Category: Weekly Meeting

1 February 2021

This week was another in-person meeting at Rockpoint Church. We had an aerospace activity, drill, a marching game, and Commander’s Call. For the aerospace activity, the cadets used a flight simulator and learned about plane instruments. The drill included preparing for drill tests, and some cadets even took their drill test. Next, the cadets set […]

25 January 2021

We managed to meet in-person this week at Rockpoint Church, where we got back into the flow and had some classes. This meeting did not include a senior meeting, so it was mainly for the cadets. We had a Character Development Class followed by PT(Physical Training) and some briefings. The Character Development Class was taught […]

18 January 2021

This meeting is thankfully our last virtual meeting for a while. CAP is now COVID Phase 1 approved in MN and is almost to Phase 2. We started this meeting off with Commander’s Call, where we addressed our reopening plan and other items, then the cadets had a leadership class. The leadership class was based […]

11 January 2021

This week consisted of Commander’s Call followed by a leadership class. During Commander’s Call, the Commander walked through the new items in Civil Air Patrol, then informed the squadron about the flight scholarship offered. I received the first round and will be taking flight lessons, and now our squadron’s second round of flight scholarships is […]

4 January 2021

St. Croix Squadron started the New Year off with a great meeting. As with any other meeting, it started with Commander’s Call in which the whole squadron addresses current Civil Air Patrol events and related items. Next, the seniors broke off into their own zoom call while the cadets were taught an aerospace class on […]

14 December 2020

St Croix’s meeting included Commander’s Call and a Character Development class. During Commander’s Call, we covered the important items in our squadron and all of CAP, and then we had a COVID-19 vaccine briefing. After that, Chaplain Burton taught a Character Development class, providing useful moral skills and courtesy to be applied in everyday life.-C/CMSgt […]

7 December 2020

This week’s online meeting included Commander’s Call and an aerospace class. The brief Commander’s Call was to address new things in CAP. The aerospace class covered the first 3 aerospace modules needed for promotions, and it was followed by an aerospace activity to reinforce the concepts. -C/CMSgt Menk

23 November 2020

  As our second meeting online again, this week included Commander’s Call, a murder mystery investigation game, and a Character Development class. The brief Commander’s Call encompassed the usual routine of addressing the new CAP information. The murder mystery game involved a story line and clues given to find out who killed the character Malachi […]

16 November 2020

This week brought more bad news for CAP yet again. In Minnesota, Civil Air Patrol activities are now back to Phase 0 COVID-19 restrictions, meaning we can no longer meet in-person so we will go online as we did earlier this year. We met on Zoom this week: the cadets had Physical Training(PT) and Commander’s […]

9 November 2020

We received some bad news this week: Civil Air Patrol is back to Phase 1 COVID-19 restrictions, meaning we can only have a group of 10 or fewer people per room. Despite this, we will work out a way to continue meeting, whether that be online or in-person with several rooms. We did meet in-person […]