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The Civil Air Patrol National Cadet Competition is the highest echelon of competition for Civil Air Patrol Color Guards and Drill Teams including all 52 Wings and 8 regions of the Civil Air Patrol. The National Cadet Competition (NCC) is typically rotated every two years to a new aerospace venue. Most recently, it was held at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. In 2009, the competition will be held July 9th - 12th in McMinnville, Oregon at Evergreen Aviation Museum home of the Spruce Goose.

History of the Competition

International Drill Competition

In 1947, based upon the cadet training program which required proficiency in standard drill "without arms," General Lucas V. Beau, Civil Air Patrol's National Commander, instituted the National Drill Competition. Rules were drafted by the US Drill Competition Committee, United States Air Force Ceremonial Detachment located at Bolling AFB, Washington DC and practices used by the Army ROTC program.[1]

Major General Lucas Victor Beau, Commanding General of the Civil Air Patrol, and a well known figure with countries having aviation cadet programs or showed an interest in establishing one. General Beau was well liked and had a long time association with the Air Cadet League of Canada, an organization started in 1939 and one that the CAP Cadet program was modeled after when it began in October 1942.

Beau was attending a planning meeting in April 1947 in Canada to help organize the first International Air Cadet Exchange program which was to start in the summer of 1948 between the United States and Canada. When it was mentioned that CAP was establishing a National Drill Competition along the lines of the annual drill competition and exhibition that was held in Canada for the Air League. A point was made that the CAP Cadets were excellent marchers, and the Canadians counted that they too were suburb drill men; thus, a challenge.

Beau donated in 1948 for presentation at the first meet held in conjunction with the New York City Jubilee at Idlewild Airport Jamaica, Long Island, a heavy Sterling Silver trophy which is shaped in the form of the circular CAP Shoulder patch, it is 12 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick, the top of the circle is an arc with engraved relief block letters that spell out the words "CIVIL AIR PATROL". The trophy center piece is a highly polished raised isosceles triangle set on a circular blue background with raised 1/4" border, within its center is a raised red 3 bladed propeller, and the raised block letters "US" is centered on the on the lower half of the blue. The circular emblem is mounted on a 18" by 6" wide and 2 inch high base, which has across its front and back sides 3 raised triangles, each end has 2 triangles for a total of 10 triangles all around, on each of these triangles is engraved the year (above) and the country (below) of the winner, i.e. "1949 CANADA".


Winners of the IDC

Winners of the International Drill Competition
Year Location City/State Team Score Team Captain
1948 Idlewild Airport exhibition Long Island, NY CAN 28.5 F/Sgt Ralph Cyr
US 26.5 Sgt George Cohn
1949 Canadian National Exhibition Toronto, Ontario CAN 358 WO1 Willaims Stewart
US 347 Sgt Arthur Barton
1950 Canadian National Exhibition Des Moines, IA CAN 374 WO2 John Morrison
US 367
1951 Canadian National Exhibition Toronto, Ontario UK 367 F/Sgt R. Kyle Exhibition
CAN 362 L. Tighe
US 360 Capt I. B. Abrams
1952 Canadian National Exhibition St. Paul, MN 123 US 1143 Capt Jorge Luis Montalvo
CAN 1108 WO Donald G. Barnes
1953 Canadian National Exhibition Toronto, Ontario CAN Sgt. R.J. Chalmers
US Capt David Payne
1954 Minnesota State Fair Minneapolis, MN US 1012 Capt Gomez
CAN 966 WO P.R. Murray
1955 Canadian National Exhibition Toronto, Ontario CAN 1130 WO James Goodhand
US 1114 Capt Rafael Lugo
1956 Minnesota State Fair Minneapolis, MN CAN WO Roy Lauritsen
US Capt Edwin Lopez
1957 Canadian National Exhibition Toronto, Ontario US Capt David Kilani
CAN WO James Jackson

