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Professional Development

Maj Steve Merriman, CAP, Group 3 Professional Development Officer

PDO/Training Weekend

Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 5:49 PM

Greetings CAP Members,  

Great Lakes Region will be hosting a combined Professional Development/Training weekend on March 27-28, 2010 at Great Lakes Region Headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. This event will host a total of 11 courses simultaneously.  Registration is now open to any Cadet or Senior wishing to attend.  Registration will close on March 24, 2010 at midnight.  

Cost will be $15.00 payable by check only, to Ohio Wing Hq.  We can not accept cash at the door.  Also, a group rate has been established at the Bay Mount Inn Rickenbacker on the South side of Columbus.  Cost is $55.00 per room per night.  Each room has 2 queen size beds, high speed Internet, and a comfortable environment. Breakfast is free at the hotel. If you share the room your cost is half.  614-491-4400  

I've attached all the courses as attachments and the Directors contact information. Just simply click on the course your interested in and a course description as well as contact information is available.

• Squadron Leadership School

• Corporate Learning Course

• Unit Commanders Course

• Training Leaders of Cadets (TLC)

• Encampment Staff Training

• Scanner Observers Course

• ICS 400/Homeland Security

• PAO Academy

• Crisis Incident Stress Management (CISM)

• G-1000 Cockpit Training

Uniform of the day will be any CORRECT senior member combination except BDU's, or Flight Suits.  A discrete uniform inspection will be performed at sign in so please come in appropriate uniform.  

I would also like to draw attention to the newest course were offering, "CAP Basic Computer Skills Course"  This course is intended for any members wishing to learn how to use your computer for CAP programs.  It is being taught at a "basic skills format" and not at a level that is "over your head".  This includes WIMR's, WMU, SIMS, E-servises, Security and all entry level skills needed for working with a computer.  This course has been needed for some time and were excited about conceiving it for this event.  

Please give this e-mail the widest possible distribution to your members.  

Thank you  

Bruce Tresz  Lt. Col. CAP
Director of Professional Development
Great Lakes Region Headquarters
Ohio Wing Headquarters

Upcoming Training Leaders of Cadets Course

Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 8:25 AM

Good afternoon,  

Do you work with cadets? Do you have members in your squadron that do? Do you want to become more effective at mentoring them and managing squadron level cadet programs? Then register for the TRAINING LEADERS OF CADETS course being presented by Ohio Wing Cadet Programs and hosted by the Wright Brothers 282nd Aero Composite Squadron!  

Who: All officers that have completed Level I training

What: “Training Leaders of Cadets” Course

When: January 23-24, 2009 from 0900 to 1700 (Saturday sign-in beginning at 0830)

Where: Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio

Why: To improve your ability to function as a mentor and supervisor to our cadets

Cost: The course is FREE, however participants will be responsible for their own meals and lodging if applicable.

Uniform: Appropriate officer corporate or dress uniform

To register, contact Capt Christopher Vecchi, CAP at: commander@squadron282.com.

CAPP 204, Professional Development Officer Specialty Track Study Guide

Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 5:44 PM

For your attention,

CAPP 204, 7 Dec 09, Professional Development Officer Specialty Track Study Guide, is posted on the publications page at:

 http://members.gocivilairpatrol.com/media/cms/P204_24A7F67546C94.pdf

VR,

John D. Sanderson
National Headquarters, Civil Air Patrol
Safety Administrator and Publications Manager
Voice: 334-953-7748, ext 229 or 877-227-9142, ext 229
Fax: 334-265-9590
Mail: 105 South Hansell Street
Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6332

CAP Officer Basic Course

Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 4:11 PM

Group Commanders,

Please forward to your Group Professional Development Officers and unit commanders.

The attached flier (PDF) announces the the cancellation of AFIADL-13 and the implementation of the new CAP Officers Basic Course (OBC).  If you or any of your Group members have questions please contact the Ohio Wing Professional Development Officer, Lt Col Bruce Tresz at (bbjtresz@juno.com).

Dave Winters, Colonel, CAP
Commander, Ohio Wing

29 Nov 09 Update -- IN WG CISM Course Registration Open

Members of Ohio Wing,  

For Your Information.

Dave Winters, Colonel, CAP
Commander, Ohio Wing

Indiana Wing is sponsoring, with support from the NESA COE and the IDHS Mari Hulman George SAR Training Center, ICISF-endorsed Crisis Intervention Training.  The course, which will provide both Group and Individual Peer Crisis Intervention Training, will be taught by Civil Air Patrol’s National Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Coordinator, Lt Col (Dr) Sam Bernard, on 11, 12, and 13 December 2009.  

