Celebrities in CAP?

Started by JCW0312, December 09, 2007, 01:52:43 AM

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BTCS1*

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While it's great for recruiting to say that a celebrity is/was a member, if that person does something less than satisfactory outside of CAP, all of the sudden we hae a Lee Harvey Oswald situation, in a way at least.
C/2d Lt. B. Garelick, CAP

raivo

Quote from: JoeTomasone on January 01, 1970, 12:21:03 AM
Am I missing the joke here??

There's a CAP member by that name at a Florida squadron.

CAP Member, 2000-20??
USAF Officer, 2009-2018
Recipient of a Mitchell Award Of Irrelevant Number

"No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection. No inspection-ready unit has ever survived combat."

BuckeyeDEJ

Quote from: raivo on January 17, 2010, 11:17:27 PM
Quote from: JoeTomasone on January 01, 1970, 12:21:03 AM
Am I missing the joke here??
There's a CAP member by that name at a Florida squadron.
In Group 3, in fact.


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The CyBorg is destroyed

#63
I don't think Harrison Ford is actually a member, but he'd make a good one.

He's qualified on both fixed-wing and helicopters, and I read a story a few years ago about how he flew an injured Boy Scout in Wyoming (where he lives) to hospital.

I doubt he'd lend his celebrity status to CAP; he's a very private person by most accounts though pretty nice one-on-one.

Another good one would be Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Commander Worf from Star Trek).  Among others, he owns a T-33 and F-86 and has flight time in both F-15's and F-16's (VIP guest at various AFB's).  I've met him and he's a nice guy.

I've read several stories about Lee Harvey Oswald in CAP, most of them ending with him being kicked out.  He was also kicked out of the Marines and once tried to become a Soviet citizen.

Another one, except for the fact that he's British (OK, Air Training Corps then), would be Bruce Dickinson, lead singer for heavy metal band Iron Maiden.  He flies part-time for British Airways, flies his band on tours and had something to do with flying RAF personnel either into or out of Afghanistan.
Exiled from GLR-MI-011

Smithsonia

#64
Here's a partial list of Harrison Ford Movies that have transportation accidents/incidences as plot devices. If Harrison wants to join CAP, he'll need his own personal full time Safety Officer. As Mr. Ford spends most of his free time near Jackson Hole, likely he'd join the Wyoming Wing... so I am close enough to help. That would be a fun gig. Somebody tell Col Skrabut, I am available to help.
K-19 Widow Maker, Air Force One, Devils Own, Six Days Seven Nights, What Lies Beneath, Clear and Present Danger, The Fugitive, Star Wars 4,5,6, Indiana Jones 1,2,3, Patriot Games, Mosquito Coast, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Force 10 from Navarone, and a bunch of TV appearances.
With regards;
ED OBRIEN

Gunner C

How would you tell the difference between Harrison Ford endorsing CAP and EAA Young Eagles?  Hmmm.  Maybe in one, he'll be wearing the organization's golf shirt?  Oops.  Gotta have an identifiable brand.

DBlair

Quote from: Gunner C on January 18, 2010, 04:58:11 PM
How would you tell the difference between Harrison Ford endorsing CAP and EAA Young Eagles?  Hmmm.  Maybe in one, he'll be wearing the organization's golf shirt?  Oops.  Gotta have an identifiable brand.

LOL Good call.
DANIEL BLAIR, Lt Col, CAP
C/Lt Col (Ret) (1990s Era)
Wing Staff / Legislative Squadron Commander

Flying Pig

#67
Harrison Ford:   
PRIVATE PILOT
          AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
          AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE SEA
          AIRPLANE MULTIENGINE LAND
          INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE
          ROTORCRAFT-HELICOPTER

I would have expected he would have Commercial/ Instrument CFI everything. 

flynd94

Quote from: Flying Pig on January 18, 2010, 05:38:21 PM
Harrison Ford:   
PRIVATE PILOT
          AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
          AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE SEA
          AIRPLANE MULTIENGINE LAND
          INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE
          ROTORCRAFT-HELICOPTER

I would have expected he would have Commercial/ Instrument CFI everything.

Why?
Keith Stason, Maj, CAP
IC3, AOBD, GBD, PSC, OSC, MP, MO, MS, GTL, GTM3, UDF, MRO
Mission Check Pilot, Check Pilot

sdcapmx

While en route to Alabama with a CAP AC I stopped in Springfield, MO for fuel.  I went into the small FBO and noticed a familiar face in the back of the FBO talking to some people.  He walked towards me to get to his AC and I shook his hand and had a short conversation.  He was very cordial and friendly.  It was NASCAR driver Carl Edwards.  I then went to the flight planning room to plan my next leg and he walked by and stuck his head in and asked if I were flying the CAP aircraft.  He said that he was a cadet in CAP and told me what a great organization we had.  He had just got married the day before and he and his new bride were flying to Florida in the jet that he piloted.  There was a lot of weather ahead of me and he told me how easy the jets were to fly as weather was seldom a factor as it is in a small AC.  I was very impressed with how friendly he was.

AlphaSigOU

Quote from: CyBorg on January 18, 2010, 03:04:13 PM
I've read several stories about Lee Harvey Oswald in CAP, most of them ending with him being kicked out.  He was also kicked out of the Marines and once tried to become a Soviet citizen.

