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South Dakota CAP squadrons placed flags on the graves of veterans and participated in this year's Memorial Day ceremonies.

Thirty-nine South Dakota Civil Air Patrol (CAP) members participated in a wing training exercise in Spearfish on Saturday May 20. The exercise allowed members to sharpen and put into practice their search and rescue and disaster relief skills, in accordance with standards.

The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) North Central Region has created an annual award named for Col. David Small, Jr., who died unexpectedly in December, 2021.

The color guard from Sioux Falls Composite Squadron presented the colors during the Sioux Falls Armed Forces celebration on Saturday, May 21. 

South Dakota Wing of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) will conduct a search training exercise in Spearfish Saturday, May 21.  Members from around the state will converge on Black Hills Airport at Clyde Ice Field for the day-long event.

South Dakota Wing, Civil Air Patrol, flew an airborne photography mission for the South Dakota Air National Guard's 114th Fighter Wing on Thursday, May 12.  The aircrew photographed the scene where an F-16 assigned to the South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Fighter Wing went off the end of a runway.

Two CAP Pilots, 2nd Lt. Thor Bardon and 1st Lt. Kyle Clement, were flying a sortie and they heard an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) going off as they were returning to the Sioux Falls Airport.

Rushmore Composite Squadron received 30 large boxes of cold-weather gear from Ellsworth AFB recently and is providing some of them to other units in three states.

Sioux Falls Composite Squadron and Lincoln County Composite Squadron represented South Dakota Wing at the Christian Homeschool Conference in Sioux Fall, May 6-7.

CAP has 2,500 aUAS drones nationally. South Dakota Wing did the first-ever actual CAP SAR mission using a drone. The small drones also great for STEM and Aerospace Education.