Emergency Services, such as SAR, are only part of the CAP's mission. The other two are aerospace education and the many, many cadet programs. Including soaring (which BTW is part of the freshman curriculum at the US Air Force Academy).
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CAP is about more than SAR.
There is one at the field where I fly gliders.
There is one at the field where I fly gliders.
jd21476
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CAP has sail planes out at Los Alamitos AAF is Orange County. I asked them about them one time and they said it teaches a different type of flying and they also use it for young eagles and such. I think its mire just because no one else really does.
SAR is not the largest part of CAP - cadet and aerospace education are much bigger activities, they just don't get much publicity. SAR is a subset of Emergency Services. In 2020 ES also included all the covid-19 support during the year - picking up/delivering PPEs (by car and airplane), photo shoots of environmental damage (fires, floods, windstorms) as well as finding people. And yes, CAP also flies drones as part of ES.
Jakl15
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CAP does lots of stuff, including make a valiant effort to solve the AF pilot shortage
https://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Articl...accepting-applications-for-fy21-spring-class/
https://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Articl...accepting-applications-for-fy21-spring-class/