Any update to when the proposed new blue utility uniform will clear the house and move to the senate?

Quote from: NIN on January 22, 2026, 04:21:34 AMGive me a few, I'll see what I can find out.

Can you tell me where you find the "Final Salute" on the CAP webpage?

It's in the "Member News" section under National Staff, https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/members/cap-national-hq/member-news. Interestingly, it seems that since mid-2019, the final salute is the only item that has been posted in the member news section when they stopped posting cadet and senior major milestone awards.

I suppose it's possible that no one in CAP has died since last October, though I doubt it.

Give me a few, I'll see what I can find out.

Can you tell me where you find the "Final Salute" on the CAP webpage?

Hello,

I have spent almost 8 years taking the information from the Final Salute section of the Civil Air Patrol webpage and writing it here. I wanted to take CAP very basic information and add with a picture and any other information I could find to pay homage to a volunteer who has passed. I spent 33 years in the Civil Air Patrol before I decided to retire. I have reached out to National HQ asking for the status of the Final Salute and received only lip service. We will get back to you they say. No one has and the last month it was published was November, 2025. If anyone can find out why I would appreciate it as I would like to continue. I feel we all worked hard for this organization and a nice good bye with all details commemorating our service and life is not doing much. CAP reached out to me several years back asking if I would be interested in writing this information for the Volunteer. I said I would and then I only heard they were not interested anymore. Maybe this is it and I would just like to say it was a privilege.

Seems like a lot of MIWG folks on here...

Quote from: HistoryMemo on December 23, 2025, 05:21:45 AM

Quote from: Slim on December 09, 2025, 09:40:26 PM

Quote from: biomed441 on December 08, 2025, 05:16:22 PMOr, for those members who are AF Warrant officers and also members of CAP, which if I recall a few of the first graduates of the new warrant program are CAP members.  Would CAP Match their grade or require they progress through the CAP Officer program instead. 

One of those new WOs is a member of my wing, is currently a CAP SMSgt, our wing NCO advisor and IT director.  Unless/until CAP brings back warrant grades, he has no intention of changing that status.

I could see an instance where WOs might come back into CAP and be useful, but that is highly unlikely to happen, and I'm not really a proponent of it.  Just a passing thought I had while discussing some CP related items with a few others (sitting around trying to solve all of CAP's problems).

Otherwise, since we're all expected to be technical experts in one or more areas, with increasing levels of education, training and responsibilities, I really don't see much of a need for WOs in CAP.

Fellow member of MIWG I see...

Indeed, and also in your group.  Almost 43 years and counting.

Quote from: Slim on December 09, 2025, 09:40:26 PM

Quote from: biomed441 on December 08, 2025, 05:16:22 PMOr, for those members who are AF Warrant officers and also members of CAP, which if I recall a few of the first graduates of the new warrant program are CAP members.  Would CAP Match their grade or require they progress through the CAP Officer program instead. 

One of those new WOs is a member of my wing, is currently a CAP SMSgt, our wing NCO advisor and IT director.  Unless/until CAP brings back warrant grades, he has no intention of changing that status.

I could see an instance where WOs might come back into CAP and be useful, but that is highly unlikely to happen, and I'm not really a proponent of it.  Just a passing thought I had while discussing some CP related items with a few others (sitting around trying to solve all of CAP's problems).

Otherwise, since we're all expected to be technical experts in one or more areas, with increasing levels of education, training and responsibilities, I really don't see much of a need for WOs in CAP.

Fellow member of MIWG I see...

It has been years since I had any dealings with the individual who ran that site (and I have worked with MANY people in my almost 50 years in the organization), but, if memory serves, I am fairly sure that it is the same individual who was also behind the old "TeamCAP" private CAP History website, who can be looked up in the CAPTALK archives, if someone wished to try to contact him. That is, if the contact info in his CAPTALK account is still valid to try to reach him, because it has been a LONG time since anyone in CAP has heard from him.

I'm looking for a set of Buillon Pilot Wings for the Mess Dress Uniform. Vanguard has Senior Pilot, Command Pilot and Observer, but Pilot is out of stock. Wing/Region Conference is in March, so maybe Vanguard will get some by then, I'd rather not take the chance. Anyone have a set they might want to sell?

Hello all,

Does anyone happen to know who used to run the CAPC History Project website? I see that user Cindi appears to have one of the earliest posts referencing it, but it didn't sound like it was their site.

I'm interested in trying to get a mirror online since the original went offline several years ago, but I'm missing quite a few of the photos, so hoping I can get in contact with the old owner.