Meeting 11 June 2013- AGENDA

"The strength of a unit comes not so much from the numbers, although there is strength in numbers, but from how strong the INDIVIDUAL is.  If a cadet cannot march as an individual, then the whole of the unit suffers.  It is like the ancient soldiers who worked together with shield and sphere...the unit can fall from just one person who can't hold the line."

Cadets are asked to bring 1 dollar and a bottle of water; there will be pizza.  Cadets who missed last week should bring their 5 dollars.


1500L hrs- Opening Ceremony, Pledge of Allegiance, Cadet Oath and Moment of Silence

Safety Briefing:  Looking out for hazards in the field.

NEWS: 

 Cadet Del Valle attended the Airman Leadership School in Brownsville, Texas.

Lt Anthony Berry will behaving surgery later this week.  Keep him in your best wishes and prayers.

Cadets going to Encampment at the end of the Month need to go on line and pay.  All equipment needed will need to be gathered for them.

1530L hrs- DRILL PRACTICE

1600 hrs- Communications Training/Communications Practice:  Will begin with listening skills test and then go into a compass course.

1730 hrs- Dismiss

Meeting 4 June 2013- AGENDA

"Don't worry about things you cannot control or that have not happened yet. It's like people who worry about asteroids hitting the Earth. Why worry...it just means you "live" less."  - Maj J. E. Carrales, CAP

Cadets are asked to pitch in $5 for Pizza and drinks.

1500L hrs- Opening Ceremony, Pledge of Allegiance,  Cadet Oath and Moment of Silence

Safety Briefing

NEWS: Group VII Airman Leadership School in Brownsville. This weekend. The fee is 25 Dollars.

"It's going to run Friday evening starting at 7 and will end Sunday around 10am. Billeting will be in the building and we are providing meals. In addition to encampment prep, we are conducting activities for the DDRX credit. Cost $25 per cadet."


Emergency Services Training: ALL CADETS WILL LEARN to LOG IN and SELF-TRAIN full service in CAP. This includes ICUT and a few other items,.
1530L hrs- DRILL PRACTICE 

Cadets polish up drill, notice the make shirt solution for water against the South Texas sun and heat.

1600 hrs- Communications Training/Communications Practice

1730 hrs- Dismiss

COASTAL BEND CADET SQUADRON- 2013 SUMMER MEETING SCHEDUEL

SUMMER SCHEDULE 31 MAY 2013

This will be the summer schedule for the COASTAL BEND CADET SQUADRON of the CIVIL AIR PATROL. As a basic rule, the meetings will be held at CAP STATION KINGSVILLE behind Memorial Middle School from 1500L hrs (3:00 PM) to 1730L hrs (5:30 PM). There will be additional field trips to CORPUS CHRISTI, VICTORIA or BROWNSVILLE which will generally be on Tuesdays (to coincide with those units’ evening meeting) These will be announced via a permission slip and on line at…

http://corpuschristicap.blogspot.com/

Squadron News, Meeting Minutes and other announcements will also be made at that BLOG. Meeting dates are listed below and will be assigned a meeting “mission” in the above blog.

Additionally, Summer Training will be focusing on Emergency Services training with the goal of providing man power for Hurricane Relied activities.

JUNE 2013
4 JUNE 2012- COMMUNICATIONS DRILL and ICUT (OPS)
11 JUNE 2012- DRILL/ LEADERSHIP EXERCISE (LEADERSHIP)
18 JUNE 2012- SPORTS ACTIVITY to be ANNOUNCED (PT TEST)
25 JUNE 2012- FIELD ACTIVITY


JULY 2013
9 JULY 2012- NO MEETING MAJOR CARRALES OUT OF TOWN
16 JULY 2012- HIGH ADVENTURE (TBA)
23 JULY 2012- COMMUNICATIONS DRILL/ ES WORKSHOP(OPS)
30 JULY 2012-DRILL/ LEADERSHIP EXERCISE (LEADERSHIP)

AUGUST 2013
6 AUG 2012- COMMUNICATIONS DRILL/ ES WORKSHOP
3 AUG 2012- SPORTS ACTIVITY to be ANNOUNCED (PT TEST)
20 AUG 2012-TRAINING for Cadet NCOs to prepare for NEW RECRUITS
27 AUG 2012- TBA

CAP is NOT a Kingsville ISD school project and there are lots of activities for the summer. Cadets can continue to advance in rank/grade.

Meeting Agenda 23 May 2013

Since Major Carrales has a faculty meeting during the meeting, Lt Berry and C/CMSgt Del Valle will be in charge at the beginning.

1610- Meeting will begin with Opening Ceremonies, Pledge of Alligience, Cadet Oath and Moment of Silence

1615- New Business... 10 Cadets (4 for Color Guard) will be needed to travel on Monday to the Ceremony at the War Memorial near the Court House.

Review O-Flights that took place yesterday.

1630- Cadets will conduct Drill and Ceremonies Practice including polishing up facing movements, manuel of arms with the rifles and forming up.  In addition to that two games of KNOCK-OUT with prizes will take place.  Cadets also will practice reporting to a senior officer.

