Civil Air Patrol Cadet Grades

The Civil Air Patrol cadet program has a rank structure that emulates the Air Force. In order to advance in rank, a cadet must complete a number of requirements and have a certain amount of time in grade. Usually these requirements are:

• A score of 70% or higher on a leadership test
• Successful completion of a Cadet Physical Fitness Test (CPFT)
• Participation in a moral leadership class
• A score of 70% or higher on an aerospace education test

The grades are organized into four phases which represent the changing roles a cadet will take on as they progress through the program. At the end of each phase there are so-called "milestone" achievements that represent a significant advance in responsibility and the last step in a phase. The ranks that are associated with these milestones are cadet staff sergeant, cadet second lieutenant, cadet captain, cadet lieutenant colonel, and cadet colonel.

• Cadet Airman Basic (C/AB)

• Cadet Airman (C/Amn)
• Cadet Airman First Class (C/A1C)
• Cadet Senior Airman (C/SrA)
• Cadet Staff Sergeant (C/SSgt)

• Cadet Technical Sergeant (C/TSgt)
• Cadet Master Sergeant (C/MSgt)
• Cadet Senior Master Sergeant (C/SMSgt)
• Cadet Chief Master Sergeant (C/CMSgt)
• Cadet Second Lieutenant (C/2d Lt

• Cadet First Lieutenant (C/1st Lt)
• Cadet Captain (C/Capt)

• Cadet Major (C/Maj)
• Cadet Lieutenant Colonel (C/Lt Col)

The remaining rank, cadet colonel, is not considered part of Phase IV but a milestone all its own.

• Cadet Colonel (C/Col)

SOURCES:
CAPP 151
Leadership: 2000 and Beyond
CAPP 52-18
CAPR 52-16
Personal knowledge

The capitalization in the title isn't mine, by the way.