Case Again Douglas Fraser in Texas

Another Success in San Antonio

For Air Educational activity and Training Control, the news about their symposium merely gets better. Terminal year, they set an attendance record. This twelvemonth, they broke it. More than 3,800 people gathered in San Antonio for the annual conference, held in Jan, and ane of the large draws was the technology exposition, organized by the Alamo Chapter.

Air Force Clan Chairman of the Board S. Sanford Schlitt was a invitee of honour for the two days of events, along with keynote speakers Secretarial assistant of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, Gen. Douglas M. Fraser, head of United states Southern Command, and CMSAF James A. Roy.

The symposium featured some 100 presentations, organized into categories such equally grooming and educational innovations, national security, and leadership. Topics ranged from Democratic people's republic of korea's "nuclear diplomacy" and the U.s. response to the convulsion in Haiti, to using social media and USAF recruiting.

As for the exposition, former AFA Lath Chairman John J. Politi and Alamo Chapter Executive Vice President Michael P. Nishimuta headed the affiliate's team effort. Politi rounded up sponsors, while Nishimuta worked with vendors. The two lined up 133 exhibitors.

At an AETC symposium luncheon, AFA Board Chairman Sandy Schlitt (second from correct) is introduced past Gen. Douglas Fraser to 2nd Lt. Darrell Moyers. At right is Gen. Edward Rice Jr., AETC commander. Fraser heads US Southern Control. Moyers is from the 17th Grooming Wing, Goodfellow AFB, Tex. (Photo by Joel Martinez)

Politi noted that the starting time symposium v years ago had so few exhibits, information technology could hardly exist called an expo. He said Gen. William R. Looney III, and so AETC commander, asked the chapter to become involved in the symposium and expo, knowing that AFAers had experience in this expanse. The affiliate stepped in for the second symposium and has steadily built it upward ever since.

The chapter has many tasks in the symposium-expo project. It arranges for some of the presentations given by speakers from the defense industry, for example. It pays for part of the AETC formal ball that serves equally the culminating event. Chapter member David Pope, assisted by SMSgt. Cynthia Barrowman, put together an executive-level dinner for Air Force VIPs, including major command vice commanders in boondocks for their own conference, held in conjunction with the symposium.

This year, the chapter even spurred a contest amidst armed forces booths, with Chapter President Randy Coggins application first place to the 59th Medical Wing for a professional display that got the bulletin across. The booth highlighted critical care air ship team (CCATT) capability.

Most of the nearly 4,000 airmen at the symposium and expo were attracted to loftier-tech items displayed past Lockheed Martin, BAE, and Alenia North America, Politi said in a telephone interview. The airmen, he said, had "a ball playing with the simulators."

Likewise In San Antonio: Cyber Salute

In Dec, a team of high schoolers from San Antonio received recognition from the urban center and the Alamo Chapter every bit the area's tiptop finishers in initial rounds of AFA's CyberPatriot III contest.

Several organizations, including the Greater San Antonio Sleeping accommodation of Commerce, SAIC, and Boeing, honored Jose Banda, Robert Flores, Mario Puente, Lawrence Roberts, and Clint Sierra from the Alamo Colleges' Information Technology and Security University with a luncheon.

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro presented the students with the countdown Mayor's Cyber Cup. The five squad members earned it by scoring the best amongst 21 teams in the area. According to Michael P. Nishimuta, chapter executive VP, San Antonio had more teams competing in CyberPatriot than any other city in the US.

Gen. Richard E. Webber, 24th Air Force commander from Lackland AFB, Tex., gave the luncheon keynote address. He spoke about the importance of building a workforce capable of protecting the nation'southward information security.

The Alamo Affiliate presented each student on the winning team with a $i,000 scholarship. The students also received personalized Air Strength-mode bomber jackets from NCI Corp.

CyberPatriot competitions aim to inspire high school students to take up careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

Swipe This Idea

Military machine personnel typically accumulate a hodgepodge of educational credits both military and noncombatant.

Fort Wayne Chapter President John Kirkwood, a retired Air Force colonel and adjunct professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Ind., knows this well. He says the schoolhouse found this out, besides, when some 400 Army Guardsmen, airmen from the ANG's 122nd Fighter Fly, Reservists, and veterans enrolled.

