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<br /> GUARDING AMERICA | 2021 | Volume 48 | Number 8<br /> PROTECTING THE U.S.<br /> AIR, LAND & SEA<br /> EDITORS<br /> Leah Block, Editor<br /> Gilbert Martinez, Jr., Assistant Editor<br /> CORRESPONDENTS<br /> Alan Brooks<br /> Frank McKay<br /> Charles Scott Williams<br /> ART<br /> Farrah Underwood, Designer<br /> PRINTER<br /> Knight Abbey<br /> COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE STAFF<br /> Hank Coates, President hcoates@cafhq.org<br /> David Oliver, Chief Operating Officer doliver@cafhq.org<br /> Donna Blalack, Director of Administration & HR dblalack@cafhq.org<br /> Lance Linguist, CFO - Secretary/Treasurer llinguist@cafhq.org<br /> Bob Ehret, Controller behret@cafhq.org<br /> April Robinson, Unit Finance Coordinator arobinson@cafhq.org<br /> Melissa Herrington, Accounts Payable Analyst mherrington@cafhq.org<br /> Erin Pryor, Accounts Payable Clerk epryor@cafhq.org<br /> Jim Lasche, Chief Aviation Officer jlasche@cafhq.org<br /> Rita McNew<a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=1"> GUARDING AMERICA | 2021 | Volume 48 | Number </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=2"> EDITORS Leah Block, Editor Gilbert Martinez, Jr.,</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=3"> CONTENTS Civil Air Patrol- Fairchild F-24, Sout</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=4"> ALAN BROOKS Chairman American Airpower Heritage F</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=5"> OFFICIAL CAF MERCHANDISE Get your CAF Unifor</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=6"> FEATURE THE SEARCH FOR SKYBA</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=7"> Documents found in an old envelope included my Mo</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=8"> her. His response was, “I would be happy to sell </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=9"> SKYBABY JOINS THE CAF GHOST SQUADRON “SkyBaby sta</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=10"> MILESTONES Throughout HISTORY Early American Colo</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=11"> National Guard Coast Guard CIVIL AIR PATROL </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=12"> MILESTONES Throughout HISTORY The Air National Gu</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=13"> National Guard CIVIL AIR PATROL Air Guardsmen </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=14"> PROTECTING AMERICA - A 14 MILITARY F</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=15"> IR, LAND, SEA, AND SPACE SECURITY CURITY & RUCT</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=16"> ELLINGTON AIRPORT 104 YEARS OF AVIATION HISTORY P</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=17"> In1941,Col.WalterH.Reidbecamecommanding officer o</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=18"> The AT-6 Texan assigned to the CAF Houston Wing c</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=19"> “For 100 years, Ellington Airport has been at the</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=20"> It is fun to note that in the 1920s the 111th Squ</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=21"> WATCHING THE WINGS GULF COAST WING CADET PROGRAM</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=22"> CAF Cadet John “The Hover King” Decesari in the p</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=23"> GONE WEST PHOTO BY JIM KOEPNICK #warbirdtube #WW</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch,August 2021 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ef38be9?page=24"> The Nation's Premier WORLD WAR II AIRSHOW COM</a>