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Civil Air Patrol

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noun

  1. 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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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

Rowe, 64, served in the Ohio wing of the Civil Air Patrol, an official civilian auxiliary of the US Air Force, for more than three decades.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2022

Isabel Briggs Myers had by then volunteered as an aircraft spotter for the Civil Air Patrol and as a nurse with the Red Cross.

From New York Times Oct. 14, 2022

I told him I'd heard that the Civil Air Patrol in Wisconsin and other states was starting a sky search.

From The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe

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