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Have you every wanted to
serve your country, but you weren't sure how?
In the Civil Air Patrol, a humanitarian and educational nonprofit
organization, you can serve the United States as a civilian volunteer
of the Air Force's auxiliary. You can join more than 56,000 members who
expand and share their expertise with CAP in a wide variety of fields -
from writing to flying, radio operations, teaching, youth leadership
training, emergency services, finance, law, personnel and much
more. The opportunities are truly endless!
In the late 1930s, more than 150,000
volunteers with a love for aviation argued for an organization to
put their planes and flying skills to use in defense of their
country. As a result, the Civil Air Patrol was born one week prior
to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thousands of volunteer
members answered America's call to national service and sacrifice by
accepting and performing critical wartime missions. Assigned to the
War Department under the jurisdiction of the Army Air Corps, the
contributions of Civil Air Patrol, including logging more than 500,000
flying hours, sinking two enemy submarines, and saving hundreds of
crash victims during World War II, are well documented.
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