I was checking something in the CAP Missions for America history book and I noticed that the list of CAP National Commanders on p. 153 has a gap from 1977-1982. Is there a reason for that or was it just an oversight?
Sounds like an oversight. Johnnie Boyd was the National Commander when I joined in 1981. I think he was from 79 to 82 or something like that.
Must be an oversight, Wikipedia doesn't suffer from the same outage...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commanders_of_the_Civil_Air_Patrol
Brig. Gen. Thomas C. Casaday, CAP, Sep 1976-Sep 1979
Brig. Gen. Johnnie Boyd, CAP, Sep 1979-Aug 1982l
On a related issue, the book lists the Chairmen of the CAP National Board, but only from 1947-1982. Did we eliminate that position in 1982? I don't see any mention of anyone in that role in the agenda for the upcoming NB.
We seem to have had Chairmen of the CAP National Board and CAP National Commanders at the same time in the late 70s, early 80s. Who was really "in charge" at the time?
I also find it curious they left out the Chairmen of the CAP Board of Governors since that is a pretty powerful position.
I just noticed that Cassaday and Boyd were listed in the book as Chairmen of the CAP National Board for those dates and not as National Commander. Perhaps they got mixed up.
If that is the case the dates for the switchover from Chairmen of the CAP NB and CAP Nat Cdrs would line up and make my question about "overlap" moot.
Up until 1982 the National commander of CAP was what we now call, Commander of CAP-USAF. The Chairman of the Board was what we now refer to as the National Commander. when I joined COL Joe L. Mason, USAF was the National Commander of CAP. The Chairman was BG Byrd. CAP. The change was made to seperate the USAF from the command structure of CAP, with the AF having oversight and not direct command.