Show MINUTE MEN CAP Rapidly Expands Services Since Outbreak of Korean War Since the outbreak of the war in enrollments have rocketed to a new all-time peak In the Civil Air the volunteer civilian pilots' organization which helped fight German submarines off our coasts with frail in the early years of World War and also gave basic school training to many thousand who later became military Today the flying of the CAP are giving basic training directly to over cadet aged 15 to besides this their ground school program is Installed as an accredited course in hundreds of public high they are themselves and are training new members for civilian defense participation In air-search rescue work and anti-sabotage Their consists of the privilege of buying their own uniforms and of contributing dues to cover their regular operating TOTAL MEMBERSHIP of CAP has topped the mark and is still There is a rapid shift of inactive senior members to active status The CAP radio communications available for either civilian or military has expanded from stations thinly covering some two-thirds of the area of continental United States In to approximately stations blanketing the United States and extending to Hawaii and Puerto The network is equipped with government surplus radio telephone serviced and operated by CAP Instructors and their cadet radio communications SOME CAP cadets attended summer encampments at 32 air force bases for intensive study of jet engine operation and radar detection and other ground school training The cadets were ferried In air force transport planes from their home states to their encampment and back In the so-called peacetime years since VJ CAP volunteer pilots have done a large share of the air-search rescue to locate lost planes and crash they have logged hundreds of hours of forest fire have participated In operations after western have flown medicines into flooded In a number of such emergencies the CAP radio communications network has been the only means of outside contact with flooded or In 1948 congress gave CAP permanent status as an auxiliary of the air which provides an AF-CAP liaison headquarters with a compact air force staff in each state to coordinate activities of the civilian volunteer organization with those of the military y i HUNGRY MASCOT The medical collection company has adopted little a Korean shown here enjoying |