College Requirement

[SARDOC]

Greetings,

A1.3.2. Cadet Members. Initial membership as a CAP cadet is open to young men and women who
are United States citizens or resident aliens, twelve years (or who have completed the sixth grade)
through eighteen years old, and still enrolled in school. CAP cadets who become members of the
active duty armed forces lose their eligibility to remain in the CAP cadet program and must transfer to
senior member status. CAP cadets have the option to remain in the CAP cadet program until their
twenty-first birthday if they are in college or a military academy.

There is nothing in the Civil Air Patrol Regulations that state this.  Does this Air Force Instruction on ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION
OF THE CIVIL AIR PATROL supersede any Civil Air Patrol Regulations on membership?

If a cadet over 18 who decides not to attend college or a military academy lose their ability to remain a cadet?

[Eclipse]

The regs don't need to explicitly state this, since they don't contradict it.

The wording might be a bit different, or lack an explicit allowance, but there's no conflict.

Interestingly the line about "or sixth grade" no longer reflects the "hard 12" age requirement reinstated a few years ago.

Actually, 39-2 addresses this directly, both the allowance for college and military academies. See section 2-5

[lordmonar]

How about "We are CAP not the USAF......and don't have to follow their regulations".

My thinking is that the AFI was just explaining CAP policy instead of setting it.   When CAP changed the policy no one on the USAF bothered to QC their work before they updated the AFI.

YMMV

[PHall]

How about "We are CAP not the USAF......and don't have to follow their regulations".

My thinking is that the AFI was just explaining CAP policy instead of setting it.   When CAP changed the policy no one on the USAF bothered to QC their work before they updated the AFI.

YMMV

But the college requirement never existed, ever...

Some staff weenie who knew nothing about CAP wrote that part of the reg and nobody at HQ CAP-USAF ever caught it during coordination.
If, it was ever coordinated...

[LGM30GMCC]

Considering how lightly staffed CAP-USAF is, it would not surprise me if the coordination was quickly done and it was sent on to the Air Staff since they are the ones who would write an AFI. Assuming of course CAP-USAF ever saw it other than to coord on it and send it back. And an AFI like this really has more informational type stuff, very little directive type stuff, for the AF-side of the house.