Cadet Programs

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Cadet Programs
Page 30 in Guide 90 minutes Includes Case
Studies Instructor See Notes View of this
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Main Points

• Wing Involvement
• Special Activities
• Miscellaneous Functions
• CAP Mission Support
• Case Studies

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Wing Involvement

• Wing Cadet Programs Staff
• Lt Col Tom Snell - Director
• Lt Col Ken Voyticky Deputy Director
• Lt Col Roger Middleton Special Activities
• C/Lt Col Tom Rehman Cadet Assistant to the
  Director
• C/Col Andrew Shepherd Cadet Assistant to the
  Director

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Wing Involvement

• Encampment
• Who attends
• Col Muerell is the encampment commander
• Usually 100 cadets, 5 flights
• Cadet and senior staff get Required Staff
  (anti-hazing) Training
• At Wright-Patterson AFB
• Costs about 150 per cadet
• encampment scholarships and donations sought
• biggest costs (100 total) are housing and meals
• Cadets closest to their Mitchell Award and have
  not attended before are considered first

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Wing Involvement

• Encampment
• Requirement for Mitchell Award
• 7 to 10 days long
• 40 Hours Minimum Total Curriculum
• 10 hours USAF Fundamentals (speakers tours)
• 10 hours CAP Fundamentals
• 16 hours Leadership the Cadet Ethic
• 4 hours Aerospace Career Exploration
• Parallels basic military training
• no hazing
• learn time management, teamwork, attention to
  detail
• at end of encampment awards banquet

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Wing Involvement

• Cadet CAP Flight Orientation
• Five powered flights in CAPP 52-7 syllabus that
  parallels Aerospace Dimensions texts
• Introduction to Flight
• ground handling, preflight inspection, landing
• normal flight maneuvers
• advanced powered flight maneuvers
• Aircraft Systems and Airports
• use of instruments in flight
• Air Environment
• weather flight

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Wing Involvement

• Cadet CAP Flight Orientation
• free to cadets
• 30 to 40 minutes long
• flown by specially trained CAP pilots
• Wing funded through reimbursement to NHQ CAP for
  fuel, oil, aircraft maintenance
• Wing encourages participation by having flights
  at encampment and in with other squadron and
  group flying activities

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Wing Involvement

• Cadet Military Flight Orientation
• state-wide
• military aircraft
• flown by military pilots
• coordinated through Wing State Director
• space- and time-available basis
• subordinate to military pilots primary mission

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Wing Involvement

• Cadet Military Flight Orientation
• Requires
• List of participants by name, SSAN, CAP rank
• Contact persons name, phone and e-mail
• unit commander must be able to determine if this
  person is to make final decisions about the
  flight
• Parental consent form for cadets under 18
• Parents may consider requesting a school excused
  absence letter because the flight is for
  educational purposes

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Wing Involvement

• Drill Color Guard Competition
• indoor flag
• outdoor flag
• standard drill
• innovative drill
• mile run
• volleyball
• quiz bowl
• aerospace written test

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Wing Involvement

• Drill Color Guard Competition
• Cadet Programs staff puts this on
• sets up location and date (two days long)
• publicizes event
• acquire judges from active/reserve/retired
  military
• Generally happens around April
• good weather for volleyball and mile run events
• Selected by Wing Commander

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Wing Involvement

• Cadet Advisory Council
• CAC members appointed by unit commander on CAPF
  2a for one year term
• may serve up to two terms
• meets six times (every even month) yearly in
  central Ohio area
• Helps Wing Director for Cadet Programs and Wing
  Commander
• provide field input of activities and
  cadet-related policies and procedures they want,
  such as six-hour free leadership academy, AE
  weekend, wing honor guard training, encampment,
  conference

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Wing Involvement

• Uniform Chit Program
• Called Free Cadet Uniform (FCU) program
• Chit form comes in each new cadets membership
  packet.
• New cadets get priority over other cadets.
• No shoes, no jacket
• Completed chit form attached to cadets CAPF 15
  Application for Membership
• Uniforms belong to CAP, not the cadet

