Jay,

Are you only thinking about Search part of SAR and not Rescue part? We will
still need the ground teams to go rescue and render aid to the crash victims. We
can still look lost children. There is also Drug enforcement and wild fire
missions. Last year, we put on a lot of hours in on wild fire missions.

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:15:40 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote:

My son and I were active in Civil Air Patrol a couple of years ago.
The primary training mission was Search and Rescue, utilizing radio
direction finders that allowed us to find transponders that were going
off.

With the impending transition to 406 mhz transponders that will give
far more accurate location information upon activation, we will no
longer need fatigue-clad cadets trudging through the woods on SAR
missions.

CAP is a good organization for kids, basically "Boy Scouts With a
Mission". Given that Search and Rescue is their primary mission, I
wonder what's gonna happen to CAP?

GeorgeC