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Search and Rescue (SAR): Perhaps best known for its search and rescue efforts, CAP now flies more than 85 percent of all federal inland SAR missions directed by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Langley AFB, Virginia. Outside of the continental United States, CAP supports the Joint Rescue Coordination Centers in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Just how effective are the CAP missions? More than 100 people are saved every year by CAP members!

Disaster Relief: Often overlooked but vitally important is the role CAP plays in disaster relief operations. CAP provides air and ground transportation, and an extensive communications network. They fly disaster relief officials to remote locations, and support local, state and national disaster relief organizations with manpower, leadership and other valuable and needed resources.

Humanitarian Services: Closely related to disaster relief is CAP's support of humanitarian missions. Usually in support of the Red Cross, CAP air crews transport time-sensitive medical materials including blood and human tissue in situations where other means of transportation are not possible

Air Force Support: It's hardly surprising that CAP performs several missions in direct support of the U.S. Air Force. Specifically, CAP conducts damage assessment, radiological monitoring, light transport, communications support, and low-altitude route surveys.

Homeland Security: Civil Air Patrol is uniquely positioned to conduct homeland security operations in support of the nation's homeland security initiatives. Established in 1941 to patrol the coastlines of the continental United States, Civil Air Patrol volunteers contributed significantly to the deterrence of enemy operations. Credited with the actual sinking of two German submarines and attacks on many more, CAP Coastal Patrol units from Maine to Texas performed valiantly. After the war, a German commander confirmed that coastal U-boat operations were withdrawn from U.S. waters because of those "damned little red and yellow airplanes."

Today, CAP has come full circle in the past 60 years, with a modern well-equipped fleet of aircraft and equipment that is exercised and utilized daily. Trained professional volunteers stand ready to meet the challenge by preparing, preventing, and responding to internal and external threats to the United States.

 

 

 

 

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