Farthest gone for CAP

mikeylikey · September 16, 2007, 06:49:52 PM

OK......there are some intense discussions going on right now here at CAPTALK. So, for something less serious I thought maybe we can all share the farthest we have gone from our home SQD for a CAP activity. They can be missions or IACE or anything else that took you far from "home".

I will start......mine would be the Philippines for IACE. It was an awesome trip where I made some friends that I consider to be very close. (Anyone else go there as a cadet, would love to trade stories etc.)

OK....now everyone else!

Snake Doctor · September 16, 2007, 07:01:57 PM

The first time for any good distance, I went from Misawa AB Japan to Kadena AB Okinawa for a Summer encampment. The second I went from Belleville IL. to Maxwell AFB for NSC.

Cecil DP · September 16, 2007, 07:06:29 PM

In 1997,when my National Guard unit was called up to support Operation Joint endeaver I traveled from Vilseck GE to the National Conference in Las Vegas.

Stonewall · September 16, 2007, 07:13:26 PM

I went from Virginia (National Captial Wing) to Grissom ARB in Indiana for Region Staff College in 2003.

Pylon · September 16, 2007, 07:17:26 PM

My two farthest CAP activities would be from Syracuse, New York to:

O'ahu, Hawaii for 2007 HIWG Encampment
United Kingdom for 2003 IACE

♠SARKID♠ · September 16, 2007, 07:33:19 PM

Farthest I've gone? Probably from Milwaukee to Nebraska on a KC-135 orientation flight with the 128th Air Refueling Wing. Plus I get to drive to Nebraska this November to help with their Wing Cadet Competition.

Eclipse · September 16, 2007, 08:16:04 PM

Gulf Coast ~900 miles.

drcomm · September 16, 2007, 08:34:10 PM

In 1979 I was selected with another cadet from the Houston area to go on a trip with about 50 cadets from across Texas to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton ,OH. We drove to Austin's Bergstrom AFB and flew on a C-130 from there to Wright-Pat. We went up on a Friday and flew back on the following Sunday. That was a cool trip for a 7th grader who had only flown once before then. It's not the farthest trip listed here but seemed like the other side of the world for me!!!

Ohioguard · September 16, 2007, 10:15:20 PM

In 1982 I went from Kadena AB, Okinawa to Maxwell AFB, AL for NSC. The next year we sent a cadet from Kadena to Maxwell for COS.

JEFFREY C WANDELL, Lt Col, CAP

Ned · September 16, 2007, 10:21:13 PM

Quote from: mikeylikey on September 16, 2007, 06:49:52 PM
I will start......mine would be the Philippines for IACE. It was an awesome trip where I made some friends that I consider to be very close.

Coolness. I went to the Philippines for IACE in '75.

As an experinment that year, they did not send senior escorts, so it was just another cadet and me.

To restore the balance in the Circle of Life, I just returned from IACE to Ghana. There, I was an escort without any cadets.

Talk about your perfect IACE exoerience.

Ned Lee

Chappie · September 16, 2007, 11:13:23 PM

I reside on the Central Coast of California.....so:

farthest west - Hickam AFB, Honolulu HI for Chaplain Service Region Staff College

farthest northeast - Philadelphia, PA for National Board/Conference

farthest southeast - Maxwell AFB, Montgomery AL for National Staff College (as student and staff member) and USAF Chaplain Service Institute

Have traveled throughout the state of California as staff member for CLC/SLS and UCC, Chaplain Service Region Staff College (and in neighboring state...Nellis AFB, Las Vegas AFB), Wing Conferences, SARXes and actual missions, as well as various cadet activities (BCS/ATS, Encampment (although it is my backyard)...and California is a large state

Flying Pig · September 16, 2007, 11:34:50 PM

From March AFB, Ca. to Maxwell in the back of a C-130 for NCC.

mikeylikey · September 17, 2007, 12:49:49 AM

Quote from: Flying Pig on September 16, 2007, 11:34:50 PM
From March AFB, Ca. to Maxwell in the back of a C-130 for NCC.

Did you actually mean "From March AFB, Ca. to Maxwell in the back of a BLACK VAN"?

mikeylikey · September 17, 2007, 12:51:51 AM

Quote from: Ned on September 16, 2007, 10:21:13 PM
Quote from: mikeylikey on September 16, 2007, 06:49:52 PM
I will start......mine would be the Philippines for IACE. It was an awesome trip where I made some friends that I consider to be very close.

Coolness. I went to the Philippines for IACE in '75.

As an experiment that year, they did not send senior escorts, so it was just another cadet and me.

To restore the balance in the Circle of Life, I just returned from IACE to Ghana. There, I was an escort without any cadets.

Talk about your perfect IACE experience.

Ned Lee

Thats SWEET! IACE with no Cadets is awesome, perhaps we should do away with cadets in IACE altogether! It would be the "International Air Exchange".

How was Ghana by the way?

Stonewall · September 17, 2007, 12:54:09 AM

I haven't been out of the country in a year. I'm seriously considering volunteering for IACE. I've never looked into it before, but I think it's time to start. I just hope I can go to a country I haven't been to before.

mikeylikey · September 17, 2007, 01:02:40 AM

Quote from: Stonewall on September 17, 2007, 12:54:09 AM
I haven't been out of the country in a year. I'm seriously considering volunteering for IACE. I've never looked into it before, but I think it's time to start. I just hope I can go to a country I haven't been to before.

I can't wait until IACE "Saudi IRAQIA" is offered. I would volunteer in a heartbeat!

I am looking to IACE as a Senior Escort perhaps this coming summer. I would like the UK, or perhaps Italy if offered. Anyone else want to volunteer with me.

NIN · September 17, 2007, 01:12:14 AM

Quote from: Ohioguard on September 16, 2007, 10:15:20 PM
In 1982 I went from Kadena AB, Okinawa to Maxwell AFB, AL for NSC. The next year we sent a cadet from Kadena to Maxwell for COS.

1983 we had a guy from Oki at our Summer Encampment in Michigan. Mike Brennan, maybe? My "grey matter database" is missin' a few records these days..

Stonewall · September 17, 2007, 01:19:27 AM

Quote from: mikeylikey on September 17, 2007, 01:02:40 AM
Quote from: Stonewall on September 17, 2007, 12:54:09 AM
I haven't been out of the country in a year. I'm seriously considering volunteering for IACE. I've never looked into it before, but I think it's time to start. I just hope I can go to a country I haven't been to before.

I can't wait until IACE "Saudi IRAQIA" is offered. I would volunteer in a heartbeat!

I am looking to IACE as a Senior Escort perhaps this coming summer. I would like the UK, or perhaps Italy if offered. Anyone else want to volunteer with me.

You cool with hanging out with an enlisted guy?

NIN · September 17, 2007, 01:24:41 AM

I was thinking of applying for IACE for 08. Germany, Australia and the UK on my list (my luck is I'll get Canada..)

Ohioguard · September 17, 2007, 01:40:36 AM

NIN...."1983 we had a guy from Oki at our Summer Encampment in Michigan. Mike Brennan, maybe? My "grey matter database" is missin' a few records these days.."

Your grey matter is right on. Mike was one of several shinning stars that we had in the Okinawa Cadet Squadron.

In 1984 we had the first and to this date the only Spaatz cadet from an overseas unit, Jeff D. Morris.

Warm regards

JCW