A while back...I mean a long while back (like in the late 1990s) I remember reading a CAP journal called "The CAP Officer."
It had a "darthmouth.edu" address or something like that.
A friend reminded me of it...was that dream? What was the history behind that? It was sort of like CAP Blog and CAP TALK all in one.
I remember it, so you're not alone. Just don't recall the exact address, probably deleted it from my Favorites when my deadlink checker found it inactive. It was some time ago.
I remember it as being better than a blog. Don't recall a lot of issues. Still see links to it on some CAP web pages that haven't been updated in a looongg time.
yeah, I rememebr that as well, was devoted to PD. Think it just fell by the wayside & was absorbed by a couple of the columns currently running.
Here is the original link which is dead:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~janl/journal/title.page.html
It was called the "The CAP Officer - A Professional Journal for CAP Volunteers"
A professional journal for CAP volunteers, to provide a refereed forum for the discussion and analysis of professionalism, leadership, and quality training issues. Spurring leadership growth within the CAP membership.... contributing to a more professional Civil Air Patrol.
I found several links to it but they all go to the dead Dartmouth site.
Edit: There are several articles from it archived at cadetstuff.org. From one of those articles:
Major Curt Lafond, Spaatzen #1030, is the former Director of Cadet Programs from New Hampshire Wing. He frequently writes on leadership topics as they apply to the CAP Cadet Program.
A long-time CAP member, he was responsible for "The CAP Officer", a trendsetting e-zine.
Mike
Quote from: RiverAux on February 25, 2007, 09:30:42 PM
I remember it as being better than a blog. Don't recall a lot of issues. Still see links to it on some CAP web pages that haven't been updated in a looongg time.
It was like a professional "journal," very "University" like and well formated. It came out in Issue and Volumes like a journal...if memory serves. It wasn't as informal as we have it today.
Now, if national were to do something like that...but a CAP Journal has never materialized.
I too remember it. Long long time ago in a galaxy far far away....
Wondered what happened to it then forgot all about it until now.
The present-day CAPBlog (http://capblog.typepad.com/capblog) [LINK] is exactly what CAP needs at this juncture.
I rather like his commentary and realistic views.
I rather enjoyed The CAP Officer when it existed. In fact, I think I still have a print out of Mr. Lafond's article about CAC from that site.
It ceased to exist around the early 00s, if I recall correctly. It really was ahead of its time; it's not like every cadet had Internet access on their cell phones in those days.
Would anyone still have "back issues" of this? I would love to take a look at one.
It was pretty good, rather academic as someone mentioned....but tackled some innovative, interesting topics....and had genuine grass roots applications.
Quote from: ZigZag911 on February 26, 2007, 07:21:30 PM
It was pretty good, rather academic as someone mentioned....but tackled some innovative, interesting topics....and had genuine grass roots applications.
The last thing I saw of this was that it had changed names and format...then life happened. When I returned to it...it was gone.
That was back in the days when "infoseek" and "lycos" were the main search engines and "yahoo" was coming of age. Google was a few years away from greatness.
I know that the AF has a publication called "Today's Officer" ~ or something like that~ I know CAP was mentioned in it at least once. Is there any way that we could subscribe to it?
Quote from: SAR-EMT1 on February 26, 2007, 09:25:31 PM
I know that the AF has a publication called "Today's Officer" ~ or something like that~ I know CAP was mentioned in it at least once. Is there any way that we could subscribe to it?
Today's Officer is a publication of the Military Officer's Association of America (http://www.moaa.org/) (MOAA). It's a quarterly magazine. CAP was featured once in an issue and reprints are available through NHQ for recruiting purposes.
Info on the
Today's Officer magazine here (http://www.moaa.org/membership/pubs/pubs_tom.htm).
Thanks
A fellow Officer forwarded this to me:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991109235523/www.dartmouth.edu/~janl/journal/archives.html (http://web.archive.org/web/19991109235523/www.dartmouth.edu/~janl/journal/archives.html)
Quote from: jkalemis on February 27, 2007, 03:35:28 PM
A fellow Officer forwarded this to me:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991109235523/www.dartmouth.edu/~janl/journal/archives.html (http://web.archive.org/web/19991109235523/www.dartmouth.edu/~janl/journal/archives.html)
Thanks,
I thought of the "wayback" machine, but I did not have the url.