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Inside this Issue...

Miss. crash fatally injures cadet pilot, CAP video corner, cadet alumna assumes command, alumni and friends spotlight, WWII member in uniform, final salute and alumni and friends gatherings coming soon.

A touching video about the life of Cadet Master Sgt. Lake Little.

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What’s your history with Civil Air Patrol?

I learned about CAP through my father, Brion, who had been a cadet in Texas Wing and as a senior member had restarted and commanded West Georgia Composite Squadron in LaGrange, Georgia. My decision to join in 2005 when I was age 14 was based on the opportunities that the Civil Air Patrol provides young adults to learn leadership and service. I was impressed by the discipline and confidence of the high-performing cadets and saw the cadet program as a way to prepare for a service academy and for military service, an important tradition in my family. I attended two encampments in Georgia Wing and served as the cadet commander of GA-153. I would finish out the cadet program by earning the Spaatz Award (#1801) before my 21st birthday. The reasons I am still in CAP today as a senior member and volunteer with the cadet program are largely the same as when I joined: I believe that CAP and the members of our organization can make a profoundly positive difference in the community and in the lives of the next generation as citizens, volunteers, and leaders.

Current Career?

I graduated in 2012 from the United States Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science with Japanese minor. After commissioning in the Air Force and a short stint as a second lieutenant with the Department of Political Science and Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies, I attended Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training and flew the T-6 Texan II and T-38C Talon. Following pilot training, I was sent to fly the B-52H Stratofortress also known as the BUFF out of Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. It has been my honor to have been given the opportunity to fly combat missions in Operations INHERENT RESOLVE and FREEDOM’S SENTINEL out of Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar and to deploy in support of United States Indo-Pacific Command out of Andersen AFB, Guam and Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory. I currently serve as Executive Officer for the 2nd Operations Group, continue to fly the B-52, and also work with captains and lieutenants at 41 bases as the President of the Western Region Company Grade Officers' Council.

What specific CAP experiences have influenced your career/life?

The experiences I had as a flight commander at the Georgia Wing summer encampment and as a CAP cadet commander prepared me in ways that have echoed throughout my Air Force career and still make a difference today. As a cadre member twice for the Air Force Academy's Basic Cadet Training, I built upon many of the foundational techniques I had learned at encampments to build up your subordinates and instill lessons and purpose effectively. As a group commander at the Academy, I was responsible for leading over 1,000 cadets, but it just seemed like a natural progression from CAP with running a staff, maintaining an effective chain of command, setting goals and operations, and leading drill and ceremonies. I also cannot think of any other program for young adults that allows students the chance to instruct their peers on diverse subject matter; those opportunities to teach aerospace education and leadership laboratories were beneficial for improving pedagogically, an important skill set for instructing as an Air Force officer or with flying. I am certainly grateful for all of the cadets and senior members who have helped me improve in these examples and countless others.

Today I am glad I get to give back to this great program through mentorship and cadet programs at Barksdale Composite Squadron in Louisiana Wing because of the difference it made in my life. I hope that many of you reading this are inspired by the countless others who feel the same way and choose to contribute with your time as a volunteer or financially as a donor to CAP.

 *Captain Gluck was selected as the 2018 Air Force Times' Airman of the Year "for exemplary achievement by a service member beyond the call of duty and a commitment to community service" and received the 2019 Secretary of the Air Force Leadership Award from the Honorable Heather Wilson as the number one graduate of Squadron Officer School for the academic year.

Hot off the Morse Center slide scanner. These were just acquired for the CAP's national history collection. Interestingly, the insignia on the lapels is correct based on early uniform regulations. Should anyone be able to identify the woman in the photographs Historian Col, Frank Blazich, Director of the Louisa S. Morse Center for CAP History, would be grateful. The date of these images is somewhere in the mid-1942 period (based on the uniforms).

Friday, August 9

Alumni & Friends Happy Hour and Social Networking

Baltimore, Maryland during CAP's National Conference

Phillips Seafood at 601 E. Pratt St

Cash Bar, 1800 - 2000

Save the date for an Alumni and Friends Gathering, Friday, August 9th, at 1800 in Baltimore, MD at Phillips Seafood. Network with other CAP-minded individuals who live in the area or are in town. Click below to be added to the notification list.

September 16-18

AFA's Air Space & Cyber Conference

National Harbor, MD

Stop by the Civil Air Patrol Table for an Alumni & Friends Sticker