# Do you remember  helping the Civilian Air Patrol

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-helping-the-civilian-air-patrol/106127>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 28, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-helping-the-civilian-air-patrol/106127 "2002-04-28T15:49:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![berdollos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@berdollos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berdollos)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-helping-the-civilian-air-patrol/106127/1 "2002-04-28T15:49:32Z")

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by scanning the sky for Russian planes? There were big gaps in our radar in the post-war period, and even 10 year-olds would compare the planes they saw with those in books of Russian planes.  
I was ready to inform the Civilian Air Patrol. What are your memories of this activity?

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-helping-the-civilian-air-patrol/106127/2 "2002-04-28T16:25:21Z")

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Do you mean [rul=“[http://cawg.cap.gov/](http://cawg.cap.gov/)”]_Civil_ Air Patrol? I was a 2LT in the CAP in the '80s.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-helping-the-civilian-air-patrol/106127/3 "2002-04-28T16:26:36Z")

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Sack! Okay, fixing the link.

[_Civil_ Air Patrol](http://cawg.cap.gov/)