So I'm going through my photos that I have from this past weekend's cadet run SAREX, Operation: Wolverine and I remembered one of the ground teams was having fun calling themselves 'The A Team', so I found one of the 'Hard Kewl' photos they took and brought it into photoshop and made it look cool. If anything it'll be a nice keepsake for the cadets in the photo.

I don't have *ANY* pictures from WIWAC (when I was a cadet), so in today's day and age of digital photography, I make sure I don't miss an opportunity to get as many photos as I can of the cadets I work with. Taking photos are the last thing on thier mind when they're out on an activity, so as a PAO, I make sure I'm taking all the photos I can.

Wow, this makes two blog posts in one day! Of course this message is nothing ground shattering other than showing off my 'mad skillz' with photoshop. If anyone wants me to work up similar photos, graphics, etc or even a website, pop over to my business site and hit me up there.

Hello too, to all my new readers, especially my friends down at National Headquarters, CAP. Hope you are all enjoying the blog! Would love to hear from you, so please, comment, drop me a line, post a message on the forum, whatever...it's all good!

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)