IUPFW Chancellor Michael A. Wartell began diverse approaches to making the university "military friendly" and turned to the Fort Wayne Affiliate.

With the group's approval, Kirkwood got involved in selecting a military-pupil services coordinator for the academy, and "vet rep" Joyce Vaughan began the job in November. Amid the first things she determined was that the school needed help in evaluating Community College of the Air Strength transcripts and also needed more common access card readers.

By swiping a CAC through such a reader, a military machine member tin admission service records. This helps school officials make up one's mind benefits and grant due credit, particularly for military grooming, schooling, and experience.

The Fort Wayne Chapter voted to act as a bridge between the university and the local 122nd FW. Kirkwood and Chapter Treasurer Paul A. Lyons then took Vaughan to meet officials in the wing's field back up squadron.

As a result, the 122nd lent the university 6 CACs from excess inventory in January and designated a point of contact for the school.

Essentially, IUPFW now has what Kirkwood jokingly calls "a hotline"—the ability to directly telephone the right person at the Guard unit for help in "decoding" anything war machine.

With a Grant From AFA

The Scott Memorial Chapter president, Alan H. Gaffney, periodically visits local Air Force JROTC and Ceremonious Air Patrol units, distributing free issues of Air Forcefulness Mag and talking up AFA'southward mission and programs.

At Dupo Community High School in Dupo, Sick., Gaffney has strived to build a human relationship with the AFJROTC unit headed by retired Maj. Michael T. Conley, the senior aerospace science instructor, and retired SMSgt. John D. Solomon, the ASI. So in November, when Conley was looking over a list of bachelor grants on the AFJROTC headquarters website, it was no wonder that AFA'due south AFJROTC grant caught his eye.

The $250 awards promote aerospace education-related activities, anything from buying textbooks or DVDs to field trips. The Dupo AFJROTC unit of measurement applied for funds to have cadets on an excursion with its partner Columbia (Ill.) High School to the St. Louis Scientific discipline Middle. Simply a couple weeks afterwards, AFA selected the unit and ix others nationwide to receive the grants.

In December, 28 students spent all twenty-four hour period at the Science Eye and its planetarium. The grant covered their transportation, admission, and lunch. The kids had been studying astronomy, and Conley commented that even though they had read textbooks and looked at PowerPoint presentations beforehand, the planetarium program was able to "put a lot of meaning" into the information.

Rickenbacker Remembered

Joined by several members of Ohio's Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker Memorial Chapter, AFJROTC cadets from Westland Loftier School in Galloway, Ohio, conducted their annual graveside memorial anniversary for the affiliate'south namesake.

Globe War I ace Edward V. Rickenbacker, a native of Columbus, Ohio, was a race car driver before volunteering for military service. During the war, he started out as a military driver in France merely soon talked his way into flight schoolhouse in Tours. He eventually earned 26 aeriform victory credits, four of them for airship busting, and too received the Medal of Award. After World War I, he led Eastern Airlines, guiding it through a menses of huge growth. He died in 1973, at historic period 82.

Chapter member Melvin H. Gerhold, who retired from the Air Forcefulness and became an AFJROTC instructor at Westland Loftier in 1966, organized the offset Rickenbacker memorial service in the mid-1970s as a way to educate youngsters about the legendary pilot from their expanse.

More 2 dozen cadets participated in the latest remembrance, held at Greenlawn Cemetery in Oct, the calendar month of Rickenbacker'southward birth. The ceremony included a color baby-sit and prayers led by student clergyman Kathryn Snyder. Cadets Haley Maynard and Daria Mosel had researched Rickenbacker'southward life story and read their paper to the audience gathered at his grave site.

The cadets' aerospace scientific discipline instructor is retired SMSgt. Clement L. Francis Jr., a chapter member.

Some of the chapter members attention the service had been present at some of the first memorials. This included Robert Dean, Richard J. Luckay, and Richard H. Coots Jr., who helped conduct the event one twelvemonth as a Westland High School AFJROTC cadet himself. Gerhold, the original organizer, died in December 2010.

Abode-for-the-Holidays Ball

The Scott Memorial Chapter pointed the way to an AFA AFJROTC grant that allowed these students to visit the St. Louis Science Center—particularly its planetarium.

