CAP SAR missions are coordinated through the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC). CAP flies 86% of the air search in the continental United States and in many states CAP is also involved in both ground search and rescue operations. In 1995 CAP volunteers flew more than 2,200 missions, logging in 12,519 flying hours. During these missions, CAP members were credited with saving 108 lives

CAP supports disaster relief efforts around the United States with manpower, communications, material transport, damage assessment, and personnel transport. CAP units have assisted in disasters such as the Mississippi Flood of 1993.

CAP provides aircraft patrol/reconnaissance and communications support to drug enforcement police agencies around the country. In 1995, volunteers flew 5,289 missions, logging in 31,715 flying hours in support of the U.S. Customs Service, Drug Enforcement Agency, U.S. Forest Service, and Department of Defense as as other federal, state, and local agencies. The assistance of CAP volunteers in counterdrug interdiction resulted in the confiscation of assets estimated in excess of $3 billion.

CAP in close coordination with the American Red Cross, provides ground and air transport of blood, tissue or organs, personnel transport, and communications. Over the past 12 years, CAP's organ transplant program has helped 4,595 people and saved 286 lives - 44 in 1995.

CAP supports civil defense agencies with communications, radiological monitoring and decontamination, damage assessment, and airlift..