Our squadron’s airplane flew out of Stinson airport with a load of medical supplies to Pecos Texas on March 26th and 27th. Lt Col Mike Duc flew our squadron’s airplane on Thursday and Lt Col Ron Diana flew on Friday. This request came as part of a support mission for...
Civil Air Patrol's David Lee "Tex" Hill Composite Squadron Seniors and Cadets participated at the Wimberley High School STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Math) Fair on Saturday, 7 March 2020. The CAP unit provided aircraft simulators, robots, and other STEAM related items for interactive fun for attending families from...
What are Matching Gifts? Corporate matching gifts are a type of philanthropy in which companies financially match donations that their employees make to nonprofit organizations. In many cases, companies will also match the volunteer hours of their employees or their retirees. Currently, there are more than 19,000 companies who provide...
This is the start of a new occasional feature called Throwback Thursday. In this episode, we are featuring LtCol Mike Duc. This image is LtCol Duc with an A-10, the famous Burrrrtttt airplane. He was an A-10 pilot from 1983 to 1997 where he served as an Instructor, Search and...
Did you know that Civil Air Patrol saved 117 lives and made 534 finds through Air Force assigned search and rescue efforts in 2019? Did you know that CAP flew a record 35,664 orientation flights for CAP cadets, as well as Air Force ROTC and Junior ROTC cadets? Did you...
The San Marcos Tex Hill CAP Squadron (TX-435) acted as the host and Incident Command Post for a Group V Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX) on Saturday, January 18, 2020. TX-WG-Group V Commander, Col Frank Eldridge, Incident Commander, said that in addition to the 435th squadron, the SAREX had cadets...
Cody Beyer was a C/2dLt before he left our squadron to join the USAF in December of 2018. He was the guest speaker to a packed house of cadets and senior members at our squadron meeting on 7 Jan 2020. Cody reflected on his transition to the USAF and shared...