Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 57,000
members nationwide. CAP performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions
as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited by the AFRCC with saving
90 lives in fiscal year 2008. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and
counter-drug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading
role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to the more than 22,000 young people currently
participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for 67 years.
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