The Falcon Chapter in Jacksonville, Fla., helped the local Northeast Florida Affiliate of the US Air Force Academy Parents Clan carry out its annual all-service military ball in December. The black-necktie formal takes place when cadets from v service academies—including the Merchant Marine Academy—are home for wintertime break.

This twelvemonth, Falcon Chapter President Robert Five. Bilik was amongst the guests.

Earlier last year, Anne Bloch, the local parents grouping president, had fabricated several presentations about the event to the Falcon Chapter, seeking their support.

Chapter donations of $200 eventually sponsored tickets for 5 cadets to attend the brawl, held at Naval Station Mayport.

Attendance increased from 120 midshipmen and cadets in 2009 to 185, this past December, reported Greg Bloch of the parents group.

More Chapter News

In Indianapolis, the Primal Indiana Chapter hosted an AFA berth at a veterans appreciation consequence, sponsored past United states of america Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) and the Military-Veterans Coalition of Indiana. Held at the Defence Finance and Bookkeeping Service facility at the former Fort Benjamin Harrison, the November issue included a luncheon and information fair with booths for veterans', state, and federal organizations. They provided information on health care, benefits, and finances. Central Indiana Chapter VP Milford Eastward. Compo and member Harold F. Henneke manned the booth. Compo said they highlighted AFA'due south back up for science, engineering science, engineering, and math activities and the CyberPatriot program in local loftier schools.

William W. Spruance, 1916-2011

Retired Brig. Gen. William West. Spruance, an AFA National Director Emeritus, died in his sleep Jan. 15. He was 94.

Born in Wilmington, Del., he was commissioned in 1939 on graduation from Princeton University. He get-go served in the Army's 2nd Armored Division, but during Globe War Ii transferred to the Air Corps and began flying transports over the "Hump" in the Prc-Burma-India theater.

After the war, he became an official in the Delaware political loonshit. He was a founding member of the state'south Air National Guard, retiring in 1976 as the state'southward assistant aide general for air.

He survived a T-33 crash in 1961 and thereafter gave numerous presentations on flying safety and crash survival.

Along with his untiring commitment to AFA, Full general Spruance had also been chairman of the board of trustees of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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Boosted IMAGES

Visiting the AETC expo's L-3 booth are (50-r): Thomas McClain, Gen. Edward Rice Jr., AFA Lath Chairman Sandy Schlitt, and Lenny Genna. McLain and Genna are with L-3, a title sponsor of the expo, which was organized past Alamo Chapter members.

At the AETC symposium's luncheon are (fifty-r): Gen. Douglas Fraser, AFA Board Chairman Sandy Schlitt, Gen. Edward Rice Jr., and Alamo Affiliate President Randy Coggins. (Photograph by Joel Martinez)

AETC expo organizer John Politi (left), old AFA Board Chairman and now an Alamo Chapter fellow member, gets a visit during the expo from Golden Triangle Chapter President Rick Johnson (right) and Col. Barre Seguin, 14th Flying Preparation Wing, Columbus AFB, Miss.

AFJROTC cadets from Westland High Schoolhouse in Galloway, Ohio, fix for their memorial service to honour Eddie Rickenbacker. Several members of the Rickenbacker Affiliate attended the anniversary.

Westland Loftier School AFJROTC cadets (l-r) Hayley Maynard, Daria Mosel, and Kathryn Snyder at the Rickenbacker memorial ceremony. Robinson Abreu holds the book of prayers and readings.

In San Antonio, the Information technology Security Academy's CyberPatriot team shows their $1,000 grants presented past David Pope (far left), the Alamo Affiliate'southward Aerospace Education Foundation president. Also pictured: Alamo Affiliate President Randy Coggins and Richard Perez (far right), Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce president.

At the lunch jubilant San Antonio's winning CyberPatriot teams, Alamo Chapter President Randy Coggins (at the podium) presents Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio, with a AFA membership.

Recruiting for AFA, Primal Florida Chapter's Richard Ortega (far right) visits with 1st Lt. Andrew Peloquin and 1st Lt. Marlo Peloquin. Andrew Peloquin is with the AFROTC disengagement at the University of Fundamental Florida. Marlo Peloquin is a KC-135 pilot stationed at MacDill AFB, Fla.

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