What kind of facility do you meet in?

[Walkman]

My unit meets at the Army Reserve Center downtown. It's not a "base" so we don;t have to do ID checks and all to get in. We pretty much have the run of the building on meeting nights. There are several classrooms and a large open cafeteria/multi-purpose room we do drill, PT and formations in. Right now the building is undergoing extensive renovations and pretty much every area is closed off except one smaller classroom. The construction is going to last throughout the summer.

In that light, I'm looking at possibilities for temporary, alternate meeting places, especially for PT. I thought I'd ask here what other types of facilities people use to give me ideas of what to look for.

[Spaceman3750]

We currently use the old terminal of the regional airport we meet at. Before that we used the EAA hanger. Most of the units around here meet at an airport somehow, either on a base or in an empty building/hanger/FBO.

[pierson777]

My unit is fortunate enough to operate out of a dedicated CAP building that was funded and built by CAP members.  The project started late around 1969 and completed around 1972. 

The facility serves as a Squadron HQ and as an incident command post, it includes
Lobby
Large meeting room (mostly used by cadets)
Small meeting room (mostly used by seniors)
Commander's office
Support section office (admin, personnel, PD, etc.)
Operations section office with storage closet (ES, Health, Ops, etc)
Logistics section office with storage office (logistics, supply, transportation)
Finance office
Cadet Commander office
Deputy Commander for Cadets office
Multipurpose classroom (meetings, boards, briefing, training, etc.)
3 Restrooms (men, women, plus a smaller restroom near the offices)
Pilot "cave" (flight planning, briefing, training, etc.)
Communications room, enough room for four stations
Three storage closets (1. cadet programs & aero ed, 2. Janitorial and Building Maintenance, 3. Ground Team)
The unit also has a large storage hanger at the airport (at the end of a row of T-hangers)
Up until a few years ago, our back patio was also the ramp for parking the airplane.  We could fit probably eight at one time.  Unfortunately, the airport was fenced and gated and it was too logistically difficult to include the CAP facility within the secured area of the airport.
We also have a large park behind our building where we can do PFT, sports, volleyball, picnic parties, etc.

If you think all this is awesome, I agree.  But keep in mind we are constantly dealing with maintenance, a huge property full of weeds, roof leaks, etc.  It's a pain, but it's worth it.  I've also been in a squadron that  the only asset was a couple file boxes that we took the meeting...wherever it happened to be this week (school, municipal building, park, etc).

[THRAWN]

My unit meets at the Army Reserve Center downtown. It's not a "base" so we don;t have to do ID checks and all to get in. We pretty much have the run of the building on meeting nights. There are several classrooms and a large open cafeteria/multi-purpose room we do drill, PT and formations in. Right now the building is undergoing extensive renovations and pretty much every area is closed off except one smaller classroom. The construction is going to last throughout the summer.

In that light, I'm looking at possibilities for temporary, alternate meeting places, especially for PT. I thought I'd ask here what other types of facilities people use to give me ideas of what to look for.

Where is the AR unit relocated to? See if you can "tag along". Contact your local schools district. They have buildings and space, especially during the summer months. Look at local churches. Contact the VFW/AL to see if they have some space you might use. Near an airport? Hit up the FBO.

[Walkman]

Where is the AR unit relocated to? See if you can "tag along". Contact your local schools district. They have buildings and space, especially during the summer months. Look at local churches. Contact the VFW/AL to see if they have some space you might use. Near an airport? Hit up the FBO.

The AR units are staying in place at the moment. The work is all HVAC. They might be drilling at an ANG base 30 minutes east of here for weekends.

[NIN]

My unit is fortunate enough to operate out of a dedicated CAP building that was funded and built by CAP members.  The project started late around 1969 and completed around 1972. 

