A Welcome from the Commander...
Welcome to the official website of Group VI Headquarters, Florida Wing, Civil Air Patrol. The Civil Air Patrol, or CAP, is the official auxiliary of the United States Air Force. CAP handles 90 percent of inland search and rescue missions, with approximately 75 lives saved each year. Our members are generally the first on the scene transmitting satellite digital images of the damage within seconds around the world and providing disaster relief and emergency services following natural and manmade disasters, including such phenomena as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Texas and Oklahoma wildfires, tornadoes in the south and central U.S., North Dakota flash flooding and the October 2006 earthquake in Hawaii, as well as humanitarian missions along the U.S. and Mexican border.
In addition, CAP members are dedicated to counterdrug reconnaissance and to teaching a new generation about aerospace and its impact on our future. And our cadet programs ensure our youth receive some of the finest leadership training the nation has to offer.
Unlike our founding CAP fathers, many of whom flew their own airplanes and performed life-threatening missions without any formal training, our 56,000-plus members are now provided with top-notch, year-round professional development training opportunities and with aircraft equipped with the most advanced technologies available for search and rescue.
Group VI is the command authority for the twelve CAP Squadrons located in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. I invite you to navigate the pages of our site and learn more about who we are, and what we do for our communities, state and nation.
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Very Respectfully,
Maj Nicholas C Sacco
Commander