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Civil Air Patrol trains for search-and-rescue
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Civil Air Patrol members from Dahlonega Squadron 447, from left Kevin Tanner, senior member, Lt. Col. Richard Ivy and 1st Lt. Chip Pearson, public information officer, discuss the results of a search and rescue exercise at the Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville. The exercise simulated a missing persons search in the Dawson Forest. - photo by SARA GUEVARA
Civil Air Patrol members kept their eyes on the sky as planes came in from two situation exercises Saturday morning at Gainesville Municipal Airport. The two events, both called SAREX for search-and-rescue exercise, included a simulation of a missing person in the Dawson Forest in Dawson County, and the taking of aerial photography of a designated disaster area for Dawson County EMA. The Lawrenceville and Dahlonega CAP groups used their planes in the exercises, and trained CAP volunteers and cadets played their roles in each mission as they flew over the search-and-rescue exercise areas as if it were the real thing. CAP conducts 95 percent of all civilian and military search-and-rescue missions in the country.