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Future Senior Members (Adult Volunteers)

Though Civil Air Patrol is known for its flying missions, CAP adults members, known as Senior Members, do so much more than just fly. In fact less than a fifth of all CAP members are pilots or aircrew members. CAP adult members come from all walks of life. Some are doctors, nurses, paramedics, or other medical professionals. Others are lawyers, paralegals, accountants, computer programmers, and other business professionals and executives. Really just about any career or background can be useful to and found in the ranks of the CAP adult membership. CAP supports a variety of missions that require adults from all walks of life.

In emergency services and operations CAP not only need aircrew members, but also ground team members to aid in the rescue of survivors or to assess damage after a disaster. CAP needs communications personnel to relay critical messages when there is limited or no telephone support.  Administrative staff, financial managers, logistics and supply personnel are needed to document missions and get personnel critical supplies and equipment in the field that they need to conduct missions.

CAP also needs adults to support the cadet program. CAP has over 23,000 cadets across the country that need mentors willing to help guide and support them. The cadet program provides young adults between the ages of 12 and 21 a well rounded program of leadership, aerospace education, physical fitness, and moral and ethical decision making. In today’s world we need good people who are willing to step up and help provide a healthy, drug-free environment to develop tomorrow’s leaders. Many former cadets have gone into the military, government jobs, or private sector employment where they can and do make a difference, and really excel. There are many military general officers that were once CAP cadets.  Senators and Congressman, CEOs and others credit their success to CAP and the adult members who mentored them.

CAP needs adults for its aerospace education program. In addition to educating our own members, CAP’s adult leaders provide training and resources to teachers who reach out to students of all ages across the country.  Aviation and aerospace impacts the lives of Americans every day, and CAP works to ensure that citizens know how valuable aviation and aerospace is in our world. 

Just as we have the Prospective Cadets visit three times, we ask the same of any of our Prospective Senior Officers. This is to ensure that you know the type of commitment that you are signing up for.  Once you have attended three meetings, you will be given paperwork to fill out and return, along with a set of Fingerprint Cards.  Once you have everything completed, you will then meet with the Squadron Commander to finalize the application process and become a member.

 

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Visitor Information -- 

We meet every Tuesday evening from 1830 (6:30 PM) to 2100 (9:00 PM) in Building 350 on Peterson SFB.  We welcome visitors to our squadron, but because we meet on an Air Force base, if you do not have access to the base we must make arrangements to authorize your base access. This process may take up to 10 business days for us to coordinate with base Security Forces. Contact  Capt Bill Romano (719) 487-9021 william.romano@cscs.cowg.cap.gov for specific instructions regarding your visit. If you do not make contact, you will not be allowed access to the base for security reasons.

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