[FedCom] Civil Air Patrol Tightens OpSecurity RadioCommsInformation

[Larry Van Horn, N5FPW]

>You wonder who the paranoid nut-cases are who sit in darkened rooms in D.C. 
>dreaming this stuff up.

This is thanks to all those who have jumped on the DHS gravy train (ie CAP 
MARS SHARES et al). Every government agencies knows this is the new 
government cash cow and they can justify their existence and funding by 
aligning with the paranoid cold war warriors that now reside in the DHS 
offices.

>If a CAP unit is going to be interacting with DEA or "Homeland Security", 
>give them a DEA or DHS encrypted radio to use temporarily and let them have 
>their own system to enjoy without all the hocus-pocus.

My view is simple, they should not be. There is NO valid reason that CAP 
should ever be performing a FOUO mission for anyone. To add insult to inoury 
now they are pushing legislation through Congress for us taxpayers to pay 
death benefits for anyone killed doing one of these FOUO missions? Another 
extraordinary example of fraud, waste and abuse. If they weren't doing these 
missions to begin with, we wouldn't have to worry about paying death 
benefits to survivors. There is NO good reason why CAP or MARS should be 
drapping their missions under the FOUO cloak of secrecy.

>Aaaah . . . our tax dollars at work!!

Unfortunately Bob it isn't working. But instead they are wasting our tax 
money and the radio frequency spectrum, plain and simple.

73 de Larry