Hawaii Wing Responds to Catastrophic Maui Fires

The Hawaii Wing has conducted two flights capturing photos and videos of the extensive damage caused by the Maui brush fires while also documenting and providing detailed information for impact assessment and search and rescue operations at various locations on the...

Cadet Officer School Students Find ‘I am Always Learning’

Cadet Officer School marked its 52nd year this summer, welcoming more than 90 cadets from 33 wings to Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, home of Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters.The school is a rigorous, academically challenging leadership course patterned after...

A New Kind of Scholarship … Serving CAP’s Adult Members

People familiar with Civil Air Patrol won’t even have to ask who the new Cooper Fund is named for.They’ll assume, correctly, that it had to be Col. Bryan Cooper and Lt. Col. Karen Cooper who put up the $50,000 to endow a scholarship fund that will assist adult members...

Cadets Explore Cyber Concepts at National Academy

Cadets and adult members devoted two weeks recently to exploring and working to master some of the latest developments in the ever-shifting realm of cyberspace, as presented at the National Cyber Academy in Hampton, Virginia.The academy, led by Senior Master Sgt....

E-Tech: ‘You Get to Figure Out What You’re Passionate About’

About 40 Civil Air Patrol cadets converged July 9-15 at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro for CAP’s National Cadet Engineering Technology Academy, also known as E-Tech.Participating as students and staff, the cadets hailed from as far away as the...

National AEO School: 20 Years of Learning, Networking

Walking where astronauts have walked was one of the highlights for 75 Civil Air Patrol members from all eight regions and 28 wings when they gathered on the Florida Space Coast for the 2023 Civil Air Patrol National Aerospace Education Officers School.The school,...

Vermont Wing Providing Thousands of Flood Images

The Vermont Wing has flown numerous missions statewide this past week and planning more in support of relief efforts being conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in response to severe flooding.As of early July 18, the wing had provided almost 4,000...