{"id":10650,"date":"2018-06-26T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=10650"},"modified":"2018-06-26T00:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:30:21","slug":"vermont-wing-of-civil-air-patrol-supports-green-mountain-boys-f-16s-during-air-intercept-training-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/vermont\/vermont-wing-of-civil-air-patrol-supports-green-mountain-boys-f-16s-during-air-intercept-training-exercises\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Wing of Civil Air Patrol Supports Green Mountain Boys\u2019 F-16s During Air Intercept Training Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10652\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vermont-Civil-Air-Patrol-with-F16edit-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Vermont Civil Air Patrol with F16edit\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vermont-Civil-Air-Patrol-with-F16edit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vermont-Civil-Air-Patrol-with-F16edit.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Vermont Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) recently completed several days of missions flying \u201cFertile Keynote\u201d exercises, in coordination with aircrews from the Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG). The missions, a regular feature of emergency readiness training by the Guard, prepare crews of the Guard\u2019s fast-moving fighters if they are called upon to intercept and divert slower moving aircraft flying into restricted airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCAP support of the Guard and homeland security\u2014in this instance, providing \u2018HIGH BIRD\u2019 communications relays through our Cessna aircraft\u2014is a vital mission of the Vermont Wing,\u201d observed Col. Rick Lizzari, Commander of the Wing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHIGH BIRD missions such as these help ensure that all elements of these exercises\u2014VTANG\u2019s F16s, other CAP aircraft acting as the \u2018target of interest\u2019, and ground controllers&#8211;have a secure and reliable means of communicating over long distances, at the lower altitudes where these exercises routinely occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Civil Air Patrol and the Vermont Wing have been flying in support of \u201cFertile Keynote\u201d training exercises nationwide since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. During these exercises, the VTANG F-16s fly in formation with CAP aircraft and establish radio contact and guide them away from the restricted area.<\/p>\n<p>The Vermont Wing missions were crewed by Lt .Col. Bob Fiorenza, Capt. Mike Nesshover, Capt. Lynn Pruitt, and Lt. Peter Steinerman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vermont Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) recently completed several days of missions flying \u201cFertile Keynote\u201d exercises, in coordination with aircrews from the Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG). The missions, a regular feature of emergency readiness training by the Guard, prepare crews of the Guard\u2019s fast-moving fighters if they are called upon to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vermont"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vermont-Civil-Air-Patroledit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10653,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650\/revisions\/10653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}