Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Edward Everett Hale We are pleased to announce that the #TotalForcePartners commemorative painting arrived safely in West Virginia last night.
West Virginia State Police escorted the Ohio Wing relay team to the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport. After a bit of package and equipment shuffle, and the tradition of taking more pictures than God has whiskers, WV-049 treated their guests to a light reception. The picture will overnight at the squadron HQ before beginning its second (and only) leg through West Virginia to Pennsylvania at noon. Wheeling Composite wishes to thank Lt Col James Himes and the Ohio Wing relay team members for volunteering their time and talents to transport the painting across OH; the West Virginia State Police for taking time out of their busy schedule to assist us; Ms Kathryn Ghion of WTRF-7 for graciously agreeing to broadcast our event on the evening news; Ms Heather Ziegler for her reporting efforts on behalf of The Intelligencer. We also gratefully acknowledge 1LT J.R. Ewing and SM Karin Ewing for their help in procuring the escort, media coverage, and refreshments. Thank you to all our helpful members and their families for their efforts to help us set up, store the van's 3rd row seating, and taking photographs to commemorate the event. We appreciate you. And finally, we all wish to thank Wing/CC Col Paul McCroskey for "Country Roads". Capt Toni Wheeler SQ/CC Wheeling Composite Squadron WTRF Article: Civil Air Patrol transporting commemorative painting across the U.S.
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Tomorrow evening, Tuesday May 22, we are meeting at 1830 hours at the airport terminal to receive the Total Force Partners mural from the Ohio Wing. This is our meeting for the week; there is NO Wednesday meeting. Those able to help us set up should arrive at the squadron building between 5:00 - 6 p.m. The uniform for cadets is blues. The uniform for seniors is blues or corporate white. If you do not have either, you may wear the corporate polo with grey slacks. New members without uniforms, or parents of cadets wishing to join us, should dress appropriately for a business setting. Those wishing to travel with the painting on Wednesday need to call me by Tuesday night. Seating in the van is limited. We currently have three members going. Also, some of you have seen today's headline, "Just as it comes home to Wheeling, historic painting is discovered to be damaged". Thank you for your concerned texts and calls. I am pleased to report that this is NOT the #TotalForcePartners painting. *whew* - Capt Wheeler, SQ/CC MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. – “Total Force Partners,” a historic Civil Air Patrol painting by renowned aviation artist Rick Broome, is leaving Colorado Springs Saturday morning on a 1,638-mile trek through the nation’s heartland to its final destination at the Pentagon. The CAP van relay begins at 7 a.m. MT on May 19 and will end at 11 a.m. ET on May 25. Most of the trip will be made along Interstate 70, one of the nation’s longest cross-country routes. A major interstate highway that runs from Cove Fort, Utah, to Baltimore, I-70 approximately traces the path of U.S. Route 40 (the old National Road) east of the Rockies, and near iconic sites like the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Pentagon. The Wheeling Composite Squadron, located in Wheeling, WV, is the only squadron in West Virginia to have the honor of relaying from Ohio to Pennsylvania. The exchange will take place at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport on Tuesday, May 22 at 7 p.m. Broome, a former CAP cadet from Colorado, was commissioned to create the commemorative painting in 2016 as part of CAP’s 75th anniversary celebration. It was scheduled to be presented to then-Secretary of the Air Force Deborah James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein during the 2016 Air Force Association Air, Space & Cyber Conference. However, the painting was damaged in transit to National Harbor, Maryland, forcing CAP to present a print of the painting for temporary display in the Pentagon. Last month, Broome completed a second painting of “Total Force Partners,” which again features a CAP Cessna 182 being intercepted by an Air Force F-16 during a U.S. air defense training exercise. “This is really an incredible work of art,” said Maj. Gen. Mark Smith, CAP’s national commander and chief executive officer. “We’re proud of our partnership with the U.S. Air Force, and this painting wonderfully depicts the importance of homeland security missions we perform as the Air Force Auxiliary.” To safeguard the painting (plus promote Civil Air Patrol and have some fun doing it), the painting will be transported