In Mexico, Missouri, five kids from Joplin's Civil Air Patrol squadron are using it to learn lessons preparing them for life.

Gretel Kizer watched her 14-year-old son complete his week-long encampment with the Civil Air Patrol. “I cried when I dropped him off, I said, ‘you’re too young to be doing this,'” said Kizer. “And ...

WASHINGTON -- Morgan Crawford's involvement in the Civil Air Patrol began with fulfilling an academic requirement. As a sixth-grade student at Little Rock's Cloverdale Middle School, Crawford had ...