Group 1 \ Pictures

Group 1 Cadet Orientation Flights
St Louis Downtown (Parks) Airport, Cahokia, IL.
1 May 2010

Illinois Wing Glider comes to Group 1
Highland-Winet Airport , Highland, IL
27 April 2010

Operation Piasa
Austere Condition Field Training Exercise (FTX)
Operational Readiness Exercise
Pere Marquette State Park, Grafton, IL
23-25 April 2010

2010 Great Lakes Region
Emergency Services and Operations Conference
Grissom ARB, IN (Kokomo, IN)
March 2010

Scott Composite Squadron Hosted a
SkyWarn Severe Weather Spotters Course
Instructed by the St Louis, MO Office
of the National Weather Service
Scott AFB, IL
10 March 2010

IL Wing ground teams from Williamson County Comp Sq and Scott Comp Sq found and silenced an ELT at Vandalia Municipal Airport. They were assisted by an aircrew from Alton (KALN) flying a DF equipped Cessna 182.

The active ELT was traced to a Mooney aircraft parked inside of a hangar. The owner gave permission for the FBO to enter the aircraft and silence the radio.

It took ground team members, using hand-held DF equipment, only 15 minutes from the time they first heard the ELT until the time is was located in the hangar. In total, approximately four hours elapsed from the time of the first mission notification until the ELT was found and silenced.

A low-flying helicopter reported hearing the ELT signal from 2 miles away from the Vandalia Airport. The airport FBO cannot hear the signal from his office on the flight line. The IL Wing has activated CAP 1121 (a C-182T) from Alton (KALN), a ground team from Scott Composite Squadron and a UFD team from Benton. All are enroute to the scene.

Emergency Services Exercise\Training
10-T-4229
St Louis Regional Airport
23 January 2009

Illinois Wing Assists Kentucky Wing
with Ice Storm Disaster Relief Mission
26 Western Kentucky Counties were Declared Federal Disaster Areas
KYWG, ILWG, INWG, & OHWG were involved
1 February 2009 - 7 February 2009

ELT Mission
Southern Illinois Airport
Carbondale, IL.
26 January 2009
"FIND"
Last 121.5 SARSAT Mission in Illinois

Orientation Flight and Flightline Training
at St Louis Regional airport
17 August 2008

Thanks to Missouri Wing for the help on this Mission from their Aircrew
1 ILWG Aircraft, 1 MOWG Aircraft, & 2 ILWG Teams
one of two missions for Group 1 on the same day

Article and Photos by: Lt Col Ted E. Lohr
9 February 2008
It was a busy day for Southern Illinois Wing Units.

For the second time, an Illinois Wing, Group 1, Emergency Services training weekend held at the Scott Composite Squadron, Scott Air Force Base, turned into the real thing.

Training was underway Saturday morning when the alert was sounded. IC Major Danny Degott deployed 15 Cadets and Officers from the Scott AFB training and two from the 286^th Composite Squadron in Alton.

AFRCC advised the SARSAT coordinance were near Vandalia and Litchfield. The teams were divided and sent both ways. One ILWG and one MOWG Aircraft were launched.

The team that arrived in the Litchfield and was receiving a weak ELT signal, a ramp check was conducted at the local airport with no results.

During our Direction Finding Operations, 2d LT Kelly Sies a Letter Carrier by day, from Litchfield, advised that an aircraft had crash landed in a farm field north of Litchfield on Friday afternoon.

The team advised the Air Crews and headed in that direction. Ground teams and air units converged on the scene at almost the same time.

Teams arrived at the scene to find a Cessna 172 RG on its top in a Very wet plowed farm field; no one was in the aircraft. Ground Team leaders set up a perimeter around the scene and called the IC for permission to enter the aircraft.

The IC contacted the Aircraft owner and they sent a Key holder. The ELT was deactivated and DF units doubled checked it was silenced.

All units were released and returned to Base to refit and rehab.

As if that wasn’t a full day. Shortly after units got back to base, The IC Major Danny Degott called back and advised that there was a second ELT mission with coordinance near Vandalia.

The Team was deployed again. They arrived at Vandalia with no signal; they proceeded to Effingham per IC’s instructions and detected a very low ELT signal. Shortly after that the signal was undetectable. They search the area until the IC advised to return to base.

Upon return to Scott AFB after 23:30, a debrief was conducted. The training continued Sunday morning. All attendees continued training to refine their skills and re-emphasize what they had already learned and put into practice the day before.

Squadrons Attending the Group 1 ES Training Weekend:

Scott Composite Squadron GLR-IL-205

Jefferson Composite Squadron GLR-IL-338

Metropolis Composite Squadron GLR-IL-330

Williamson County Composite Squadron GLR-IL-061

Also on CAP News Online: http://www.cap.gov/visitors/news/cap_news_online/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&nodeID=6192&newsID=3994&year=2008&month=2

Illinois Wing News Blog: http://ilcapnews.blogs.com/

REDCAP Mission - Benton, Illinois
Overdue Aircraft (Crash) - FIND
30 November 2007 - 2 December 2007

Illinois Wing (ILWG) & Indiana Wing (INWG)
Thanks to Indiana Wing for the great help on this Mission

Chaplain (MAJ) J. Boozer, 1st LT C. Creades (INWG), Lt Col J. Bryan (INWG), Lt Col P. Hertel

Civil Air Patrol At the Scott Airfest
Scott Air Force Base will be hosting Airfest 2007, July 7 and 8. The base has asked for 20 volunteers
from Civil Air Patrol. CAP has been tasked with assisting with flight line crowd control and handing out Air Show programs at the Entry control point. In addition, there will be a CAP information table set up, along with our Cessna 182T NAV III “Glass Cockpit”, in Hanger 1, next to the B-2 Stealth Bomber.

We will begin this operation the evening of July 7 and have overnight accommodations available in
the Scott Composite Squadron area. Scott Composite Squadron has moved to a new location. The
Scott AFB Chapel 2 Annex (Building 5713) is the our new Headquarters.

Article by: Lt Col Ted E. Lohr and Lt Col Paul Hertel
Photos by: Lt Col Ted E. Lohr

Ten Group 19 Cadets from the Scott Composite Squadron based at Scott AFB and 286th. Composite Squadron based at St. Louis Regional Airport took to the sky on Saturday 26 May 2007 from St. Louis Regional Airport, Bethalto, IL., nine of them for their very first Orientation flight.

Orientation Pilot Maj Norm Morrisette talked the cadets through the Civil Air Patrol orientation flight syllabus. Group 19 Cadet Orientation Flight Coordinator Maj Brian Porter provided scheduling and oversight for this activity as well as instructing a class on the basic principals of flight and air traffic patterns.

Twelve CAP Officers were present to assist with flight operations and instruction in radio communications. Several Cadets had Family members in attendance to watch and take photos.

Group 19 Commander Lt Col Paul Hertel was on hand to congratulate all of the Cadets for their accomplishments.

1st LT Bruce Brunkow talks with Cadets and answers questions about aircraft and being a pilot

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