Catskill Mountain Group SAREX Pix
08/19/06

On 19 AUG 2006, members of the Catskill Mountain Group from group, Rockland, Orange County Cadet, Orange County Senior and Sullivan County Cadet Squadrons participated in a wing wide exercise.

The SAREX consisted of damage assessment of a simulated category 4 hurricane that traveled from New York City to the Finger Lakes Region before weakening to a topical depression. Below are selected photos of the response team (all names are left to right, photos courtesy E. Unjhem):

Planning for a sortie. Foreground: Incident Commander – Capt. W. Carroll (CMG),
Flight Operations – Capt. R. Ward (OCSS), Mission Pilot – Capt R.Holmes.

Cadets brief for ground team operations. Ground teams were
coordinated by both base and aircraft. C/AmB Ward, C/CMSgt Anderson.

Sortie planning. Mission objects for this SAREX were a series of Lat/Long
coordinates that required plotting on a local sectional chart
as well as street maps for ground teams. 1Lt Theis

Preflight for sortie. Mission Pilot – Capt. R Holmes,
Mission Scanner – Capt. S. Denes.

Each objective was photographed from cardinal headings
and preplanned altitudes. The photos were logged, cropped, enhanced and uploaded to WMIRS.
Acting as Mission Scanner – Capt. S. Denes.