Thanks to the magic of wiping a year or so worth of posts, this wonderful thread popped up on our radar, remind us that yes, it is summer and the season for Civil Air Patrol's National Cadet Special Activities.

We at CadetStuff want to enlist YOU, our intrepid field writers, to create a document for eternity that tells the story of your adventure at a Civil Air Patrol National Cadet Special Activity this summer. Or, failing in that, maybe even a detailed recounting of that endless plane flight between Poughkeepsie and Albuquerque where you were jammed in the back of a rickety old Eastern Airlines DC-9, seated between the starting line up of the Hamtramck, Michigan Sumo Wrestling Team who'd been stuck at the airport in Cleveland without ready access to deodorant. *shudder* OK, maybe not.

No experience necessary and we provide help on editing. Pictures are also good. They help our Managing Editor remember just what the heck the article is about. He likes pretty pictures. An attention span shorter than that of a small hyper-active child will do that to you. Now if he would stop twitching while he types. 1500-2000 words is just about perfect, and if you're one of those verbose dudes who seems to get diarrhea of the keyboard, well, we'll help you save some electrons and get it down to something less than the "Complete Works of Tolstoy!"

Afraid to write for us? Poppycock! Get off your butt! Put pen to paper! Do it this year, as our Assistant Features Editor, John Knowles, is a much nicer guy than the big cheese over in the Sandbox. You might never get another great chance like this to write for CadetStuff without several weeks worth of email belittling your Hemingway-eque talents to damage your fragile psyche. (That one guy who wrote that silly article a couple years ago about that other thing, well, he's still curled in the corner of his rubber room sucking his thumb after the editorial rope-a-dope he took.. you definitely don't want some of that!)

Send your submissions to Submissions@CadetStuff.org (honest, we tried to come up with something more clever for an email address, but "UselessJunkMail@CadetStuff.org" kept crashing our spam filters). Thanks a million!