V OLUME II

W HERE A RE T HE M ISSIONS ?
Im sure many of you hear the following at Wing
Conferences and Commanders calls: Why dont
we get any Homeland Security missions?.
Unfortunately, as many of you already know, its a
good news / bad news story. The good news is that
your Wing may already be getting HLS missions,
but the bad news is that only those members with a
need to know are aware of the specific missions.
So, how do you handle these members questions?
First and foremost, it is useful to ask if the
individual or group you are speaking to is
Emergency Services and Counterdrug qualified.
Youll often find that the many members Cant be
bothered, are Too busy or Been meaning to do
that. People need to understand that when HLS
missions come up, they typically will go to those
members the local Incident Commander knows can
be depended on to perform.
This can be turned to an advantage if you and your
Operations staff encourage as many members as
possible to get qualified so they can be available for
coming HLS missions. If the same 5 or 6 folks seem
to get all the missions, it may be because they make
themselves available and stay current and qualified.

C OL R ICK G REENHUT
D IRECTOR , H OMELAND S ECURITY

capable of handling imported LNG. Energy

demand continues to grow not only for heating our
homes (over half of U.S. homes use natural gas for
heat), but large quantities are used in the
agricultural and chemical industries. Demand is
expected to grow 20% or more in the next ten or so
years. As a result there are several dozen proposals,
at various stages, for new major terminals along the
three U.S. coastlines. Natural gas is transported in a
super cooled state and shrinks to 1/600th its original
volume, making it possible to ship very large
quantities efficiently. Because of the large quantities
of LNG normally shipped and the proximity to
significant populations, the ships have a great
potential to be terrorist targets. The U.S. Coast
Guard has imposed tough security measures on
these shipments, such as significant advance notices
of arrival times, daylight only transit near populated
areas, law enforcement/USCG escorts, etc.
CAP is in a good position to play a significant part
in mitigating the threat potential by providing a
variety of services. Besides having the best bang
for the reconnaissance buck, we can also provide:

High resolution digital photography of critical

infrastructure / facilities or potentially dangerous
anomalies near the path of vessels utilizing our
Satellite Digital Imagery System.
Our Hyperspectral Imaging capability.
Interoperable airborne communications platforms.
An experienced cadre of pilots / observers.
Other locally provided observation services.

Obviously, this puts the pressure on you to make

sure there are missions for these folks. The next
two articles have some ideas on how to generate
missions in your corner of the world.

O NE P OTENTIAL N EW M ISSION

Some good places to start are your local Area

Maritime Security Committee, if one exists; local
U.S. Coast Guard facility; you state Emergency
Management Agency; State Police; or local law
enforcement agencies. Some Wings are already
actively pursuing this and are already written into
their local Coast Guard Security Plans.

Because the world demand for energy has

skyrocketed and domestic supplies are static or
declining, there is a move to expand our capability
of importing liquefied natural gas (LNG). At the
present time in the U.S. there are five terminals

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H OW O NE W ING C REATED A M ISSION

Because of the sensitivity of this information, well

have to be a bit vague regarding some of the details,
but here is how one Wing created a mission that
generates a great deal of flying AND pays for itself!

Several years ago, a CAP member living near a

major reservoir noticed how vulnerable that site
could be to acts of vandalism or terrorism. He took
it upon himself to contact the agency in charge of
the reservoir system in his area, and gave them a
briefing on CAP and what we could do for them.
They were intrigued, and allowed the Wing to take
one of their officers up for an aerial survey of the
reservoir system.
They were so enthused over what CAP could do for
them, and our cost savings over helicopters or other
commercial fixed wing assets that they entered into
an annual contract with the Wing for 100 hours of
reconnaissance over a 12 month period.
This agency has been a satisfied customer of CAP
for over 7 years, and is a classic example of the
missions out there in your own back yard just
waiting to be discovered.

W HAT D OES A N HLS D IRECTOR D O ?

