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From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja)
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Subject: CAP (Re: Civilian aviation experience > military)
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 12:51:12 EST
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> > Obviously, programs like the CAP are designed to feed people into the
> > military aviation community, but these are, themselves, run in a
> > military manner.

(In the first place, it looks like ssc-vax isn't getting some of
net.aviation... anyone know why?)  Hurhhghm, back on subject:

CAP might be designed that way, and may have originally worked that way
(mid 1960s or earlier) but in my experience it doesn't work that way.  The
Air Force might like to think that, but...

In my eight years as a cadet, about ten of my buddies entered the military
(about 75% of my buddies, as a matter of fact).  Only three went into the
Air Force.  Only one of the ten actually was assigned to flying duty, and
that was as an observer in a Navy P-3.  The CAP cadet program does tend to
retain those interested in a military manner, and, for the most part, the
Air Force is not a military operation.  Oh, they salute, but that's about
all.  Even the blue uniform was designed to resemble a business suit.  The
majority of my friends chose the Army or Marines.

I personally knew only one person from CAP who ever became a military
pilot.  But then, my experience in this category is limited to the mid
'70s, during the AF pilot glut.

For all the AF blue uniform CAP wears, they seem to funnel people away
from the Air Force, instead of to...

					      Ron Wanttaja
					      (ssc-vax!wanttaja)
"Is the Phantom good?!  Man, ya can take
that sucker down to the muthafuggin treetops,
where all ya can see is gook ret'nas, lay a ton
of goddamn napalm on 'em, pullin' so many Gees your
belt is 'n ankle bracelet, an' all ya've left behind
is a pile of crispy critters, an' the muthafuggin Army                
pukes standin' right next to 'em ain't even singed!"

"What the Captain means is that he finds the F-4 an 
 extremely effective close-support weapon..."