IIRC Oswald probably let his CAP cadet membership lapse. Other than the (in)famous photos in CAP uniform, there probably isn't much official documentation extant of Oswald's cadet career. He did his time satisfactorily in the Marines, and did renounce his American citizenship, though I believe he managed to get it back after his stint in Rooshia - the commies didn't want the despicable [bastidge] either - but put up with his antics in that socialist worker's paradise for about a year before he went back home.
Lt Col Charles E. (Chuck) Corway, CAP
Gill Robb Wilson Award (#2901 - 2011)
Amelia Earhart Award (#1257 - 1982) - C/Major (retired)
Billy Mitchell Award (#2375 - 1981)
Administrative/Personnel/Professional Development Officer
Nellis Composite Squadron (PCR-NV-069)
KJ6GHO - NAR 45040

Orville_third

Regarding Harrison Ford, I spoke to General Amy at National Convention in 2008 and half-jokingly, half-seriously asked if he could be named an honorary member. She said they may be considering it...

In regards to the JFK assassination, there is a different connection. A guy named Penn Jones who wrote several books on the JFK assassination stated that he was one of the founding members of CAP, and I'm curious if this is so.

Finally, my early PAO mentor was a CAP Lieutenant Colonel named Ed Crankshaw, who served with CAP for over 50 years total, much of it out in California. He was an actor in some minor roles, including some commercials. (He got in trouble when he played a Cable Car operator in an old Hardee's commercial. Wilfred Brimley thought he looked and sounded too much like him and harmed his Quaker Oatmeal image...)
Captain Orville Eastland, CAP
Squadron Historian
Public Affairs Officer
Greenville Composite Squadron
SC Wing

Smithsonia

#72
OK now you guys have lowered the bar for celebrity qualifications down to my level.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639525/

I've acted as a part time gig for 30 years and have about 30 movie and network TV credits. Plus I have thousands of Voice Credits and a bunch of writing credits.
I even made TV guide a couple of times. (In the day - that was a big deal for an actor) AND, I've got some regional Emmys too. That said, I've always been a working guy and never a celebrity. OK I've signed maybe 10 autographs in my life, but that's it.
With regards;
ED OBRIEN

Gunner C

Quite the Renaissance man!  Impressive.

Flying Pig

Quote from: flynd94 on January 18, 2010, 10:31:14 PM
Quote from: Flying Pig on January 18, 2010, 05:38:21 PM
Harrison Ford:   
PRIVATE PILOT
          AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
          AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE SEA
          AIRPLANE MULTIENGINE LAND
          INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE
          ROTORCRAFT-HELICOPTER


I would have expected he would have Commercial/ Instrument CFI everything.

Why?

Not that a commercial is required for anything he does, but if I had all the money in the world I would be an ATP/CFI everything just because.  Of course, I imagine hes a busy guy.

Cecil DP

Quote from: AlphaSigOU on January 18, 2010, 11:48:28 PM
Quote from: CyBorg on January 18, 2010, 03:04:13 PM
I've read several stories about Lee Harvey Oswald in CAP, most of them ending with him being kicked out.  He was also kicked out of the Marines and once tried to become a Soviet citizen.

IIRC Oswald probably let his CAP cadet membership lapse. Other than the (in)famous photos in CAP uniform, there probably isn't much official documentation extant of Oswald's cadet career. He did his time satisfactorily in the Marines, and did renounce his American citizenship, though I believe he managed to get it back after his stint in Rooshia - the commies didn't want the despicable [bastidge] either - but put up with his antics in that socialist worker's paradise for about a year before he went back home.

I've also heard that the Texas Wing commander and future Chairman of the National Board BG Byrd was the owner of the Texas Book Depositry when Oswald got his job there.
Michael P. McEleney
LtCol CAP
MSG  USA Retired
GRW#436 Feb 85

BTCS1*

Quote from: CyBorg on January 18, 2010, 03:04:13 PM
Another one, except for the fact that he's British (OK, Air Training Corps then), would be Bruce Dickinson, lead singer for heavy metal band Iron Maiden.  He flies part-time for British Airways, flies his band on tours and had something to do with flying RAF personnel either into or out of Afghanistan.
I could only dream or Bruce Dickinson joining CAP! While totaly unlikely... It would be awesome, as I am a huge Iron Maiden fan.
C/2d Lt. B. Garelick, CAP

vmstan

Michael Dorn would be a great spokesman for CAP. I just wonder if NHQ will allow him to wear his Klingon warrior sash with his blues?  :angel:
MICHAEL M STANCLIFT, 1st Lt, CAP
Public Affairs Officer, NCR-KS-055, Heartland Squadron

Quote"I wish to compliment NHQ on this extremely well and clearly written regulation.
This publication once and for all should establish the uniform pattern to be followed
throughout Civil Air Patrol."

1949 Uniform and Insignia Committee comment on CAP Reg 35-4

Strick

Quote from: Marshalus on January 26, 2010, 04:24:02 PM
Michael Dorn would be a great spokesman for CAP. I just wonder if NHQ will allow him to wear his Klingon warrior sash with his blues?  :angel:

You did not get the new ICL from National, The Klingon sash is now authorized with the polo combo, ribbons are placed on top , badges in the center and mess dress medals on the bottom..... ;D
[darn]atio memoriae

BuckeyeDEJ

Oh, no, the Trekkies are out. Better go get my tinfoil hat so I can blend in.  :P


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REAL LIFE: Working journalist in SPG, DTW (News), SRQ, PIT (Trib), 2D1, WVI, W22; editor, desk chief, designer, photog, columnist, reporter, graphics guy, visual editor, but not all at once. Now a communications manager for an international multisport venue.