Command Introduction

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Command Introduction
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Main Points

• Commanders Role
• Wing Staffs Responsibility to the Wing Commander
• Expectations about this Corporate Learning Course
• Core Values

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Commanders Role

• As State Commander
• Lead officer over all subordinate units in the
  state
• and commander of the wing staff
• Responsible for wings safety program
• Responsible for the wings accomplishment of
  CAPs missions
• Primary CAP representative to the state
  government
• Memorandums of Agreement
• State CAP funding
• General relationship with state agencies

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Commanders Role

• As Corporate Officer
• Makes policy as a member of the National Board
• Voting member
• Charged with establishing national CAP policy
• How this policy sometimes conflicts with wings
  desires
• The National program comes first

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Wing Staff Responsibility

• Wing Commanders experts in vital areas
• About 66 percent of staff drives from outside
  Columbus 1 to 2 times a month.
• Administer wing headquarters as a CAP unit
• Coordinate functional areas with their
  counterparts in subordinate units

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CLC Expectations

• Who should be attending
• Those seeking a bigger picture beyond your unit
  and your CAP specialty
• Those seeking more authority and responsibility
• What you should be learning
• How the three missions and mission support
  elements complement each other
• How wing, group and squadrons work together
• How to work with your classmates when working the
  case studies
• How you should apply what you learn
• Provide other members with a sense of respect and
  cooperation inside and outside of your unit and
  CAP specialty

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Core Values

• Defined
• What Air Force and CAP Core Values are
• How applied and impact

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Core Values

• Defined
• code of conduct
• expected to adhere to
• in all we do

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Core Values

• Air Force
• Integrity First
• Service before Self
• Excellence in all We Do

• Civil Air Patrol
• Integrity First
• Volunteer Service
• Excellence
• Respect

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Core Values

• Integritys Impact on Wing
• do what is right even if personal cost is high
• do not falsify documents
• be responsible for own actions, not shift blame
• do not bring disgrace to self or CAP

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Core Values

• Volunteers Impact on Wing
• professional service over personal desires
• follow the rules
• well-being of others ahead of self
• freely make a commitment

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Core Values

• Excellences Impact on Wing
• strive for improvement
• technical training
• membership
• day-to-day operations
• equipment and property

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Core Values

• Respects Impact on Wing
• treat each other with respect
• not judge on national origin or gender
• use professional courtesy