News - 2022 Archive - Page 2

The 2023 Joint Dakota Encampment executive team is excited to announce C/1st Lt Devin Griffin as the Cadet Commander for the upcoming encampment next year. 

The Mary Chilton DAR Foundation, Daughters of the American Revolution, informed South Dakota Wing this week that the wing will receive a grant to fund six sets of new squadron color guard equipment. The Sioux Falls-based foundation and chapter awarded $11,556 to the wing for this purpose.

Three South Dakota cadet teams met in Pierre October 7-8 for the wing cadet competition. Sioux Falls Composite Squadron took first place, Rushmore Composite Squadron came in second, and Big Sioux Composite Squadron was a very close third place.

Units in South Dakota Wing have received three notable charitable gifts. 

Twenty-three senior members and 48 cadets from across CAP’s North Central Region attended the 2022 North Central Region Cadet Honor Academy in Sioux Falls, September 23-25.

South Dakota  Wing, Civil Air Patrol, activated September 20 to assist the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Police with a missing person search. 

Close to 78 Civil Air Patrol Cadets and Senior Members from the Upper Midwest and the Central Plains meet in Sioux Falls this weekend for the North Central Region Cadet Honor Academy. The Cadet Honor Academy prepares cadets to serve on color guards while furthering their individual character development and drug-free knowledge. 

National Headquarters has announced that five South Dakota Wing units are receiving the Quality Cadet Squadron Award for 2022.

Maj. E.W. Filler, of Big Sioux Composite Squadron, spent two weeks at Nellis AFB in Nevada this month, helping active-duty Air Force personnel train for use of remote-sensing drones.

South Dakota Wing has temporarily exchanged N832CP for a Kansas Wing aircraft, N524CP.  Kansas Wing benefits from the exchange because N832CP, a C182T, can tow the KSWG glider. South Dakota Wing benefits because N524CP, also a 182T, has an advanced G1000 NXi system.