GEORGIA -- Members of the Civil Air Patrol's Currahee Composite Squadron spent a recent Saturday morning helping Amy Smith, the wife of U.S. Army linguist Gordon Smith now serving in Afghanistan. The CAP volunteers cleared brush,repaired a backyard drainage ditch and performed general yard maintenance on the Smith property, located...
 Headline NewsALABAMA -- Air Force Brig. Gen. Teresa Djuric, commander of the Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development who oversees CAP-USAF, is recognized in a 'Writing Women Back Into History newspaper commentaryseries published this month by the Maxwell-Gunter Dispatch. The article on Djuric is the firstoftheseries, which... PENNSYLVANIA -- Mary Reineberg Buchard, who served in the Civil Air Patrol in her hometown of York, Pa.,was among the 1,000 Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress. The gold medal ceremony was awarded last Wednesday on Capitol... WEST VIRGINIA -- One month after a mountainside helicopter crash in a remote part of West Virginia, the U.S. Navy paused Wednesday to honor the Civil Air Patrol, West Virginia National Guard, Pocahontas and Randolph County first responders, local fire departments and West Virginia State Police who came to the... WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two former Civil Air Patrolvolunteers -- Joan Trebtoske Jenks and Jane Doyle -- are among the more than 1,000 members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, being honored today with the Congressional Gold Medal for their military service during World War II. Jenks, a native... OHIO -- The Civil Air Patrol was part of a multi-agency, multi-state search for a missing plane, which was found Friday night in a wooded area in Union County, near Maryville. The bodies of the pilot and his passenger, both from Indiana,were found in the wreckage. MASSACHUSETTS -- Steven Bates was recently named the Air Force Community Services Flight Manager of theYear for his business acumen in managing the Hanscom Air Fore Base Aero Club in 2009.Despite an economic slowdown,Batesturned a small loss in fiscal year 2008 into a substantial profit in 2009, thereby earning the... INDIANA -- Members of the Terre Haute Senior Squadron and the group itself will be honored for outstanding service at the 2010 Indiana Wing Conference in April. Lt. Col. Reginald Paul, the wing's counter-drug officer, has been named Senior Member of the Year; Capt. Adam Springmeyer has been named Safety... FLORIDA -- Two Civil Air Patrol cyber defense teams from the Burlington Composite Squadron in Burlington, N.C., and Beach Cities Cadet Squadron 107 in Torrance, Calif., captured second and third place respectively at the Air Force Association's CyberPatriot II Championships in Orlando Friday. They finished just shy of first place,... MICHIGAN -- Marine Cpl. Jacob Turbett died Feb. 13 in Afghanistan during a major offensive against the Taliban. His mother, Sheila Turbett, said he was killed by a single gunshot. Previously, the military-minded Turbett had completed tours of duty in Bangladesh and Iraq and had been stationed in Okinawa, Japan.... ALABAMA -- Col. Lisa Robinson assumed command of Civil Air Patrol's Alabama Wing on Feb. 6. She isthe first female commander of the wing, but her path to success was not without its obstacles. An article in her hometown newspaper, The Clanton Advertiser, chronicles her rise within the Civil Air... WEST VIRGINIA -- A 14-year-old Civil Air Patrol cadet is being hailed as a hero for his efforts to prevent his 4-year-old cousin from choking on awad of bubble gum. Cadet Senior Master Sgt. Dakota Workman of West Virginia Wing's Boone Composite Squadron told the local newspaper, the Coal Valley... MICHIGAN -- A renewal agreementwith the Department of the Air Force-National Museum of the United States Air Force will keep a military aircraft on display at the entrance of the Delta County Airport in Escanaba, Mich. The plane, a F-84F, is maintained by Civil Air PatrolLt. Col. Don Poe and... ILLINOIS -- Former CAP cadet Tonika Johnsonhas authored a children's book, Nikki the Airline Pilot, which tells of her experiences as a black female commercial airline pilot. It was a way to promote aviation education and to encourage children to read, said Johnson, in an interview with her hometown newspaper,... VIRGINIA -- Apartnership between Civil Air Patrol and Dulles Aviation is beneficial to both. The relationship works well, according to members ofVirginia Wing's Prince William Composite Squadron and owners of the aviation company. Both the Prince William squadron and Dulles Aviation are headquartered at the Manassas Regional Airport. Tools
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