Training in the real support world with a curriculum built around disaster assessment and disaster relief...POD..IS26 mere awareness needs exercising...just because we have it on our 1lone o one card does not mean CAP Nation-wide is proficient. Since we take FEMA courses and whatnot CAP needs a taskbook that supports All Hazard All Risk....theres plenty of disasters that CAP can support...its not just comms and aerial photography. Its going to take a culture change....there are more volunteers from other organizations serving in incidents...probably a culture change for the AF also....since they hold some of the mission assignment cards....

Quote from: HandsomeWalt_USMC on March 23, 2024, 09:04:32 PMI've never understood the blank rank square. They could have pinned directly to the velcro OR offered embroidered cadet enlisted rank insignia with ease. Yeah, it's one more thing for Cadets to buy but it's not a massive expense.

As a SMWOG, a bank square is what I wear on my winter coat and on my plate carrier/gear vest when in the field.

Seeing that the ES task guides are now a hair under 20 years old, I'm curious to see what sort of changes you would make to the "current" (not really) guides and what new ES qualifications you would want to see. I know 60-3 makes references to some qualifications that don't exist (like Highbird Radio Operator) but it does pose an interesting question on what sort of training and qualifications would be useful in today's CAP.

EFJ 5317 and 5317 Available

Quote from: Майор Хаткевич on April 02, 2024, 04:54:54 PMThe digitals, probably. /s

"I would like the digitals."

"I want the green boots."

"The digitals."

Gosh I wish we still had that floating around.

The digitals, probably. /s

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Quote from: UWONGO2 on March 02, 2024, 02:16:32 PMAlso it was approved that military ribbons will be allowed on the white aviator shirt.

(ya welcome)

Kidding, kinda. Glad to see that made it through the gauntlet of things they slashed from our draft.

I'm curious what things were proposed that were cut?

Quote from: UWONGO2 on March 02, 2024, 02:16:32 PMAlso it was approved that military ribbons will be allowed on the white aviator shirt.

(ya welcome)

Kidding, kinda. Glad to see that made it through the gauntlet of things they slashed from our draft.

Quote from: Slim on March 30, 2024, 06:31:51 PMSame.  I'm still wearing the observer wings I had done with you guys.  The device is still pinned to my flight cap in my dresser drawer, and all the other stuff I had done is still preserved in a cotton filled box in my insignia kit.

Ohhh, I completely forgot we did your insignia, too, Slim.

I thought I lost that flight cap device when I was retired. I was heartbroken until I found it.

Quote from: NIN on March 29, 2024, 06:52:53 PMNot quite the same thing, but many, many years ago there was a chrome shop in my hometown that had been recommended to my CAP buddy and me by a fellow in the Air Guard. The AF had just moved to "bright chrome" insignia, and CAP had yet to follow suit precisely, but we wanted our stuff to look sharp. 

We each brought over a piece of cardboard our insignia pinned on: flight cap devices, CAP cutouts (yes, it was that long ago), and miscellaneous other insignia like ground team and flying badges. I even had my Army aircrew wings and some other stuff chromed because the Army was just going to bright insignia from anodized at that point. My buddy was an Air Guard cop, so he had his badge chromed.

We were worried we were going to get an awful "bumper chrome" job.  Our fears were unfounded. These guys did a super, super finely detailed, very delicate chrome job that lost none of the detail on the insignia.

That was circa 1990, I still have those cutouts and still wear that flight cap device and those aircrew wings to this day.

If you can find a place that won't do "bumper chrome" (to cars even have bumpers these days? LOL) locally, you can pull all the planchets and have them chromed.

Same.  I'm still wearing the observer wings I had done with you guys.  The device is still pinned to my flight cap in my dresser drawer, and all the other stuff I had done is still preserved in a cotton filled box in my insignia kit.