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Issue # 24

Week of April 20, 2015

Cadets of the Week

 

YEAR END TRIP SIGN-UP

For the next two Monday nights (April 20th and 27th), Year-end Trip sign-ups will occur at Rotary Hall from 1900 until 2100.  Please park at Village Union Public School and NOT in the driveway at Rotary Hall.

Please have with you emergency contact info for the long weekend in May, and pertinent medical information (including prescription medications) for your cadet.

The cost of the trip is $200 (minus 10% of fall tagging and 10% spring tagging, if applicable).  Amounts owing will be available at the hall on sign up nights.  Payment can be made by cash or cheque made payable to “151 Chadburn Squadron”.

We have space for approximately 85 cadets on the year end trip, if we have more cadets than that sign up, selection will be based upon achievement points.  If your cadet is not selected after sign ups are done, you will be reimbursed the amount paid.

Squadron t-shirts will be available for sale during sign up nights for $15 and are mandatory for wear on at least one day of the trip.  (If your cadet already has a t-shirt, they do not need to purchase another one).

 

Power Familiarization Flying Sign Up

The Squadron recently got approved to restart their Power Familiarization flying program from the Oshawa Airport.
This coming Monday April 20, signup sheets will again be available for those cadets that missed sign up last week.

Flights are $10 per 45 minute flight. We will be scheduling our first flights shortly and you will be contacted by the NCO in charge.

Cadet Activities 

Date	Day	Month	Activity	Location	Time
20	Mon	Apr	Cadet Training	Central Collegiate	1830 – 2200 hrs
21	Tues	Apr	Level 1 Open Shooting	Squadron HQ	1900 – 2130 hrs
22	Wed	Apr	Boot Shining	Squadron HQ	1900 – 2130 hrs
22	Wed	Apr	Drill Team	Squadron HQ	1900 – 2100 hrs
23	Thurs	Apr	Competition  Band	Lviv Hall	1900 – 2130 hrs
24	Fri	Apr	Competition Band	Central Collegiate	1800 — 2000 hrs
25	Sat	Apr	Band & Drill Competition	Kingston	1100 – 1700  hrs
25	Sat	Apr	Rifle Team	Squadron HQ	1300 – 1700 hrs
25	Sat	Apr	Power Flying	Oshawa Airport	0800 – 1100 hrs
26	Sun	Apr	Power Flying	Oshawa Airport	0800 – 1100 hrs

For details of the Squadron’s many activities please review the Squadron

calendar by following this link :

https://www.chadburn.org/activity-calendar-2

Orienteering, Ganaraska Forest Centre

One of the Squadron’s more popular activities is orienteering in the Ganaraska Forest.

Cadets first have a classroom training session and then its off to the forest to find the various targets that the staff have set up.

It sounds simple enough but some cadets certainly had their problems when it comes to recognizing the terain features on map and then using a compass to locate the targets.

As one can see it was not all orienteering as the cadets also got a chance to take on the staff in a game of baseball.

Royal Order of the Glassy Boot

The following cadets have all been accepted as full members in the special and exclusive society

known  as the “Royal Order of the Glassy Boot.”

WO1/WO2	WO1 Bliss	WO2 Boyden	WO2 Hembruff	WO2 Lloyd, D
	WO2 Shaw	WO2 Sheppard
FSGT	FSgt Barton	FSgt Brandow	FSgt Dellipizzi	FSgt Gagnon
	FSgt Katzer	FSgt Lloyd, A	FSgt O’Brien	FSgt Sam
	FSgt Travis
SGT	Sgt Abraham	Sgt Annis	Sgt Carson	Sgt Davies
	Sgt Hewett	Sgt Kennedy	Sgt Loyst	Sgt Mejia
	Sgt Milne	FSgt Nemeth	Sgt Singh
FCPL	FCpl Alleyne	FCpl Chandler	FCpl Hancock	FCpl Hayes
	FCpl Katzer	FCpl Sealy	FCpl Talhouk	FCpl L. Mastroianni
	FCpl S. Mastroianni
CPL	Cpl Anthony	Cpl Garroick	Cpl Rabjohn	Cpl Goss
LAC	LAC Boyden

Cadets wishing to apply for membership must first be approved by the Squadron Warrant Officer,

then we will post their name here in our newsletter.

Financial Planning Presentation

“Winning The Money Game” with Mr. Jerry Smith

Each year we have a financial advisor come in and speak to our cadets about managing one’s finances.

An important topic when you consider that not too far down the road many of our cadets will be getting ready for a job or an institute of higher learning.

Up Coming Cadet Activities

Day	Month	Activity	Location
25	Apr	EOA Band & Drill Comp	Kingston
12	May	Annual Inspection	Legends Center
15-18	May	Year End Trip	Kingston & Ottawa
30	May	Canadian International Military Tattoo	Hamilton

Thoughts From the Treadmill

Another great weekend as far as the weather goes.  I can’t remember the last tag days where we had such nice weather for the entire weekend.  I would like to thank all of the cadets who participated in the fund-raising, as well as their parents for getting them to the locations.   I would also like to thank all of the staff who made the weekend a success.

It is hard to believe that the Annual Inspection is now less than a month away.  I would like to invite all of the parents and friends of the Squadron out to see this great group of young people in action on May 12th. They have worked so hard all year to get to this level of proficiency , I am proud of them and I know anyone who sees the annual will also have a sense of pride in the entire group. 

Good Luck to both the Drill Team and the Band who will be travelling to Kingston next Saturday to compete in the Easter Ontario Area Band and Drill Competition.  

As I write this on Sunday night, word is out that the secondary school teachers will be going on strike tomorrow.  As it stands now, we will still be parading at Central Collegiate tomorrow night.  If this changes, we will update the Squadron web page as well as the Facebook page.  Each cadet will also receive a phone call.  The plan is that we will parade at Rotary Hall if we can’t use the school. 

That’s all for now.

Stay safe and have a great week.

Major Bliss

“Rules of the Air”

Some practical thoughts and comments regarding the world of flying and aviation.

“Good judgement comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.”

Aviation Photo Of the Week

Restored B-29 Emerges on 70th Anniversary of its First Delivery

It looks like Fifi, the only known B-29 to maintain airworthy status, but it will soon have some welcome company. After several decades, the efforts to bring the B-29 bomber named Doc from its dormancy in the Mojave Desert to back into the skies has taken one giant step in the right direction. While the initial restoration efforts moved at a snail’s pace due to a lack of funding and adequate workspace, the airplane, which moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 2000, has been enthusiastically worked on for the past two years by volunteers. The group has estimated that it will cost between $7 million and $9 million to finish Doc’s restoration.

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