Aerospace Newsletter
Vol 2, October 2007
In this Issue
My Efforts
My efforts are paying off. Several squadrons are communicating back with information on their Yeager Award winners, their AE activities and current events. I will forward to you any activity in other squadrons that may be of interest to your squadron in the hopes that you might make it part of your plans. My aim is to have squadrons participate with each other directly.
My Activities
- Two more visits to go.
- During these visits I have provided information on available scholarships from the aerospace industry.
- Instructed AE Officers in the NHQ requirements.
- Communicated the need to report squadron AE activities.
What have I learned
My compliments to all our membership. During my visits I have come to realize that we have a GREAT bunch of people that take their positions seriously enough to make the AE mission successful. The units still need to report their activities as best they can. They need to communicate to the other units in the group as often as possible and we need to help units that have little to carry out the AE mission. And even when units specialize in certain areas we still need to integrate the missions in all we do. One can not be replaced with the other. AE Officers will be better served when resource and information is made readily available. AE Officers should use the Continuity book as a main source of information. Very few of us are doing it.
Yeager Information
The following is the squadron averages of Senior/Yeager for comparison. Our seniors need to make an effort to improve these numbers. The Yeager is an open book exam. All that is really required is sometime and a little desire. We at Group would like to see these numbers increase to better than 50% overall.
| Charter # | SM Count | Yeagers | Percentage |
| Group 3 | 26 | 11 | 42.31% |
| NER PA 018 | 19 | 10 | 52.63% |
| NER PA 048 | 17 | 3 | 17.65% |
| NER PA 049 | 14 | 6 | 42.86% |
| NER PA 089 | 24 | 3 | 12.50% |
| NER PA 093 | 9 | 1 | 11.11% |
| NER PA 102 | 12 | 4 | 33.33% |
| NER PA 105 | 14 | 3 | 21.43% |
| NER PA 146 | 68 | 15 | 22.06% |
| NER PA 150 | 8 | 1 | 12.50% |
| NER PA 160 | 26 | 7 | 26.92% |
| NER PA 189 | 33 | 6 | 18.18% |
| NER PA 214 | 11 | 9 | 81.82% |
NER PA 301
| 13
| 2
| 15.38%
|
| Total | 294 | 81 | 27.55% |
Continuity Book
Why a continuity book? This is a necessity; the book will be available for the next person who will carry on the duty. The book is a document that will help establish a pick up point. In that way the next person will not have to re-invent the wheel. The book will be a live continuous document. It will be kept up to date with every event the AE have been involved in and any plan that the AE has made. In that way anyone looking at it would see what has been done in the area of AE. It would be just as easy as reading this document. AE-SUI’s will be as simple as keeping this document alive with current info.
AFA Grants
Air Force Association (AFA) Grant cycle deadline for CAP Units is December 31, 2007. Download application at: Civil Air Patrol Grants. In order to assure that your application reached us, please email: jmontgomery@cap.gov for confirmation.
Links to other resources
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Act Now
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - NASA TV
Civil Air Patrol - Aerospace Education
Civil Air Patrol - Members Aerospace Education
Civil Air Patrol - eServices
Group 3 Aerospace Education Officer
1Lt. Ozzie Lopez
215-548-0927
aerospacenuts003@yahoo.com
“Where no one has gone before”
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