The facility serves as a Squadron HQ and as an incident command post, it includes
Lobby
Large meeting room (mostly used by cadets)
Small meeting room (mostly used by seniors)
Commander's office
Support section office (admin, personnel, PD, etc.)
Operations section office with storage closet (ES, Health, Ops, etc)
Logistics section office with storage office (logistics, supply, transportation)
Finance office
Cadet Commander office
Deputy Commander for Cadets office
Multipurpose classroom (meetings, boards, briefing, training, etc.)
3 Restrooms (men, women, plus a smaller restroom near the offices)
Pilot "cave" (flight planning, briefing, training, etc.)
Communications room, enough room for four stations
Three storage closets (1. cadet programs & aero ed, 2. Janitorial and Building Maintenance, 3. Ground Team)
The unit also has a large storage hanger at the airport (at the end of a row of T-hangers)
Up until a few years ago, our back patio was also the ramp for parking the airplane.  We could fit probably eight at one time.  Unfortunately, the airport was fenced and gated and it was too logistically difficult to include the CAP facility within the secured area of the airport.
We also have a large park behind our building where we can do PFT, sports, volleyball, picnic parties, etc.

If you think all this is awesome, I agree.  But keep in mind we are constantly dealing with maintenance, a huge property full of weeds, roof leaks, etc.  It's a pain, but it's worth it.  I've also been in a squadron that  the only asset was a couple file boxes that we took the meeting...wherever it happened to be this week (school, municipal building, park, etc).

Thats awesome. Got pictures?

[FlyTiger77]

My unit is fortunate enough to operate out of a dedicated CAP building that was funded and built by CAP members.  The project started late around 1969 and completed around 1972... 

Thats awesome. Got pictures?

My thougths exactly. Inside and outside pictures would be great!

[pierson777]

This photo on this site is probably ten years old.  We have a new sign now and for some the reason the flag pole was missing when that photo was taken. https://plus.google.com/113126725507791032707/about?gl=US&hl=en-US

[Stonewall]

My last unit:  FL-383 (our own building at the local municipal airport.

[NIN]

Nobody who 's been in CAP more than 3-4 years hasn't taken out the graph paper and drawn up the "ultimate squadron HQ", amIright?

Mine is in chief architect.

People would ask what I wanted out of an HQ. I always said "A commander's office."   What's not clear about that answer is that the CO's office is like 15th on the wish list.  A whole lot of other stuff comes before that.

[Shotgun]

Like Walkman, we too meet in the local Army Reserve Center.
(It must be a Michigan thing!)

The mother of one of our cadets is the facility manager.

We have a large parking lot in which to drill, an large conference room with conference table that seats about 16 people with space around the outside of the room for twice as many more, and a large multi purpose room (think school lunch room ) where we hold formations and joint senior/cadet classes.

We have a cabinet to hold our projector, files, supplies, etc.

[TarRiverRat]

At Tar River Composite MER-NC-057, we have a dedicated CAP building.  It was the old manned Weather Station for the airport at Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport (RWI).  There is still a weather station room in the building that is automated and off limits to the squadron.  It is one of 2 dedicated mission bases in the NC Wing.  I believe that is correct ref to 2 dedicated mission bases.  Maybe more now.  I do know that Burlington is one and we are the other.  There maybe is one in the western part of the state as well, but not sure.  We have offices, training room, supply, kitchen, and operations.  It is a nice building and the airport uses the training center as they need to as well.   

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

I have never been fortunate enough to have a CAP-dedicated facility.

First squadron (composite) - Armed Forces Reserve Centre, along with National Guard, Navy and Marine Reserves, NSCC.  Had a very good relationship with the National Guard; they basically set aside a hallway with two rooms on each side for us, along with use of drill hall.

Second squadron (senior) - One room at aviation training facility at airport.  Offered use of ANG facility, but refused by CC because base commander insisted on proper uniforms.

Third squadron (composite) - Law enforcement/snow removal/dump truck repair garage.  Cold and damp in winter, humid in summer, always smelt like burning oil.

Fourth squadron (cadet) - Building on ANG facility.  Generally good relationship with the Guard.  Excellent indoor/outdoor drill facilities.

Current squadron (composite) - Two rooms in airport terminal.  Crowded, and hot in summer, but beggars can't be choosers, and the airport management are as nice as nice can be, and provide hangar space for the bird.