Many of you have written asking about a job
description for your Wing Director of Homeland
Security. As you are probably aware, no formal job
description currently exists for the position at this
time. That is not all bad, since it allows each person
to somewhat define the job themselves, based upon
their strengths and experience. However, here are
some bullet points regarding what it is reasonable
to expect an HLS Director to accomplish:

Establish contacts with state/local HLS Directors

and make them aware of our capabilities;
Create a Disaster Preparedness / Natural Disaster
/ Terrorism mitigation plan for the Wing;

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Oversee Wing Counterdrug activities and work

with state counterparts to request CAP support;
Present customized version of HLS Powerpoint
to key state government decision makers;
Distribute CAPabilities Handbook & video to
state legislature and follow up;
Establish working relationships with state
ANG and your state AG (w/Wing CC or CV);
Work with your Wing DO to create list of
potential HLS missions CAP could perform, like
Dam and reservoir patrols;
Beach erosion surveys after major storms;
Port/waterway patrol and reconnaissance;
and then
Lobby for greater funding for CAP from state
(w/your Wing Legislative Liaison Officer).

These are just some of the common tasks for an

HLS director. Obviously, no one person can do all
of these things simultaneously, but an operationally
savvy, articulate and energetic person should be
able to recruit assistance from within the Wing to
bring many of them to fruition over time.
There are some tools he should assemble to help
with the task. First, he should get some copies of
the HLS Video on DVD and the accompanying
Powerpoint briefing that was prepared earlier this
year. You can get as many copies of these two discs
as you need by dropping an e-mail to Marc
Huchette at National HQ at [email protected].
These can help get state officials and CAP
personnel alike up to speed on our HLS
capabilities. The Powerpoint briefing can (and
should!) be customized by the inclusion of a slide
or two with Wing-specific data and proposed
missions. Feel free to shorten or change anything this is a tool for you to use.
I would also drop a note to John Desmarais at
[email protected] and ask him to mail you
some copies of our new CAPabilities Handbook. This
works well as a leave-behind along with the DVD to
remind people what we can do for them. An electronic
version is available on the National web site, as well.

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OPSEC T RAINING

CAPSAR P ROGRAM

Recently, Maj Gen Pineda announced an initiative

which will help position CAP for more Homeland
Security responsibilities. We need to educate our
members about how to handle sensitive information
concerning our missions, our capabilities and our
partner agencies. For this purpose our national staff
has developed an OPSEC (OPerational SECurity)
training program tailored to CAP. It will help all of
us be more thoughtful about dealing with sensitive
information.

Our new Emergency Services officer, Lt Col Joe

Abegg, has been instrumental in creating a new
program to place an experienced former Corporate
Officer in our National Operations Center should we
experience a major Homeland Security or Emergency
Services event such as a hurricane, WMD detonation
or other major natural or man-made disaster.

This training is mandatory for all CAP senior

members. It is an on-line course which members
can access at https://tests.cap.af.mil/opsec. This is a
secure website and the initial screen will ask some
questions to verify your identity. Starting on 1 Oct
06, this training became part of the new Level I
training course.
The training takes most people less than 20 minutes
and concludes with an opportunity to agree to
protect sensitive information. This is called an NDA
(Non Disclosure Agreement) and each members
agreement will be recorded electronically in their
membership records. This NDA will be required
before a member can access sensitive information or
participate in certain missions. In the near future,
Wing and Incident Commanders, mission managers
and communications officers will be able to verify
on-line which members have the NDA in their
records before those members are granted access to
sensitive mission information.
This new program allows us to demonstrate to our
partner agencies that the members we entrust with
sensitive information have the necessary training
and have agreed to protect that information. Please
encourage your members to take the training at
their earliest opportunity.

