Civil Air Patrol

Examples of Civil Air Patrol in the following topics:

• Homefront Security

  • La Guardia also formalized the creation of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) - the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force - with Administrative Order 9, signed on 1 December 1941 and published 8 December 1941.
  • The order outlined the Civil Air Patrol's organization and named its first national commander as Major General John F.
  • The air crews of the patrol aircraft were to keep in touch with their bases and notify the Army Air Forces and Navy in the area when a U-boat was sighted, and to remain in the area until relieved.
  • Civil Air Patrol poster produced for the Office of Civilian Defense as part of a campaign to build interest in joining CAP during World War II.
  • Examine the role of the Civil Air Patrol and the Civil Defense Corps in monitoring home-front security during World War II.

• White Society in the South

  • The principle of white supremacy, accepted by almost all white southerners of all classes, made slavery seem legitimate, natural, and essential for a civilized society.
  • For example, the "slave patrols" were among the institutions bringing together southern whites of all classes in support of the prevailing economic and racial order.
  • Serving as slave "patrollers" and "overseers" offered white southerners positions of power and honor.
  • Slave "patrollers" and "overseers" also won prestige in their communities.

• Central America

  • In 1999, a report on the Guatemalan Civil War from the Commission for Historical Clarification, sponsored by the United Nations, stated that "The United States demonstrated that it was willing to provide support for strong military regimes in its strategic backyard.
  • -funded air shipments of supplies to the Contras.
  • Reagan provided controversial support to the right-wing El Salvador government and all branches of the security apparatus throughout his term; he feared a takeover by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the El Salvador Civil War which had begun in 1979.
  • These activities included the mining of Nicaragua's harbors as well as attacking a naval base and patrol boats.

• The Battle of the Atlantic

  • Never for one moment could we forget that everything happening elsewhere, on land, at sea or in the air depended ultimately on its outcome.
  • In 1941, Enigma intercepts enabled the British to plot the positions of U-boat patrol lines and route convoys around them.
  • Further air cover was provided by the introduction of merchant aircraft carriers (MAC ships), and later the growing numbers of American-built escort carriers.
  • By spring 1943, the British had also developed an effective sea-scanning radar small enough to be carried in patrol aircraft armed with airborne depth charges.
  • The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the German Navy, along with aircrafts of the German Air Force, against Allied merchant convoys.

• Gradual Withdrawal

  • Backed by U.S. air and artillery support (American troops were forbidden to enter Laos), the ARVN moved across the border along Route 9.
  • Combat patrols continued there until November 11 when the U.S. handed over the base to the South Vietnamese.

• The Balkans

  • The violent outbreaks in Bosnia, Yugoslavia, and Kosovo ended with NATO air strikes led by the Clinton administration.
  • Much of the focus of Clinton's foreign policy during his first term was the civil war, or war of aggression, in Bosnia and Herzegovina (often referred to simply as Bosnia), a nation in southeastern Europe that declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1992.
  • The air campaign, along with a counteroffensive by a better-equipped Muslim and Croatian forces, succeeded in pressuring Bosnian Serbs to negotiate peace.
  • NATO air strikes devastated Yugoslavia.
  • It was the first time in NATO's history that its forces had attacked a European country and the first time in which air power alone won a battle.

• National Security

  • It was also responsible for the creation of a Department of the Air Force separate from the existing Army Air Forces.
  • The purpose was to unify the Army, Navy, and what was soon to become the Air Force into a federated structure.
  • The radio program Stars for Defense combined hit music with civil defense advice.
  • "Nuclear radiation," it advised, "would only stay in the air a day or two."
  • However, civil defense officials still worked to prepare evacuation plans.

• Modern Warfare

  • Weaponry also changed significantly during the Civil War.
  • The most lethal change during the Civil War was the introduction of rifling to muskets.
  • Innovations also took place in air warfare.
  • The use of rifles on the battlefield greatly increased casualties in the Civil War.
  • Identify the factors that made the Civil War the "first modern war"

• Black Power

  • In the eyes of many protesters, the federal government either could not or would not end their suffering, and most existing civil rights groups and their leaders had been unable to achieve significant results toward racial justice and equality.
  • Rejecting the nonviolent strategy of other civil rights activists, he maintained that violence in the face of violence was appropriate.
  • This move toward Black Power and self-defense as a means of obtaining African-American civil rights marked a change from previous nonviolent actions.
  • The self-empowerment philosophy of Black Power influenced mainstream civil rights groups such as the National Economic Growth Reconstruction Organization (NEGRO), which sold bonds and operated a clothing factory and construction company in New York, and the Opportunities Industrialization Center in Philadelphia, which provided job training and placement—by 1969, it had branches in seventy cities.
  • The Black Panther Party's most widely known programs were its Free Breakfast for Children program and its armed citizens' patrols of the streets of African American neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality.

• Vietnam Becomes Nixon's War

  • Secondly, it forced the North Vietnamese to openly support its allies, the Chinese-supported Khmer Rouge, and allowed the latter to extend their power (the Khmer Rouge would commit atrocities in the Cambodian Civil War later that decade).
  • Combat patrols continued there until November 11 when the U.S. handed over the base to the South Vietnamese.