February 3. 2026

Brig. Gen. Larry F. Myrick
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Larry Floyd Myrick was born in Inglewood, California and lost his battle with Parkinson's disease at the age of 75 in San Luis Obispo on January 9. In spite of growing up with severe asthma and the speech impediment of stuttering, he became an incredibly successful adult. While attending El Camino Junior College he discovered that he had a knack for and a love of math. After transferring to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo he graduated with a degree in Engineering Technology.

While in SLO, Larry met and married JoAnn Brooks Burson, adopting JoAnn's daughter, Becky. Larry raised both Becky and her older brother Donn as his own.

After graduating and working at Lockheed in the San Jose area, he was hired by Gurries & Okamoto in Cupertino. In 1977, he was given an opportunity to open a branch office in his beloved San Luis Obispo. After running that branch until 1989, he and his business partner Keith Brummel, formed the firm Brummel, Myrick and Associates. He and Keith ran BMA until they retired and sold the firm.

Following retirement, he and his second wife, Peggy Wilkinson Myrick, opened their own commissioning business, Integrated Commissioning and Energy. Larry was deeply committed to mentoring emerging professionals. He taught at Cal Poly approximately five years, at the same time he was at BMA and volunteering with Civil Air Patrol (CAP), the auxiliary of the United States Air Force. He also was serving a term as president of the Executives Association of San Luis Obispo, a business networking group.

Larry's involvement with Civil Air Patrol began when his daughter Becky joined the organization. As a supportive and curious father, he attended meetings with her, sparking a passion that would shape the rest of his life. Larry and Becky, and then later Peggy, spent the next several years deeply involved in CAP, including Search and Rescue operations.

Larry and Peggy were both pilots, owning their own aircraft and flying on a wide range of CAP missions. These included search and rescue, Homeland Security flights along the California-Mexican border, and disaster response efforts such as assisting after the Northridge earthquake. Larry led a group of Central Coast CAP members who went to Los Angeles to assist after the Northridge earthquake. On September 11, 2001 Larry, serving as the California CAP commander, was responsible for directing CAP members and aircraft on taskings.

Both were deeply involved with CAP's youth oriented cadet program, IACE (Civil Air Patrol's International Air Cadet Exchange program). Annually CAP participates in IACE with fifteen other countries. For many years they welcomed incoming cadets from Asia as they arrived in San Francisco. In 2012 Larry escorted 10 U.S. cadets as they toured Japan. In addition to the IACE program, Larry and Peggy were active mentoring CAP cadets and helping them experience flight in small aircraft.

Eventually Peggy became very ill with a rare form of cancer, and Larry was devoted to her care. Still, they continued to embrace life together. They went on several cruises as well as travels to Europe. They were inseparable and devoted to each other.

His daughter Becky's proudest moment was watching her dad, Brigadier General Larry Myrick, become Civil Air Patrol's National Vice Commander, second in command in the United States. He held that position for four years after which he and Peggy continued with IACE thru 2019.

After Peggy's passing in July 2021, Larry did his best to move on, but was dealt a terrible blow in late 2023 when he was diagnosed with advanced Parkinson's disease.

When visiting the San Luis Obispo airport, consider that Larry is still influencing the flying he so loved, as he designed the heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and provided commissioning services. His influence is all over California, where he designed HVAC for many buildings.

Larry is survived by his daughter Becky (Rick) Sawyer; grandchildren Timothy Sawyer and Erinn (Conner) Downs; his sister Carol Holdsworth (Roger); and nephews Tim (Jennifer) and Scott (Sabrina) Holdsworth; as well as Donn Burson (Lee Ann); Katie Burson; and many of Peggy's loving relatives who remained an important part of his life.

The family extends heartfelt gratitude to the staff of Sunrise Terrace RCFE, to Larry's devoted previous in-home caregivers, and to Dr. Steven Sainsbury as well as Central Coast Home Health and Hospice for their compassionate care.

His best friend, wife and soulmate Peggy, preceded him in death as did his parents Victor and Kathryn Myrick. He will forever be remembered for his integrity, service, mentorship, and unwavering dedication to family, profession, friends, work colleagues and his Civil Air Patrol family worldwide.

Social media is so widespread today with multiple niche groups and fan pages alike. There's so much connectivity at everyone's fingertips, and I imagine that there are more people chatting in various Facebook groups, Discord channels, and other easy access apps than on their PC/web browser.

As someone with 2,500 posts/comments on CAP Talk over the years, I don't see it being a viable or even credible source of information.

Let's be honest...most of us check in for scuttlebutt and entertainment, not for deep knowledge or learning opportunities.

If CAP Talk went away tomorrow, very few people are affected. That said, I'll continue to check in and read. But I'm looking for a little more engagement than what's on here lately; and there are more obituaries being posted than there are new topics; and I'm not really interested in reading death notices as my source of CAP intel.

Seemed that the site went down for a few days there... Are we back now? 


That brief scare made me wonder: what's in store for CAPTalk's future?

Many folks obviously seem fine with Reddit as an alternative, but I'm personally feeling pretty done with that platform. I follow r/civilairpatrol via RSS now and only log in if there's something specific I want to share or comment on. Too many ads and garbage for casual browsing. Same goes for Facebook; I log in once a year just to see if it's as bad as I remember (spoiler, it is).

Outside of the CAP space, though, I've actually noticed that some online forums seem to be gaining new users and becoming more active recently, so I don't think I'm alone in looking to create some distance between myself and mainstream social media. I could see the potential for a CAPTalk revival in the next couple of years.

That said, to those in the know, what does the official future of Captalk.net look like? 

In addition to the recent outage, the site's SSL cert is missing or invalid (or just never existed), and the e-mail service seems broken, too (possibly due to missing dmarc records?).
Are there plans to fix things and keep them going, or should we be looking for alternative ways forward?


Thanks for all the years, so far.

Quote from: GroundHawg on January 22, 2026, 04:06:33 PMAny update to when the proposed new blue utility uniform will clear the house and move to the senate?

Only gouge I've heard is "Soon."

Marketing & Communications has been in the process of rolling out a new and updated cap.news site for the last 60 days or so. I think that in the process of preparing for that big migration, they just put a lot of other updates and content changes on hold.

I do know they plan to move that over to the new cap.news

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...