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Wing Involvement

• Uniform Chit Program
• Wing monitors by annual unit reports
• Squadron accounts for uniforms up to one year
  after issue
• May retrieve and/or reissue returned uniforms
• Uniform cannot be sold, rented, or given
• Uniforms not used for incentives

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Wing Involvement

• Uniform Chit Program
• Near October (end of fiscal year) unused chits go
  to Wing who re-rations them by those requesting
  them
• for cadets who are not necessarily new cadets
• chit forms downloadable from NHQ CAP website
• send to Wing for Wing Commanders approval

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Special Activities

• Wing
• cadet leadership schools (as needed)
• cadet drill and color guard competition
• model rocketry competition
• summer glider encampment
• cadet conference in Spring
• cadet leadership initiative with RCAC

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Special Activities

• Region
• Region Leadership School
• for Eaker Award
• Cadet Competition
• drill and color guard

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Special Activities

• National
• Advanced Technology Academy
• Aerospace Education Academy
• Air Education Training Command
• Air Force Space Command
• Air Force Weather Agency
• Civic Leadership Academy
• Cadet Officer School
• Engineering Technologies Academy

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Special Activities

• National
• Hawk Mountain Search Rescue School
• Honor Guard Academy
• International Air Cadet Exchange
• National Blue Beret
• Team Leader Course
• National Ground Search Rescue School

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Special Activities

• National
• Mission Base Staff School
• Mission Aircrew School
• NESA Staff
• National Flight Academy (glider and power)
• National Music Academy
• Pararescue Orientation Course

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Special Activities

• Application Procedures
• Wing review board in January
• Apply on CAPF 31, with parent unit commander
  permission
• Interview and uniform inspection
• Written test in all 5 cadet program elements
• Region
• selection committee recommends
• Region Commander selects for Region and
  recommends for National selection committee
• National
• selection committee recommends
• National Commander selects

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Miscellaneous Functions

• Scholarships
• Types
• undergraduate
• advanced undergraduate
• graduate
• technical-vocational
• general aviation flight
• USAFA Preparatory School

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Miscellaneous Functions

• Scholarships
• Eligibility
• current CAP member (cadet or senior)
• Billy Mitchell Award or Senior Cadet Programs
  specialty track rating
• possess and maintain academic and discipline
  standard of school
• enrolled in full-time study for year awarded

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Miscellaneous Functions

• Scholarships
• Application
• CAPF 95
• due to Wing by 15 December
• parent and squadron commander endorsement
• transcripts, ACT/SAT test scores, photo, etc.
• separate CAPF 95 package for each scholarship
• send to Wing for Wing Commanders recommendation

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Miscellaneous Functions

• Scholarships
• NHQ CAP application deadline 31 January
• Around 15 February NHQ CAP
• reviews for completeness
• posts application status on website
• member is responsible to monitor website and
  provide needed information
• Winners announced 31 March

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CPs Impact on

• Aerospace Education
• academic element of achievement program
• provide orientation flights (powered and glider)
• model rocketry competition
• link to cadet special activities as AETCFC,
  AFSCFC, NFE, NEG, etc.
• Emergency Services
• provide trained, plentiful resources to help in
  aircrew (if 18 or over), administration,
  communications, ground search
• complement and enhance aerial search
• free senior members for more specialized or
  complicated tasks

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Cadet Programs Case Study 1 of 2overhead 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• As the Director of Cadet Programs for the wing,
  you are responsible not only for the coordination
  of wing activities pertaining to cadets, but also
  for ensuring the quality of the cadet achievement
  program. One night during the wing meeting, the
  wing chaplain comes to see you.
• He tells you that he is worried about how the
  moral leadership program is being administered at
  the squadron level. In his visits to units and
  conversations with cadets around the wing, he
  tells of many instances of pencil whipping the
  moral leadership requirement.