Further details and course registration tools are available at:   http://home.earthlink.net/~glrin800/inwgcapgroupcrisisinterventioncourse/     

Please note, course registration will be limited to 25 participants on a first come, first served basis and we currently we have 20 registrants from three wings.  Registration will close on Sunday, 6 December.  

This is a critical ES support program that applies to all of our members.  Please consider participating!  

s/v  

RICHARD L. GRIFFITH, Lt Col, CAP
Vice Commander
Indiana Wing Civil Air Patrol
www.inwg.cap.gov

Commander Indiana Schools Group (GLR-IN-800)
home.earthlink.net/~glrin800  
H:  317-251-3950 C:  317-308-0506
Email:  rgriffith@inwg.cap.gov

Date: Thursday, November 11 10:35 PM

Members of Ohio Wing,

Any member of Ohio Wing is allowed to attend this training.  However, you do need the wing commanders permission to attend an out of state activity.  Please feel free to apply if interested.  Send an email through your chain of command to me and I will approve your attendance.

Dave Winters, Colonel, CAP
Commander, Ohio Wing

Indiana Wing is sponsoring, with support from the NESA COE and the IDHS Mari Hulman George SAR Training Center, ICISF-endorsed Group Crisis Intervention Training.  The course will be taught by Civil Air Patrol’s National Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Coordinator, Lt Col (Dr) Sam Bernard, on 11, 12, and 13 December 2009.  

Further details and course registration tools are available at http://home.earthlink.net/~glrin800/inwgcapgroupcrisisinterventioncourse/   Please note, course registration will be limited to 25 participants on a first come, first served basis.  

This is a critical ES support program that applies to all of our members.  Please consider participating!  

s/v  

RICHARD L. GRIFFITH, Lt Col, CAP
Vice Commander Indiana Wing Civil Air Patrol
www.inwg.cap.gov

Commander Indiana Schools Group (GLR-IN-800)
home.earthlink.net/~glrin800  
H:  317-251-3950
C:  317-308-0506
Email:  rgriffith@inwg.cap.gov

2009 Ohio Wing Conference

Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:50 AM

Now is the time!!  

It’s time to register for the 2009 Ohio Wing Conference. The Conference website (http://www.ohwg.cap.gov/conference/index.htm) is fully operational for digitally registering for the Conference.  When you click the registration tab on the home page, you’ll be directed to the registration page at which you’ll complete the digital form and when it’s completed, be able to view and print out a hard copy form.  A portion of the hard copy form is sent into the Wing with your payment and the instructions where to send your payment and how to make out your payment are included on the hard copy form.   

Be mindful of the fact that if you register after 13 Nov, you’ll incur an additional $5.00 late fee and need to include that with your registration.  

If you have additional questions about specifics regarding the Conference, please review the Conference CONPLAN posted on the website as your first source of information. If your questions aren’t answered there, please contact me (kencurell@aol.com or curellke@gmail.com) and I’ll follow up on your question(s).   

If you have questions about any website-related, Conference registration irregularities, please contact Captain Jerry Miller: jerry.miller@ccscap.org.

If you have any suggestions for material to be included on the Conference website or find erroneous information on the website, please contact 1Lt Paul Creed (paulcreediii@gmail.com).

Please get the word out to those not on the Wing email distribution system so they too can join us for time well spent together.   

Regards,
Ken

KENNETH E. CURELL, Lt Col, CAP
OH WG Conference Project Team Leader

PDO/Training Weekend

Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009 12:03 PM

Good evening,  

Registration for the upcoming PDO weekend is still in progress.

Registration for all classes will conclude on October 7, 2009.  I can not accept any application after that date.  Students that are already enrolled should forward their form 17 and check to Ohio Wing Headquarters as soon as possible to confirm enrollment.  Any member having that is difficulty enrolling can contact me directly and I'll forward their application.  

Cost is $10.00, please make checks payable to Ohio Wing Hq.  We can not accept money or applications at the door.   

Once again, here are the courses and directors for the event:  

Sign in will start at 7:30 am with general assembly at 8:00am.  Please don't be late, we start promptly at 8:00am.  All courses will conclude at or around 12:00 noon on Sunday.  We will have a graduation and then dismissal at 1:00pm.  

