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Dispatch Issue # 28
Week of April 1, 2012
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Cadet Tagging!!
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All cadets need to come Monday night prepared to sign-up for at least 2 tagging shifts, a Thurs or Fri shift and shifts on Sat or Sun. There is no cadets on Apr. 9 because of Easter so if you are not going to be at cadets this Mon make sure you let your team leader know what shifts you can do so they can sign you up.
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Squadron Photos!!
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Do not forget Monday evening we will be taking Squadron photos!
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151 Squadron Welcomes a New Squadron Officer
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Our Squadron now has a new Officer Cadet. OCdt.Rick McAteer. He is seen here being sworn into the Canadian Forces by the Squadron’s CO Major Puglisevich. Mr. McAteer brings a wealth of experience to the officer corps of the Squadron and as a civilian instructor he has been a valuable asset to the Squadron’s training programs.
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Fund Raising Projects
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This week we are introducing several new fund raising projects to help generate funds for the operation of our Squadron
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Vesey’s Bulbs Charlottetown PEI
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The first is a Spring program to sell garden flowers from Vesey’ Bulbs. We currently have all the relevant pamphlets and order forms for their products and they will be handed out to cadets tomorrow evening.
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MacMillan’s Acton Ontario
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Our second fund raiser is MacMillan’s foods a well-known fund raising opportunity that specializes in frozen foods such as cookie mixes, munchies, pizza, meats, steaks etc.. We will have order forms and notices to hand out tomorrow evening.
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Golf Tournament
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Yes the Squadron is gearing up for its third golf tournament at the airport golf course. The fundraising tournament will be held on June 9 at the Airport Golf Club and we will shortly be making a more formal announcement.
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Interprovincial Cadet Exchange Visit
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Sea cadets from Thunder Bay Ontario visit 151 Chadburn Squadron in Oshawa
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One of the most sought after benefits that comes from membership in the Canadian cadet program is the interprovincial cadet exchange program which allows cadets from one area of the country to travel to another part of Canada and visit with another cadet unit which may not necessarily be from the same element. On this trip it was the Sea Cadets from Thunder Bay Ontario who flew to Oshawa to visit with our squadron. The cadets arrived on Friday and travelled with our cadets to Toronto, Niagara Falls and then to CFB Trenton on Monday. The cadets then returned home by air very early last Tuesday morning.
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Our Squadron has been very fortunate to have two memorable trips through this program. The first was to Val’d Or Quebec where our cadets had a chance to go down in a gold mine. The second visit was with an Army Cadet unit in St. Justine Quebec. Here we had a chance to sample taffy like maple syrup, drive a dog sled through the Quebec bush and go on the largest and longest tube ride in North America at Valcartier Quebec. In addition to these two trips we have been hosts for Sea Cadets from Abbotsford BC and we have also hosted an air cadet unit from Rimouski Quebec.
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With this trip now behind us it would appear that it may be our turn to travel again. If we do it will probably not be until next year and we have no idea where in Canada it may be.
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Here are our guests out roller skating with our cadets and visiting the Ontario Regiment’s Tank Museum at the Oshawa airport. They also had a ride around the airport in one the museum’s armored personnel carriers.
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One of the features of the Inter provincial exchange program is that it not only gives cadets from other parts of the country to see another part of Canada but it is also a chance for the host unit to have its cadets meet and travel with cadets from the visiting unit. On each of the trips whether it be to Toronto, Niagara Falls our cadets were there with our guests.
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In the photo you can see the cadets and staff from our squadron who travelled with our visitors on their trip to the Air Force Memorial Museum at Canadian Forces Base Trenton. Our cadets and staff are pictured with a replica of Lloyd Chadburn’s Mark 9 Spitfire which displays the markings LVC. There was apparently one other Spitfire a Mark 5C which also had the same markings.
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Our last get together with our guests. A pizza party at the Squadron HQ.
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Royal Order of the Glassy Boot
Honorable Members
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#1 Flight
F/Sgt C. Barton, F/Sgt M. Murphy, LAC F. Achan, Sgt. A. Boyden, F/Cpl D. Chandler, Cpl C. Zdebiak, Cpl R. Barton
# 2 Flight
F/Sgt H. Whitney, F/Sgt M. Lysyk, Sgt. K. Katzer, Cpl T.J. Malette, Cpl. J. Ehrt,
Sgt B. Jackson, Cpl. Flanagan Dellipiz, Sgt R. Bliss
# 3 Flight
F/Sgt J. Bauer, Sgt. A. Hembruff, Sgt B. Mogosh, Cpl B.Kennedy
# 4 Flight
F/Sgt M.Moroz, F/Cpl M. Wood, Sgt S. Schuldis, F/Cpl V.NcNaught, Cpl Medina, Cpl M. Obrien
# 5 Flight
F/Cpl C. Barratt, F/Cpl J. Shaw
Band Flight
WO2 T. Smith
Head Quarters Staff
WO 1 M.C.White, F/Sgt T. Neill, F/Sgt P. Lysyk, F/Sgt R. Manders, Sgt P.McQuillan, WO11 C. Williams
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Quick Links to the Squadron Web Site – Chadburn.org
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To link to the Summer Camp Application Status List – Click Here
The Squadron’s Google Activity Calendar– Click Here
Past Issues of the Squadron Newsletters– Click Here
You Tube– Click Here
Web Links – Click Here
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Aviation Photo of The Week
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One man was killed when this B-17 took a direct hit on Oct. 15, 1944, over Germany and Nine men survived. Photographs show a machine gun dangling from the left cheek of the aircraft, which miraculously returned to its home base after being hit by a German 88 anti-aircraft shell. The mission began from Nuthampstead England and the target was Cologne Germany.
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When the B-17 was hit, the instrument panel all but disintegrated. Only the altimeter and magnetic compass still worked and part of the nose peeled back and obstructed the vision of the co-pilot. The radio was gone, the oxygen lines broken and all this was complicated by the sub-zero temperature at 27,000 feet blasting into the cockpit. The pilots descended to about 2,000 feet and the navigator just stood on the flight deck and gave the crew the headings from memory to get them back safely to England
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