Members of Millington Composite Squadron participated in a state-wide search and rescue exercise the 19th of September in the Jackson, TN area. Mission base was set up at the McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport (MKL) and both aircrews and ground teams were involved. An aircrew flew two sorties in search of a simulated downed plane, and two ground teams were dispatched on the search. Members present were able to complete numerous training tasks working toward various levels of certification. Exercises like this help equip the members of Civil Air Patrol to be ready when a true emergency beacon goes off and the Air Force calls on CAP to conduct a search mission.
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| Mission Base briefing |
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| Setting up the antenna for Mission Base |
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| Completed antenna installation |
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| Ground Team planning out their search |
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Mission Radio Operator communicates with both Ground Teams
and Aircrews, keeping a log of all communications |
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Ground Team member using DF (Direction Finding) equipment
to close in on the signal generated by our simulated homing beacon (ELT) |
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