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The California Wing’s Fullerton Composite Squadron 56 added a second-place finish in the Cisco Network Academy Challenge to its record of success – including three straight national finals and five in six years – in the CyberPatriot National Youth Cy...

The Alabama Wing’s Redstone Composite Squadron combined forces with the locally based SARTEC K-9 Unit for a joint agency field training exercise simulating a missing person.Two teams, each led by a search dog with its handler, worked with Redstone ca...

Col. Brian C. Howard is the new Nevada Wing commander, succeeding Col. Deborah Pierce in a ceremony March 3 at Civil Air Patrol’s Winter Command Council meeting in Washington, D.C.  Howard previously served as the Henderson Composite Squadron’s offic...

Lt. Col. Jennifer L. Smith has been selected as the next Missouri Wing commander, succeeding Col. Thomas Martin, wing commander since May 2019, in a change of command ceremony at the wing conference later this month. Smith, the wing’s vice commander ...

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) principles came alive for 121 cadets from the North and South Carolina wings through hands-on learning exercises during a workshop at the Aviation Institute of Maintenance in Charlotte, North Carolina...

Capt. Andrew Aceves of the Louisiana Wing’s St. Tammany Composite Squadron received his Gen. Carl A. Spaatz Award, Civil Air Patrol’s top cadet honor Feb. 21 in the nation’s capital from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Since joining the...

Cadets from the Wisconsin Wing's Walco Composite Squadron took their first flights during two days of weekend orientation ridesMilwaukee Senior Squadron 10 provided the aircraft and pilots for the activity.“We are looking to eventually acquire our ow...

Col.-select R. Brian Williams has been named the next commander of Civil Air Patrol’s Alabama Wing after a 30-year career in the U.S. Army.Williams joined CAP as a cadet in 1981 and cites his experience in the organization as life-changing in terms o...

By mid-morning nearly a half-inch of rain had fallen. The sky and forecast agreed – correctly, it turned out – that more was on the way.The Civil Air Patrol members visiting Gettysburg National Military Park were soaked as they stood on Oak Ridge and...

Judd Dukes, a veteran of D-day, celebrated his 96th birthday three  days early with the Capitol City Composite Squadron during a visit Jan. 30 that featured his recollections of the Normandy invasion and other wartime experiences.Dukes spoke with the...

California Wing members responded in the air and on the ground after torrential rainstorms drenched their state in January.Beginning Jan. 12,  11 Civil Air Patrol aircraft carried out 65 flights. In all, 125 members participated, and 1,500 photos wer...

Cadets in the Iowa Wing’s ’s Des Moines Composite Squadron recently received a personal tour and up-close view of a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone from the 132nd Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard. The cadets were escorted to the flight line for a...

The South Dakota Wing is assisting Feeding South Dakota and other agencies in their efforts to feed residents snowed in for over a week because of winter storms. Three members of the Pierre Composite Squadron pitched in at Feeding South Dakota's loca...

Members of the Texas Wing’s Pegasus Composite Squadron received a first-hand perspective on test piloting and on space flight when retired U.S. Air Force Col. Sidney M. Gutierrez discussed his years in the military and in NASA, including 20 days and ...

Members of the New Jersey Wing Cadet Advisory Council did it their way last month, planning and hosting a cadet conference and ball that drew more than 200 participants to J.P. Stevens High School in Edison.The advisory council lived up to its motto,...

Members of the Vermont Wing’s Bennington Composite Squadron stepped up recently to help repair vandals’ damage to gravesites at a local historic cemetery.More than 200 historical markers dating back to before the Revolutionary War were overturned or ...

Retired U.S. Air Force Reserve Maj. Gen. Robert Nester, for whom one of the Indiana Wing’s four school-based squadrons is named, was honored Oct. 8 at the Indiana Aviation Hall of Fame Honors Banquet in Carmel along with his fellow 2022 inductees int...

Lt. Col. Juan Rodríguez has been named Puerto Rico Wing commander after years of serving in diverse leadership roles within the organization.Rodriguez will succeed Col. Edgardo Torres, commander since December 2018, at the wing conference Dec. 3 in M...

Cadets from the Ohio Wing’s Wright-Patterson Composite Squadron served as the color guard Sept. 24 for the National Aviation Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, during which Civil Air Patrol pioneer Lt. ...

Second Lt. Brian Ruede has hit the ground running – or maybe the word should be “flying,” at least as experienced via simulator – since taking command of the New Hampshire Wing’s Monadnock Composite Squadron in late August. “We have been ramping up o...

Emergency services was the subject of the day when members of the Mississippi Wing’s Col. Berta A. Edge Composite Squadron convened for a recent Saturday training session.Lt. Col. Charles Anderson, deputy commander for seniors, presented both hands-o...

A pair of Rhode Island Wing cadets put their newly learned experience with small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) – drones – to quick use during their squadron’s training session with wing staff.With Cadet 2nd Lt. Andrew Gudz serving as technician and ...

The Alaska Wing became officially aligned underneath the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs this month, opening the door for closer statewide cooperation and partnership.Col. Kevin McClure, wing commander, hailed the new arrangement as...

Kansas Wing volunteers conducted two blood transport missions transferring 27 boxes of blood among three states in support of the American Red Cross. The first mission involved transport of blood to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Wichita, Kansas. The second mi...

Teachers from public and private schools across Puerto Rico took to the skies Aug. 20 from Mercedita International Airport in Ponce as passengers on the Civil Air Patrol aerospace education program’s Teacher Orientation Program (TOP) Flights. The TOP...

Tech. Sgt. Damen Therkildsen, Idaho Wing assistant safety director, met the challenge of soaring summer temperatures head-on recently by crafting an innovative approach as safety director for the wing’s recent Mountain Eagle Encampment. Before the en...

Cadets from the Maryland Wing’s Mount Airy Composite Squadron won the high school division of the Fairchild Growing Beyond Earth Maker Challenge with their presentation on autonomous robotic planting and harvesting.The challenge, now in its third yea...

A routine summer holiday precautionary search and rescue mission July 2 along the Colorado River took an unexpected turn for the Arizona Wing’s Yuma Composite Squadron when members were asked to transport two injured raptors – a barn owl and a prairi...

 Minnesota Wing members participated in an emergency rescue exercise with the Minnesota Task Force Urban Search & Rescue Team by portraying victims in a collapsed structure rescue training session.The search and rescue team consists of firefighters a...

The New Jersey Wing has been recognized with the Governor's Jefferson Award – known in the state as “the Pulitzer Prize of volunteerism” – for community service in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.The wing was honored for Service by/for Armed Servic...