Encampment stories

[Struts]

      My most fave memory EVER was a girl named Conception. She had such a beautiful voice. About the 5th night there, she sang a song for Foxtrot. Nonetheless, EVERYONE was crying, even the flight commander and flight sergeant. I wish I could relive that encampment!

That would be something to see... An encampment flight sergeant and flight comander crying. 

[Extremepredjudice]

      My most fave memory EVER was a girl named Conception. She had such a beautiful voice. About the 5th night there, she sang a song for Foxtrot. Nonetheless, EVERYONE was crying, even the flight commander and flight sergeant. I wish I could relive that encampment!

That would be something to see... An encampment flight sergeant and flight comander crying. 

Common knowledge: Line staff are soulless monsters that are out to destroy your life. 

Kidding.

[PHall]

Parris Island. 'nuff said. Too many stories to count.

Uh Brad, we're talking CADET Encampment here, not your "I was stupid and raised my hand and signed the papers and this is what I got." trip to the Island.

[Perez]

My basic year at encampment the exec staff hid in our room. It's about a minute after lights out, and we start to hear what sounds like a horse neighing, along with some other more immature sounds. We immediately all looked over at "that" cadet and tell him to shush. After a while, it kept on going, and we realized it was none of us. So someone gets out of bed to examine the locker where the sound's coming from. The cadet tugs on the handle a few times and then whispers, "it's jammed shut!." Just then two line staff members explode out of the lockers and tell us to go back to bed. We get back in out racks, and a few minutes later we hear sound effects from the original mario game coming from a trash can. A couple seconds later it topples over and someone else runs out.

Needless to say, we were pleased when we were presented with the "most interesting after dark conversation" award.

[bflynn]

Parris Island. 'nuff said. Too many stories to count.

Uh Brad, we're talking CADET Encampment here, not your "I was stupid and raised my hand and signed the papers and this is what I got." trip to the Island.

Different methods used because of the different maturity levels of the participants, but it's the same basic recipe...even though everyone will immediately jump up and down and yell that it isn't.

[Nathan]

Parris Island. 'nuff said. Too many stories to count.

Uh Brad, we're talking CADET Encampment here, not your "I was stupid and raised my hand and signed the papers and this is what I got." trip to the Island.

Different methods used because of the different maturity levels of the participants, but it's the same basic recipe...even though everyone will immediately jump up and down and yell that it isn't.

Do you have to take everything seriously?

[Майор Хаткевич]

Parris Island. 'nuff said. Too many stories to count.

Uh Brad, we're talking CADET Encampment here, not your "I was stupid and raised my hand and signed the papers and this is what I got." trip to the Island.

Different methods used because of the different maturity levels of the participants, but it's the same basic recipe...even though everyone will immediately jump up and down and yell that it isn't.

I've seen many 18+ mature cadets and have run into plenty of 18+ idiot sailors, marines, etc.

[SarDragon]

Parris Island. 'nuff said. Too many stories to count.

Uh Brad, we're talking CADET Encampment here, not your "I was stupid and raised my hand and signed the papers and this is what I got." trip to the Island.

Different methods used because of the different maturity levels of the participants, but it's the same basic recipe...even though everyone will immediately jump up and down and yell that it isn't.

I've seen many 18+ mature cadets and have run into plenty of 18+ idiot sailors Sailors, marines Marines, etc.

FTFY!

As for differences in the two events, I've attended both, and there are many more differences than similarities. The recipe is not the same.

[bflynn]

Parris Island. 'nuff said. Too many stories to count.

Uh Brad, we're talking CADET Encampment here, not your "I was stupid and raised my hand and signed the papers and this is what I got." trip to the Island.

Different methods used because of the different maturity levels of the participants, but it's the same basic recipe...even though everyone will immediately jump up and down and yell that it isn't.

Do you have to take everything seriously?

Not at all - but I am in nature a serious and analytical person. 

I have been known from time to time to howl at the moon, but it's few and far between. 

Do you really want to have a discussion about me?

[Brad]

Parris Island. 'nuff said. Too many stories to count.

Uh Brad, we're talking CADET Encampment here, not your "I was stupid and raised my hand and signed the papers and this is what I got." trip to the Island.

Different methods used because of the different maturity levels of the participants, but it's the same basic recipe...even though everyone will immediately jump up and down and yell that it isn't.

Do you have to take everything seriously?

Not at all - but I am in nature a serious and analytical person. 

I have been known from time to time to howl at the moon, but it's few and far between. 

Do you really want to have a discussion about me?

LOL! Perhaps I should have clarified...SCWG had an Encampment at Parris Island last year.

As for me, I am medically d/q'ed from the service for sleepwalking. Did about a month of NROTC before it came up. Part of the reason I joined CAP, gives me a sense of making good on my oath with what I have.

[Struts]

So back to the thread. Any really funny current stories? Sleepwalking basics? Sleepwalking staff? 

[titanII]

I recently heard that a certain staff member got locked out of his room at night, and had to spend the night sleeping in a corner of the bay, curled up in his poncho. 

[Struts]

I recently heard that a certain staff member got locked out of his room at night, and had to spend the night sleeping in a corner of the bay, curled up in his poncho. 

:clap: So many mixed emotions. But so funny. At my encampment up at Norwich we had to have our doors open all the time except when e were changing.
One of my encampment memories...We were instructed to bring fans and the people who brought them put them in their open windows. Alpha flight across the hall from me had one of their fans fall out the window. Didn't see that coming a mile away 

[Perez]

I recently heard that a certain staff member got locked out of his room at night, and had to spend the night sleeping in a corner of the bay, curled up in his poncho. 

Hmm... Something very similar happened to me during Sea Cadet alert night... Except I just crashed in another staff member's room after a while. He walks in, sees me lying in his chair, and then goes to bed.

[Brad]

So back to the thread. Any really funny current stories? Sleepwalking basics? Sleepwalking staff? 

Sleepwalking TAC, guilty as charged. Firewatch woke me up halfway down the squadbay, "Sir, what are you doing?" I quickly came to, realized what happened and did my best to play it off, "Uhhhh, going to the bathroom." "Ok sir, well hurry up."

[Struts]

Speaking of squadbays...kind of  . How many encampments use squad bays and how many use dorms?

[PHall]

CAWG has been in "squad bays" for a number of years. Pretty much all that is available from the California National Guard and the Marines anymore.

[Spaceman3750]

ILWG summer uses dorms but was in bays before they changed bases.

I think ILWG spring is open bay.

[ck4]

About my fourth night of my first encampment I had had the second shift of CQ and had just gotten back to sleep from being woken up for my shift and about 45-50 minutes into the next shift my whole flight is woken up by screaming from the front of the barracks, apparently the cadets that myself and another cadet had woken up for there shift could not get the cadet for the shift after theres to wake up or even acknowledge them, so for some reason the cadets that I had woken up put tabasco in his eyes.....My flight Sgt comes in and takes him out of the room and he quickly speaks with everyone up our chain of command to try and see if he would be dismissed. Ended up not being dismissed but had to apologize and do something else that i can not recall. But this is one of my funniest CAP memories to look back on that wasn't funny at the time when the guy was crying tabasco.

[Extremepredjudice]

What. The.

That is like... And how did he get tabasco sauce in the first place?