No other youth organization comes close to Civil Air Patrol in the area of encampments.  No other has such variety of themes, such variety of locations, and reasonableness of cost.

 

Cadets must attend a Basic Encampment before they will be eligible to attend national encampments and special activities.  Basic Encampments are offered throughout the United States, and a cadet may attend any of them.  In the past, KY073 cadets have attended Basic at Wendell Ford Regional Training Center in Kentucky, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, and at Alpena, Mich.  In 2011, most of our cadets will attend the Kentucky Wing Encampment (formerly known as Great Lakes Region Southern Encampment, or GLR-South) at Wendell Ford.  Click on the Kentucky Wing Encampment link for 2009 and 2010 encampment photos and for information about 2011.

 

CAP National activities range from flying to aerospace engineering to willderness search-and-rescue.  Cadets who become officers also have the opportunity to attend national officers college and the international cadet exchange.  For much more information, visit any of the National Cadet Special Activites websites that you can find at http://www.ncsas.com/.  Deadline for applying on-line for all NCSAs (except Hawk Mountain and NESA) is 15 Jan.  Once you have completed the on-line application form, print it out, obtain the necessary approval signatures, and definitely attach a one-page list of all your CAP accomplishments, ratings, activities.