me@cap.mil?????

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^ you don't need a seperate account. You just need an alias that sends to your existing email account. You already login eServices & input the address you want to receive at. That's really all there is to it. My university does it exactly like that right now, and deals with more people than all of CAP. That'd be fairly simple to do.

The question is more about .gov or .mil addresses. The .gov addresses were not really intended for everyone. Some wings use it & some don't. Some that do choose to share both .gov website & email addresses with membership/units. That's the Wg/CC taking that responsibility & it can be revoked individually or Wg-wide. I'm not saying we can't or shouldn't extend that nationally, I think we should, but it's a little bigger responsibility that someone has to accept.

As far as .mil, honestly I don't see what the big deal is. AKO has a registration category for "Army Volunteer," and they have nothing like CAP. That gives you a name.name@us.army.mil address that looks just like anyone else's. The deal with that though is it has to be sponsored by someone with a CAC card, and they have to reaffirm your acct every six months or so.

Speaking of AKO though, CAP really should take some lessons from that system. Just the whitepages feature on there that lets me look up anyone Army-wide & get rank, branch, unit, contact numbers & email. That's really a very big deal. I go to CAP events & end up with a stack of cards or trying to resort names in my cell phone - or have a number and no email or vice versa. It's a pain in the butt now that I'm spoiled with AKO. Now, AKO & the other service portals are merging with DKO, so that's good. That should eventually make the system more open and I would think CAP can & should have some level of access at some point. It's a good time for CAP NHQ to make a case for integrating us into that mix.