[UH60guy]

We have a hanger on an Air Force base used for static displays and ceremonies. Clean and sized appropriately for drill and PT. Upstairs, we have a classroom, supply room, conference room, and a few other small rooms all our own. It's a great setup, the only pain is the getting on and off base (for new members before ID card, sometimes guards uninformed about the CAP agreements, etc).

[FlyTiger77]

Two of my squadrons are in dedicated facilities (hand-me-down trailers from TVA construction projects). One of these squadrons is in a triple-wide trailer on school property about 3/4 of a mile from where the local airport was until about this time last year. The other is on the airport grounds and has a single-, double- and a triple-wide connected by a wood deck and under a common roof.

One squadron meets in a local church and has use of one room for an office.

One squadron meets in the Beechcraft Museum but really doesn't have any dedicated space.

One squadron meets in the FBO (sort of like a lobby, but sort of not...)

My senior squadron meets in a conference room at what was once an FBO at KCHA (the city bought TAC Air out of their lease, but that is another story for another day...)

Nobody who 's been in CAP more than 3-4 years hasn't taken out the graph paper and drawn up the "ultimate squadron HQ", amIright? 

I have $5,000,000 set aside from any future lottery winnings (over $100M take home) to build the ultimate facility. Now, if I only bought lottery tickets...

[SunDog]

Sports bar sometimes. But usually in a smallish building on the airport, gratis by the local authority.  It isn't dedicated to us, but it's almost always available, and reserved for our normal meeting times.

We get more done at the airport, but the bar is way more fun.  The cadets meet at the airport exclusively, since they proved to be sloppy drinkers. And they gawk at the waitresses. 

[Spaceman3750]

Sports bar sometimes. But usually in a smallish building on the airport, gratis by the local authority.  It isn't dedicated to us, but it's almost always available, and reserved for our normal meeting times.

We get more done at the airport, but the bar is way more fun.  The cadets meet at the airport exclusively, since they proved to be sloppy drinkers. And they gawk at the waitresses.

+1

The seniors at my unit used to get together at a member's house on a saturday night every couple months for dinner and a work evening. That was always a lot of fun. We haven't done it lately, or the others have stopped inviting me.

[Brit_in_CAP]

Used to meet at a former hospital (actual a mental health facility...hmmm...) now we meet at the local FBO which is provided free of charge.  Very limited space and no advantage being at the airport - too small to be relevant and we don't have a bird.

Personally, I like the earlier suggestions of schools, churches etc.  Anywhere you can get some reasonable space to work,.  If the admin has to go mobile for a few months - use it as a chance to thin out the paper mountain!  Seriously: you could put your admin function in the back of a vehicle in the short term if you can get good classroom space and so on at (e.g. one of the schools).  You could also contact the school board directly; some of them have conference facilities they'd let you use FOC in the week.

[JeffDG]

I have $5,000,000 set aside from any future lottery winnings (over $100M take home) to build the ultimate facility. Now, if I only bought lottery tickets...

Lotteries are an Innumeracy Tax.

[Private Investigator]

Sports bar sometimes. But usually in a smallish building on the airport, gratis by the local authority.  It isn't dedicated to us, but it's almost always available, and reserved for our normal meeting times.

We get more done at the airport, but the bar is way more fun.  The cadets meet at the airport exclusively, since they proved to be sloppy drinkers. And they gawk at the waitresses.

+2

No Cadets in uniform at Hooters. 

[Simplex]

We share space with our local CAF Squadron at our county airport. They have a SNJ in the hanger and our a/c is across the field in a separate very small hanger. We have some tables set up for comms, admin and IT. The chairs are set out for classes and then stacked for indoor activities. It's tight, but there is a small kitchen area and it's heated so we're happy to have it.

[a2capt]

We're at an Army Reserve facility that we largely have the run of 2/3rds of the place during most scheduled events. Occasionally it gets tight if a unit is deploying. When they're returning, it's not so bad. Everyone likes to go home.. so stuff somehow gets put away -really- quick.

[Garibaldi]

We have 4 trailers on a NG facility. Fairly nice, but no indoor plumbing.

