Movies that Mention CAP?

[Major Carrales]

I was watching some of the "Doom and Gloom" shows on the Histoy Channel this morning while I was working on my weekly newsletter.  I was pulled from that work, if only for a second, by the mention of the CAP in Hawaii.

This got me thinking...I rememeber doing the same thing when watching a Matthew Broderick movie called "Project X" where he was a USAF airman radiating chimps for some US government project.

Anyone else know of any movies that mention CAP?

[♠SARKID♠]

I know in one of the Splinter Cell video games, an entire mission takes place at an "Abandoned CAP base".  Havent played the game, but I know its there.

[Cecil DP]

CAP had a major part in one of the Dynasty episodes, when one of the Colbys plane crashed in the Rockies.

[♠SARKID♠]

pulled this off of wikipedia

    * In the movie Red Zone Cuba, which was spoofed by Mystery Science Theater 3000, one of the scenes featured a large radio van in the background with Civil Air Patrol markings on it.

    * One of the ABC's Weekend Specials in 1981 was an adaptation of the book Mayday! Mayday! by Hilary Martin wherein the Civil Air Patrol was used to locate passengers of a private airplane crash.

    * According Oliver Stone's film JFK, David Ferrie and other members of the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy were members of the Civil Air Patrol, and had supposedly given Cuban exiles military training for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

it also had the Dynasty reference

[John Bryan]

Around 1988 or so when I first joined CAP I remember a movie on the Disney Channel called "Solo". It was about a women's first solo gone bad. She crashed and there was a major CAP search.

I have never been able to find it on video or on TV since.

[JohnKachenmeister]

"Red Dawn" was originally supposed to be about a CAP squadron, but NHQ refused to give permission for the name and logo to be used.  So they made it about the football team instead.

"Iron Eagle" was also supposed to be about a CAP squadron on an AF base, but NHQ again refused to let the name and logos be used, so the producers made it a private dependent flying club made up of teenagers on base.

I can understand the Iron Eagle denial.  The main character violates AF regulations by listening to rock music while engaging in unauthorized flight of an F-16, flies an airplane in a reckless manner racing a motorcycle, and working with members of his squadron, steals 2 F-16's, arranges two mid-air refuelings, attacks a third world dictatorship, rescuses an American hostage, and gets sent to the Air Force Academy for his trouble.

We do NOT want to give those puppies any ideas!

[ZigZag911]

In the late '80s there was a TV series called "Our House", starred Wilford Brimley (the Quaker Oats guy!), probably his first big break...he was around 50, looked 70....anyway, Shannen Doherty (later '90210' & 'Charmed' star) played his teenage granddaughter who was taking flying lessons....her plane went down (I believe it was a dual X-country, may have been solo) and CAP came to the rescue!

[Major Carrales]

In the late '80s there was a TV series called "Our House", starred Wilford Brimley (the Quaker Oats guy!), probably his first big break...he was around 50, looked 70....anyway, Shannen Doherty (later '90210' & 'Charmed' star) played his teenage granddaughter who was taking flying lessons....her plane went down (I believe it was a dual X-country, may have been solo) and CAP came to the rescue!

I remember that series.  But I don't rememeber that episode.  I do rememeber one with an earthquake where she took some sort of unauthroized flight (as in her parents had disapproved) and did not know anything about the major earthquake because she had been flying.

[Johnny Yuma]

I remember the episode. Wilford took Doherty to Edwards AFB on a tour, she took a ride in a CAP plane I believe and crashed with a guy on base!

It also involved a reunion with an estranged uncle of Doherty's character, Brimley's character's son.

I was a cadet at the time and the unit got a big laugh out of the episode.

[JohnKachenmeister]

I can't remember the song nor the artist, but there was a music video that featured an old WWII bomber pilot who was seen in the video wearing a CAP uniform.  It goes back to the time when we wore "CAP" on the collars, and I can't remember what was on the epaulet. 

