{"id":109676,"date":"2015-09-09T19:18:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/civil-air-patrol-joins-exercise\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:18:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T01:18:04","slug":"civil-air-patrol-joins-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/civil-air-patrol-joins-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Air Patrol joins exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72cbb411-5555-4912-8d74-d4286ab197d7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72cbb411-5555-4912-8d74-d4286ab197d7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72cbb411-5555-4912-8d74-d4286ab197d7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72cbb411-5555-4912-8d74-d4286ab197d7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1719\" alt=\"The Civil Air Patrol's Cortez Senior Squadron practiced aerial search and rescue skills last weekend at the Cortez airport.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Civil Air Patrol's Cortez Senior Squadron practiced aerial search and rescue skills last weekend at the Cortez airport.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Darrin Guilbeau\/Contributed photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The local squadron hosted a base in their hangar at the Cortez airport, which allowed regional, group and squadron staff to train and renew skills in aerial search, operating radios and planning emergency response missions. By Saturday afternoon, the group had flown seven sorties, including flights from squadrons in Grand Junction and Montrose. Grand Junction also held ground team missions.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Senior squadron, including members from Cortez, Mancos and Durango, were assigned three missions at the start of the exercise \u2013 a route search for a simulated missing aircraft, a photo mission of a radio and fire tower, and an Emergency Locator Transmitter search.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise also offered a chance for squadron members to work with officers from other units. \u201cIt was a great team-building exercise,\u201d said senior member Michael D\u2019Anna. \u201cIt\u2019s a great way to get introduced to flying and get into general aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Air Patrol&#8217;s Cortez Senior Squadron practiced aerial search and rescue skills last weekend at the Cortez airport.Darrin Guilbeau\/Contributed photo The local squadron hosted a base in their hangar at the Cortez airport, which allowed regional, group and squadron staff to train and renew skills in aerial search, operating radios and planning emergency response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6364],"tags":[44,188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-109676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-living","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109676"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=109676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}