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The 102nd Squadron is located in North Smithfield Rhode Island at the 282nd ANG Base and serves the State of Rhode Island through emergency services, homeland security, cadet programs, and aerospace education. The squadron reports directly to RI Wing headquartered at TF Green Airport. The squadrons primary mission is to build leaders while performing missions for America.

Rhode Island Wing Headlines

Halloween Saves
7 November 2007

John Devany, 2nd Lt

RHODE ISLAND -- Halloween night found the Rhode Island Wing helping the Rhode Island State Police, Environmental Police and Emergency Management Agency search the state's Wildlife Management Area for three missing hikers.

The search plane, a Cessna 182, was piloted by Lt. Col. Rui Rodrigues of wing headquarters, with 1^st Lt. Benjamin Emerick of the 102nd Composite Squadron serving as mission observer. Lt. Col. Stanley Wilbur of wing headquarters served as agency liaison.

The three hikers, all 22 years old, started a small signal fire and used their dying cell phone for rescue. Searchers were able to use the cell phone's Global Positioning System coordinates to begin the air search.

When nothing could be seen at the position indicated by the cell phone's coordinates, the team then began a grid search of the area. Emerick observed a faint, orange glow in the distance, and the plane flew to that target. A signal fire was confirmed, and the plane circled, relaying the fire's coordinates. The missing hikers were safe, and the CAP members returned to base

R.I. Wing commander, staff convene to map out coming year
3 October 2007

Col. Anthony Gagliardi, commander of the Rhode Island Wing, reserves a date during the wing staff's first ever calendar meeting. The Rhode Island Air National Guard Air Show, three wing search and rescue exercises, the Wakefield Annual Hot Air Balloon Festival, the Rhode Island National Guard's Leapfest, and the wing’s Cadet Ball, encampment and training days, and a proposed inaugural wing golf tournament all made the calendar ... so far.

R.I. Wing receives Air Force Association unit grant
26 July 2007

RHODE ISLAND -- The Rhode Island Wing has been awarded a $250 Air Force Association U.S. Civil Air Patrol unit grant, said Capt. Eileen Rapose, the wing's director of aerospace education,

Jeffrey D. Montgomery, CAP's chief of aerospace education at National Headquarters at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., noted in his memo to the wing that the grants are given to promote and support CAP's aerospace education mission, and that competition was particularly keen this grant cycle.

Rapose said the grant money will be used for aerospace education supplies and for transportation expenses related to travel to aerospace education events.

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Important Documents

2008 Rhode Island Wing Encampment Application
Basic - RICLA - RIGSAR

CAP Form 60

Command Staff

Benjamin Emerick TFO Commander
Kate Forsythe C/Maj Cadet Commander