Thank you for your interest in helping the Washington 601 Squadron of the U.S. Air Force Civil Air Patrol.   While we are the official auxiliary to the United States Air Force, they only budget money for the Search planes and the passenger vans we use to search and train with.   Our VOLUNTEERS receive NO PAY and almost exclusively BUY ALL THEIR OWN personal equipment including gasoline for their cars, uniforms, boots, search gear such as hand held radios, compasses, flash lights, batteries, tents, sleeping bags, dehydrated and canned food. This adds up to hundreds and in some cases thousands of dollars in personal expense just to volunteer to serve others.   In addition to the volunteers personal gear, small squadrons such as 601 must provide almost all their own headquarters equipment. Computers, copy machines, tables, chairs, file cabinets, projectors for training films, and office supplies.   Often our volunteers have to raise funds by car washes, raffles, bake sales much like a church or high school football team do. This takes away from the already valuable time the members spend training and learning, and competes with other groups in the community for fund raising.   If you have a company or business in the Washington and Greene Counties, please consider an annual donation to our squadron. It is 100% tax deductable.   You will benefit from the existence of a squadron in Washington, through education, disaster relief, search and rescue, and community service. If you are ever in an airplane accident and survive, it will most likely be the Civil Air Patrol that will be the first to find you and a Civil Air Patrol Search Team that gets you to safety.   You are welcome to join and directly support the Squadron, but if you do not have time or are physically unable to be involved, you can help by donating to our squadron.   Make donations to: "Civil Air Patrol Squadron 601" and send them in care of: Captain Dave Hobgood Squadron 601 Washington, PA. 15301

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