EAA 288 recognized for 30 years of YOUNG EAGLE support

REMINDER:  Dues for 2025 are due before Jan 1 and they remain at $25.  Please pay them soon!  Our scholarship program funds are dependent on official, dues paying memberships

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Our next meeting will be Jan. 16 in Keith's Hangar.

Our December 19th Meeting was a wonderful get together with plenty of food - pizza, subs, desserts and more desserts - did we mention there were a lot of desserts?

Our November 21 meeting had Lt Col. Glenda Grones receiving her "Quilt of Honor" for her incredible service in the USAF (Read her resume below).  This was followed by a discussion about Chapter Happenings, HQ Chapter Leadership Boot Camp and our Young Eagle event flying vision impaired and blind kids.  This an absolutely heart rendering experience.  Please see the meeting slides -way- below.

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Glenda Grones, Ph.D., FNP-C

386-852-2461

2669 Spruce Creek Blvd
Port Orange, Fl 32128

gkgrones@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

USAFR  

Denver, CO  

Nurse Executive  2011 - 2014

·  Member Board of Directors, USAFR Nurse Corps

·  Served at the executive level as a member of the governance structure supporting the Chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps and Air Force Nursing Services

·  Provided strategic planning, enabling the AF to anticipate, project, and meet global force requirements. Competitively selected by the MAJCOM Chief Nurse from the pool of senior NC officers with exemplary academic, professional, and performance credentials.

Denver, CO  

Nurse Executive  2011 - 2014

·  Member Nurse Corp Developmental Team, USAFR Nurse Corps

·  Ensured detailed, deliberate career planning and progression for Nurse Corps officers.

·  Scored, ranked, and selected Squadron Commander and Chief Nurse candidates.

·  Identified pivotal career leadership milestones.

·  Engaged board process to highlight leaders who would be the best fit for the educational programs and developmental education in residence.

·  Increased institutional effectiveness through consistent talent management and development, ensuring proper succession planning and filling
positions with the most highly qualified candidates.

96th Medical Group, USAF  

Eglin AFB, FL  

Chief Nurse Executive  2008 - 2014

·  Individual Mobilization Assistant (IMA) to the Chief Nurse
Executive 

·  Exhibited outstanding leadership and clinical oversight during Chief Nurse Executive's Deployment for more than 1,400 medical staff members, including 500 Active Duty and civilian nurses at the Air Force’s 4th largest inpatient hospital.

·  Oversaw annual budget allocation of $85M while holding responsibility for all nursing standards and practices.

·  Selected to chair in-hospital Nursing Executive Group and Professional Education Committee, which planned, designed, and delivered health care services, education, and training programs.

·  Successfully procured $15K Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Grant (SANE)

Office of Assistant Command Surgeon, Medical Force Development and Nursing Services,   

Headquarters Air Force (HAF), Washington, DC  

Director of Education and Training  2005 - 2008

·  IMA to the Director of Education and Training

·  Created and instituted education, training, and staff development policies and procedures, covering 43,000 active-duty USAF Medical Service Personnel (AFMS) across 154 career fields.

·  Coordinated policy support for executive decisions at all levels, including DoD, AF/SG, AF/DP, and all MAJCOM Surgeon Generals. Compiled briefing materials and correspondences for two-star AFMS Force Development and Director of Nurse Corps Chief

·  Collaborated with the Director of Nursing Services to develop policies and consult on civilian nursing education, training trends, and programs.

HQ USAF, Air Mobility Command (AMC)  

Scott AFB, IL  

Chief AE Operations  1998 - 2004

·  IMA to the Chief, AE Operations

·  Director for global AE issues. Aeromedical Operations is a command and control agency for AMCs worldwide aeromedical mission.

·  Planned, scheduled, and executed more than 2000 AMC missions to support the US Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), sourced and executed airlift for thousands of sick, combat wounded, and civilian casualties to safety/definitive care in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM /IRAQI FREEDOM.

·  Deployed to support contingency planning and execution of AE missions.

·  Supported multiple humanitarian and military relief efforts in Bosnia & Kosovo, Nairobi Embassy bombing, US civilian and DoD personnel in African Congo, relief to Central America, South America, and Pacific Rim, hurricane survivors, a research scientist in Antarctica, and others.

315 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, USAFR  

Joint Base Charleston, SC  

Flight Nurse  1986 - 1998

·  Served as Clinical Flight Nurse, Medical Crew Director, Flight Nurse Instructor, and
Flight Nurse Evaluator.

·  Deployed as Medical Crew Director, OPERATION DESERT STORM.