Bruce Tresz, Lt Col, CAP
Director of Professional Development
Ohio Wing Headquarters

Advanced Level 1 Course

Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:25 PM

Good evening,  

One of the courses that will be offered at the PDO weekend in October is the Advanced Level 1 course.  This new course is for newer members that are just joining or members that would like a refresher course on CAP as a Level 1 instructor.  I'm requesting that all unit commanders pass this information along to your newer members and encourage them to attend this course.  Were going to be offering all of the basic classes for newer members as well as the B cut Radio operators class.  This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about CAP and take nearly all of the classes that are needed for Senior Members.  All of the newer information on PDO will be available including the new Basic Officers Course that is scheduled to replace AFIADL 13 in January. It's also a great opportunity to meet the Wing Staff and become familiar with the location of the PDO courses that are offered here in Ohio.  

The course directors are Lt Pat Hrinko patricia.hrinko@gmail.com  and Lt Christine Mertz adagio2008@aol.com.

Group and Unit Commanders, can you please forward this information along to your new Senior Members that are not on the Wing e-mail list and probably are not aware that we are offering this new course for them. Thank you.  

Bruce Tresz, Lt Col, CAP
Director of Professional Development
Ohio Wing Headquarters

PDO Weekend

Date: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:07 PM

Good afternoon,  

Ohio Wing will be hosting a combination Professional Development and Training weekend on October 10-11, 2009 at Ohio Wing Headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.  This one and a half day event will host 10 courses at the same time.  Please note that we are posting a new Director for the ICS 300 course and all students interested in that course should re enroll or enroll with this new Director.  The other course directors posted are current.

Students should enroll directly with each courses director and not through myself.  To enroll, please forward your full name, CAP ID number, unit charter number, and rank to the course director that you wish to attend.

Cost of the event is $10.00 (except CISM and TLC) please forward your check and a completed form 17 to Ohio Wing Headquarters to confirm your enrollment. 

DSCC
Attn. Civil Air Patrol
P.O Box 3990
Columbus, Ohio 43218-3990  

Also, please see the attachment about information on the Advanced Level 1 course.  

Bruce Tresz, Lt. Col., CAP
Director of Professional Development

Ohio Wing Conference

Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009 11:07 AM

Members of Ohio Wing,

The Ohio Wing Conference will be held 21-22 November 2009 at the Holiday Inn, Worthington, OH.  Please mark the dates in your calendar and start your planning to attend.  The conference will have information and activities for every member.  Both Senior Members and cadets are invited to attend.

I recently distributed information about the hotel and conference costs to your Group Commander.  They should be passing this information to your unit commander shortly.  Registration information will be distributed at a later date.

Commanders - if you have any questions please feel free to contact the conference project officer, Lt Col Ken Curell at (gp7cmdr@gmail.com).

Dave Winters, Colonel, CAP
Commander, Ohio Wing

2009 Pre-Conference Training Classes

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:31 PM

Region and Wing Commanders,
 
The registration numbers are low for several of the classes at the Pre-Conference Training Sessions for this year. For example, there are 80 slots (two classes of 40) for the G1000 ground school that Cessna is teaching but we only have 11 people signed up so far. The CISM, ICS 400 and ARCHER Mission Base classes also have a number of spaces available at this time.

These sessions offer our members a great opportunity to receive valuable training and CAP has arranged for certified instructors to teach many of the classes. Please help us promote all of the classes on the attached spreadsheet within your regions and wings, so that as many members as possible can take advantage of these great courses. We are trying to keep from combining or cancelling any of the classes, so it is important that we increase the number of people registered during the next week. This training is something that we do not want our members to miss out on.

Thank you for your help, and we look forward to seeing you in San Antonio!

Registration Link:

http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=1add81b2-9f7e-4fab-803
0-ed98d02374e8

Sincerely,

John A. Salvador
Director of Missions, HQ CAP
Toll Free: 888.211.1812 ext. 301
Phone: 334.953.3922 ext. 301
DSN: 493.3922 ext. 301
Fax: 800.555.7902 (DSN 493-5944)
jsalvador@capnhq.gov

Job Opportunities with the Air Force

Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:18 PM

For those Ohio Wing members and/or their spouses, family members, friends, etc.,

The Air Force has announced that they will begin hiring civilians to staff Air Force unit level administrative positions.  Sort of a return to the old "orderly room" concept.  Please see the following article for more information and bookmark the usa job site mentioned in the article.  I have no other information than what is contained in the article and the web site.