This program, called CAPSAR (CAP Senior Agency

Representative), will have a roster of 8-10 officers on
call. Their duty (if mobilized), will be to be to help
coordinate CAPs response when our nation is in
need. A satellite telephone, HF radio, and corporate
vehicle will be made available for their use. Each one
of the CAPSARs will be placed on a one week
telephone standby rotation. In the event of a major
disaster which CAP is called on to assist, the C4
(CAP Crisis Coordination Center) is stood up, and
the CAPSAR on call is mobilized. Lt Col Abegg will
serve as the CAPSARs executive assistant.
At present, the following eight officers are in the
current CAPSAR rotation:

Col Rick Greenhut

Col Skip Guimond
Col Jim Linker
Col Rock Palermo
Col Andy Skiba
Col Dave Braun
Col Jean Desmarais
Col Ausytn Granville

WHO YA GONNA CALL?

A few months ago, Wing Commanders received
a mailing with the new CAPabilities Handbook
and a list of their state Homeland Security
Directors. A number of you have also asked for
a list of your state agency responsible for our
bread and butter search and rescue missions,
since there is a great deal of overlap between
the two, especially in the smaller states.

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Here is a list of local state responsibility for air

search and rescue by state according to the list
maintained by the AFRCC (Air Force Rescue
Coordination Center), Langley AFB, VA.

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Maine

Maine Air Transport

Division, State Police

Maryland

Maryland Emergency
Management Agency

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Emergency
Management Agency

State

Responsible
Agency

Michigan

Michigan
State Police

Alabama

Alabama Emergency
Management Agency

Minnesota

Minnesota Department of
Emergency Management

Alaska

Alaska Rescue
Coordination Center / CAP

Mississippi

Mississippi Emergency
Management Agency

Arkansas

Arkansas Office of
Emergency Services

Missouri

Missouri State
Highway Patrol

Arizona

Arizona Division of
Emergency Management

Montana

Aeronautics Division, Montana

Department of Transportation

California

California Office of
Emergency Services

Nebraska

Air Force Rescue

Coordination Center / CAP

Connecticut

Connecticut Office of
Emergency Management

Nevada

Nevada Division of
Emergency Management

Colorado

Air Force Rescue

Coordination Center / CAP

New Hampshire

New Hampshire
Department of Aeronautics

Delaware

Delaware Division of
Emergency Planning

New Jersey

Aeronautics Division, New Jersey

Department of Transportation

District of
Columbia

Air Force Rescue

Coordination Center / CAP

North Dakota

North Dakota Division of

Emergency Management

Florida

Florida Division of
Emergency Management

New Mexico

New Mexico
State Police

Georgia

Georgia Emergency
Management Agency

New York

New York Office of

Emergency Management

Hawaii

Joint Rescue Coordination

Center Hawaii / CAP

North Carolina

North Carolina Emergency

Management Agency

Illinois

Illinois Emergency Services

and Disaster Agency

Ohio

Ohio Division
of Aviation

Idaho

Aeronautics Division, Idaho

Department of Transportation

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Department
of Civil Emergency

Indiana

Indiana State
Highway Patrol

Oregon

Oregon Office of
Emergency Management

Iowa

Aeronautics Division, Iowa

Department of Transportation

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Office of
Emergency Management

Kansas

Kansas Division of
Emergency Preparedness

Rhode Island

Rhode Island Emergency

Management Agency

Kentucky

Kentucky Division of Disaster

and Emergency Services

South Carolina

South Carolina Emergency

Preparedness Division

Louisiana

Air Force Rescue

Coordination Center / CAP

South Dakota

South Dakota Department of

Emergency Management

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Tennessee

Tennessee Emergency
Management Agency

Texas

Texas Department of Public Safety

Division of Emergency Services

Utah

Utah State
Director of Aeronautics

Vermont

Vermont State
Transportation Agency

Virginia

Virginia State Emergency

Operations Center

Washington

Aviation Division, Washington

Department of Transportation

West Virginia

Air Force Rescue

Coordination Center / CAP

Wisconsin

Wisconsin State Division

of Emergency Management

Wyoming

Wyoming State
Aeronautics Commission

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DONT FORGET COUNTERDRUG

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The letter from the Indiana State Police attached at

the end of this newsletter is also an example of
how the NOC helps coordinate these missions once
you get them started, minimizing the workload for
your volunteers. It is a classic example of a terrific,
highly effective CAP Missions For America.

