Illinois Wing Spring Encampment 2010

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Full details here: http://encampment.group22.net/

For widest dissemination

What:     ILWG Spring Encampment 2010
When:    16-18 & 23-25 April 2010
              RST 13 March 2010

Where:   Naval Station Great Lakes, RTC

Web Page:    http://encampment.group22.net

The 2010 Illinois Wing Spring Encampment is now accepting applications for
cadet and senior staff.  Full instructions and details are available on the encampment web page.

A number of senior staff positions are available this year, if you are interested, please contact
the Commander directly with a CAP resume, position desired, and your thoughts on how you would execute your duties.

Important dates:

Cadet Staff Email Pre-Apps:     31 Dec 2009
     Note: This includes SET & Support
Cadet Line Staff Email Pre-Apps:     16 Jan 2010

TAC Officer Email Pre-Apps:     07 Mar 2010

Basic Cadet Apps:     28 Mar 2010

Support Cadets:
3-4 cadets will serve as part of the support flight, with their exclusive duties being to assist
the various departments with setup and demobilization of the activity and ships.  As they will be focused
on serving the encampment, and will not be able to attend graduation, all fees will be waived.

Full details are on the webpage, including position descriptions and application instructions.

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About 1 week left for pre-apps for cadet staff.

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Cadet EXE staff apps extended to 10 Jan.

[Spike]

Why does Illinois conduct the training at a Naval installation instead of the Air Force Base??  It is a good facility and not too "far" from St. Louis.   

[SilverEagle2]

I competed at Region NCC there. Nice facility.

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Why does Illinois conduct the training at a Naval installation instead of the Air Force Base??  It is a good facility and not too "far" from St. Louis.   

We also have a large encampment at an Army training facility in mid-state, IL.  Redfox24 runs that.

We would love to have an encampment at Scott, and the players in that area continue to work those requests, however to my understanding the facilities for an ad-hoc activity like this are not available to CAP because the OPS tempo at Scott is so high.

Great Lakes is the location of the State Director's office, a CAP squadron, and a Group HQ.  It is also the nearest military
facility to the major population center of the state (Chicago metro).

They have amazing facilities offered to us at no charge for their use and military cost for meals, and the RTC rolls out the red carpet for us
every year.

Without putting too fine a point on it, St. Louis is in Missouri, and this is an Illinois activity.  There have been ongoing high-level discussions that a Fall encampment at Scott, especially held jointly with Missouri, would be a great idea.

[ol'fido]

Also, because Scott is a permanent party base, there is no real area disigned for billeting an encampment type activity that would also provide dining and shower facilities.

[Майор Хаткевич]

That and as a training base Great Lakes is always improving, and offering more activities to us.

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RST is next week (was moved to 20th but I can't change the OP), basics apps are flowing, get yours in today.

We also have a couple staff openings and can always use TACS.  See the website for details.

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RST was completed this last weekend, one more week for basic apps, get them in the mail today!

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Extended basic apps to 3 April as panicked moms all over the state realize the date.   

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Applications are closed, the web site will updated by this evening with final flight assignments and
other information.

The next major cadet activities in ILWG will be:

Summer Encampment: (10-17 July 2010)  http://www.illinoiswingsummerencampment.com/

Johnson Flight Academy:   (4-12 June 2010)  http://jfa.ilwg.cap.gov/index.cfm