COMMUNICATIONS

 

 

CAP is most commonly associated with the mission of Emergency Services. CAP volunteer pilots fly more than 85% of all inland search and rescue missions directed by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Langley AFB, Virginia. CAP saved 75 lives last year through search and rescue efforts.

 

CAP volunteer members provide many other support operations to include homeland security, disaster relief, air and ground transportation, aerial reconnaissance, to agencies such as the American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA).

 

CAP’s extraordinarily extensive communications network is available to local, state, and national disaster relief agencies free of charge. CAP transports time-sensitive medical materials in support of humanitarian organizations.  The live organ transport program is credited with saving an average of 10 lives every year.

 

CAP counterdrug operations through formal agreements with the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Forest Service provides aerial reconnaissance, airborne communications support, and airlift of law enforcement personnel in support of our nation’s war on drugs.