Civil Air Patrol Hutchinson Composite Squadron
Emergency Services
What is it?
Emergency Services (ES) is: Search and Rescue, Disaster Relief, and Homeland Security.
To perform it’s tasked missions, CAP has many resources, including over 500 aircraft, a fleet of ground vehicles, and a wide array of communications and imaging equipment. But the most important resource we have is our personnel. Our emergency services members are trained in a wide variety of mission-related skills, from pilots and aircrew members, ground search team members, communication and imaging specialists, and incident commanders and mission staff personnel.
In order to participate on actual missions, members must train and qualify for the job they wish to perform. This involves initial training in general emergency services knowledge and skills followed by classroom and hands-on training towards a specific job. The final steps in the qualification process are evaluation exercises. Once qualified for a specific mission job, members must remain current in that job. Currency training is provided on an on-going basis to all ES members. There are many venues for both initial as well as currency training, including local training as well as state-wide training exercises and event. The Air Force funds many training exercises and provides assistance to make Civil Air Patrol one of the best trained volunteer emergency service forces in the country.
