New Jersey Wing
Emergency Services Department

Staff

Director of Emergency Services	DOS	Maj Mike Pagan
Assistant Director	DOSV	Lt. Col. Steven Tracy
Assistant Director	DOSV	Vacant
Alert Officer	DOSL	Vacant
Disaster Preparedness Officer	DOSD	Major Norm Stewart
Emergency Services Records Officer	DOSR	Vacant
Search and Rescue Officer	DOSS	Lt Col John Mullin
Special Programs	DOSP	Maj Louis W Bainbridge
Operations Training Officer	DOT	Lt Col Steven Tracy
Assistant ES Training Officer	DOT	Maj Michael Carter

Emergency Services Vision

  New Jersey Wing and Northeast Region CAP - ready and qualified to serve in America’s emergencies.

  Emergency Services Mission

To provide skilled and equipped volunteers to meet the aviation and other needs in emergencies.

The New Jersey Wing provides Emergency Services including Search and Rescue and Disaster Relief for New Jersey.

New Jersey Wing CAP

• Is over four hundred trained volunteer responders for New Jersey's emergencies.
• Maintains an Emergency Services Academy to train members and other agencies.
• Works closely with other Search and Rescue Agencies in New Jersey.
• Works closely with New Jersey Office of Emergency Management and the State Police.
• A charter member, and member of the Board of Directors of New Jersey VOAD (Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster).

For the latest news in NJ Wing Emergency Services see the latest issue of

Search and Rescue

New Jersey Wing Civil Air Patrol is tasked with aeronautical search and rescue for the State of New Jersey. The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center alerts Civil Air Patrol for all lost aircraft searches, and many lost person searches in New Jersey.

Search resources consist of five CAP owned aircraft and approximately ten member owned aircraft available for search, along with crews consisting of a pilot, observer and scanner. New Jersey Wing also fields highly trained Ground Search and Rescue teams consisting of both cadets and senior members. The search effort is managed by one of eleven "Search Mission Coordinators" and their staffs from one of the mission bases that have been set up at five New Jersey airports. It is supported by a network of CAP radio repeaters and search vehicles deployed over the State.

2004 Search Mission Statistics
2003 Search Mission Statistics
2002 Search Mission Statistics
2001 Search Mission Statistics

Disaster Relief

New Jersey Wing Civil Air Patrol performs Disaster Relief missions under the "Air Force National Security Emergency Preparedness Office" and under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Wing may also be activated under memorandums of understanding with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of New Jersey, several Counties and the American Red Cross.

New Jersey Wing has provided support for damage assessment, communications, evacuation, manning of Emergency Operations Center facilities, air traffic control, transport of urgent supplies, disaster site surveillance, crowd control and shelter management. New Jersey Wing has assisted in a variety of disasters from the Midwest Floods, to the Edison gas explosion, to winter storms, North Jersey flooding and severe windstorms  in Burlington County.

Training Opportunities

CAP Training

The New Jersey Wing Emergency Services Academy provides several  one day and resident programs.

• General Emergency Services Training - Unit level standardized training meeting National standards for basic qualification, along with Introductory Incident Command System Training.
• Spring and Summer Ground Search and Rescue Schools - Three weekends or one week in the summer to learn the basics of ground search for lost persons and aircraft, and meet National standards for Ground SAR.
• Advanced Ground Search and Rescue School - One week in the summer for advanced skills, and training skills, along with intermediate Incident Command System training.
• Tracker School - Develops highly skilled indian tracker capabilities to locate lost persons by tracking from the last known point
• Incident Command - The Incident Command System provides a standardized method of different agencies to cooperate in an emergency.  Several levels of training
• Ground Support Supervisor - Managing the flightline - fueling, preparation for flight, marshalling and dispatching of aircraft.

There are additional training programs

• Mission Aircrew Course - basic classroom training for all aircrew members
• SAREX - Search and rescue Exercises - field and air training and simulated searches
• DREX - Disaster Response Exercises - Provides field and air training and exercises for Disaster Relief scenarios
• The AFRCC offers a five-day course called "Inland SAR Planning Course" which is intended for Incident Commanders, Agency Liaisons, and Branch Directors.  It is an excellent course and a great chance to work with
  search coordinators from other agencies. For scheduled classes click here

The New Jersey State Police provide many training programs in Emergency Services

• The NJSP calendar of training programs
• The NJSP Course Descriptions Including:

• Incident Command System Train the Trainer
• Leadership and Influence
• Effective Communications
• Emergency management basic Workshop
• Public Information Officer

FEMA's Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, MD provides independent study and residence schools available to CAP members

Many of the above courses are eligible for undergraduate college credit.

Mission Management Utilities System

New Jersey Wing uses the popular "Mission Management Utilities (MMU)" for mission management. This program is available for download. There is also a powerpoint based training program available.  This program comes with only a sample database.  Those who need the New Jersey database (commanders, incident commanders, etc.) should go to the WMU application, select 'ES Staff' menu item, then select 'Download Wing Database', then click 'Create and download current MMU ....' and follow the prompts. You must have an ES appointment on the unit staff assignment page in WMU to do the download.

Requirements: 

• Pentium II Class processor,  Pentium ™ 400 or faster preferred.
• 128 Megabytes Ram
• 50 Megabytes free disk space
• Windows™ 95 or 98 or NT 4.0 OSR-4 or later. (will not run on Win 3.1)
• 33.6 kbs Modem or faster
• internet account capable of e-mail attachments up to 1.5 Meg.

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