[Slim]

Army Reserve center (it IS a MIWG thing).  The building used to be part of a Nike missile launch facility, so everything is fairly old and dated, but it's very well suited to us.  We have access to the drill hall, a conference room, an office area/cubicle farm, small kitchen/break room, and a few other areas.  Pretty much everything the cadets do is in the drill hall, seniors use the cube farm, and everything else is as needed.  We have our own code to the gate, and the building code for access, and we're welcome any time, as long as it doesn't conflict with any of the units that use the building.

Walkman, is the inconvenience of dealing with the dust for a few months too much?  If it's only going to be a month or two, I'd suggest dealing with it.  If HVAC is a concern, at the rate we're going here, I don't think we'll see the true heat of summer much before August.  And, our building doesn't have central air either; heating is a boiler/steam, while there is at least one window unit in just about every room in the place. 

Having been a nomad for about 10 years post 9/11, when the squadron was asked to leave the reserve center over security concerns, I'll attest that good meeting places are hard to come by.  In those 10 years, we met at our supply storage facility ( a storage room in a T hangar row at the airport--too hot in summer, ok in the more temperate weeks of fall, but we knew it was time to move when we were buying propane heaters at HoDo in November), a few weeks at a neighboring squadron, a school (asked to leave when they closed for the summer--back to the hangar), a fire station (long term, until we started getting blamed for everything that went wrong there), and a church.

[Walkman]

Walkman, is the inconvenience of dealing with the dust for a few months too much?  If it's only going to be a month or two, I'd suggest dealing with it.

I agree with you that dealing with it in the short term is doable. I need to find another place to do at least PT in. We're also most likely going to do a Mitchell ceremony at the end of April (just needs to pass one most test next week), and I'd like to have a good space for that. Supposedly the drill hall area will be open again at the end of April, but I'm not counting on that until I see it. I'm looking for options so if we get in a pinch for space again, I'll have an idea where to look.

[NIN]

National Guard Armory here. We used to have an office that we shared with the sea cadets. Those dirty nasty squids.

Then they re did the armory and eliminated those offices for bathrooms, and then 9/11 hit and we lost our meeting space entirely for several months. We had to meet at the aviation support facility for a while, until they decided to tear that down and build a joint forces headquarters. So we're back at the armory. We have a room in which we can keep our file cabinets and such, just off of the dining facility. We still have to share that tiny storage room with the sea cadets.

Unfortunately, over the years, our use of the armory has been pared down to that little room, the DFAC, the drill hall, and the bathrooms. The National Guard has eliminated all of the classrooms in the building for office space.  We have a very large squadron, 60 plus cadets, so meetings can get a little chaotic with drill, class room training,  basic training, etc all happening in one large echoey room. We make it work, but it can be a little distracting. 
(ETA: Word is that we're getting booted out of the little storage room due to OSHA exit requirements or some such, and our file cabinets and supply cabinet will be moved to the drill hall. We have a 20-ft connex over behind Wing HQ that is squadron supply, and we'd love to get that moved over behind the armory like many of the Guard units do)

It is a very serious bummer about losing the classrooms, because we used to have access to one large classroom that would seat everybody and two smaller class rooms that were approximately flight size. That allowed us a real high degree of flexibility in our training. Now, when we have a board of review, we hold it in the foyer of the armory, next to the drinking fountain. Thankfully we still have a table and chairs for it. I suspect that the next step will be nothing to sit on.

[Storm Chaser]

I guess we're one of the few lucky ones. We have a dedicated building at an Air Force base. The building has a large class room area, a cadet office that it's also used for flight simulator training, a senior member office with work stations, an ops area, a comm room, a supply room and a commander's office large enough for small staff meetings. This building doubles as an ICP. The flight line, where our plane is parked, is within walking distance as well. And, while not within walking distance, we can use the track and gym for PT. We have a nice setup although, with nearly 100 members, it feels small at times.

[BFreemanMA]

We're also lucky enough to be housed on a reserve base. We have nearly the whole portion of the hangar to ourselves with two classrooms, two office suits, and bathrooms. We also have access to another hangar for PT when there's inclement weather and are able to use most base amenities.

[MacGruff]

We occupy a hanger plus office space in a General Aviation airport. Have two classrooms, five or six offices, two bathrooms, parking, and the hangar contains the plane and the pilot's office. With a squadron size of about 80 it's very adequate. Wouldn't mind an upgrade, but it's not really a problem.

