SD Wing Attends SD Emergency Managers Conf

Colonels Kevin Pegelow, SD Wing Commancer, and Michael Marek, former wing commander,  made connections at the state emergency managers conference September 16-17. They had great conversations with existing partner agencies and made contacts with possible new partners.

For the county emergency managers, the colonels repeatedly made the point that it is a vital part of CAP’s mission to support state, local and tribal agency needs, like serving as a force extender for missing persons searches and storm damage assessment.

In other missions for the state in recent months, SD Wing has helped the SD Air National Guard train for its growing mission to detect unauthorized drone flights and quickly locate the offending operators, performed required surveys of the air guard's low level training routes, and role played as victims for field medical training exercises.