The RESCUE Creed
Recognizing that I volunteered as a Civil Air Patrol ground team member, fully knowing the expectations of my chosen specialty, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor and high esprit de corps of Civil Air Patrol Emergency Services.
Exceeding all others, CAP ground teams are elite searchers, who respond at the first call of the AFRCC, I accept that as a ground team member my squadron expects me to move further, faster, and search harder than any other team.
Semper Vigilans. I will always keep myself mentally alert, physically strong, and well trained, and I will shoulder my share of the team equipment whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some.
Courageously I will show the world that I am a specially qualified and well-trained searcher. My survival skills, land navigation, and care of equipment shall set the standard for others to follow.
United, my ground team will meet the challenges of the search. I shall find the objective when all other teams have chose defeat for I am better trained and will search till the dead of night. Failure is not a ground team word. Never will I leave a search victim to fall into the hands of death and under no circumstance will I ever embarrass my organization.
Energetically will I display the duty, valor, and strength to drive on to the search objective and complete the mission, though I be the lone ground team member.
SEMPER VIGILANS!