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A First Person Perspective
Lt Col Troy Krabbenhoft, ND Wing March 28th 2009


A.D. Hill of FEMA, Mission Pilot Lt Col Jay Manley and
Cass County Sherriff's Sergeant DuWayne Nitschke planning
their damage assessment flight of parts of Cass County, ND.

Civil Air Patrol takes flight with members from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Cass County Sherriff’s office.

Arlie “A.D” Hill, III from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security office is an Operations/Planning Specialist for FEMA and Officer DuWayne Nitschke is a Sergeant for the Cass County Sherriff’s office. The two took flight with Lt Col Jay Manley the Squadron Commander of the Red River Valley Squadron based in Fargo.

It was a twofold mission for the FEMA representative to look at the current river levels and damages from the Red River to the roads and structures and for the Cass County Sergeant Nitshcke to get a bird’s eye view on the members of Cass County that he is sworn to protect.

After the flight Sergeant Nitschke said “we were able to get a really good overhead view of the amount of water in the county, and some of the spots that we are going to have to pay particular attention to when the water rises for the second crest”

Mr. Hill said “The flight was exactly what we wanted. We were able to see everything we wanted to see, and it was really positive to have the pilots prospective and knowledge of the area and information from previous flights flown” He went on to say the “flight worked out perfectly”.

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