Charter Numbers

In this blog, I'll be using the original charter numbers for Franklin County Composite Squadron and for Group 12. Every CAP unit has a charter number. This used to be a five digit number that was unique to that unit. For example, Franklin County's charter number was 11212 and Group 12's was 11064. The numbers "11" , the first two digits of the charter number, designated units in the Illinois Wing. Different states/wings had different number designations. The last three numbers referred to the specific unit. Sometime in the late 90's or early 2000's the "11" was dropped and the two letter state abbreviation was adopted. So 11212 became IL212. At some point after this the region abbreviation was also added in so that the units became GLR-IL-XXX. But since I like the original version and because that's what we used for most of the squadron's existence, I will be using 11212 and 11064 for this blog. This will also be how I refer to most of the other units unless they were created after the adoption of the new system.