websites of interest for Cadets:National CAP Website(Check out the National encampments! Youmust sign up for them by the end of Dec.)

http://www.cap.gov/Washington CAP Website

http://www.wawg.cap.gov/The Hock Shop (For Uniforms)

http://www.thehock.com/

OFFICER DRILL SCHEDULE

THURSDAYS SEPT OCT

6:30 pm SCOUT LODGE

At 3rd and Adams

Chehalis, WA

The LCCS squadron website is

filled with pictures, articles,

information, and important

links. Check us out at:

www.lewiscountycap.org

For More Info, go to www.wawg.cap.gov. Click on Members.

Under Members, click on Cadet Programs. If you have any

questions about events (price, how to apply, etc) call your

higher-ups, and they can help you out!

27th and 28th September- Squadron Field trip to Oregon. We

will be visiting a bunch of awesome places. Theres the Coast

Guard base near Astoria where we will get to see the aircraft

and equipment they use. We will get to see the Air Museum in

Tillamook, with the largest wooden hanger in the world, along

with lots of aircraft exhibits. Another sweet stop will be the Ev-

ergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, with the world-

famous Spruce Goose and just wait until you see the SIZE of

it! Make sure you have paid the $20 fee to Capt Corder already,

and then plan for a bit of spending money for food and gift

shops The Overnight plans are already taken care of, we willbe camping in McMinnville and coming home Sunday afternoon.

17th through 19th October - The motivation phase weekend at

the Mayfield Resort and Marina! The Basic Cadet Training

School will give new cadets a huge step up, plus there will be a

lot more offered for the experienced cadets to advance their

training. Look at the article on page 3 to get the rest of the info

for this awesome weekend.

PLEASE NOTE: Deadline forarticles is on the 15th of themonth.Schedules must be in by the20th. Send to the editor [email protected] Fireball is an unofficialnewsletter, published monthlyin the interest of the membersof Lewis Co. CompositeSquadron, Civil Air Patrol.Opinions expressed bythe publishers and writers aretheir own, and are not to beconsidered official expressionsof CAP or the U.S. Air Force.Advertisements in this

publication do not constitutean endorsement by CAP or theDept. of the Air Force of the

products or servicesadvertised.

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