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/07/airforce_support_staff_072309/

Dave Winters, Colonel, CAP
Commander, Ohio Wing

PDO EVENTS

Date: Monday July 6, 2009 10:09 PM

Members of Ohio Wing,  

There will be a 1 day AFIADL 13 course held on Saturday August 1, 2009 at Ohio Wing Headquarters in Columbus.  Any officer needing AFIADL for completion of level 2 in the Senior Member PDO tract should plan on attending if possible.  This will be one of the last opportunities to take advantage of this course before the new Basic Officer Course (BOC) is implemented at the end of this year.  The National failure rate for CAP members is over 30%.  This class room style course has a failure rate of 2%.  This is the easiest method to pass the exam and complete level 2.  

I highly encourage attending this 1 day course if you still need to complete AFIADL.  

Here are the details:  

To enroll, please e-mail me at bbjtresz@juno.com with your full name, rank, CAP ID number, and unit charter number. Location is the Auditorium at Ohio Wing Headquarters in Columbus. Cost will be $10.00 payable by check to Ohio Wing. Uniform of the day will be white aviator shirt with dark blue pants or golf/polo shirt combination. Please forward your check and a completed form 17 to Ohio Wing Hq:

DSCC
attn Civil Air Patrol
P.O. Box 3990
Columbus, Ohio 43218-3990  

Also, Great Lakes Region Staff College will be held on July 12-18, 2009 at Grissom AFB in Indiana.  RSC is needed for completion of Level 4. Contact the course director, Lt. Col. Dick Neuwirth at rcvneuw@bright.net .  This week long course is a great CAP career opportunity and a highly rewarding experience. I hope to see you there.

Thank you.  

Bruce Tresz  Lt. Col. CAP
Director of Professional Development
Ohio Wing Headquarters

Summer AFIADL Course

Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 10:09 PM

Good evening,

I'm receiving a number of request to conduct a Summer AFIADL 13 course (not related to the PDO weekend) and to attempt to conduct this course in July. I have notified your Group Commanders that I can schedule this course if we receive enough support for it.  I would need at least 30+ members to enroll and commit to the course.  At this time I have approximately 14 interested in signing up.  Please contact your Level 1 and 2 members and have them contact me at bbjtresz@juno.com .  At this point I'm looking at July 25 or 26 to hold the course with a location to be announced.  Cost would be $10.00 and we would attempt to hold this 1 day course from 8:00am to 6:00pm.

This notice is intended for the newer members of the organization that may not be on the Wing e-mail list.  Please pass this notice through your units to the members needing it.  Also, Cadets that have attained the Mitchell or higher are permitted to attend with their Unit Commanders approval. 

Thank you.

Bruce Tresz Lt. Col. CAP
Director of Professional Development
Ohio Wing Headquarters

From the Ohio Wing PDO:

The 2009 Great Lakes Region Staff College will be held at Grissom AFB in Indiana on the week of  July 12-18, 2009.  Any interested officer needing GLR Staff College can enroll by contacting the course director Lt. Col. Dick Neuwirth at  rcvneuw@bright.net .  SLS and CLC are required before attending RCS and your commander must approve.  There is no rank requirement.  Please forward an electronic CAPF 17 through ranks to Lt. Col. Neuwirth.  RCS is required for completion of Level 4 in the PDO program.  This week long course is a rewarding, yet challenging, PDO event.  I highly encourage and suggest you plan on attending.

Also, there has been numerous request of me to conduct an AFIADL 13 course separately from the PDO weekend in September.  If there is interest and at least 30 interested members, then I will schedule this course for June or July at the Mansfield Lahm AFB in Mansfield Ohio. As most of you know, AFIADL 13 is being replaced by the new Basic Officers Course (BOC) at the end of this year.  This new course is at least 40 chapters long (maybe more) and will need nearly a year or more to complete.  I'm excited about this new course as I'm on the committee at National that is designing it.  However, if taking a year long on line course is not interesting, then I highly encourage attending an AFIADL course while that opportunity still exists.  After December 30th of this year you will be committed to the BOC needed for competition of Level 2.

Any interested member that would like to attend a June or July date AFIADL 13 course can contact me at bbjtresz@juno.com with your name, rank, and CAP ID number.  I will re notify the Wing with a date and time. Thank You.

Bruce Tresz  Lt. Col. CAP
Director of Professional Development
Ohio Wing Headquarters.