Across the United States volunteers’ impact communities. The civil air patrol is just one organization that works within communities to assist in emergencies. Public affairs officer Kevin Cadeau says the copper country’s group has helped in search and rescue cases and has provided an eye in the sky during disasters. The group even flies missions down state or in northern Wisconsin. He adds many people focus on pilots, but there are many other important roles to play in an emergency. Even for those just getting started as young as 12 years old.
We have search and rescue exercises, they call them a SAREX, and they use the youth for that too as ground teams. They’ll put out scenarios like we have four boy scouts that got lost somewhere, and they give you a general idea where to start looking. So they’ll send aircraft out to start doing visual searches, and we fly grids, and we slow down to 90 knots, and we’re flying like 1,000 feet off the ground, and we have three people in the plane. – Kevin Cadeau, Public Affairs Officer, Civil Air Patrol Copper Country Composite
The civil air patrol is a civilian arm of the United States Airforce that provides domestic operations and emergency response in all 50 states. The copper country cap group houses the upper peninsula only civil air patrol plane. Tomorrow, the Civil Air Patrol will host a open house at Hancock Middle School to share information with students interested in flying, aviation or wanting to support their communities in a disaster. The program will begin at 5 pm on October 28th.
