All of the proposals I've seen for OCPs if/when they come have the reversed field flag on the right sleeve.

I remember back in 2006 when we first put the flag on our uniforms.  IIRC, it was in response to a certain CAP/CC being mistaken for an el jefe from a foreign country during the response to Hurricane Katrina.  Next thing you know, we're wearing flag patches, US Civil Air Patrol on everything, etc.  At the time, the only military branch that wore the flag on their uniforms in CONUS was the Army, and that was done as more of a convenience in the pre ACU days so soldiers wouldn't have to keep putting it on/taking it off when they deployed.

I also remember when we were told to take them off in 2016 (a mere 10 years later), all the wailing, gnashing of teeth and "I'll give up my flag when you cut it off my dead body, you unpatriotic, anti American!" comments.  I took mine off the second the ICL came out.

Funny, for the first 75 years of our existence, we did just fine without it.  It's use is now common for our parent service, so when the time comes, I'll salute and execute.

Just wondering if anyone has any inside information, if we will ever be allowed to put the American Flag on our field uniforms?

Cohort recruiting and unpublished start date policies are two very different things.

One is being upfront with start dates; the other is misleading, at best.

Hmmmm...seems that cohort recruiting is one of the official methods of pipelining for cadets
https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/programs/cadets/cpofficer/great-start/great-start-introduction

Nothing says "welcome" more than "we don't want you now because it'll mess with our stats."

I am aware of a unit that had an unpublished policy of disallowing cadets to join during a certain timeframe before tabulation of Quality Cadet Unit Awards (31 Aug).

Is it better to be upfront about such policies? Is there justification in the regs to allow for doing this? What about something similar for adults wanting to join (for example: putting them into training cohorts)?

Don't even bother trying. Parallels does not have all the drivers the G1000 sim needs and you cannot install them. What I did - went on Amazon, bought a wintel for $40. That's right 40! When not being used for G1000 training, it's a door stop in my office.

Garmin won't respond because they don't want to get in the middle of an OS/emulator battle. I've had long chats with the Garmin people about this.

[rant on]
I really hate senior squadrons that see no reason for AE to exist. Which, as far as I can tell, is pretty much all of them. I have no interest in transferring to a cadet squadron, no interest in timing a bunch of teenagers to see if they can run X laps in Y minutes. I'm not a PE coach.

I've satisfied every checkbox to move up one level in the specialty but the "new" squadron commander invoked his privs to reject it.

Any suggestions?
[rant off]

QuoteOn this one, I'm not following your interest. Why does it matter who wants the changes? At the end of the day, we get what we get.

I guess its like asking Mom or Dad, USAF being Dad. Meaning DAD is usually more hardline and if he says No, it means No, whereas Mom is sometimes open to a discussion and might say Yes if it is explained to her.

Also, if its a "Good Idea" Faery, where to direct the bug spray at. 

Apparently the new codeplug provided by NHQ is not compatible with the programming software on the programming laptops. Since NHQ requires each programming laptop to be sent back to NHQ for updating, now all the laptops have to be sent back. NHQ put a logistics freeze into effect (not sure if it was comm only or all of NHQ) but now nothing comm related is moving in or out of NHQ.

Meeting the deadline doesn't look good...