Winners of the National Competition

National Drill Competition – Colonel George A. Stone CAP Trophy (1948-1959)
Year Location City State Winner Team Captain
1948 Mitchell, AFB Long Island NY New York Wing C/Sgt George Cohn
1949 Lowry AFB Denver CO New Jersey Wing C/Sgt Arthur Barton
1950 Lowry AFB Denver CO Utah Wing C/Sgt
1951 Andrews AFB Prince George's Co MD New York Wing C/Capt I. B. Abrams
1952 Mitchell, AFB Long Island NY Puerto Rico Wing C/Capt Jorge Montalvo
1953 Mitchell, AFB Long Island NY New York Wing C/Capt Andrew O'Rourke
1954 Minneapolis-St. Paul AFB Minneapolis MN Puerto Rico Wing C/Capt Francisco Toledo
1955 Clinton County AFB Willmington OH Puerto Rico Wing C/Capt Samuel Colon
1956 Amarillo AFB Amarillo TX Utah Wing C/Lt Roy Cundick
1957 Rockerfeller Center New York NY Hawaii Wing C/Capt David P. Kalani III
1958 Rockerfeller Center New York NY New York Wing C/Capt Henry Olynik
1959 Rockerfeller Center New York NY Hawaii Wing C/Capt David P. Kalani III

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National Drill Competition – No Trophy Named (1960-1977)
Year Location City State Winning Region Winning Wing Team Captain
1960 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Rocky Mountain Region Colorado Wing C/MSgt Barbara Sell
1961 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Rocky Mountain Region Colorado Wing C/Lt Barbara Sell
1962 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Great Lakes Region Michigan Wing C/Col Douglas C. Roach
1963 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Great Lakes Region Michigan Wing C/Daniel Weaver
1964 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Southwest Region Texas Wing C/Alex Rocha
1965 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Great Lakes Region Michigan Wing C/Martin Smith


The final National Drill Competition under the original rules was held in 1965. The efforts of the National Commanders Committee on Cadet Programs (1971 to 1975) was instrumental in reestablishing and developing the National Cadet Competition, which besides drill and inspection added physical fitness, and knowledge of aerospace education to it curriculum. Originally it was to be called the National Cadet Olympics and later renamed in 1975 to the National Cadet Competition. The first was held in Dallas, Texas in 1974.

National Drill Competition – No Trophy Named (1974-1977)
Year Location City State Winning Region Winning Wing Team Captain
1974 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Middle East Region North Carolina Wing C/
1975 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Southwest Region Texas Wing C/
1976 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Southeast Region Georgia Wing C/Capt Tim Dearman
1977 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Southeast Region Georgia Wing C/Mark Bebo


In 1978 the CAP-USAF Commander, Brigadier General Paul E. Gardner, USAF, in a memorandum recommended the use of Civil Air Patrol Corporate funds in the amount of $1,000 to rename and establish the USAF Chief of Staff Sweepstakes Award Trophy as recognition of the national champions. The National Executive Committee of CAP approved on 4 March 1978.

The Air Force Chief of Staff at the time, General David C. Jones, USAF, approved of this award and authorized it in the name of all Air Force Chiefs of Staff on 26 April 1978.

National Drill Competition – US Air Force Chief-of-Staff Sweepstakes Trophy (1978-Present)
Year Location City State Winning Region Winning Wing Team Commander
1978 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Middle East Region North Carolina Wing C/Col William McGalliard
1979 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Middle East Region North Carolina Wing C/Capt Hugh W. Carter
1980 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New York Wing C/Lt Michael Spencer
1981 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Pacific Region California Wing C/Maj Amy Creczyn
1982 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New York Wing C/Capt Hector Marcayda
1983 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Great Lakes Region Illinois Wing C/Lt Col Drew Savage
1984 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New York Wing C/Capt Mark Springer
1985 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New York Wing C/Capt Domingo Torres
1986 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Pacific Region California Wing C/
1987 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Pacific Region California Wing C/Capt Robert Hagberg
1988 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New York Wing C/Lt Col Clement Stewart
1989 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New Jersey Wing C/Capt Darin Ford
1990 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New Jersey Wing C/Col Steven H. Drollinger
1991 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New York Wing C/Col Sayedoul Rahman
1992 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New Jersey Wing C/Col Jose M. Figueroa
1993 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New Jersey Wing C/Col Jose M. Figueroa
1994 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New Jersey Wing C/Col Jose M. Figueroa
1995 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Southwest Region Louisiana Wing C/Col Richard Muffoletto
1996 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Great Lakes Region Illinois Wing C/
1997 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Northeast Region New Jersey Wing C/FO Walead Latif
1998 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Southwest Region Louisiana Wing C/Brior Lecompte
1999 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Southwest Region Louisiana Wing C/Michelle Robichaux
2000 Rescheduled
2001 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Northeast Region Massachusetts Wing C/Col Peter Amaral
2002 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Northeast Region New York Wing C/Lt Col Adam Cucchiara
2003 Wright State University Dayton OH Middle East Region Delaware Wing C/Col Jonathan Offen
2004 Wright State University Dayton OH Southeast Region Puerto Rico Wing C/Col Jonathan Vazquez
2005 Udvar Hazy Center, Smithsonian Museum Washington DC Northeast Region New York Wing C/Lt Col Erik Johnson
2006 Udvar Hazy Center, Smithsonian Museum Washington DC Southwest Region Arizona Wing C/Col Cameron Philips
2007 National Museum of the Air Force Dayton OH Southeast Region Puerto Rico Wing C/Lt Col Luis Colon
2008 Wright State University Dayton OH Southwest Region Arizona Wing C/Col Jamie Hurley