·  Supported OPERATION RESTORE HOPE (Somalia), OPERATION RESTORE DEMOCRACY (Haiti).

·  Served as Squadron Staff Development Officer, implemented/managed continuing education program and medical certification program. Provided oversight and coordination of continuing education and licensing of 290 nurses and medical technicians

ACADEMIC / RESEARCH POSITIONS

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University  

Daytona Beach, FL  

Adjunct Faculty  2005 - 2012

·  Lead Faculty graduate course, Research Methods and Statistics (MAS 605), a core requirement for Master of Aeronautical Science/Engineering Degrees.

·  Faculty Advisor served on student thesis committees as faculty advisor and content specialist

·  Lead Faculty undergraduate flight physiology course with follow-on spatial disorientation training.

Airline Pilots Association (ALPA)  

Herndon, VA  

Research Advisor  2004 - 2009

·  Identify/Recommend research priorities for ALPA funding and endorsement. Conduct research and collaborate on research at ALPAs request.

US Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)  

Oklahoma City, OK  

Aeromedical Occupational Safety and Health Researcher  2004 - 2005

·  Studied exposure to aircrews to ionizing radiation from radioactive cargo. Compared metered recorded exposure to calculated galactic cosmic radiation exposure on volunteer pilots and flight attendants.

·  Publications are highlighted in the corresponding resume section.

Medical University of South Carolina  

EDUCATION

Florida State University  Tallahassee, FL

Graduate School  Presently enrolled

·  Post-Masters Certificate Psych-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program

University of Central Florida  Orlando, FL

Graduate School  06/2018

·  Post-Masters Certificate Family Nurse Practitioner Program

Medical College of Georgia (Augusta University)  Augusta, GA

Graduate School  06/1997

·  Ph.D., Nursing

·  Doctoral Program encompassed research/investigation of adult health and environmental needs from local, national, and global perspectives.

·  Research focus: Stress, coping, adaptation theory, and women's health.

·  Unpublished doctoral dissertation titled Correlates of Breast Self-Examination in Women 18-35 Years of Age.

University of South Carolina  Columbia, SC

Graduate School  05/1988

·  M.S., Nursing
Clinical Nurse Specialist (Adult Health), minor teaching and curriculum design 

University of South Carolina  Columbia, SC

Undergraduate Nursing  05/1985

·  B.S., Nursing

·  Clinical focus: adult neuro-sensory and cardiovascular specialty

PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS

·  Nicholas, JS and Grones, GK. (2004). Melanoma in Cargo Carrier Pilots. Abstract presented at Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) Conference. 

·  Cashman, J., Nicholas, J. Lackland D., Morhr, L., Woodson, R., Grones, G., Rodgers, J., Kilmer, J. (2007). Mortality Among Airline Pilots in the United States. International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies. (7) 2. 202-211.

LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS

·  RN 928849  Florida    Expires 30 April 2024

·  APRN 11000800  Florida  Expires 31 July 2024

·  FNP F10180189  American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board   04 October 2018 - 03 October 2023

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

·  American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

·  Sigma Theta Tau International

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Our October 17 meeting had Taylor Foster thanking the Chapter for the award she received for helping her obtain her newly acquired Private Pilot License.

Our guest speaker, Dave Buckwalter, whose company has installed the lates in avionics in new airplanes presented an outstanding and informative lecture on many aspects of aircraft wiring and the proper tools needed to do the job correctly.

Our September 17 meeting had Dr. John Blevins, NASA Chief Engineer for the Space Launch Systems Program/Artemis Project, as our speaker.  (John is also a RV-10 builder.)

John's presentation on the SLS and Artemis - and beyond - was absolutely outstanding!  We're so very sorry if you missed it.  The photos while nice, could never do justice to his presentation.

Saturday, September 21 a Young Eagle Flight Day was held at 8:30AM and started outside the POA Office on Cessna Blvd.

Our August 15, meeting convened at 7 PM in Keith Phillips hangar.

Our guests speaker was going to be our own Bill Stockman. He was going to speak about a recent adventure in his beautiful T-34 Mentor, but unfortunately, Bill was unable to be with us tonight.  

Carl Kretzer, USAF, (Lt Col retired) received his Quilt of Valor for his service to our nation while deployed to SE Asia.  Please read his bio down below.

Jay discussed our Chapter's Mission focus on Young Eagles, Scholarships, our Simulator, and Chapter knowledge.   

EAA National Awards were presented to Chapter officers and included:  Jay for President, Carl Kretzer for Vice-President, Doug Yu for Secretary, Andi Morey for Treasurer and Rick Weiss as Webmaster.  

