Historical Work

[Smithsonia]

I've never found a live human doing SAR. I find them all the time doing PA and history.
So thanks Gunner C.

Some days it feels just like a find and occasionally a SAVE. I found an old uniform from Gen.  John F Curry in a locker at our old Headquarters Office. With the regalia gone it looked just like every other WW2 Uniform we have. However it looked nicer as if it was custom made, bespoke as the British call it. John Curry liked a Saville Row uniform now and again... and this is it! I didn't know it for 18 months but now I've verified it... 40R, in the same uniform as his official 2nd Air Force portrait... with a mark on the left sleeve where extra buttons were removed. Yeah, that made my day.

Jack Curry has been a great friend as I study him from afar. I never met the man. He's dead of course, but the work is exciting, the revelations amazing, and the days in doing the research on such a great guy are a kick. 

[alamrcn]

While I like to attach the title "Historian" to my name, I'm actually more of just a hoarder and compiler.

You gentelman have the dedication, motivation, resourcefulness and presentation talents to accomplish things as CAP Historians that I could only dream to do someday.

I salute you!

[Smithsonia]

In a goofy moment I declared myself "Heritage Project Officer." I think that I'm the only member of CAP with this designation. I am in my own little hovel of geekiness.

I'm a historian, but for just my squadron. The Wing level requirements seemed make-workish but I needed Wing contacts and resources. So, to her credit, our Chief Of Staff MSgt. Cynthia Smith came up with a title to which my good and patient WG/CC Col. Ed Phelka signed off.

It is these little accommodations that make the work... possible. I can follow a well honed nose for history without tripping over Historian obligations while our Wing Historian, Maj. Susan Wilson, has my six-covered. AND, my six needs covering from time to time.

These are just a few of the people that make the adventure possible. I am in their debt.

My next job is to invade New Mexico. Likely my six will need more covering soon. BUT, it is one of the great stories of CAP and Colorado and New Mexico Wings are all part of it.

[Gunner C]

Heritage Project Officer - It sings!  (with apologies to SSG Provo from the movie The Green Berets).