My experience with CAP has been that there are a lot of great people in it who really do give a crap. Unfortunately, at the Wing level in most states, the program is controlled / dictated by people who are either ex-military or wanna-be ex-military types who are blatantly incompetent at what they do. Those people control everything and eventually drive the good people out, or make the good people say "screw it" and they take a passive role in the program.
It helps if you get dialed in with a well-run, well-managed (notice I didn't say well-"commanded") squadron. A well-managed squadron can make all the difference, but there's still so much politics going on in the Wing-level in virtually every state that the aggravation factor just multiplies.
Nowhere will you find this more evident than in CAP's Search & Rescue exercises and training. NESA is a prime example of a program that's great for cadets, but they don't know what to do with adults who are intelligent and successful in the real world. Thy order you around and treat you like you're a 16 year-old cadet who doesn't know how to eat without specific instructions. They certainly don't know what to do with intelligent adults who are not pilots. The pilots seem to be somewhat insulated from this, but the ground team search & rescue adults just get intellectually abused.
The concept of CAP is honorable and great. Unfortunately, there is growing incompetence at all levels - from National all the way down. I wouldn't go so far as to condemn CAP as a whole, but my experience has been that if I were in a situation where my life depended upon the efforts of some of the CAP personnel I've had to deal with - I would quickly lose hope.
CAP needs to focus its efforts on recruiting and retanining successful, qualified people. Instead, it rewards incompetence and ass-kissing, and I have all too often seen those who should not be in charge of ANYTHING being put in charge of entire squadrons, indeed - entire Wing-level programs.
In short - CAPs not "as advertised".
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