NEWS: CAP showcased on National Mall

More than 100 government offices and agencies, including Civil Air Patrol, were on display in front of the U.S. Capitol for Public Service Recognition Week May 7-8. Photo by Maj. Paul Cianciolo

	More than 50,000 people visited the PSRW displays on the National Mall. This young visitor takes a CAP Volunteer magazine from a roving military EOD robot. Photo by Maj. Paul Cianciolo
	Maj. Paul Cianciolo, National Capital Wing director of public affairs, hands out CAP Volunteer magazines to tourists on the National Mall. Photo by Capt. Mary Sherrer

Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 56,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited by the Air Force with saving 91 lives in fiscal year 2008. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counter-drug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to the nearly 22,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for more than 67 years. For more information on CAP, visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com.

Civil Air Patrol’s National Capital Wing currently has 215 volunteer officers and senior members and 110 cadets in the Washington, D.C., metro area. Federal employees and military personnel can support CAP through the Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area – CFC charity number 26757.

For more information and media inquires about CAP and its missions in the national capital area, e-mail NatCap Wing Public Affairs at pa@natcapwg.cap.gov. 


By Maj. Paul S. Cianciolo
National Capital Wing director of public affairs