MIWG Drill Team
MIWG Color Guard Team
Congratulations to the Michigan Drill Team and the Michigan Color Guard Team for winning at the Great Lakes Region Cadet Competition. The teams will represent the Great Lakes Region at the National Cadet Competition in June. They each will compete against seven other Region winners for the honor of being National Champions.
This year's event was held at Dayton, OH, in several venues, including the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. The weather was unfortunately uncooperative and posed its challenges. Nethertheless, the teams and staff persevered and the Competition was completed on time.
Three drill team and five color guard teams competed in several events, including Inspection, Mile Run, Written Exam, Panel Quiz, Standard Drill, Mile Run, plus Outdoor Post and Indoor Presentation for the Color Guards and Innovative Drill and Volleyball for the Drill Teams.
C/1st Lt Tyler Millard of the Boulle Norman Memorial Cadet Squadron is the MIWG Drill Team Commander. He competed last year at the Region Competition, but this was his first year as team commander. The thing he liked most about the competition was the professional level and spirit of the cadets, he remarked. C/MSgt Jonathan Pupillo of the Oakland Composite Squadron commanded the MIWG Color Guard. "We practiced five times a week for two- to three- hours", said Cadet Pupillo. All that practiced worked. Cadet Pupillo won the Male Fleet Foot Award.
Drill Team Results
Male Fleet Foot: C/TSgt Del Rosario
Female Fleet Foot: C/Amn Waltho
Highest Written Test Score: C/Capt Ruesch
Inspection: 1. Michigan 2 & 3 (tie): Ohio and Wisconsin
Volleyball: 1. Michigan 2. Ohio 3. Wisconsin
Mile Run: 1. Michigan 2. Ohio 3. Wisconsin
Innovative Drill: 1. Wisconsin 2. Michigan 3. Ohio
Panel Quiz: 1. Ohio 2. Wisconsin 3. Michigan
Standard Drill: 1. Wisconsin 2. Michigan 3. Ohio
Written Exam: 1. Michigan 2. Ohio 3. Wisconsin
Overall: 1. Michigan 2 & 3 (tie) Ohio and Wisconsin
Color Guard Results
Male Fleet Foot: C/MSgt Pupillo
Female Fleet Foot: C/CMSgt Szeremeta
Highest Written Test Score: C/TSgt Waller
Inspection: 1. Wisconsin 2. Michigan 3. Indiana 4. Ohio 5. Illinois
Indoor Presentation: 1. Michigan 2. Illinois 3. Wisconsin 4. Ohio 5. Indiana
Mile Run: 1. Michigan 2. Indiana 3. Ohio 4. Wisconsin 5. Illinois
Outdoor Post: 1. Michigan 2. Ohio 3. Wisconsin 4. Illinois 5. Indiana
Panel Quiz: 1. Wisconsin 2. Michigan 3. Ohio 4. Illinois 5. Indiana
Standard Drill: 1. Illinois 2. Michigan 3. Ohio 4. Wisconsin 5. Indiana
Written Exam: 1. Ohio 2. Wisconsin 3. Michigan 4. Illinois 5. Indiana
Overall: 1. Michigan 2. Wisconsin 3. Ohio 4. Illinois 5. Indiana
Cadet Col. Elizabeth Dumont from the Michigan Wing receives the General Carl A Spaatz Award number 1684 from Lt. Gen. John L Hudson. Lt. Gen. Hudson is Commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The center is responsible for the management of more than 420 Air Force, joint and international programs, executes an annual budget of $19 billion, and employs a work force of approximately 11,000 people located at Wright-Patterson AFB and 38 other locations worldwide.
Lt. Gen. Hudson presented the Spaatz Award to Cadet Dumount at the Great Lakes Region Cadet Competition held at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Cadet Col. Dumont served as the Cadet Coordinator of the Great Lakes Region Cadet Competition. This is her third year serving on staff of the Region Competition. She will be pursuing a Bachelors of Science at Baker College in Michigan.
James Kalemis, Capt, CAP
GLRCC & NCC Staff PAO
What's the fairest way to fill 1200 slots when 3000 cadets apply? Looking for ways to improve the slotting system for NCSA's, NHQ took input from Cadet Programs staff and Cadet Advisory Councils across the nation and has now announced a new slotting process for the 2008.
The memo below explains how they’ve decided to manage the process for 2008. It is probably not perfect, and will in all likelihood change over the next few years, meanwhile the system is as fair and practical as they could make it. The attached memo provides details on the new system.
Key Points:
- Wings no longer rank order cadets; they will only determine the top 10% (green light cadets)
- Applicants must have received encampment credit at the time of application
- Wings are still authorized to hold selection boards or otherwise apply their own criteria
- COS & IACE will still be handled separately
The NCSA season kicks off on 1 November when a menu of 25+ awesome activities will be posted on the National web site at www.cap.gov/ncsa.
Please e-mail me at: rmiddleton@glr.cap.gov if I can be of assistance.
Roger Middleton, Lt.Col., CAP
GLR/DCS-CP
/NCSASlottingMemo.pdf
The 2008 GLR Encampment/RCLS will be held at the Wendell Ford Training Center in Kentucky. The dates are: Basics - June 22-28, and Staff - June 20-28, 2008
For more information please visit their website: www.glrse.org
All Contact information is listed on the web page
The 2008 GLR/MI encampment will be held at the Alpena CRTC, in Michigan. The dates are 12-19 July 2008.
Additional information will be oublished as the event gets nearer, however immediate questions can be emailed to: encampment2008@miwg.cap.gov.
I can't be sure that it's totally original, but the following was new to me.
While visiting the Ohio Wing HQ recently, I had the opportunity to observe what was essentially a wing-wide Cadet Program meeting. With the permission of the OH/DCP, Capt. Rob Goodreau, I have included below his preparatory memo and attached the subsequent powepoint summary.
Congratulations to Rob on a job well done.
If anyone else has ideas worth sharing, I'd be happy to to pass them on.
Extract from an e-mail to Ohio Wing
Cadet Programs leaders,
The Vice Commander recently sent an email to all Group Commanders stating "In conjunction with the commanders call there will be a squadron cadet commanders call. Since all unit commanders are required to attend this meeting all cadet and composite unit commanders are directed to bring their squadron cadet commander with them. There will also be a meeting for all squadron and group cadet program officers. It is extremely important that we get the requested participation from all." The meeting will be at Ohio Wing HQ (lunch will be provided) -- it will be a combined meeting for all cadet programs personnel. Below is an agenda of what will be discussed (discussion... not briefing...):
State of the Cadet Program
CAC & Cadet Working Group
Cadet Flight Training Program
CP Calendar Review
Encampment
Proposed Cadet Conference
Programs/Tools Under Development
DCP Transition
Open Discussion (topics: SDAs, Phase IV cadet involvement, Squadron/Flight/Group/Wing interaction, Cadet Staff assignments, others)
Cadet-only Forum (time permitting)
Teambuilding (time permitting)
I expect to be able to provide some read-ahead material a couple days or so beforehand, so check the wing website for updates as the date gets closer.
Thanks!
ROBERT J. GOODREAU, Capt, CAP
Director of Cadet Programs, Ohio Wing
CadetProgramsCall.ppt
