September 5, 2025

Maj. Jacqueline E. Lambert
Seacoast Composite Squadron
New Hampshire Wing

Jacqueline, known to all as Jackie, has died after a brief fight with cancer.

She is survived by her eldest daughter, Theresa Jaqueline Bradley and her husband Robert, and her younger daughter, Diane Theresa Lambert, who resided with her and cared for her selflessly, until her passing.

She is predeceased by her 3 brothers, Martin Laferte, Robert Laferte and Norman Laferte.

Born in Rochester, NH, to Hector & Sylvia (Hamel) Laferte, Jacqueline grew up in the French Catholic community of Gonic.

She was a fluent French speaker with her family's roots in Quebec, Canada. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary and St Leo's Parishes. She was a graduate of St. Leo's School & Spaulding High School. She received a 2-year certificate for bank officers at Maine/NH School of Savings Banking. She received a 2-year program certificate for Paralegals at the University of New Hampshire.

She met and married former Marine & Coast Guardsman, Norbert Lambert. They lived briefly in Cape Cod when Norbert was Stationed with the Coast Guard at Chatham Lighthouse. They then settled in Rochester and then finally Barrington and raised their 2 daughters together until his death in 1993.

Before it was common, she was a modern woman who did it all: she worked full time, raised her daughters, kept house & husband and earned her Banking & Paralegal degrees while doing so.

Her working life included working at various Law firms in Rochester & Dover.

She was Assistant Vice President for Southeast Bank for Savings, where she served as Manage of 2 branches, as well as serving as National Expert of Safe Deposit Boxes and IRA Accounts.

She most recently worked as a Paralegal in probate matters for Cocheco Elder Law in Dover, at which she worked full time into her 80's.

She was an avid reader, loved kitties and enjoyed time with her family. In her youth she competed in the National Spelling Bee Championships in Washington DC. She was a Major in the NH Civil Air Patrol. She was a past chairperson of Holy Rosary Church Parish Council.

She had a fun loving, adventurous spirit and if she could physically do it, she'd give it a try! She travelled to New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, Switzerland & especially enjoyed a tented safari in Tanzania & Kenya.

She truly lived a full life - and we will miss her sweet spirit and her beautiful smile.

September 5, 2025

Capt. Ann Marie Franzen
Pinellas Senior Squadron
Florida Wing

Dr. Ann Marie Franzen, age 84, of Seminole, Florida passed away on Friday, August 15, 2025. Anna was born in Chicago.

September 5, 2025

Maj. Donald E. Brewer, Jr.
Raritan Valley Composite Squadron
New Jersey Wing

Donald was born in Somerville and formerly of Bridgewater before moving back to Somerville in 1985. He graduated from Penn State University with a Molecular Biology Degree in 1986. He was first employed at Roche Bio Medical in Raritan and then worked as a computer software developer for Clear Network in Hazlet for over 18 years. Donald was a veteran of the United States Civil Air Patrol for 20 years. He was a member of the Raritan Valley F & AM No. 46, formerly known as the Solomon Lodge. In his spare time, he enjoyed fishing, kayaking, riding his motorcycle, flying, and was a local musician advocate. He will be sadly missed by all.

Surviving are his sisters Kelley E. Bless and Carrie L. Young and her husband John E., and nephews Jason DiPane and Ian Custode.

September 5, 2025

Lt. Col. Elizabeth A. Altzman
Headquarters
Pennsylvania Wing

Elizabeth A. "Bettye" Altzman, August 13, 2025, of Wallingford, PA. Loving mother of Joséphine Altzman and Marcy (Geoff) Broadwell; cherished grandmother Amram (& Rabbi Jamie Weisbach), Sam, Eliezer, and Daniel Altzman; Tala, Miles, and Kaia Broadwell; devoted sister of Mildred Rhone.

Quote from: heliodoc on August 27, 2025, 12:48:07 AMI'd agree. With all the advancements in LMS, Absorb, etc. a reminder, email or otherwise ought to have been incorporated looong ago. Pretty weird it hasn't been thought about before this

It may have been thought of by multiple people but they are very unwilling to make any changes to eServices because they're afraid of what would happen if they introduced a bug in to the system.

This could be a well founded fear...

I'd agree. With all the advancements in LMS, Absorb, etc. a reminder, email or otherwise ought to have been incorporated looong ago. Pretty weird it hasn't been thought about before this

What would be fantastic would be if eServices could be updated to send email reminders and set homepage notices like 30 days before any qualification, rating, compliance item, or anything else with an expiration is set to expire so the message is timely, accurate, and specific to the person. A link to the relevant thing to do to renew the thing that's expiring would be mind-blowing too.

an oldie but goodie applies here:

QuoteA colonel issued this directive to his executive officer:

Tomorrow evening at approximately 2000 hours, Halley's Comet will be visible in this area, an event which occurs only once every seventy-five years. Have the men fall out in the battalion area in fatigues, and I will explain this rare phenomenon to them. In case of rain we will not be able to see anything, so assemble the men in the theatre and I will show them films of it.

Executive officer to company commander:

By the order of the colonel, tomorrow at 2000 hours, Halley's Comet will appear above the battalion area. If it rains fall the men out in fatigues; then march to the theatre where the rare phenomenon will take place, something which occurs only once every seventy-five years.

Company commander to lieutenant:

By order of the colonel in fatigues at 2000 hours tomorrow evening, the phenomenal Halley's Comet will appear in the theatre. In case of rain in the battalion area, the colonel will give another order, something which occurs once every seventy-five years.

Lieutenant to sergeant:

Tomorrow at 2000 hours, the colonel, in fatigues, will appear in the theatre with Halley's Comet, something which happens every seventy-five years. If it rains, the colonel will order the comet into the battalion area.

Sergeant to squad:

When it rains tomorrow at 2000 hours, the phenomenal seventy-five-year-old General Halley, accompanied by the colonel, will drive his Comet through the battalion area theatre in fatigues.

Or my other old favorite:

Battalion Commander: "OK, Brigade change of command is at 1000. I want the whole battalion in formation NLT 0900."
Company Commander: "OK, battalion says the change of commmand is 0900, so everybody show up for company formation by 0800."
Platoon Leader: "Sergeant, Company formation is at 0800, I want the whole platoon here by 0715."
Platoon Sergeant: "Listen up, squad leaders. Hooah. The LT wants the platoon here by 0715, which means I want you here for inspection by 0630."
Squad Leaders: "TLs, company is forming up at 0630. We'll form everybody up on the company road at 0545 and march to the parking lot, hooah?"
Team leaders to their Joes: "Wake up is at 0400. I want everybody in their uniform by 0430 and we'll meet our squad at zero five in the parking lot and march over to the company road. Don't eat anything, you'll get it on your uniform. Change of command starts at like 0745 or something, I'm sure we'll be all done by 0830 and you can get breakfast then."

So I never actually bothered to look at any of the due dates, or rather I saw them and then immediately forgot. But I knew it was somewhere around the end of August. So I just went back and looked through my emails and chat groups, and I've come up with at least 5 due dates.

The email in May from the National Commander says August 27th; the email from national AE two weeks ago says the 31st, as does the email from the national commander on the 11th; at least one region commander made it August 1st; your squadron apparently got word that it was the 20th; my wing made the deadline the 18th. So we've got August 1st, 18th, 20th, 27th, and 31st. And people say that CAP has a communication problem...

You only receive one conference credit  regardless of how many webinars you complete above 6.

NHQ is the one that enters the conference credit into your eService records (they do it in periodic batches, so it may take an annoying long amount of time before they get around to yours).