Welcome to your first step in professional development as a CAP member!  

Level One provides you with the foundations of Civil Air Patrol missions, policies and opportunities for service. Talk with your mentor or commander if you have any questions about Level One.

To complete Level One of Civil Air Patrol's professional development program, you will need to complete the following (by clicking some of these links, you will be leaving the *.gov domain):

     a. The CAP Foundations Course - Details below.

     b. Cadet Protection Program Training (CPPT) - Available online only at e-Services (details below).

     c. Online Operations Security (OPSEC) Awareness Training - Available online only at https://tests.cap.af.mil/opsec (details below).

The CAP Foundations Course

The CAP Foundations Course is self-paced and open book. There are a total of six modules for you to complete. Each module contains a three to five page article for you to read, along with a brief quiz.

CAP's professional development is designed around your integrity, one of CAP's Core Values. You are on your honor to read the articles and to take the open book quizzes on your own. Please print out each quiz and circle the most correct answer. Then take the completed quizzes to your squadron for scoring and review.

Each module should take less than 15 minutes to read, and each quiz should take less than 15 minutes to complete. You will need the free Adobe PDF Reader or a compatible PDF viewer to view these materials, dated May 07:

Module 1	History & Organization article	History & Organization quiz
Module 2	Policies article	Policies quiz
Module 3	Uniforms article	Uniforms quiz
Module 4	Customs & Courtesies article	Customs & Courtesies quiz
Module 5	Core Values article	Core Values quiz
Module 6	Leadership article	Leadership quiz

Your leaders have a “Summary Conversation” guide designed to help you put the topics you studied into perspective. Your leaders will help you to understand the reason why CAP has core values, why CAP members wear a uniform and why CAP emphasizes safety. In the process, you have an opportunity to ask questions in an informal, no-pressure setting.

If you are assigned to a group, wing or higher headquarters, then take your materials to the leaders at your echelon for scoring and validation.


Notes for Commanders

There is no pass or fail in this course. However, you are responsible for reviewing your new members’ efforts, make any corrections and provide your new members with the guidance needed to succeed.

Use the “Summary Conversation” guide to help you to accomplish this task. The correct answers to the quizzes are noted in this guide. You can download the latest “Summary Conversation” Guide through e-Services. Look in your "Commander's Corner" link. Since this guide contains the quiz answers, please treat the guide in accordance with CAPR 50-4 rules.

This “Summary Conversation” guide will help you know that your new member has put the topics they read into proper perspective. In the process, your new member has an opportunity to ask questions in an informal, no-pressure setting. The training ends with a casual discussion between you and your new member.

Naturally, our members deserve to be recognized for their hard work. Just like before, submit a CAPF 11 for crediting your new member with completing Level One training. You can send this completed form to lmmeforms@capnhq.gov.

Click here to read the official memo.



Cadet Protection Program Training (CPPT)

Cadet Protection Program Training is a required element of Level One and is designed to introduce new senior members, Cadet Sponsor Members and cadets 18 and older to CAP's Cadet Protection policies. 

CPPT helps ensure a healthy and safe environment for cadets while providing the foundation for a professional climate and the highest standards of behavior of all our members in leadership positions.

This training is mandatory for all senior members, Cadet Sponsor Members and cadets 18 and older. This training takes most people less than two hours to complete. 

To complete CPPT, you will need to establish an account with e-Services (See the e-Services section below for details).

This training is designed for our senior members, Cadet Sponsor Members and cadets 18 years of age and older. Only those 18 years of age or older will see the "Cadet Protection" link in e-Services.
Click here to go to e-Services to begin.

Online Operations Security (OPSEC) Awareness Training

One of the key aspects of mission preparedness is training. By completing the online Operations Security (OPSEC) Awareness Training, you will know how to handle sensitive information concerning our missions, our capabilities and our partner agencies. 

The OPSEC awareness training also allows CAP to validate to our partner agencies that members whom we entrust with sensitive information have the necessary training and have agreed to protect that information.

This training is mandatory for all CAP senior members and Cadet Sponsor Members. It is an online only course that members can access at https://tests.cap.af.mil/opsec. This is a secure website and the initial screen will ask some questions to verify your identity.

This training takes most people less than 20 minutes and concludes with an opportunity to agree to protect sensitive information. This is called a “Non Disclosure Agreement” (NDA) and each member’s agreement will be recorded electronically in their membership records. This NDA will be required before a member can access sensitive information or participate in certain missions.

Click https://tests.cap.af.mil/opsec to begin.

The Next Step

Once you have completed Level One (comprising of the CAP Foundations Course, the CPPT and the online OPSEC Awareness Training), take your quizzes and pre-test to your unit for validation and credit. You will soon be ready to begin Level Two!

Talk with your mentor or commander to explore Level Two professional development opportunities that will assist you as you advance as a CAP member. You should also become familiar with the governing regulation on professional development, CAPR 50-17. 

Be sure to visit CAP's professional development web site to discover the wealth of courses available to you. 

Set up your e-Services account now 

Please visit e-Services at www.capnhq.gov. e-Services is the Internet gateway to CAP National Headquarters. From the e-Services homepage, follow the on-screen instructions to establish a user name and password.  Then use the e-Services Interactive Personnel System to view your personnel record, and update it if necessary.

Every success to you  and thank you for serving in the Civil Air Patrol!



Contact Us

If you have any questions that your leaders can't answer, visit www.cap.gov/answers.

Hey, I spotted an error!

If you spotted an error as you review the articles or the quizzes, please check to be sure that you are reading from the latest publications and policies. If there still is an error, then cite your source reference (and the reference's publication date) when you send an email to Mark Schultz at our National Headquarters.