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Foster interest in aviation and space and prepare Cadets for Military life.
Naturally, we will also help with the Civil Air Patrol's Search and Rescue operations, while learning to become leaders. The Civial Air Patrol Cadet program is open to male and females between the ages of 10 and 21. Cadets can compete for academic scholarships to further their studies in such areas as engineering, science, aircraft mechanics and aerospace medicine. The can also compete for scholarships leading to solo flight training. Many outstanding cadets have an opportunity to go overseas in exchange programs with ute in other countries and some of these exchange cadets even experience flying opportunites with foreign air forces.
Many of today's leaders, in and out of aviation, have benefited greatly from their experiences as Civil Air Patrol cadest. Each graduating class of the U.S. Air Force Academy is heavily populated with former CAP cadets--up to 10 percent in recent years. West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy also admit many CAP cadets each year. CAP cadets who enlist in the Air Force are immediately promoted two pay grades (to E-3) if they have completed the second phase of CAP cadet training.
1994 marked the introduction of the CAP Drug Demand Reduction Program (DDR). Targeted toward Active, Guard, and Reserve Air Force family members and members of the local community (typically within 30 miles of an Air Force installation), units participating in DDR actively perform the following activities:
* Promoting CAP as an alternative lifestyle
* Encouraging youth to remain in school
* Educating yuouth on the dangers of drugs
* Providing alternative activities to drugs
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