Using ICS

[MikeD]

Does anyone have an example of an incident where CAP used ICS in the response?  I'm going to be talking about ICS at ES night this month, and it'd be nice to have an example to talk about for a couple minutes.

[Al Sayre]

Can you be a little more specific?  We use it for every SAR/DR mission simply in the way we set up our mission staff.  During the most recent round of hurricanes, I was the CAP AL/IC at the FEMA/MEMA JOC/SEOC. 

What a lot of people don't understand about ICS until they take ICS 300 is it's flexibility.  Just because you have a slot for bulldozer crews doesn't mean you have to have bulldozer crews.  You expand or contract the staff/personnel involved as necessary to maintain the correct span of control, and eliminate positions whose services are not required.

[Eclipse]

Every properly run CAP mission since about 2000, from the smallest ELT search to Katrina, Challenger, and Fossett.

ICS is nothing new to CAP.

[EMT-83]

Air shows, encampment, conferences, etc.