20070511 Rep. Bartlett Flies with MD Civil Air Patrol

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett Flies with MD Civil Air Patrol on Mission over the Chesapeake Bay

May 11th, 2007

Civil Air Patrol, Maryland Wing

Congressman on patrol over the Chesapeake

By Capt. Ron Laurenzo, Group I, Maryland Wing

5/11/2007-Frederick, MD-U.S. Representative Roscoe Bartlett, his Chief of Staff Harold Otis, and Mrs. Bartlett got a great view of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and a whole lot more in a Civil Air Patrol glass cockpit Cessna 182 recently on a crystal clear spring day.

The veteran congressman's first flight with the CAP gave him a taste of the kind of search and rescue and homeland security missions flown every day by volunteer air crews from the Air Force's civilian auxiliary. Group I Commander, Major Dave Lawlor, flew the Congressman and his party.

"There aren't many bargains with government, but this is one of them," Bartlett said at Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Md., after the flight. CAP's light aircraft search for lost hikers, boats, downed aircraft, and observe nuclear power plants and other critical infrastructure, all for a fraction of what it would cost the military to fly those missions.

"This money is really leveraged," said Bartlett, a senior member of the House Science Committee and ranking member of the Armed Service's Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee. "We buy a plane and everything else pretty much is free."

Read more through the link: http://mdcap.org/?fuseaction=article.display&articleID=271

For more information contact Lisa Lyons Wright, Press Secretary/Energy and Stem Cell Legislative Assistant for Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, 2412 Rayburn, office 202-225-2721

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