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The Civil Air Patrol National Cadet Competition is the highest echelon of competition for Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Drill Teams and Color Guards, including all 52 Wings and 8 regions of the CAP. Annually, each of the 52 CAP wings hosts a competition to decide one drill team and one color guard winner to represent their wing to their respective region competition. Wing Competitions are normally held anywhere from December to March and region competitions are usually held anywhere from April to May, with the winning drill team and color guard representing their respective region at the National Cadet Competition held every summer. Only one drill team and one color guard is able to represent their region at the NCC, making NCC the most elite competition CAP has to offer. The winning NCC teams are awarded the United States Air Force Chief of Staff Sweepstakes Award Trophy, with their wing name being added to the trophy's display. To add to its prestige, each NCC winner is awarded a silver star which is added to their drill team or color guard ribbon. This year, the 2013 National Cadet Competition (NCC) was held July 17th through July 20th in Dayton, Ohio at Wright State University and Stebbins High School. The 2014 National Cadet Competition is postponed, while it is under review for reorganization, due to its high cost of operation. 2013 National Drill Team Competition Winners are: Great Lakes Region - Ohio Wing Southeast Region - Tennessee Wing 2013 National Color Guard Competition Winners are: Rocky Mountain Region - Utah Wing Photos and Full Results from the 2013 NCC can be found here: (2013 NCC Results ) The wings who represented their regions to the 2013 National Cadet Competition were as follows: (2013 Schedule and Directions ) The results from the 2012 NCC can be found here: http://www.kalemis.com/ncc/index.html All previous year's winners can be found here: http://ncsas.com/ncc_winners/ ==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. Major General Lucas Victor Beau, Commanding General of the Civil Air Patrol, was a well-known figure with countries having aviation cadet programs or showing an interest in establishing one. General Beau was well liked and had a longtime 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 -inch border; within its center is a raised red three-bladed propeller, and the raised block letters "US" is centered on the lower half of the blue. The circular emblem is mounted on an by and base, which has across its front and back sides three raised triangles, each end has two 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". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Civil Air Patrol National Cadet Competition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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