By TBird Hawk | AuxBeacon News Contributor [Editor’s Note: This tip came in a few days ago. Thank you for your contribution.] Here’s another item for your growing collection… I was a cadet in Texas…
By Spruce Goose | AuxBeacon Assembly [Editor’s Note: Our readers had been asking us to add former US Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX) to the Civil Air Patrol menagerie but only recently did we receive a…
Aggregated by AuxBeacon News Staff CAP-USAF IG Reported Civil Air Patrol Abuses 2017/2005 – “I discovered some of the civilians in charge of the CAP were very powerful politically… [and] It finally came to me…
By CAP Member [Editor’s Note: We received this from a CAP member. Thank you for your contribution. This is a recurring problem in the CAP since the CAP-USAF provides little to no oversight. The CAP…
By Skip Munger | News of the Force UPDATE: As of 2019, CAP Lt Col James L. Nova is an active CAP member on the National Legislative Staff as the state legislative coordinator in Washington,…
By Gator Guy | AuxBeacon News Contributor [Editor’s Note: We received this information from a Florida Member. Thank you for your contribution.] I disagree on Christian Moersch as SER Commander. There are too many dirty…
By Skip Munger | News of the Force One reader questioned the Col John Tilton caper. You may remember that Tilton was appointed by former CAP national commander Tony Pineda just before Pineda was taken…
By Tanya N. Ballard | Government Executive Magazine Poor inventory management at the Defense Department has resulted in three agencies getting millions of dollars worth of military property that they aren’t supposed to have, according…
By Donna Leinwand | USA Today Some members of the Civil Air Patrol say one message from the top has become perfectly clear: If you give the leaders turbulence, they will take your wings. Rank-and-file…
By Donna Leinwand | USA Today Investigators from the Air Force and the Civil Air Patrol say they have uncovered instances where two CAP pilots visited family members on the federal tab and double-billed a…
By Mary Boyle | The Gazette WASHINGTON – The Civil Air Patrol – which has a $30 million budget and 60,000 members nationwide – is fighting for its independence against an unlikely opponent: the Air…
By Bryant Jordan | Air Force Times A 15-member team of Air Force finance and safety officials was to arrive at Maxwell Air Force Base, AL, on April 19 to discuss the Civil Air Patrol’s…