It's Civil Air Patrol's Birthday!! OR IS IT!?!?!?

Today I'm here to talk about why 1 December 1941 may not really be the birthday of Civil Air Patrol, depending on how you look at it - and why I'm OK with that anyways.
For much, much more information, please check out "An Honorable Place in American Airpower" by Frank Blazich Jr, available here:
www.airunivers...
Also, I hate myself for goofing up the reference. It should be Ridley, not Scotty, that I tell I'm out of Beamans!!

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I added it to the description but I'll comment it here, too. I'm a terrible avgeek... I totally screwed up the "Right Stuff" reference. I should have commented to RIDLEY that I was all out of Beamans, not Scotty. Bad, naughty, evil Brian. Sorry!!