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Cadet Programs Case Study 1 of 2overhead 2 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• He also tells you that of the 16 squadrons in the
  wing, there are only seven squadron chaplains.
  Two other squadrons have Moral Leadership
  officers (MLOs), but he is just getting the
  program started in his wing. The chaplain
  continues by saying that he knows it is his
  responsibility to provide chaplain services to
  the wing units, and that there are not enough
  chaplains is contributing to the problem. He is
  working with the region and the Air Force to
  recruit more chaplains. But he also says that
  moral leadership discussions do not need to be
  conducted by a chaplain or MLO. He asks for your
  thoughts.
• questions and answers on following overheads

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• Do you think this is your problem? What is the
  problem?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• Do you think this is your problem? What is the
  problem?
• It involves the cadets and the administration of
  the squadron, so it should be partially your
  problem. It is a good example of how mission
  support activities impact on mission elements on
  a day-to-day basis.

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• What are the Core Values implications for the
  wing, squadron, and cadets?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• What are the Core Values implications for the
  wing, squadron, and cadets?
• Answers vary.

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• Is the lack of chaplains and MLOs your problem?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• Is the lack of chaplains and MLOs your problem?
• Practically, noit is the Chaplains
  responsibility to recruit and train chaplains and
  MLOs. Does it affect you? Yes! It reduces the
  number of experienced people to run the
  discussions. As a rule, you do not need a
  chaplain or MLO to have a moral leadership
  program, only people, materials, and topics.

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• What can you do to increase the visibility of the
  Moral Leadership program?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• What can you do to increase the visibility of the
  Moral Leadership program?
• Market your policies, show your support in the
  wing newsletter, write to the squadrons. Make it
  an item of interest in your squadron evaluations
  and Staff Assistance Visits, and work to support
  chaplain efforts. Get the wing commander
  involved. Most of all, educate the squadrons
  about the moral leadership program.

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• Whose support can you enlist?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 1 of 2

• Moral Leadership Program
• (p. 35 in Student Guide)
• Whose support can you enlist?
• Enlist the wing commander, chaplains, and
  friendly commanders. Enlist support from the wing
  Cadet Advisory Council alsothe cadets can build
  support from within the squadrons.
• Case Study 2 appears next

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• As the wing commander, you have the services of
  many committees to advise you on wing matters.
  One of those committees is the wings Cadet
  Advisory Council. They recommend to you that a
  special scholarship program be instituted to
  assist cadets in going to special activities or
  receive flight training. The CAC has also
  expressed their desire to assist in drawing up
  criteria for eligibility, selection, and board
  membership.
• You tell them that you like the idea, but much
  must be done before it will be a reality. How
  will you address the cadets desire for
  scholarships?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• What is the issue? Why?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• What is the issue? Why?
• Whether or not to start a wing level scholarship
  program for special activities and flight
  programs.

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• What will be the eligibility and selection
  criteria be?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• What will be the eligibility and selection
  criteria be?
• Answers vary. Look for selection of minimum
  participation in the program, school grades,
  recommendations from teachers and commanders,
  demonstrated financial need, etc.

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• How will Wing come up with the money?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• How will Wing come up with the money?
• Suggested answers would include trusts, private
  donations, pursuit of flight scholarship money
  from HQ CAP, wing dues, fundraising from local
  businesses, etc.

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• Who do you need to work with to make the
  scholarship program a success? Why?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• Who do you need to work with to make the
  scholarship program a success? Why?
• Answers vary. Wing staff, units, parents, Cadet
  Advisory Council, region staff, activities
  selection board, cadets themselves, etc.

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• How will you ensure only cadets who need the
  money get the scholarships? Should this even be a
  consideration in deciding who should get the
  scholarships? Why?

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Cadet ProgramsCase Study 2 of 2

• Scholarship Program
• (p. 36 in Student Guide)
• How will you ensure only cadets who need the
  money get the scholarships? Should this even be a
  consideration in deciding who should get the
  scholarships? Why?
• Answers vary depending on whether or not the
  program is merit based or need based.