The assassination of Kennedy in 1963, & Johnson’s escalation of the war, hung over our heads like a lead weight. It was our End of Innocence.
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JFK Assassination: Mac and the Civil Air Patrol-2
June 26th, 2011 
Sgt. Mac One of our female cadets, screamed out in horror. ‘Oh My God!. President Kennedy is dead!” The rest of the group broke down in tears, with the realization, that we had just lost the President of the United States.
Assassination of JFK: Mac’s Civil Air Patrol Days-1
June 16th, 2011 Sgt. Mac The possibility of nuclear war and the Assassination of JFK,
were two of the events that affected our lives,
during the turbulent sixties.
Civil Air Patrol: Mac’s Link Trainer
June 11th, 2011 Sgt. Mac The Colonel had me hook, line and sinker, when he offered me a ride,
in the strange looking craft. I later learned it was a Link trainer.
Civil Air Patrol: The Colonel
June 6th, 2011 Sgt. Mac “Hi…My name is Colonel Branch and I am the Commander of the Civil Air Patrol. You must be the young man, looking to join our group!”
C.A.P.-Civil Air Patrol History
November 20th, 2010 Sgt. Mac C.A.P. or Civil Air Patrol, was the brainchild of Gill Robb Wilson during the late thirties. The aviation editor of The New York Herald Tribune, he had the foresight, to see general aviation’s role during a war.
Posted in Civil Air Patrol 
Tags: Auxillary of the USAF, C.A.P., CAP, Civilian Defense Force, Coastal Patrol, subchaser, World War Two, WWII 
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