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An Unlikely Duo Aims to Rewrite the Civil Air Patrol Saga

Civil Air Patrol (CAP), that esteemed bastion of airborne do-gooders synonymous with the U.S. Air Force, has decided to inject their marketing department with sweet, sweet broadcast zest. Enter Brad Nolan, the media maverick, iHeart Media’s executive mastermind, podcast diviner, and a voice familiar from sea to shining sea. He is now CAP’s senior director of marketing and strategic communications, because why not? Toss into this cosmic salad Matt Borrelli, the graphic design virtuoso and award-collector extraordinaire, as creative director to keep things visually snazzy.

Brad Nolan’s been around the media block a few times. With a career stretching over two and a half decades, this marketing maestro is bringing his well-seasoned, peppered-with-experience perspective to the table. “We’re thrilled to welcome Brad,” gushes Kristina Jones, paramount queen of CAP’s growth avenue. You see, young Brad was once a CAP cadet himself—how quaint! He’s donned many hats, from small-town lullabies to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, making him the perfect candidate to showcase CAP’s riveting narrative of rescues and educational enrichment. As Brad would modestly declare, it’s a dream convergence of passion and paycheck.

Nolan, a household name over the airwaves and the internet, aims to revamp CAP’s image, noting with sage wisdom, “We’re not just competing with other nonprofits — we’re up against Hulu and Fortnite for Pete’s sake.” His mission, inevitably, is to blare CAP’s heroic hymns from the digital rooftops, courting society to give a darn about saving lives—or at least to tweet about it.

Nolan jumpstarted his auditory odyssey at the tender age of twelve and has been podcasting since before it was trendy, hence effectively rendering him a broadcasting hipster. At iHeart Media, he commanded podcast fleets and managed to funnel listenership into the millions, like an alchemist turning airwaves into golden metrics.

Then there’s Matt Borrelli, the brand whisperer, here to turn every CAP narrative into visual poetry. Armed with credentials in communications design and multimedia, Borrelli is poised to stir CAP’s legacy pot, aiming to serve its savory stories with pizzazz and panache.

“Matt will be a force-multiplier,” chants Nolan, while Borrelli, brimming with design fervor, envisions a future where CAP’s unsung tales break their shell of obscurity. Borrelli is ready to prove that while CAP is busy performing miracles, he can make them look fabulous.

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