Major Nicholas McLarty is CadetStuff's über Web Mensch and all around nice guy in training. What does "über Web Mensch" mean in English? Look it, up, Dr. Von Braun!

Maj McLarty is presently assigned as the deputy commander for cadets of Texas Wing's George H. W. Bush Composite Squadron at the home of Texas A&M University in College Station (whoop!), a condition that will surely change once its understood that he knows nothing at all about the Cadet Program except what he's seen on QVC at 3am. He joined Civil Air Patrol as a cadet in 1997. During his cadet career, he completed five achievements of the CAP cadet program, arriving kicking and screaming at Cadet Technical Sergeant prior to his introduction to the ultra-strong magnetism of powdered sugar donuts and coffee on the Dark Side.

After Crossing into the Grey, Maj McLarty has served exclusively in cadet programs positions at the squadron, group and wing level including a stint as Texas Wing's Assistant Director of Cadet Programs and commander of the Texas Wing Winter Encampment in 2000. Things haven't been the same in Texas since. As your classic adult overachiever, he has senior ratings in cadet programs and personnel, and technician ratings in communications and professional development. He would eventually like to get rated in everything but Chaplain, since he doesn't want to piss off the big guy upstairs. He also gets to pin that shiny silver star on his cadet programs badge just as soon as he finishes all the new master rating requirements that weren't there eight years ago.

In 2003, Maj McLarty enlisted in the United States Air Force Reserve as a security forces member and later cross-trained as a combat arms instructor. Concurrently to that assignment, he attended a 9 week long intensive seminar on the meaning of "up and down range." He continues to serve in the Air Force Reserve, having done a stint with the CAP-USAF Southwest Liaison Region while remaining a security forces member at his home station of Lackland Air Force Base.