[The14th]

The unit I am hoping to become a part of operates out of a Hanger on Randolph AFB.

[EMT-83]

Walkman, is the inconvenience of dealing with the dust for a few months too much?  If it's only going to be a month or two, I'd suggest dealing with it.

I agree with you that dealing with it in the short term is doable. I need to find another place to do at least PT in. We're also most likely going to do a Mitchell ceremony at the end of April (just needs to pass one most test next week), and I'd like to have a good space for that. Supposedly the drill hall area will be open again at the end of April, but I'm not counting on that until I see it. I'm looking for options so if we get in a pinch for space again, I'll have an idea where to look.

We're in a hangar at a municipal airport, with a classroom and several offices. A few years ago, one of the FBOs burned down and they moved into our building for 18 months. We were shoehorned into one office and some common space. It was tight, but we got through it okay. Having a couple of Citations and a King Air in the hangar was pretty cool though.

[C/Awesomenesss]

We have almost a whole building on Offutt AFB. It gets tight when most of our cadets come (about 100 to 110) to a meeting. Its nice though. We have a admin office, a ops room (with about ten radios), a conference room, the commanders office, and the aerospace room with flight sims.

[Devil Doc]

We Have an Hanger at the Local Airport. We Own the Hanger, Just not the Land Has an Bathroom, Shower and an small office in the top of the hanger. The office serves as the Records Room, Base Operations and Testing Room. The hanger is nice, but we dont have any rooms to seprate the Cadets and Senior Members, so it can get noisy. Its cool to open the Hanger doors in the summer and do drill and training on the Flightline/Taxi Way.

[Huey Driver]

We Have an hangar at the Local Airport. We Own the hangar, Just not the Land Has an Bathroom, Shower and an small office in the top of the hangar. The office serves as the Records Room, Base Operations and Testing Room. The hangar is nice, but we dont have any rooms to seprate the Cadets and Senior Members, so it can get noisy. Its cool to open the hangar doors in the summer and do drill and training on the Flightline/Taxi Way.

FTFY 

[Check Pilot/Tow Pilot]

We are really lucky.  We have exclusive use of the original Oakland Airport Hotel and Terminal. An over 7,000 sqft, two story building with both Street and Airfield access.

We have three classrooms, numerous offices, a giant floor to ceiling view of the airport, and an office for the Commander (me)

We just moved our hangar from a dedicated hangar to one shared with a C-41A (DC-3).

The building was the first Airport Hotel in the U.S., and Amelia Earhat stayed here.

[RickRutledge]

 My first command position was in this building. The unit had been there since 1972 and the city did quite a bit throughout the years to keep it occupy-able. They put together a plan for a grant to build a new facility, but they didn't end up with the grant monies. Some of my vision on what to do with the building in the year I was in command didn't come to pass due to time, but I know the group that has their hands on it now will see some of that stuff through.

- Classroom (where cadets met)
- Main office room (where seniors met)
- Supply closet (bigger than my walk in closet at home)
- Comm room (with two VHF towers out back)
- Admin room (served as lobby for supply and comm)
- Fully equipped kitchen ( although the cabinets and appliances were garbage and not usable)
- Two bathrooms with full shower facilities
- Parking Lot

Couldn't ask for more and we honestly didn't want to maintain much more.

[RickRutledge]

My current unit is working on obtaining this from the city:

 The city built a brand new station and tripled the capacity about two miles away and just recently completed the renovations to the former "armed forces reserve center" that was converted to the Emergency Operations HQ where Police, Fire and EMS are now based. SO, they won't have much use for this building, its zoned municipal and the lot is on a corner and surrounded on the back side so there isn't any room to expand the property. We've offered to keep it maintained under a $1/year lease good for 10 years. The city is currently pondering the possibility and we should know in the next three or four months if we're going to be allowed to move in. *cross your fingers*

We're currently meeting in the portable classroom building of a local christian school. Which is great for meetings, but we lack any of our own space. Everything we use is shared, including our files and supply room. We have zero access to the building off meeting nights, so we're carrying a $75/month note on a storage unit for our ES gear. It's kind of painful and was meant to be short term as we met in the old reserve center before the city came in and told us we had to go because they were going to need 100% of the space and construction was to begin immediately, more than two years ago. Our attempts to get into the local national guard armory have been for not because they lack "proper heating and AC" for our "needs." Plus the building's downstairs has been welded shut due to lead. They used the basement as a shooting range. *bang head against wall*

[Eclipse]

That would be a sweet building - what kind of annual operating costs do you forsee?