AIR INTERCEPT CHANGE

As of 25 September, the U.S. Coast Guard has
taken over the rotary wing portion of the air
intercept mission formerly handled by the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection air wing. Their
mission is to protect against low, slow-flying
aircraft attempting to penetrate National Capitol
Region restricted airspace.
These Coast Guard air crews, based at CGAS
Atlantic City, have been specially trained to deal with
the interception of general aviation aircraft. Their
area of operation is outlined on the following map:

With all the talk about Homeland Security, it is

easy to forget about our Counterdrug mission. It
might be better if we began to call Counterdrug by
its more accurate name: Narcoterrorism.
One Wing that has had no problem in continuing its
long time Narcoterrorism activities has been
Indiana Wing. Indiana was one of the first Wings to
develop a Narcoterrorism program back when CAP
first got involved in the war on illicit drugs in this
country, and they have stayed active ever since.
In the last year alone, the Indiana State Police
credits CAP aerial support with helping to locate
some 2,400 cannabis plants with street value of
over 3.6 million dollars! They state that this is a
37% increase over last year, which should also be
incentive for you to encourage as many of your
members as possible to go through the screening
procedure to get qualified for this mission.

For those of you who may be flying in the vicinity

of Washington D.C. and are unfamiliar with the
new security procedures for the Washington, D.C.
Flight Restriction Zone, please go to the FAA web
site at http://www.faa.gov.

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WHO TASKS CAP WITH MISSIONS?

As many of you are no doubt aware, Air Force
Instruction 10-2701 (Organization and Function of
the Civil Air Patrol) was issued back in July 2005.
This AFI outlines the Air Force policy on how CAP
will be supported and employed and it sets forth
the circumstances under which CAP may perform
missions as the AF Auxiliary. This AFI was revised
in September 2006.
One of the items changed in this latest revision is
the table highlighting CAP mission approval
authority, or who can task CAP for AFAMs (Air
Force Assigned Missions), depending on the type
of mission. That table is reproduced below:

AFNSEP

1st AF Air
CAP AFRCC Component
USAF/CC
Commander

CAP
Training

USAF Direct
Support

CAP-USAF
Missions

DoD
Missions

DoD Support to
Civil Authorities

Search and
Rescue
Immediate
Response

X
X

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the tasking trees in the CAPabilities Handbook to

understand the procedures involved to get a
mission approved. While it all looks quite
confusing, in reality all you need to do is get the
NOC involved with your prospective customer,
and they can coordinate who to speak to so they
can move the process forward.
To see this AFI in its entirety, go to http://www.epublishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/10/afi10-2701/afi
10-2701.pdf.

LOOKING AHEAD
As always, the members of the HLS committee and
I stand ready to assist you in whatever way we can
to help you generate interest in using CAP assets in
your local communities. Our members include
employees of the Department of Homeland
Security, the Transportation Security Agency and
the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Here
are the names of the committee members and their
respective e-mail addresses:
Col Rick Greenhut
Col Andy Skiba
Col Dale Newell
Col Ernie Schnabler
Col Sean Fagan
Lt Col Joseph Abegg
Lt Col Paul Falavolito
Lt Col Ernie Bilotto
Lt Col Chuck Sersun
Maj Ken Gonzalez

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Youll notice that many of our missions are directly

tasked by 1st Air Force, and go directly to the NOC
and then to the affected Wing. This table and a full
explanation of what it all means will be added to
future revisions of the CAPabilities Handbook.

All of us are only an e-mail away if we can be of

any help. We also welcome any suggestions on
how we can assist you in your efforts. Please dont
hesitate to let me or the other members of the HLS
Committee know if you have any questions, ideas
or success stories to help us all accomplish our
Missions For America.

When attempting to generate local missions, it is

important to encourage your local agencies to use

Col Rick Greenhut

Director, Homeland Security

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