The Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

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Civil Air Patrol
The Civil Air Patrol or more formally known as CAP is a part of the Air Force and CAP is a program for 12 to 17 year old and CAP is also a volunteer service and is a very fun, rewarding, and pride program. There is many other extra programs to attend to such as Color Guard, Honor Guard, and other extra programs called NCOS and those are for if you want to fly anywhere across the U.S. and attend a week long course for what you picked and there are many varieties of courses like Air Force course, Flying course, Survival course, just to name a few. When you join you will have to buy two uniforms and those uniforms are your responsibility to take care of, and to make them look nice by ironing them. You also have to take

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