Announcements

Announcements

CAP Recruiting Poster
Members -- Please print copies, distribute and post the attached recruiting flyer as per Lt Col Clark’s request. >> Poster (MS Word doc)

The Wreaths Across America program was a large success again this year due to the hard work of CAP units all over the nation. Nevada Wing members placed over 2,000 wreaths at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Saturday, Dec. 11th, 2010.

This year's event will take place, Saturday, December 10th, 2011.

Wreaths Across America has created a sign-up web page for all interested groups. CAP members should proceed to http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org <http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/> and click on the upper right tab "Getting Started Today" 23Sep11

From the Commander

Local Mishap Notification Procedures

The new CAPR 60-2 requires that each Wing publish local mishap notification procedures. The Wing Supplement to CAPR 62-2 is issued to comply with that requirement. >>See Pubs
--Col Ralph Miller, Commander

- Job Security for CAP Leave

It is too early to make any guarantees, but preliminary discussions with legislative leaders suggest that we may be able to get a law guaranteeing leave for CAP volunteers to participate in CAP missions. Colorado recently passed such a law, and we have suggested that the same law be passed here in Nevada. Here is a blurb on the Colorado law:

Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has signed legislation into law that ensures job security for members of the Civil Air Patrol who get called away for an emergency.

House Bill 1097 was sponsored by Rep. Kent Lambert and Sen. Chris Romer. It provides job security for members of the Civil Air Patro, and allows an employee who is a member of the Civil Air Patrol to take a leave of absence from their job for up to 15 days a year if they are called away to duty.

"We rely on the skilled members of our Civil Air Patrol to help with search and rescue operations, and with fire season approaching, this is a good policy to put in place," Gov. Ritter said.

As you can see from the attached letter, Ron Cuzze is actively working this issue with the Nevada legislature. We just want to keep our members informed that the Wing appreciates their efforts and that we are doing our best to look out for their interests.

Ralph L. Miller, Col, CAP
Commander
Nevada Wing - Civil Air Patrol

Wing Public Information Officer

Basic Guidelines for Public Information Officers (PIOs) provides guidance for the PIO. It is available on the Publications page as a PDF formatted document. It is part of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which if you haven't heard about it, you will be in the future. The Basic Guidance booklet will also be in each Squadrons mailbox at NVWGHQ in hardcopy form. >> read more

CAP Mission Registration

AFRCC is now entering all CAP mission numbers directly into WMIRS when they open the mission. AFRCC will also close the mission and record find/save information in WMIRS too. During the next week WMIRS will be programmed to automatically notify CAP, CAP-USAF, 1st Air Force and AFRCC leaders when a missing person or missing aircraft mission has been opened. (a smaller group of people including the wing commander will be notified of all non-distress ELT missions.) The notification list will also be expanded ASAP to include wing alerting officers to help AFRCC reduce the number of phone calls they need to make when they open a mission.

Over the next few months the NOC will be working with AFRCC to automate the information from the CAPF 122 that AFRCC really needs for their mission report. Once that process has been tested and approved, we expect that AFRCC will no longer require CAP to submit a CAPF 122. Please have your mission base staff continue to submit a CAPF 122 to AFRCC until we let you know otherwise.

Duty Performance Promotion System Online

As we continue to move forward in our efforts to streamline processes, eliminate paperwork and reduce the burden on members and commanders we are pleased to announce that the new online Duty Performance Promotion system is released. Web Security Administrators can assign permission to use this program to the Personnel Officer, Administrative Officer, Professional Development Officer or whomever the commander chooses. These members can enter a request for any duty performance promotion into the online promotion application and, if all training and time in grade requirements have been met, the request will be immediately forwarded to the approving authority for approval.

Commanders no longer have to complete a CAP Form 2 and forward it through channels to the approving authority. Commanders will receive email notification of any promotion action requiring approval and then have the option to approve, disapprove or print a report to be reviewed by the Promotion Board prior to final action. Once the approving authority has approved the request, the promotion will be effective immediately and show in the member's online personnel record.

Remember this application applies to duty performance promotions only, all other categories of promotion must still be submitted on a CAP Form 2. Commanders needing additional information or assistance can contact Membership Services at 1-877-227-9142. For technical assistance please send an email to: webmaster@cap.gov. Our thanks to all that made this process a reality.

Logons for National Technology Center site

The e-services website (www.capnhq.gov) has several links to another website called the NTC (National Technology Center) website. This website requires a separate login, and approximately 50 people in our wing have established login accounts on the NTC website. Please inform all personnel in your command that we have deleted these NTC logon accounts. Your members may try to access this site and find their login rejected. We would like them to not be surprised when this happens.

Wing use of the NTC website will increase as a result of WMIRS (Web Management and Information Reporting System). To prepare for this, we wanted to eliminate old and unused accounts. If your members encounter a refused login, all they need to do is register for a new account. This process takes only a minute, and while we apologize for any inconvenience, we felt that starting with a clean slate was in the best interests of the Wing.

Lt Col David Jadwin

How to Post Announcements To post announcements on this page, members of the Nevada Wing should provide the announcement in plain text format (email, notepad, simpletext, etc.) ready for publication along with any appropriate graphics (JPG or GIF format) The announcement with any attachments should be emailed to LtCol David Jadwin After review and approval by the Nevada Wing webmaster it will be posted for a period not to exceed 4 weeks unless in the discretion of the webmaster is should be publicized for a long period. Text should be edited and in final form to be cut and pasted into the page. (10pt Arial font is suggested) DO NOT SEND in HTML format or as a PowerPoint. Include your name, rank, position, and unit with your submission. Only items of interest to members of the NVWG should be submitted. Any items of a commercial or personal nature will not be approved for posting. The NVWG reserves the right to reject or amend any submissions as it deems appropriate.

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