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3rd Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Group (911 words) |
 | The 3rd ARRGP is assigned to the PARRC of the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service (ARRS) Military Airlift Command (MAC) and comes under the operational control of the Commander, 7th Air Force. |
| These units have Detachments located in three nations and are responsible for search and rescue activities in an area encompassing 1.1 million square miles stretching from the Mekong River Delta to the Chinese border and to the Burmese Frontier. |
| The highest decoration presented during the quarter was the Air Force Cross to Captain ___. |
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Air Power:Civil Air Patrol (1040 words) |
| The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, had its origins in the late 1930s when aviation activist Gill Robb Wilson started a personal campaign to strengthen and augment the United States air forces, which he perceived as unprepared and ill-equipped to respond to the looming war in Europe. |
| Later in the war, Civil Air Patrol aircraft, flying as far as 150 miles (241 kilometers) from shore, were equipped with bombs and depth charges after an enemy submarine, grounded in the shallow waters off Cape Canaveral, Florida, escaped before military aircraft arrived on the scene. |
| The U.S. Air Force was established as a separate armed service in 1947 and the Civil Air Patrol soon followed, designated as the Air Forces permanent civilian auxiliary in May 1948. |
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