Some one who has experience with both should wrote an article about the comparisons between Ham (especially wrt emergency preparedness) and the Civil Air Patrol. Specifically with the aging users and declining numbers.
CAP is an amazing program. I was in it for awhile. Unfortunately, it is only a major thing in the home school community. My squadron had 30 other kids and myself and one other were the only public school kids. The rest were home school by really religious parents. Nothing directly wrong with that, but it makes it difficult to advertise to a wider group of kids. As I know where I grew up, it was known amongst the home schooling community but not amongst the public school kids. I just happened to stumble across it. Which sucks because it is a really good program that can expose kids to tons of interests with Cyber patriot, the summer academies for things like flying, and all the other programs.
