sentences:  During this year, the PRANG was activated to provide assistance to the government during a series of floods that affected the east coast of Puerto Rico.During the Cuban Missile Crisis, all pilots were placed on alert and waiting for orders while the crisis was solved in the adjacent island.In 1963, the PRANG participated in the search for Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter following his first orbital flight, which the 140th Radar Squadron accomplished under Col. Fred Brown.