[MilCom] OR Wing Exercise Results RE: Statewide Civil Air Patrol Exercise Planned

[Ken]

Appears that Oregon Wing received an excellent rating from the USAF during
the recent evaluation exercises that were held.  Details on the types of
exercises & resources used can be found at:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/august312007/cap_usaf_83007.php

What I did finding interesting is one of the evaluation exercises involved
searching for a missing family.

As many of you are aware regarding the James Kim tragedy in Oregon,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim
Civil Air Patrol was never asked to provide assistance during the search for
James Kim & his family.

I'm still an advocate of the use of a simple FRS radio, using a
predesignated channel for emergency comms by "lost" individuals to
communicate directly with searchers.  Although Personal Locator Beacons (
PLB's) see: http://www.equipped.com/faq_plb/default.asp are the best method,
the cost is prohibitive for most outdoor enthusiasts or the motoring public.

IS CAP in Oregeon using new frequencies & not monitorable by the
public anymore (encryption?), since NO one posted any loggings of last
weekend activities???!!!

Ken


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken" <rfinder1 at verizon.net>
To: <AirCommSouthwest at yahoogroups.com>; "MilCom" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 7:20 PM
Subject: [AirCommSouthwest] Statewide Civil Air Patrol Exercise Planned
August 2007


> Looks like a statewide Civil Air Patrol exercise is planned for Oregon on
> 8/25 & 8/26/2007.  Looks like lots of different exercise scenarios.  Looks
> like the main operation will be in Aurora.
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