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The Commanders Lead

2009

NOV-DEC

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The Southeast Region Wing Commanders, Senior Region Command Staff, National Commander and representative

from National Headquarters held a Region Command Call in mid-August at the Oak Haven Resorts in Sevierville,

TN. It was a great weekend of informal discussion and team building that should benefit all in Southeast Region.

One of the outcomes was a schedule of events around Southeast Region for the upcoming FY2010. I would like to

share some of the key events out of that schedule for your planning purposes. I encourage each of you to plan to

support your respective

wing conference as well as

other wings which might

be near you. I encourageall SER members to sup-

port the Southeast Region

Conference in May 2010. Ifyour schedule and fi-

nances permit, I also en-courage you to supportthe Summer Board and

Annual Conference since itwill give you a great per-

spective of the businessworkings of CAP at the

upper levels. There are

numerous great learning

labs in which to participate

Please continue to keep

safety at a high priority

level in all of your CAP

activities. Our members and our resources are extremely valuable to us. Help us to protect all of them.

Col James M. Rushing

Southeast Region Commander

6 7 November 2009 NEC Meeting St Louis

4 6 December 2009 PR Wing Conference Aguadilla

12 December 2009 Wreaths Across America

12 14 February 2010 AL Wing Conference TBD

25 27 February 2010 Winter Board Meeting Washington

5 7 March 2010 FL Wing Conference Orlando

19 21 March 2010 MS Wing Conference Gulfport

26 28 March 2010 SER Cadet Competition Maxwell16 17 April 2010 GA Wing Conference Norcross

30 Apr 2 May 2010 NEC Meeting TBD

21 23 May 2010 SER Conference Peachtree City

3 6 May 2010 SER Chaplain Corps Staff College Ft Benning

June 2010 IG College Albuquerque, NM

July 2010 National Cadet Competition McMinville, OR

23 30 July 2010 SE Region Staff College McGhee Tyson ANGB

1 4 September 2010 Summer Board & Annual Conference San Diego

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Aerospace Education

The 14th annual Aerospace Education Teacher Workshop was held from 6-24 July 2009 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennes-

see. The workshop was sponsored by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and staffed by CAP Aerospace Officers. The workshop was directed by Lt.Col. Dave Garner, DCS SER Aerospace Education (AE) and assisted by Majors Kermit Duckett, Gary Lynn and Paul Lewis, AE Directors for

Tennessee Wing. The workshop was kicked off by presentations by Maj. Gen. Richard Bowling, former National Commander, Col. James

Rushing, Southeast Region Commander, and Tennessee Wing Commander Col. Barry Melton.

Teachers received two hours of flight orientation by Tennessee Wing and visited Huntsville, Alabamas Marshall Space Flight Center where

NASA gave the class a VIP tour. The class also had a presentation by six World War II pilots that made all of us thankful for what they had

to go through to keep us free.

This summers course consisted of both the basic and advanced classesand 28 teachers from East Tennessee school systems attended. All of

the teachers signed on as CAP Aerospace Education Members and sev-

eral expressed interest in becoming regular members of CAP.

The workshop awards three hours of graduate credit to each teacher,and it is fully funded by the Tennessee Aeronautics Commission of Tenn.State Transportation Department. The workshop is one of the highest

rated teacher workshops held at the University of Tennessee.

More information and photos of the workshop are available at the South-

east Region Aerospace Education web site at www.capae.info

Friday July 31st 2009 Magee-Tyson ANG, TN The 2009 Southeast Region StaffCollege has graduated a class 15 persons. This years class had students fromAlabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina. Staff was composed

of members from Tennessee, Florida, and Ohio.

This years school was most fortunate to have Maj General Amy Courter, CAP

National Commander in attendance and participating in graduation ceremonies.

2009 Southeast Region Staff College

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