Civil Air Patrol

American

noun

a voluntary organization performing emergency services, as assisting the U.S. Air Force on search missions, and offering aerospace-education and youth programs: founded 1941. CAP

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The department’s search and rescue units were on foot and in four-wheel-drive vehicles assisting the Marine and Civil Air Patrol teams specializing in mountain searches, he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Flyovers by the Civil Air Patrol found 1,692 structures destroyed — almost all of them residential.

From Washington Times • Aug. 12, 2023

Civil Air Patrol and the Maui Fire Department showed the extent of the loss, said Mahina Martin, a spokesperson for Maui County.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023

Colonel Peter Bowden, commander of the Ohio Wing, wrote on Facebook that Rowe had "touched the lives of thousands of his fellow Civil Air Patrol members".

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022

July 11, 1947, from ____ who is in charge of the Civil Air Patrol of Wisconsin, an auxiliary of the Army Air Forces.

From Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects by United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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