Close to 60 members of South Dakota Wing, Civil Air Patrol, spent the day April 15 capturing photographs of rivers and streams to simulate flood photography missions for local government. CAP crews performed air, ground and drone photo sorties along Rapid Creek, French Creek, The Cheyenne River, the Bad River and the Big Sioux River.
South Dakota Wing hosted an online Intermediate Training Leaders of Cadets (TLC) class this weekend. Twenty-five CAP members, from seven of the eight Civil Air Patrol regions, attended, including a few who were both renewing their qualifications and instructing modules.
Members of South Dakota Wing and the Air and Space Force Association (AFA) to share the benefits of educational partnerships during the Spring Leadership Educator Conference of the South Dakota Education Association (SDEA).
South Dakota Civil Air Patrol pilots and the aircrew assisted the South Dakota Air National Guard in practicing the interception of slow-moving aircraft February 10. In addition to the F-16 pilots and crews sharpening their skills, U.S. Air Force evaluators reviewed the CAP aircrews’ performance under a new evaluation system.
South Dakota and North Dakota Civil Air Patrol members are sharpening their search and rescue skills under winter conditions in the Black Hills in the South Dakota Wing Winter Ground Team Academy.
Close to 70 South Dakota Wing members exercised their winter operational mission skills on Saturday January 14.
