[Civil Air Patrol] News Article - 'Black Saturday' helps Civil Air Patrol members prepare for real disasters
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- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:46:51 -0500
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'Black Saturday' helps Civil Air Patrol members prepare for real
disasters
By Julie Blum/jblum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jblum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
COLUMBUS - Catastrophes were all around. That is why it was being dubbed
"Black Saturday."
Members of the Nebraska Wing of the Civil Air Patrol were taking part in
various mock training exercises over the weekend, honing their skills in
case they are called to a real disaster.
The situations were varied and included a terrorist attack in Ulysses
with multiple causalities, a missing persons search in the Genoa area
and an airplane crash near Columbus.
"We've sort of hodged podged all of this together," said Lt. Col. Bill
Sander, who was serving as the commander of the mission.
Sander was at the Columbus Municipal Airport Saturday with several other
members of the Civil Air Patrol running through the simulated exercises.
One of the missions of the Civil Air Patrol is providing emergency
services, which is what was on display during the training exercises.
Not only were members working to locate downed airplanes and
communicating with those in Ulysses, they also were dealing with Andrea
Buggi, who's husband "Darcy," was missing for several hours. Andrea was
at the airport with her daughter, Annabel, acting the parts of wife and
daughter to "Darcy" so the Civil Air Patrol volunteers could get a "real
life" taste of what a missing person search was like.
The Civil Air Patrol, which is a benevolent, nonprofit civilian
auxiliary to the United States Air Force, also focuses on aerospace
education and cadet programs for those 12-21 years old, Sander said.
The emergency services provided through the organization includes search
and rescue, disaster relief/disaster assessment and emergency
communication. The group also has had an increased role in homeland
security. Most of those who were taking part in the training in Columbus
had been involved in the organization for several years, but Sander said
about 20 percent of the 90 participants haven't had any type of practice
before.
For those people, and even the seasoned veterans, Sander said it is
important to continue to go through the training.
"In some of these scenarios you don't know what will be there," Sander
said.
Kyle Kumm of Norfolk has been volunteering with the Civil Air Patrol for
seven years. He was working with Jay Allen of Omaha Saturday, helping to
taxi airplanes on the runway.
Kumm has been one of the members who have been able to use his skills on
disaster relief missions. He went to the devastated regions affected by
Hurricane Katrina and also assisted in tornadoes and floods here in
Nebraska.
Allen is a new member of the Civil Air Patrol, joining only a few months
ago. But there were several people on hand who had been through dozens
of training exercises like Susan Askew of Norfolk. She has been with the
program for 30 years. She said she wanted to be involved to help when
needed.
"We are trained people who can go out. You can have people helping
during a disaster like crazy, but we are trained," Askew said.
Training is usually held each month, but typically not on this large of
scale, Sander said. Each of the members go through levels of training,
starting with basic, to be able to be a part of an emergency service
mission team.
Overall, Nebraska has about 500 adult and youth members in the
organization. Nationally, there are more than 57,000 members in the 52
wings of the Civil Air Patrol.
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