{"id":2320,"date":"2022-01-27T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:08:13","slug":"civil-air-patrol-exhibit-on-display-in-the-troy-university-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/01\/27\/civil-air-patrol-exhibit-on-display-in-the-troy-university-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Air Patrol exhibit on display in the Troy University Library."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students and faculty are able to learn about the history of the Civil Air Patrol through a display in the <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/libraries\/\">Library<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly Reeves, the interlibrary loan coordinator, said that the Civil Air Patrol has origins in World War II when an American pilot noticed Germany&#8217;s aviation in 1938 and recommended that we needed a stronger national aviation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For the next couple of years and of course with Pearl Harbor that sort of pushed it over the edge and they established the Civil Air Patrol in 1941,&#8221; says Reeves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Civil Air Patrol was originally a part of the Army Air Corps before the creation of the Air Force in 1947. Now it&#8217;s a part of the United States Air Force Auxiliary however the difference between the Civil Air Patrol and other wings of aviation is that they are non-combatant and volunteer based. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Generally you&#8217;re going to find that the retired pilots who are volunteering their service,&#8221; says Kelly. &#8220;Things that they do frequently today is that they provide flights for people in need of medical care. They also assist in search and rescue. They&#8217;ll work with the Coast Guard in search and rescue. They also will do hurricane or disaster relief.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibit is on display on the floor of the Troy University Library across from the circulation desk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Cailey&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and faculty are able to learn about the history of the Civil Air Patrol through a display in the Troy University Library. <\/p>\n<p>Kelly Reeves, the interlibrary loan coordinator, said that the Civil Air Patrol has origins in World War II when an American pilot noticed Germany&#8217;s aviation in 1938 and recommended that we&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/01\/27\/civil-air-patrol-exhibit-on-display-in-the-troy-university-library\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[255,823,822,665],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cailey-wright","tag-civil-air-patrol","tag-kelly-reeves","tag-troy-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}