News - 2024 Archive

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Civil Air Patrol’s Georgia Wing joined the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency Sunday for Hurricane Helene relief efforts needed in the aftermath of the storm that left devastation across multiple eastern states. CAP teams are assisting local officials with humanitarian efforts after the Category 4 hurricane...

Connor Kazemi was always going to be a pilot. Since the age of three, he’s been entranced by airplanes, according to his mom. But the cadet colonel can pinpoint the exact moment he realized he wanted to fly for the military.

Michael Sanchez knew he was going to serve his country. As a Civil Air Patrol cadet in Decatur, Georgia in 1998, Sanchez wanted to join the Army to “kick in doors.” But the Ira Eaker Award recipient didn’t realize at the time that his military career would eventually come full circle from his time in CAP.