Civil Air Patrol As Well As Federal Government to Close Down!

[RiverAux]

No.  They're no different than CAP on an AFAM when it comes right down to it.  Don't see it as a "relationship" issue at all, just a peek at what is considered "essential"..... I heard a story on the radio today about the last shut-down and they apparently shut down military recruiting for that one...

I don't think anyone would describe the Aux-CG relationship as utopian though it certainly is orders of magnitude better and closer than the CAP-AF relationship. 

[ElectricPenguin]

Many squadrons would show up anyways. Not like it will hurt anything.

[Eclipse]

This weekend the topic was close at hand, despite the fact that the base would not see much effect.  Backchannel and rumor indicated that
there were only a handful of people working on base that would have had a free weekend if things shut down.

With that said, however, our State Director was told he could not participate in the event of a shut down, but the CAP-RAPS would.

We spent the weekend blissfully unaware of the outside world, as cell phone and internet signals were literally zero on our "ship" - even to the point
that an inversion layer literally fogged-out the base to near zero.

It was really cool.

[davidsinn]

We had a tense evening at mission base Friday night when the wing CC delivered the news. Our ground ops wouldn't have been affected but the aircraft would have been sent home in the event the congress couldn't work it out.