What is the Civil Air Patrol in the US? What do they do and do they get paid? And are they recognized as members of the military? Or are they similar to the merchant marines?
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In addition to search and rescue, they are often utilized to secure aircraft crash scenes. Years ago, as a volunteer firefighter, we responded to a plane that had lost power on takeoff and gotten hung up in some trees just off the runway about 50ft in the air. It was a long call that required a decent amount of creative thinking to get the (unharmed) pilot down.
When I drove through the area later that night, two vans parked just off the closest road caught my attention. There were two dozen cadets in BDUs and safety vests camped out to protect the scene until the FAA arrived the next morning and the plane was removed.
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