Attendance for this years Operation: Wolverine was impressive. Many Cadets and Senior Members from thoughout Michigan Wing showed up to participate. The Weather wasn't very 'air friendly' until 1300L when the ceiling lifted and we actually had seen some blue skies. Winds were gusting out of the west 20-25 to 30-35 throughout the day, so that made taking off and landing a bit challenging.

Capt Jo Hendrix from the Traverse City Composite Squadron and I went up in the afternoon as 'Highbird'. We made it to 6k feet and flew in circles and figure 8's for aprox. 2 hours. While I'm still working on my Mission Scanner rating, this gave me a chance to try out the Mission Observer role. Some folks were rather impressed my radio abilities considering my experience level, so that's good. Capt Hendrix remarked a few different times what a good job I was doing and what a pleasure it was to fly with me. So that was nice.

The day ended around 2400L with some night mission GT's out doing the usual. I brought my tent, but was never able to set it up; which was just as well since it was so darn cold out. Everyone was made to come inside anyways. So I setup the air matress and sleeping bag and down I went around 0030L and was back up just before 0630L this morning.

Most of the aircrews are out, so I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs for right now and posting to the blog to kill time. Hopefully I'll be able to get up and at least get one MS-T excercise completed for my SQTR. Hopefully.
(Photos after the break)