[RickRutledge]

Minimal. The facility I posted earlier cost us less than $500/year to operate. Even after having a couple of SAREXs based out of it. There are some disciplined practices we'll have to keep in mind, but for the most part it's a minimal expense when you're there less than 6 or 7 times a month. We're hoping the city will agree to keep up some level of structural maintenance, to an extent, but there's not much that needs to be done.

[Garibaldi]

My current unit is working on obtaining this from the city:

 The city built a brand new station and tripled the capacity about two miles away and just recently completed the renovations to the former "armed forces reserve center" that was converted to the Emergency Operations HQ where Police, Fire and EMS are now based. SO, they won't have much use for this building, its zoned municipal and the lot is on a corner and surrounded on the back side so there isn't any room to expand the property. We've offered to keep it maintained under a $1/year lease good for 10 years. The city is currently pondering the possibility and we should know in the next three or four months if we're going to be allowed to move in. *cross your fingers*

We're currently meeting in the portable classroom building of a local christian school. Which is great for meetings, but we lack any of our own space. Everything we use is shared, including our files and supply room. We have zero access to the building off meeting nights, so we're carrying a $75/month note on a storage unit for our ES gear. It's kind of painful and was meant to be short term as we met in the old reserve center before the city came in and told us we had to go because they were going to need 100% of the space and construction was to begin immediately, more than two years ago. Our attempts to get into the local national guard armory have been for not because they lack "proper heating and AC" for our "needs." Plus the building's downstairs has been welded shut due to lead. They used the basement as a shooting range. *bang head against wall*

Station 51, stand by for assignment.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

^^You read my mind.  I was wondering "where are Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto?"

[ironputts]

1st squadron - Church with 2 classrooms and parking lot for drill/PT
2nd Squadron - AR base using 1 building with full amenities
3rd squadron - municipal building with multiple rooms and large gym/auditorium for drill/pt
4th squadron - trailor near municpal airport for bird. no amenties but free
5th squadron - Church with 1 dedicated classroom and access to others minimal space for drill

None included paying for the facility. Phones and internet we had to pay for except for last squadron. This unit has been with the church since 1968. Cooperation and commuinication was the key to keep these facilities. First four locations are gone over a 20 year period.

[Shuman 14]

^^You read my mind.  I was wondering "where are Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto?"

Rampart.. this is Squad 51. 

Saddly, most of the kids here have no idea what we're talking about.

[KF6YVD]

^^You read my mind.  I was wondering "where are Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto?"

Rampart.. this is Squad 51. 

Saddly, most of the kids here have no idea what we're talking about.

Station 51, 10-4. KMG 365. <----can you tell I am the squadron comm officer?  :-)

[Eclipse]

The 3502 Biocom Biophone still stands as the single coolest piece of technology every invented by mankind, never to be surpassed.

There are no excessive superlatives to the level of astonished amazement experienced by the average 8-10 year old the first time he
sees one of those bad boys in action.

It was the documented cause of hundreds of Space Food Stick-related choking and eye injuries.

[SpectreHog]

My squadron meets in an office building at a local airport. Pretty small but big enough for our activities.

[THRAWN]

^^You read my mind.  I was wondering "where are Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto?"

Rampart.. this is Squad 51. 

Saddly, most of the kids here have no idea what we're talking about.

My cable system has a channel that is entirely "old" shows...EMERGENCY!, ADAM-12, Rockford....I'm loving introducing my 4 year old to all the stuff I watched as a kid. And I agree with Eclipse...that Biophone still leaves me gobsmacked.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Julie London (Nurse Dixie) was one of my first adolescent crushes.

