Anyone with better eyes?

[smitjud]

Do my eyes deceive me, or is there a cadet wearing ABU's on page 15 of the January-March issue of the Volunteer magazine.  I keep telling myself it can't be...

Maybe someone with eagle eyes can tell me that my mind is playing tricks on me again...

[capmaj]

The W. Virginia ETeam member in the front row?

[Eclipse]

My guess is a CAP-RAP?  Regardless there's a few "issues" in that photo...

[Eclipse]

The W. Virginia ETeam member in the front row?

Missed that in the caption.

[smitjud]

Is that what it is?  Whew....

Wish it was a higher-res picture..  I used to work for the Alabama EMA and we never got cool gear like that.  I'm jealous.

[Hawk200]

Can't find my hardcopy, anyone got a link to the digital?

[JoeTomasone]

The electronic version doesn't blow up too well, but they look like ACU/ABU with nothing on them at all..

What's funnier is that a CAP "plan" flew around.   Most of my plans never fly. 

There's also a new Cadet rank introduced on pp. 31 -- "Cadet Senior Staff Sgt.".

[smitjud]

The electronic version doesn't blow up too well, but they look like ACU/ABU with nothing on them at all..

What's funnier is that a CAP "plan" flew around.   Most of my plans never fly. 

There's also a new Cadet rank introduced on pp. 31 -- "Cadet Senior Staff Sgt.".

Hooray for editing!

[SarDragon]

I have my hard copy here, and I agree with the ABU/ACUs. I do not see any patches, so it's likely it's not a CAP member wearing them.

[Eclipse]

Can't find my hardcopy, anyone got a link to the digital?

http://www.capvolunteernow.com/cap_volunteer/

[MIKE]

I have my hard copy here, and I agree with the ABU/ACUs. I do not see any patches, so it's likely it's not a CAP member wearing them.

You must not be in the CAP I was in, where lacking insignia or proper uniform would not stop one from wearing it.

[Hawk200]

It's an ABU. Might have sleeve stripes, but the angles make it hard to tell.

I'm thinking former cadet back from the Air Force for awhile (or a Guardsmen) that decided to show off ABU's.

[lordmonar]

It is ABUs....I think there are some airman stripes.....my initial SWAG is that it is either a new CAP member who is also ANG or AD USAF who responded in the wrong uniform.  I say "new" because I am giving him the benifit of the doubt that he has not had time to get a CAP field uniform of some kind but just completed his GES and inital GTM3 training and responded to his first ground sortie.

I say this because I KNOW no CAP squadron would let an USAF member who was also in CAP respond in the wrong uniform. 

[Major Carrales]

In the grand tradition CAPTALK  of "jumping" (or should I instead say "chumping") at conclusions before knowing any or some of the facts we have this jewel.

May I suggest some research into this event instead of groundless speculations.  Surely someone from the West Virginia Wing can attest to what this is.

The West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is mentioned in the caption...

http://www.wvdhsem.gov/

Could it be them?  Anyone from the West Virginia Wing care to comment?

[LtCol057]

Does West Virginia have the internet?     

[SarDragon]

Does West Virginia have the internet?     

Sure they do! SLOGAN went to WVU, and posted regularly. 

[Zen Master Charlie]

I cant recall, read it then gave it away, but that pic did catch my attention as well... It had mentioned in the article that the WV ANG was involved, so my suspition is that he was a former (or current) cadet, that was there with the ANG, but posed with his cadet buddies! :p

[a2capt]

Okay, part deux, similar situation...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/06/iwo.jima.memorial/index.html

Not CAP at all, but I know there's got to be some who pass through here that know more about uniforms. After all, it is CAPTalk, and in some ancient native languange I'm sure that "CAP" means uniform.. hence, the founders meant it all along, "Uniformtalk"..

Anyhow, the Marine in the left of the second frame of this article. Either the photo isn't from last week, or the Pacific Islands are something different for the Marines? I thought maybe Young Marines, or Marine J/ROTC because of the red/yellow patches on the shoulder? ..and obviously very young. Or someone discovered the Fountain of Youth out there in the Pacific..

(and wow, 65 years.. that certainly had to be something for those folks to go back, finally. thank them for their service. Wow.)

I'd really like to go see that some day. On a clear day like that, at that!

[lordmonar]

Looks like either a Young Marine or  a MCJROTC cadet.

[cap235629]

Young Marines, I zoomed in on the branch tape