The Eagle Has Landed!

[ZigZag911]

I just saw a copy of orders from National appointing Lt Col Edward Lee to the permanent grade of Colonel, CAP.

Congratulations, Ned, you earned this the hard way!!!

[MSG Mac]

Yeah! Congrats COLONEL LEE. Richly deserved!

[ColonelJack]

Outstanding, Ned!  Or should I say, "Outstanding, sir!"

I always said I was glad it was you that got the BOG seat if I couldn't get it.

All the best ...

Jack

[AlphaSigOU]

Remember... no promotion is considered 'official' until it is properly wetted down in the O-Club Bar!

Congratulations, Ned!

[JC004]

 :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Jedi Master Ned's promotion is, of course, well-deserved...but I had thought he was ALREADY a full bird!

[FW]

Very Special! I hope Ned enjoys the extra 0 in his paycheck...

[BillB]

Richly deserved

[Brit_in_CAP]

Great News, and thoroughly deserved!

:clap: :clap: :clap:

[Chappie]

 :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: Indeed...great news for a well deserving individual.  Col Ned Lee is truly the epitome of a great servant/leader.   Consider it a privilege to serve with him and to call him a friend...as well as a "friend of the Chaplain Corps" 

[THRAWN]

Never heard of him....

It is about time that this organization did something this right! Congrats, sir. Fair winds and following seas...

[Pylon]

Civil Air Patrol could not have recognized the contributions of a better member. Outstanding!

[Ned]

Thank you all for your kind words.  I had no idea this was in the works, and was totally surprised.

Since I hadn't been promoted in the last 15 years, the Vanguard tab was a bit larger than I expected.  I guess we call it CAP for a reason.

I write this from Beijing, where I arrived a few hours ago on CAP business.  If all goes well, we should see a membership increase of a billion or two. 😉

The internets here are slow, and social media sites are blocked.  Take a moment and appreciate America and the hosts of CAPTalk for allowing us to express ourselves.

Even if it is mostly about uniforms.

[MSG Mac]

Now Jay Altieri will expect it when he leaves the BOG. Seriously I feel Col should come with the appointment.

[Storm Chaser]

Col Lee got the promotion for all the hard work he's done for CAP. It's well deserved.

Congratulations, sir!

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Since I hadn't been promoted in the last 15 years, the Vanguard tab was a bit larger than I expected.  I guess we call it CAP for a reason.

Ohfacryinoutloud.  They made you PAY for your new eagles, Sir?

What's going in China?  Are you trying to organise a CAP there?

[Ned]

Lt Col. Mike McArdle and I are here at the invitation of the Shandong Aviation Industry Association to brief them and the Chinese Air Force on youth aviation programs.  Incredibly interesting so far.  I just opened up some of their background briefing information and found that Volume 2 of the "Contribute to the Nation with Aviation" magazine has about a dozen pictures of our own Gen Courter andt Col Bev Scoggins in some sort of feature story.  My written Mandarin is a little rusty, but my guess is that is about IACE.

[a2capt]

Oh noes, not the return of the "U.S." ... 

[PHall]

Oh noes, not the return of the "U.S." ... 

Had to turn this into a uniform thread, didn't you.

[Майор Хаткевич]

Good thing I still have my U.S. Civil Air Patrol Tapes!