Also, Flight Advisors Keith, Rick & Mike Kelly as well as Tech Counselors Keith, Rick, Mike and Russ Faller received awards.  Jim Clark for his Young Eagle work and Eileen Weingram and Lynn O'Donnell for their outstanding Scholarship work also received awards.

Jay noted that Young Eagle flights were on summer recess, but added that anyone who was YE qualified and wanted to do independent YE flights to please do so.

Our July 19th meeting was held in Keith's hangar at 7 PM. 

In recognition of the emerging hurricane season our Speakers were Will Ulrich and Austin Green from the National Weather Service.  They taught the Chapter about the National Weather Service's SKYWARN program.  This EXCELLENT PRESENTATION included discussions about weather formation, conditions, how to recognize different significant meteorological events and how to report them to the NWS.  He also discussed hurricane development from east Africa to the US.  He also presented the 2024 Hurricane outlook and noted that August, September and October pose the most risk for major storm development.

Our June 20th meeting  was held in Keith's hangar at 7 PM. 

The guest speaker was our own, Captain Tim Plunket. Tim has a wealth of aviation experience and also building and flying vintage airplanes.  His presentation on the beginnings of flight, early air warfare and antique aircraft was outstanding!!!  We apologize, but due to space constraints we are unable to publish the presentation.

Our May 16th meeting was held in Keith's hangar, 222 Cessna Blvd, Port Orange.

Boston Butters received the Quilt of Valor for military service as an Air Force Guard pilot flying F-16’s during 4 deployments in South West Asia & the Iraqi War.

Our main presentation was done by member Ray Jenkins who works as an FAA liaison with NASA/ Boeing & other private companies creating the Commercial Space Program Flights through various spacecraft types—amazing concepts using different technologies to launch private individuals into space & also astronauts to the ISS, low earth orbit—-very cool indeed! Who’da thought about all that 20 years ago or more?
He answered a lot of questions, a very interesting program for sure!

Our April meeting was on Thursday the 18th:  

Eileen Weingram introduced our new scholarship winners, Gabriel and Dawson.  Last year's and this year scholars, Kayla and Zane assembled presentations about their journeys to get their Private License.

Amanda Fallon gave us an idea of some Social Media she has established. 

Tim Roehl on the GAMI initiative for unleaded fuel discussed their new product called G1000UL.  It replaces 100UL and is lightly heavier (6.3/gal), but offset by higher energy density.  Note:  It's green tinted. .Fun Fact: A sister company, to GAMI, Tornado Alley Turbos, same owners, that installs their own designed turbocharger retrofit kits just received a USAF contract to provide kits for their USAF Academy SR-20 fleet to compensate for Colorado Springs density altitude.

Unfortunately Dave Buchwaler was not able to join us to speak on Avionics build and installation.

Our March Taxi-in meeting was on SATURDAY, MARCH 30th.  

The Taxi In was on March 30. Setup began at 11 AM. All aircraft were in place by 12:30 and members and residents viewed the range of aircraft the members own.

Our February meeting was on the 15th:

The February meeting was held on Thursday, February 15th at 7 PM. We had a special presentation on finding an ELT signal.  Our main speaker wa Linda Sollars. She is an Airline pilot who went to South Africa and built a Sling airplane. She then flew the airplane from South Africa to Oshkosh. That beautiful airplane was on display at the meeting. Pictures and Linda's presentation will be available soon.

Our first meeting of 2024 was on January 18th: 

Our guest speaker was Arnold Holmes an FAA DAR from Leesburg, FL who made an outstanding presentation about what DARs do and what you can expect when it comes time to get your E-AB aircraft certified for flight.  See his presentation in the pictures below. 

John Fluerent has offered to sell his canoe for $300 and give the proceeds to our scholarship fund.  The canoe is hanging in Keith's hangar.  Don't miss the exciting opportunity!!!!

Quilts of Valor Florida state coordinator,Terry Burtchell (also a Spruce Creek resident). The Quilts of Valor Foundation began in 2003 with a dream, literally a dream. Founder Catherine Roberts’ son Nat was deployed in Iraq. According to Catherine: The dream was as vivid as real life. I saw a young man sitting on the side of his bed in the middle of the night, hunched over. The permeating feeling was one of utter despair. I could see his war demons clustered around, dragging him down into an emotional gutter. Then, as if viewing a movie, I saw him in the next scene wrapped in a quilt. His whole demeanor changed from one of despair to one of hope and well-being. The quilt had made this dramatic change.  The message of my dream was: Quilts = Healing.

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