Oak Ridge Composite Squadron, Civil Air Patrol

Oak Ridge Composite Squadron has conducted the missions of Civil Air Patrol since 1943. Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. military veterans.

Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 60,000 members nationwide, operating a fleet of 550 aircraft. CAP, in its Air Force auxiliary role, performs about 85 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and is credited by the AFRCC with saving an average of 71 lives annually. Its unpaid professionals also perform homeland s  ...