I do feel your pain, but try to contain your anger for those of us that live a free and independent retirement.
I did my civic service with CAP and Civil Defense activities, as well as run my own business. I was a civic minded as anyone.
I respect and envy the greatness of America, but that has passed. I do not, however, see any obligation to live my senior years under a Communist tyrant and his minions that ELECTED him.
By the way, you never said what YOU are doing to fight the tyranny, besides spewing hatred for the freedom lovers.
You might try thinking outside the box, instead of spewing
your hate for those of us that do. Do you castigate the many other Expat FReepers?

At risk of sounding harsh here, I'm growing very weary of people in CAP pulling the "I Serve" card. I'm tired of their stories of glory days of when they were cadets, and their attempts of equating CAP volunteer action to military service.

I'm going to give you some insight that the vets in your wing won't give you.

We're tired of hearing it

We're tired of hearing the rhetoric of attempt to equate CAP service (and other types as well) to having served in our Military. Unless you swore an oath and were inducted into Military Service, and fell under authority of command, you might as well have been a Peace Corps volunteer as far as we're concerned.

While I commend you for volunteering in such a worthy effort as CAP (one which I also participate in), there's simply no comparison to having served in our military. For one, YOU can simply walk away from CAP if you want to. Your "service" is completely AT WILL. Try that same action while being Active Duty, or even being a Reservist, or National Guard. Article 15 of the UCMJ is alive and kicking in the military... TODAY. Not so with CAP! Those of us who are Vets are said to be "volunteers", but technically it equates closer to the conditions of indentured servitude. We volunteered IN, but can't afterward simply volunteer OUT...at least not until terms and conditions and length of contract are fulfilled.

If you do leave, when you get back, and discover that people like us Vets held it all together and recovered this horrid situation to some degree, go ahead and explain your logic to those Vets around you at CAP. Observe the looks on their faces and take careful note. Because chances are, they're not going to really tell you what they're thinking. But don't be surprised if they treat you very differently, and by this I don't mean that they're going to buy you rounds for your contribution to the overall effort.

Go ahead... leave. I can understand you not wanting to ruin retirement, and we don't after all want for you to be uncomfortable or lacking...heaven forbid! I'm grateful that our Signers of The Declaration of Independence didn't think and act this way.