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ommand
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By Col Bryon Brammer
This was to be my final article
in
Eagle Call
as
your
Wing
Commander.
In this final
article
I had
planned
to
re
view
our
strengths
and successes over
the last
four
years,
but political events
between
CAP
and the
Air Force
have
almost
mandated
that I
di
scu the e event with you.
In
February
just
before
the
Na
tional
Board
meetin
g in Washington D.C.
CAP
caught
wind
of
an
Air Force
propo
sal originating
in
the highest levels
of
the Pentagon that would sub
stantially ch
ange
Civil
Air
Patrol.
Thi propo
al
did away with
our
current
l
eadership structure
and substituted
it
with an
Air Force Executive Board and asked Congress
to
change
Public
Law that had guided the Air Force and
CAP
a a civilian auxiliary
for more
than
50
years.
Thi
s
proposa
l
would have
done
away with
CAP s
elected National Commander,
Vice
Com-
mander
the offices
of
Finance
Officer
Comptroller
and all
of
the Regional
Comm
anders and replaced them with Air Force of
ficers.
While we
were
at
the National
Board
Bryan Sh
arrett the
Assistant Secretary
for
Re
serve Affairs which is the individual
that
CAP
reports to through the
Air
University was asked about the proposa
l
He
said that no proposal was being developed by
the
Air Force
and that
if
one
were
it would have to
go
through
hi
office first and would be discus ed with
CAP
efor~
the plan was acted upon.
No
ooner
than
we
left Washington D.C. team
of
Air Force
officers started
making
the rounds
in
the halls
of
Congre
ss and presenting their plan.
This is a
command
and
co
ntrol i sue.
The
Air
Force wants total control over
CAP
as its auxiliary. Currently the Air Force is
limited as to its ability to
command
Civil
Air
Patrol a civilian corporation. Even though
we
are an auxiliary we have a level
of
autonomy
that is not
found
in any
other
relation
ship with
the
Federal
Government.
In
order
to do that the
Air
Force
had to
convince
Congre
ss
that
public law needed to be changed.
The
Continued
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