I expected every nurse to be as pretty as her, and every physician to be as supremely competent as Doctors Brackett and Early.

My wife is a huge fan of Emergency! and we have the first couple of seasons on DVD.

I wonder...did CAP figure in any TV show like that, for SAR, "eye in the sky" helping ES people, etc?

[Papabird]

My cable system has a channel that is entirely "old" shows...EMERGENCY!, ADAM-12, Rockford....I'm loving introducing my 4 year old to all the stuff I watched as a kid. And I agree with Eclipse...that Biophone still leaves me gobsmacked.

My 10 YO twins love to watch Emergency, they started years ago when I got Season 1 on DVD.  It is on Netflix, too. 

Also, if you want the Bio Com Telemetry Radio and you have $238, you can get it here:  http://www.pennstatemfg.com/product.sc?productId=960

[THRAWN]

My cable system has a channel that is entirely "old" shows...EMERGENCY!, ADAM-12, Rockford....I'm loving introducing my 4 year old to all the stuff I watched as a kid. And I agree with Eclipse...that Biophone still leaves me gobsmacked.

My 10 YO twins love to watch Emergency, they started years ago when I got Season 1 on DVD.  It is on Netflix, too. 

Also, if you want the Bio Com Telemetry Radio and you have $238, you can get it here:  http://www.pennstatemfg.com/product.sc?productId=960

Brother, if I came home with that, my wife would gobsmack me     And about 5 seconds after I posted my last response, I was checking out the prices...lol

[THRAWN]

Julie London (Nurse Dixie) was one of my first adolescent crushes.

I expected every nurse to be as pretty as her, and every physician to be as supremely competent as Doctors Brackett and Early.

My wife is a huge fan of Emergency! and we have the first couple of seasons on DVD.

I wonder...did CAP figure in any TV show like that, for SAR, "eye in the sky" helping ES people, etc?

I have a vague memory of a show centered around a San Diego County Sheriff SAR Team called 240-Robert, and think that there was some CAP mention in that. You've given me my research project for the evening...

UPDATE:  It was LA county...big shock there....and it starred Mark Harmon...who knew? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/240-Robert

[Panache]

My 10 YO twins love to watch Emergency, they started years ago when I got Season 1 on DVD.  It is on Netflix, too. 

Also, if you want the Bio Com Telemetry Radio and you have $238, you can get it here:  http://www.pennstatemfg.com/product.sc?productId=960

Brother, if I came home with that, my wife would gobsmack me     And about 5 seconds after I posted my last response, I was checking out the prices...lol

But the paramedics responding to pick up the pieces would be really impressed when they got there and saw an old-school Biophone.

[PHall]

My 10 YO twins love to watch Emergency, they started years ago when I got Season 1 on DVD.  It is on Netflix, too. 

Also, if you want the Bio Com Telemetry Radio and you have $238, you can get it here:  http://www.pennstatemfg.com/product.sc?productId=960

Brother, if I came home with that, my wife would gobsmack me     And about 5 seconds after I posted my last response, I was checking out the prices...lol

But the paramedics responding to pick up the pieces would be really impressed when they got there and saw an old-school Biophone.

They probably wouldn't know what it is. Remember, those came out 45 years ago...

[Panache]

But the paramedics responding to pick up the pieces would be really impressed when they got there and saw an old-school Biophone.

They probably wouldn't know what it is. Remember, those came out 45 years ago...

"Hey, didn't I see one of these on Emergency!?"

[Panache]

They probably wouldn't know what it is. Remember, those came out 45 years ago...

Not to mention, at least up here, some of the paramedics are... very well seasoned.  They may have actually used one.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

They probably wouldn't know what it is. Remember, those came out 45 years ago...

Not to mention, at least up here, some of the paramedics are... very well seasoned.  They may have actually used one.

Of course, this was back in the late '70s, but the paramedics where I grew up had one of those.

They also had a rescue squad truck identical in make and model to "Squad 51"...only the markings were different.  When they would go on a run it looked like the opening credits of Emergency!

[blackbrandt]

National Guard base.  We meet in the drill hall (and now outside).