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.
Civil Air Patrol trains for search-and-rescue