The video showed the old guy taking off his jacket, then sitting in a rocking chair recalling the events of his life.

No pickups, hot girls dancing, or beer.  No wonder I can't remember it.

[mikeylikey]

No pickups, hot girls dancing, or beer.  No wonder I can't remember it.

Ah......the good life!

[Major Carrales]

There are two scenes of which I have sene on television but that I cannot confirm.

One was an Hispanic Heritiage documentary on PBS that, while mentioning that the Military provided opportunities to the Hispanic Community of South Texas it showed some artifacts on a table (including a Silver and Bronze Star) that included a blue CAP service cap with CAP insignia.

Also, I once saw an interview with "Flip" Wilson where...and this was only a fleeting picture...he had the service cap insignia on a baseball cap. 

[♠SARKID♠]

CAP had a major part in one of the Dynasty episodes, when one of the Colbys plane crashed in the Rockies.

Was that when Fallon Carrington's or Monica Colby's plane crashed?  Because I watched all of the episodes involving Fallon's and they dont even show the search.  It goes from Fallon being deported at the very end of one episode, to body ID at the beginning of the next.  No mention of CAP.  If its during Monica's crash, I might have a hard time finding that.

[Major Lord]

"According Oliver Stone's film JFK, David Ferrie and other members of the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy were members of the Civil Air Patrol, and had supposedly given Cuban exiles military training for the Bay of Pigs invasion."

Run for it boys! Their on to us!

And then Cuban intelligence retaliated against CAP by sending in a deep cover operative to take over our organization and ....hey wait a minute.......

Major Lord

[Cecil DP]

"According Oliver Stone's film JFK, David Ferrie and other members of the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy were members of the Civil Air Patrol, and had supposedly given Cuban exiles military training for the Bay of Pigs invasion."

Run for it boys! Their on to us!

And then Cuban intelligence retaliated against CAP by sending in a deep cover operative to take over our organization and ....hey wait a minute.......

Major Lord

Don't forget that Lee Harvey Oswald was a member of Texas Wing.

[Major Carrales]

"According Oliver Stone's film JFK, David Ferrie and other members of the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy were members of the Civil Air Patrol, and had supposedly given Cuban exiles military training for the Bay of Pigs invasion."

Run for it boys! Their on to us!

And then Cuban intelligence retaliated against CAP by sending in a deep cover operative to take over our organization and ....hey wait a minute.......

Major Lord

Don't forget that Lee Harvey Oswald was a member of Texas Wing.

Col (General) Byrd...first Texas Wing Commander, owned the Texas School Book Depository.

[Cecil DP]

In the late 50's early 60's there was the "Bob Cummings Show" He played a photographer and his nephew (Dwayne Hickman, later played as Dobie Gillis) was a member of the Civil Air Patrol.

Two Academy Award winners were members of CAP. Mary Astor and Cliff Robertson. Jerry Lewis was also an official spokeman into the 60's. 

[Cecil DP]

"According Oliver Stone's film JFK, David Ferrie and other members of the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy were members of the Civil Air Patrol, and had supposedly given Cuban exiles military training for the Bay of Pigs invasion."

Run for it boys! Their on to us!

And then Cuban intelligence retaliated against CAP by sending in a deep cover operative to take over our organization and ....hey wait a minute.......

Major Lord

Don't forget that Lee Harvey Oswald was a member of Texas Wing.

Col (General) Byrd...first Texas Wing Commander, owned the Texas School Book Depository.

So that's how Oswald got the job!!

[CASH172]

There's also that movie about the Texas Cadet Murder which now has the name Swearing Allegiance.  The movie's about two CAP cadets that kill another teenage girl after a love triangle.  Look at the Spaatz list and you'll see the rescinded number.  The guy in the movie plays the character of the rescinded Spaatz recipient.

[SarDragon]

They would be David Graham, and Diane Zamora. More here.