National Color Guard Competition – US Air Force Chief-of-Staff Sweepstakes Trophy (1996-Present)
Year Location City State Winning Wing Winning Region Team Captain
1996 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Oklahoma Wing Southwest Region C/
1997 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Indiana Wing Great Lakes Region C/
1998 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL West Virginia Wing Great Lakes Region C/
1999 Maxwell AFB Montgomery AL Puerto Rico Wing Southeast Region C/
2000 Rescheduled
2001 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Virginia Wing Middle East Region C/
2002 USAF Academy Colorado Springs CO Florida Wing Southeast Region C/CMSgt Marissa Streifel
2003 Wright State University Dayton OH California Wing Pacific Region C/SMSgt Laura Borenstein
2004 Wright State University Dayton OH Florida Wing Southeast Region C/MSgt Jessica Aubuchon
2005 Udvar Hazy Center, Smithsonian Museum Washington DC Florida Wing Southeast Region C/CMSgt Casey Culp
2006 Udvar Hazy Center, Smithsonian Museum Washington DC California Wing Pacific Region C/SrA Jesse Almanza
2007 National Museum of the Air Force Dayton OH Arizona Wing Southwest Region C/SSgt Isaiah Huen
2008 Wright State University Dayton OH Florida Wing Southeast Region C/CMSgt Tim Lhota

Current Statistics of the National Cadet Competition (1974 - Present)

The following table shows the number of national championships won since the recreation of the National Cadet Competition in 1974, by region.

National Championships Won by Region
Region Drill Team

Championships Won

Color Guard

Championships Won

Total
Northeast Region 15 0 15
Southeast Region 4 5 9
Southwest Region 6 2 8
Middle East Region 4 1 5
Pacific Region 3 2 5
Great Lakes Region 2 2 4
Rocky Mountain Region 0 0 0
North Central Region 0 0 0

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National Drill Team Championships Won by Wing
Titles Won Wing Championship Years
8 New York 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991, 2002, 2005
6 New Jersey 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997
3 California 1981, 1986, 1987
Louisiana 1995, 1998, 1999
North Carolina 1974, 1978, 1979
2 Arizona 2006, 2008
Georgia 1976, 1977
Illinois 1983, 1996
Puerto Rico 2004, 2007
1 Delaware 2003
Massachusetts 2001
Texas 1975

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National Color Guard Championships Won by Wing
Titles Won Wing Championship Years
4 Florida 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008
2 California 2003, 2006
1 Arizona 2007
Indiana 1997
Oklahoma 1996
Puerto Rico 1999
Virginia 2001
West Virgnia 1998

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  • To date, the 2002 Florida Wing Color Guard is the only team to win first place in every event at NCC. [6]
  • The only time that a single region has won both the NDTC, and the NCGC in the same year was in 2004 by SER. The Puerto Rico Wing Drill Team and the Florida Wing Color Guard represented the region that year.
  • Only three wings in history have been home to BOTH an NDTC and NCGC Champion Team; California Wing (NDTC Champs 1981, 1986, 1987 and NCGC Champs 2003, 2006), Puerto Rico Wing (NDTC Champs 2004, 2007 and NCGC CHamps 1999) and Arizona Wing (NDTC Champs 2006, 2008 and NCGC Champs 2007)

References

This article incorporates material produced by the Civil Air Patrol. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the material is in the public domain.
  1. ^ "International Drill Competition". Leonard A. Blascovich, Col, CAP. 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
  2. ^ "Winners". National Headquarters, CAP. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
  3. ^ History of Winners
  4. ^ History of Winners
  5. ^ History of Winners
  6. ^ Results of the 2002 NCC


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