Recently completed a 1 week training session leading up to assist in volunteering to help run the world's largest fly-in airshow. EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, WI.
Received a commendation for my work as a historian in the year of 2021.
Civil Air Patrol
In my local Civil Air Patrol Unit, I have a duty position known as historian. As the historian, my duties include:
Manages and directs historical activities to include:
Developing policies and procedures that relate to historical activities.
Establishing and conducting a program for the publishing of general and special histories, monographs, studies, and similar works for issue both internally and externally to CAP.
Establishing and conducting a program to specifically inform the general public as to the history of CAP as it relates to CAP´s current missions.
Issuing bibliographies, catalogs, indices, and abstracts containing information relative to publications relating to CAP history.
Establishing and conducting a program of the collection and preservation of items of historical significance either of a documentary or physical property nature.
Establishing and conducting an oral history program.
Representing the Civil Air Patrol at meetings of historical and other learned societies.
Other CAP related tasks may include:
Develop and implement communications plans, programs, and directives in close coordination and in support of command, operations and emergency services.
Establish requirements and track acquisition and disposition of communication equipment in coordination with logistics.
Develop agreements with state emergency management officials pertaining to natural disaster and civil defense activities.
Develop a unit disaster preparedness force capable of responding to appropriate requests.
Ensure the civil defense and natural disaster training programs are adequate.
Develop agreements with agencies responsible for search, domestic emergencies, and civil defense.
Develop and maintain an adequate emergency service force.