Went on a Civil Air Patrol mission to guard a wrecked aircraft in Southeastern PA on Monday night.
Me, one other senior member went with 9 cadets in the Squadron Van to form a perimeter around the wreckage.
Travelled 1.5 hours and got to the site around 0015 and stayed until 1045 the next day.
When we got there, we set up a perimeter (thankfully we had several vehicles and kept watch from inside the vehicles.)
We set up watches, with seniors and cadets on watch at all times.
We communicated with the Pennsylvania DOT to be able to block off a portion of the road as well by setting up flares.
It snowed fiercely all night, about 8 inches, temps hovered around 10 degres.
The location was very remote and we literally were the only ones at the wreckage site for about 7 hours.
Emergency vehicles and state police had already been to the site, but had left.
The next morning, We were able to assist the FAA in viewing the wreckage around 0930 by clearing snow around the site.
Lot's pieces parts, but thankfully, the pilot walked away.
CAP is a lot of work and effort, but they have a real world mission in times of disaster.
And no, I never should have traveled there with my shoulder situation, but mama didn't raise a very smart boy, I guess...