Welcome and thank you for visiting the Oakland Composite Squadron's official website. I encourage you to browse the site and learn more about the squadron and about Civil Air Patrol in general.

You may already be familiar with CAP, having seen our senior members or cadets helping with security at air shows and other public events, collecting and moving food and

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other goods for Operation Good Cheer, participating in disaster relief training and operations, or in your schools providing aerospace education. You may have seen our distinctive red, white, and blue aircraft overhead. But you may not have seen us flying intercept training missions with the Coast Guard and others in preparation for Superbowl XL, working with the Oakland County Emergency Operations Center to prepare for disasters of all kinds, or conducting part of the 85% or more of all inland search-and-rescue in the United States.

This website and our other outreach and public relations efforts are dedicated to telling you about what we do and what I believe is the most impressive thing about CAP: All of this is accomplished by volunteer citizens just like you and me.

CAP, and the Oakland Composite Squadron in particular, provides opportunities in aerospace education, operations, and cadet programs that are unparalleled anywhere else. Do you think that the prospect of spending a day refueling F-16s over Montana might motivate you or a young person you know? Our cadets qualified last year for just such an experience with the 927th Air Refueling Wing at Selfridge ANG Base. Do you have skills in aerospace science, administration, aviation, communications, law, accounting, or other fields that you'd like to share or put to work with a receptive audience and energetic group of like-minded people? Our senior and cadet members do just that in support of drug demand reduction, disaster relief, search and rescue, homeland security, and other Missions for America.

This website will communicate all of that and more. It is another of our efforts to stay in contact with the communities and constituencies that we serve - To show you in objective and transparent ways our enthusiasm, dedication, and competence.

If you think that CAP, and the Oakland Composite Squadron in particular, might be for you, please click on the Contact Us/Recruiting tab above. We would be delighted to hear from you and to talk about opportunities in our organization.

But most of all, we look forward to serving you and your community.

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