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June 2006 Archive
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Where, oh where, is my spring going - June's Stuff
 How many bites does it take to get to the center of a CadetStuff tootsie pop? Well, lets find out! ... Features Editor Shawn Stanford starts with the hard candy shell by digging leadership lessons out of his daughter's bed-time books. We're not making this up! ... We're still waiting for the flyby of the tower, but we visit the CAG's office to find out just who gets to be the forum's new Top Gun! ... Mark Symond delivers up Part 2 of his encampment experience, repleat with shaving cream and blankets ... Dr. Drill hits the links for a bit to takes a "two-fer" swipe at Drill Teams and their formation. Hooked it! ... Captain Dan Brodsky, recently refreshed after relinquishing the reigns of the three-ring circus known as the forums, shows us some nifty diagrams that would make your average MBA cringe while telling us we're your average know-nothings ... This month, since we had nothing anyway in this department, we'll go back in and dredge up an old link that we liked very much the first time. Visit upon our friends at Fiddler's Green once again, and tell 'em CadetStuff sent ya! ... We get closer to the soft chewy center and CadetStuff throws up the white flag and hangs out the shingle for more help. Take a look at our "Now Hiring" section ... And finally, our managing editor finishes that editorial about CAPR 52-16 he started writing like SEVEN months ago. Or did he start a whole new one? The world may never know!
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Fiddler's Green Card Models
 What are 'card models', you ask? Well, for want of a better description: they're scale models printed on card stock (thick, stiff paper) and assembled using just scissors, glue and maybe the odd toothpick or piece of string. Don't just dismiss these as 'that NHQ paper airplane thingie'! No sirree! These are serious little works of art! Fiddler's Green has been in the card model business for almost twenty years. Their site contains dozens of aerospace card models from the earliest aircraft to the latest jet fighters. All are available on CD-ROM with card stock for your laser-jet printer. And just to whet your appetite, there's a free Piper Cub! Check'em out!
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The Ever-Evolving 52-16
 Late last year, Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters released for comments from the field a proposed draft of Civil Air Patrol Regulation 52-16, Cadet Programs. 52-16 is the regulation that governs pretty much everything in the CAP Cadet Program, from encampments to awards, CACs to CPFTs, and everything in between. It is the CAP cadet program.
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Drill Team Two-fer!
A Drill Two-fer: We have a competetive drill team at our NJROTC program, but it is having a problem keeping its members and gaining new ones. Any ideas on how to help us? Slightly Annoyed ... I have found myself in a fix. I have just been made first sergeant and I need to organize a drill team. What are the steps I need to take from ground zero to national champions?
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Changing the Forum Guard
 Moore turned slightly, grinning and eyballing me from the his brace. I leaned back in toward him, my smile curling to a leer. "But you remember just one thing: You screw up just this much, I'll have you flying an Airvan full of rubber dog [poop] outta Gary, Indiana!"
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Can't find a local cadet program? Start your own!
 During this time of my life, I was really a big military dork. Anything remotely related to the military was totally cool in my book.
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The Cadet Whisperer
 I made my latest discovery while reading book ten of the long-running "Magic Treehouse" series by Mary Pope Osborne to my daughters. The title of the book is "Ghost Town At Sundown" and, as you might guess from the title, it is set in the West. The Old West, as a matter of fact, since the Magic Treehouse can travel through time and space.
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This one time, at Encampment... (Part 2)
 Waking up is, by far, the best part of encampment. You're woken up at 5:15, which is actually about 15 minutes later than I get up on a typical school day. You know how sometimes your alarm doesn't go off or isn't loud enough? Not an issue at Mass Wing encampment! Airhorns in a bare, cement block hallway. After two days of this, I tried my good buddy Silva's suggestion: Tell yourself to wake up at 5 before going to bed. That way, according to his logic, you wake up five minutes before they pull the airhorn and can get ready to move. Total bull, right? This worked out for me very well, actually. Yeah.
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