Civil Air Patrol members from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. gathered on Monday morning to volunteer to be part of the annual National Memorial Day Parade held in D.C. carrying 30 different flags and helping with VIP escort.
Maryland Wing Civil Air Patrol welcomes Civil Air Patrol Master Sergeant David Tolson as the Wing’s Command Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO).
American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television, David Sarnoff (1891–1971), once asserted that “success in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us”. The virtues of success and our internal forces centered on maximizing the greater good through volunteer service to our nation, the state of Maryland, and our local communities; and also exercising leadership in our areas of responsibility, is embedded in each Maryland Wing, Civil Air Patrol member.
On January 21st, two composite teams of cadets from three Maryland Civil Air Patrol squadrons competed in the Platinum Level of Cyber Patriot Semi-Finals.
The members of MD-085, Apollo 1 Senior Squadron at Tipton Airport, are working very hard to make up for time lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Because of the safety and health measures enacted, squadron members have spent a long time without being able to interact in person.
On June 21, 2022, cadets of the Mt Airy Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol made their final presentation of their winning design for the Fairchild Growing Beyond Earth Maker Challenge (https://fairchildgarden.org/science-and-education/innovation/maker-challenge/).
For the first time since 2019, over 100 Civil Air Patrol airmen from across the Mid-Atlantic Region and Wings beyond returned to the nation’s capital to partake in the 16th National Memorial Day Parade in Washington D.C. on May 30, 2022.
Mt. Airy, MD -- On March 2, 2022 Mt. Airy Mayor Larry Hushour visited the Mt. Airy Civil Air Patrol Composite Squadron at the Mt. Airy Izaak Walton League facility on Woodville road.
Granite, MD -- Imagine a day starting with a routine trek in the back-country woods on a crisp fall morning. Five miles into the hike, you lose your footing, fall down a steep-sided ravine, and are now laying on the forest floor with a broken leg and likely internal injuries.