1700- Cadets will be promoted.

1730- Dismiss

22 May 2013 O-Flights out of CAP STATION ROBSTOWN

Cadets from the COASTAL BEND CADET SQUADRON will participate in O-Flights under Major J. W. Lunceford on 22 May 2013.  Cadets will leave immediately after school from Nueces Co. Airport in the CAP VAN (TEXAS CAP 125)  Cadet M. Escobedo is serving as alternate in case of an issue with the following two cadets.

STATUS: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

C/AB E. Noriega      522265
C/AB A. Longoria    527225

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Major J. Lunceford instructs Cadets Noriega and Longoria on  the nature of the flight.

Off they go, Cadet Noriega and Longoria take off into the wild blue yonder.

At CAP STATION ROBSTOWN, Cadets Longoria and Noriega 

Kingsville's Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony- May 27th

10 cadets total, including a Color Guard, represented the Coastal Bend Cadet Squadron at the  Kingsville Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony which was held on May 27th,  2013 at the War Memorial, Kleberg Street at 9:00 A.M.

Senior Members
Maj. J.E. Carrales, CAP

Cadets in attendance

1. C/SSgt M. Irizarry
2. C/Amn J. Godines
3. C/Amn I. Ramirez
4. C/Amn A. Longoria
5. C/Amn J. Saenz
6. C/Amn E. Noriega
7. C/SSgt T. Davis
8. C/AB K. A. Brown
9. C/Amn A Everett
10. C/Amn M Escobedo

Cadets look on as local veterans place a wreath at the Kleberg Co. War Memorial.

Reverend Battle, a former CAP cadet, gave the closing prayer.

Local dignitaries attended the ceremony to commemorate the fallen of Kleberg County, Texas/

Various persons recounted stories of beloved Kleberg County  Airman, Soldiers, Marines and Sailors who gave their lives in defense of freedom.

The Honorable Juan Escobar ave the key note speech.

BEACH TO BAY RELAY 18 MAY 2013

CADETS AND CAP OFFICERS ATTENDING THE BEACH TO BAY RELAY

Seniors
    Major J.E. Carrales, CAP

CADETS

1. C/AB E. Norriega
2. C/Amn A Everett
3. C/SSgt T. Davis
4. C/Amn J. Saenz
5. C/Amn I. Ramirez
6. C/SSgt M Irizarry
7. C/AB J. Godinez
8. C/AB T. Brown
9. **********
10. **********   

Cadets and Seniors from the COASTAL BEND CADET SQUADRON and CORPUS CHRISTI COMPOSITE SQUADRON assisted at the 2013 Beach-to-Bay Relay race which was held Saturday, 18 May 2013 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Cadet assisted with the finish line activities, fielded a Color Guard at the Awards Ceremony and provided passive security to the awards table.

While cadets have participated in this manner going back to the late 1990s, there was a special measure taken in wake of the recent bombing at the Boston Marathon earlier this year.

"Cadets were very situationally aware," said Major Joe Ely Carrales, "not only in monitoring the awards table, but keeping an eye open for suspicious activity."

Major Carrales went on to say that, while the units were in a hightened sense of awareness, it was important to maintain a since of normalacy.

Cadets at the earliest stages of the Beach-To-Bay Relay take positions to monitor the activity.  By the end of the day, thousdands of people would crowd the awards area.

Major Carrales, wearing a whistel lanyard to signal law enforcement if necessary, at the Beach to Bay Relay race. 

All CAP personnel remained situationally aware to insure an added level of safety and feeling of security to the day's activity.  Here Lt. K. Ryder patrols "the Line"

Buc Days Parade Post

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS- Cadets from the COASTAL BEND CADET and CORPUS CHRISTI COMPOSITE squadron participated in the 2013 Buc Day's Parade in Corpus Christi, Texas on 4 May 2013.  The joint activity was overseen by senior members of both squadrons.

Preparations began early with a UNIFORM INSPECTION for PARADE on 2 May 2012 and a rehearsal of both unit's Color Guard representations.  Corpus Christi cadets carried the US flag and rifle and the Coastal Bend Cadets carried the CAP colors.

Cadets from the two units practice in Kingsville on 16 May 2013

The joint CC-CAP and CBC-CAP Color Guard practice at CAP STATION CORPUS CHRISTI before the Buc Day's Parade

Major J.E. Carrales, CAP and SM A. Berry, CAP represented the Coastal Bend Cadet Squadron detachment with C/CMSgt S. Del Valle, the unit's First Sergeant commanding a small flight made up of
C/Amn A. Everett, C/Amn J. Godinez, C/Amn J.H. Saenz, C/Amn Matias Escobedo and C/AB Eliberto Norrega.


The COASTAL BEND CADET SQUADRON and CORPUS CHRISTI COMPOSITE SQUADRON had been asked to march in the 2013  Buc Day's Illuminated Night Parade which was marched in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas on Saturday, May 4, 2013 in the evening. Cadets practiced their marching skills at CAP STATION COPRUS CHRISTI at CORPUS CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT and at the parade to the Parade Marshalling area in the vicinity of Buc Stadium in Corpus Christi, Texas.