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Three Wings Coordinate Efforts
Press Release April 4th 2009

Contact: Major Don Dalton
Phone: 612-418-7991
Email: ddalton@mncap.org


North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota Wings continue to support the flood relief efforts in north eastern North Dakota. With aircraft and aircrews from all three states the battle rages on. Flying in support of the State of North Dakota, the crews were tasked with aerial imaging of the confluences of several rivers along with survey of the Red River in the Grand Forks, North Dakota area.

Mission Base was opened at 0800 hours with two sorties assigned at the time. Units involved in the operations include: From North Dakota; Grand Forks Composite Squadron, South Dakota :Brookings Composite Squadron, South Dakota Wing Headquarters, Sioux Falls Composite Squadron, Minnesota; Hutchinson Composite Squadron, Tri-County Senior Squadron, Red Wing Composite Squadron, Duluth Composite Squadron. Total personnel number around 20 at this time.

Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and has three main missions; Emergency Services, Cadet Programs and Aerospace Education. CAP is a non-profit, volunteer organization with approximately 60,000 personnel nationwide, CAP performs 80% of the ground search and rescue conducted in the United States.

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