Excellant Response, and I concur with your statement. When I was a Squadron Commander back in the 80's, the Cadet Program was far superior than AFROTC. I have no issues with the Cadet program as long as a competant Senior Squadron Commander is running the program.
My concern is this breed of wanabees that make the problems the CAP program is now experiencing. You are correct in bad-apples being in every organization, but it seems like these bad-apples (or nuts) are running the program. These are the idiots that make CAP have a bad name.
Also, as a pilot with over 10K hours, if my airplane went down, I would rather have a CAP aircraft and ground team be homing in on my ELT beacuse I know that true volunteers are dedicated to the cause; however, with all that being said, I still believe the CAP program (not Cadets) needs to be restructured under a more civilian control.
A uniform does NOT make the person, the 'person' makes the uniform! Rank and Uniforms in the Senior Program need to be removed! Some will disagree with me on this, but this is why we are looked at as a wanabee Air Force program.
Keep the Military as is. Make all volunteer programs that assist Military Organization civilian. This way, you weed-out all the wanabees that just want to wear a Uniform and be cool.
Thanks for your response. It was well Stated!
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Name - Retired Military, Formal Member 06:53:03 03-31-08
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