from Colorado Springs to Washington, D.C., via a CAP van relay. “This wing-by-wing painting relay provides a fun and interesting opportunity to promote CAP’s brand,” said John Salvador, the organization’s chief operating officer. To add a new twist, the painting relay, which includes 11 wings — Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and National Capital — plus Civil Air Patrol’s Congressional Squadron, will take place the week before CAP’s 70th anniversary as the volunteer auxiliary of the Air Force. Congress passed Public Law 80-557 in 1948, and President Harry S. Truman signed it into law on May 26, formally establishing CAP as the volunteer auxiliary of the Air Force. Before that, CAP had served in support of the Army Air Corps, but the new law ensured that the partnership would continue with the newly formed Air Force. “That relationship with the Air Force continues today, and it is stronger than ever,” said Smith, an Operation Desert Storm veteran with 26 years of Air Force service. He added that the new original painting, after it arrives in the nation’s capital on May 25, will replace the print currently on display in the Pentagon. Civil Air Patrol, the longtime all-volunteer U.S. Air Force auxiliary, is the newest member of the Air Force’s Total Force. In this role, CAP operates a fleet of 560 aircraft, performs about 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and is credited by the AFRCC with saving an average of 80 lives annually. CAP’s 60,000 members also perform homeland security, disaster relief and drug interdiction missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. In addition, CAP plays a leading role in aerospace/STEM education, and its members serve as mentors to over 25,000 young people participating in CAP’s Cadet Programs. Visit www.GoCivilAirPatrol.com or www.CAP.news for more information. Track the painting's progress here!
WHEELING, WV, May 1 2018 -- The Wheeling Composite Squadron, along with squadrons from Beckley and Morgantown of the West Virginia Wing, Civil Air Patrol, attended the 4th Annual NASA-Space Day at Wheeling Jesuit University Friday, April 27th. This event was sponsored by the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium (WVSGC) and hosted by Wheeling Jesuit University with the support of West Liberty University and Bethany College in West Virginia. "NASA-Space Day is meant to engage the community in science and space exploration through various hands-on exhibits, as well as to provide a forum for West Virginia college students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)," according to a statement by Dr Majid Jaridid, Director of the NASA WVSGC. Cadets and Senior Members had the opportunity to attend a keynote address presented by Dr Charles Wood, Executive Directer for the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit. Dr Wood shared experiences gained throughout his career, sharing his insight into Cassini and NASA's exploration of the solar system. Cadets were treated to several hands-on exhibits, including a parachute drop simulator presented by the Challenger Learning The cadets and senior members were divided up into teams and asked to design a soft landing system that would allow a miniature rover to land, wheels down, within a target zone at a slow rate of descent. Teams were then given "money" to purchase various items and, after equipping their rovers, each team deployed their systems over a stairwell rail. WVU's "the Science Behind Cycling" exhibit gave cadets and senior members a workout. Their objective was to produce enough energy to power a series of light bulbs via a stationary bike. Other exhibits included the NASA IV&V Facility's rocketry station, and the SMART Centre's "New Sol-ar System", "Life in the Universe - Drake Equation", and "Black Holes Made Simple". NASA-Space Day sparked the CAP Cadet's imaginations, and renewed their determination to grow their STEM knowledge. To learn more about NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium, please visit wvspacegrant.org. Civil Air Patrol, the longtime all-volunteer U.S. Air Force auxiliary, is the newest member of the Air Force’s Total Force. In this role, CAP operates a fleet of 560 aircraft, performs about 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and is credited by the AFRCC with saving an average of 80 lives annually. CAP’s 60,000 members also perform homeland security, disaster relief and drug interdiction missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. In addition, CAP plays a leading role in aerospace/STEM education, and its members serve as mentors to over 25,000 young people participating in CAP’s Cadet Programs. Visit www.GoCivilAirPatrol.com or www.CAP.news for more information. |
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