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One Man Air Force Leads CAP's World-Sized Operation
Maj. Gen. Walter B. Putnam heads the Civil Air Patrol, overseeing 85,000 members in 50 states with 5,100 aircraft for search and rescue and emergency duty. CAP coordinates multi state missions via computer data, logging over 24,000 flight hours on 410 missions last year.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Walter B. Putnam
Civil Air Patrol
Putnam
One Man
Force of
Bataan
United States
CAP
Col
Frank Borman
Air Force Academy