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South Dakota Wing of Civil Air Patrol will gather in Brookings and Spearfish Saturday (July 15) to practice search and rescue and disaster response photography skills with aircraft, drones, and ground teams.

In preparation for the 2023 Sioux Falls Airshow, the 114th Fighter Wing, SDANG, hosted a Major Accident Response Exercise last weekend. Members of South Dakota Wing, Civil Air Patrol, supported the exercise by playing the role of casualties. 

South Dakota Wing, Civil Air Patrol, responded to a request from Lawrence County to assist in a missing person search in the remote Iron Lake area of the Northern Black Hills.  The missing teenager was found safe in Sturgis, well outside the area of the last known position.

Close to 60 members of South Dakota Wing, Civil Air Patrol, spent the day April 15 capturing photographs of rivers and streams to simulate flood photography missions for local government. CAP crews performed air, ground and drone photo sorties along Rapid Creek, French Creek, The Cheyenne River, the Bad River and the Big Sioux River.

Members of South Dakota Wing, Civil Air Patrol, will refine their skills in air and ground disaster relief photography Saturday (April 15) at a series of locations around the state.  The photography will focus on GPS-tagged images where waterways are out of their banks and bridges are threatened.

South Dakota Civil Air Patrol pilots and the aircrew assisted the South Dakota Air National Guard in practicing the interception of slow-moving aircraft February 10. In addition to the F-16 pilots and crews sharpening their skills, U.S. Air Force evaluators reviewed the CAP aircrews’ performance under a new evaluation system.

Big Sioux Composite Squadron held a squadron training exercise, organized by Cadet 1st Lieutenant Mitchell Trias. Members practiced Emergency Services skills and piloting sUAS (Drones) and completed training tasks for Ground Team qualifications. Training included a litter carry for a simulated injured person, direction-finding radio equipment, and sUAS drones.

Civil Air Patrol in South Dakota is assisting Feeding South Dakota (FSD) and other agencies in their efforts to feed South Dakotans who have been snowed in for over a week because of winter storms. The operational support was approved yesterday (Tuesday) by the Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters.

Colonel Mike Beason, the SD Wing Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Director of sUAS (Small Unmanned Aerial Systems), has another job when he’s not volunteering with CAP.

Members of South Dakota Wing, Civil Air Patrol (CAP), stood up for a mission October 20 involving a member of the CAP family.