Col. Michael Marek visited two South Dakota Wing squadrons on the same night to promote Tyler Gross (l), Big Sioux Composite Squadron, to Major, and Tom Anez (r), Sioux Falls Composite Squadron, to Lieutenant Colonel.
C/1st Lt Ethan den Hoed succeeded C/1st Lt Zephaniah Tolliver as Sioux Falls Composite Squadron Cadet Commander in a change of command ceremony on January 26.
Close to 70 South Dakota Wing members exercised their winter operational mission skills on Saturday January 14.
The color guard from Big Sioux Composite Squadron presented the colors on Jan 16, during the Martin Luther King Jr. rally at South Dakota State University's Multicultural Center.
Rushmore Composite Squadron held a Cadet Change of Command on 5 January 2023. C/1st Lt. Devin L Griffin relieved C/2nd Lt. Josiah K Kilburn as acting Cadet Commander. Lt. Col. Howard J Steiner officiated the COC with 1st Lt. Jacob Roth as the Master of Ceremonies.
Pierre Composite Squadron partnered with Right Turn of Pierre to do First Aid/CPR training on January 10.
CAP Senior Member Trey Stroup of Pierre Composite Squadron has passed his Commercial Pilot checkride. The accomplishment took place on December 27. Stroup completed his Instrument Rating in October and his private pilot’s rating this past February, on his way to his dream of being a commercial airline pilot.
Members of South Dakota Wing continue to help Feeding South Dakota (FSD) get food boxes ready to send to reservation communities where unpassable roads from recent snow storms have left residents without sufficient food.
Pictured, left to right, are, from Lincoln County Composite Squadron, Capt. Denise Clement; from Sioux Falls Composite Squadron C/SrA Kadin Timmer, SM Skye Timmer, and C/CMSgt Wyatt Timmer, and from wing staff Col. Mary Donley.
Civil Air Patrol 
units across South Dakota are holding a “Safety Down Day” this month to stress the importance of safety and risk management in all aspects of CAP.
Civil Air Patrol in South Dakota is assisting Feeding South Dakota (FSD) and other agencies in their efforts to feed South Dakotans who have been snowed in for over a week because of winter storms. The operational support was approved yesterday (Tuesday) by the Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters.
