On the Final salute page on CAP News Online they mentioned the death of a person in the "Chicago Reserve Squadron" in Illinois Wing. Thinking that this was an odd name for a squadron I went to the IL Wing web site and they do have such a squadron with the charter number of IL-235. Is this actually the Wing's "ghost" squadron or something else?
I ask because ghost squadrons usually have a charter number like IL-000 and are usualy called something like the "Illinois Wing Headquarters Squadron" and there actually is such an organization with that charter number.
It's a squadron that meets at the Air Force Reserve facility at O'Hare IAP.
How come it isn't assigned to a group? The wing web page had it as a separate unit. Is it a legislative squadron perhaps?
We must be thinking of two different units.
some squadrons can be apart of the region and not the wing in Missouri we used to have a squadron like that.
Quote from: PHall on May 05, 2007, 09:41:32 PM
It's a squadron that meets at the Air Force Reserve facility at O'Hare IAP.
No, its not.
Its a Squadron within ILWG for members who wish to remain in CAP, but for whatever reason do not want to be attached to a unit, or are basically inactive.
As an FYI, there has not been a military presence at O'Hare for about 10 years, and no CAP Squadron for almost as long. They were failing for a while, and after 911 were forced to meet off the airport, and it was
not long after that they faded away and the charter was retired.
But Illinois has a traditional ghost unit, the IL-000 Headquarters Squadron? So why have another one? What do they use the 000 unit for then? Just curious.