Coastal Breeze News

A delegation from Civil Air Patrol will ring the opening bell Friday at the New York Stock Exchange. Led by CAP National Commander Maj. Gen. Chuck Carr, a group of about 20 CAP representatives, including cadets, will be on the stock exchange podium at 9:30 a.m. EST to officially start trading. The opening bell ceremony provides a platform to generate international exposure for CAP, which provides emergency services – like search and rescue for downed planes and missing people and disaster relief to communities throughout the United States, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, ... Read More »

Civil Air Patrol in Northeast flies assessment sorties for FEMA and State Emergency Management Centers Regardless of where the storms are, Civil Air Patrol stands organized to respond. Locally, the Florida Wing along with the rest of the Southeast Region is capable and ready to provide similar support when needed. With Hurricane Sandy, Civil Air Patrol (CAP) wings in the organization’s Northeast Region made many flights assessing damage from Hurricane Sandy, including those with aircrews looking for people possibly stranded and needing help. The first aerial missions took place as soon as winds subsided sufficiently, as CAP aircrews’ photographed damage ... Read More »

This week marked the 70th anniversary of the founding by Congress of the Civil Air Patrol. Seventy years ago civilian pilots from across the country signed up to perform their own homeland security in the air. Civil Air Patrol began on December 1, 1941 and it quickly became involved in combat operations off the Atlantic and Gulf Coast. After signing up, these pilots and crews went east to one of the Coastal Patrol Bases to perform a very hazardous form of flying. One such pilot who signed up back in December 1941, just days before the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian ... Read More »

A new novel, titled A Time for Patriots, is the latest book in the current series based on Dale Brown’s main character Air Force Lt Gen Patrick McLanahan. Now retired, he and his cadet son are active participants in the fictitious Battle Mountain Nevada Civil Air Patrol Squadron. While the fictional Squadron is involved in a search-and-rescue (SAR) mission for a crashed light aircraft, a terrorist group flies an aircraft containing radioactive material into the Reno Nevada Federal Building. With the U.S. economy in a deep recession, the novel has the Civil Air Patrol’s uniformed civilian unarmed volunteer members rising ... Read More »