HEADQUARTERS
CALIFORNIA WING - CIVIL AIR PATROL
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AUXILIARY
Post Office Box 7688
Van Nuys, CA 91409-7688

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
16 April 2002

Contact:
Alice Mansell, Maj, CAP
T: 650.322.2601
PA@cawg.cap.gov

(Santa Maria, California) - - From 12-14 April 2002, the seven group 
commanders of the California Wing met at Santa Maria Airport for one of 
their quarterly meetings to represent the nearly 4,000 members of the Wing.

Each group commander is responsible for eight to thirteen squadrons based 
primarily at general aviation airports. Each California Wing group is 
larger in size and membership than most other wings of the Civil Air Patrol.

Highlights of the meeting included briefings by Wing staff and CAP-USAF 
staff such as USAF's Maj Jim Denton who presented the new Drug Demand 
Reduction Program for Civil Air Patrol's Pacific Region. The Program is 
already in use in many California high schools, tied into the DARE
program.

Operations officers from each of the Wing's groups also attended a meeting 
with the Wing's operations staff. With more than two dozen CAP-owed 
aircraft in the State and missions being tasked nearly every day by the 
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services and several
California based federal anti-drug agencies, the officers had much to discuss.

For more information about the activities of the California Wing see:
<http://cawg.cap.gov.>

PHOTO CAPTIONS:

1. California Wing Commander with his seven Group Commanders: (L-R) LtCol 
Mike Lewis (Gr4), Maj Howard LaPierre (Gr3), Maj Phil Laisure (Gr1), LtCol 
Ken Parris (Gr2), Maj Dennis Parham (Gr5), Maj Carol Schaubschlager (Gr6), 
Capt Mark Criswell (Gr7), and Col Larry Myrick (Wing
Commander).Picture 1

2. Group 4 Commander Lt Col Mike Lewis with California Wing Commander Col 
Larry Myrick. Group 4's headquarters is at Santa Maria Airport. Picture 2
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