Field Trips

[brasda91]

Took my Squadron to the Airborne Museum at Ft. Bragg.

When I was on active duty, my barracks was right across the street from the museum.  I could look out my window and see it.

[Ford73Diesel]

I've done two encampments at Wright-Pat, museum is awesome.  I've heard it's expanded even more.

It has. They added a cold war space program type room thats shaped like a missle silo, along with some more planes.

[baronet68]

Fort Lewis Military Museum
Seattle Museum of Flight
Soviet Fox-trot Class Submarine Tour
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum (home of the Spruce Goose)

[Horn229]

^  Thats awesome!  That is such a good day trip, as is Valley Forge and Philadelphia (Central Philly, the tourist part, not south, west, or east Philly, the "bad parts").

Nothing wrong with south philly, that's where you need to go if you want a cheesesteak (Pat's and Gino's are both in south philly).

Center city is good, east philly is good. North of center city is problematic for about a mile. West of 50th street is where you don't want to go.


Back on topic..

The USS Intrepid
National Air and Space Museum

I'm trying to talk my Sqdn CC into a night tour of the national mall, then going to see the Air and Space museum as soon as they open.

[fyrfitrmedic]

^  Thats awesome!  That is such a good day trip, as is Valley Forge and Philadelphia (Central Philly, the tourist part, not south, west, or east Philly, the "bad parts").

Nothing wrong with south philly, that's where you need to go if you want a cheesesteak (Pat's and Gino's are both in south philly).

Center city is good, east philly is good. North of center city is problematic for about a mile. West of 50th street is where you don't want to go.


Back on topic..

The USS Intrepid
National Air and Space Museum

I'm trying to talk my Sqdn CC into a night tour of the national mall, then going to see the Air and Space museum as soon as they open.

- Lots and lots to see in Center City Philly; gophila.com is a good resource.

- Pat's and Geno's are suitable steaks for tourists and the inebriated; try Jim's or Tony Luke's instead.

- The areas best avoided in Philly are West Philly between 45th and 63rd, North Philly from just south of Girard to just north of Champlost, almost all of Southwest Philly except for the areas close to the airport, and much of the Point Breeze section of South Philly.

- If you're already in Philly and looking for a place to check out near the airport, Fort Mifflin's not a bad historical site.

- If you're in the area and looking for something a little different, the USS New Jersey hosts overnights for youth groups of all sizes.

- The USS Intrepid is currently away from its Pier 86 berth for restoration at Staten Island and will reopen on 11 November 2008. IMHO, it needed some serious work; many of the exhibits were showing their age from back when the Intrepid was on display at the Philly Navy Yard before its move to NYC.

[jimmydeanno]

WIWAC, our squadron went on a 7 day trip to DC, it was super-cool.  We toured the West Wing of the White house, signed the First Lady's guestbook, toured the Admin building next door, visited the capital, a bunch of monuments (Jefferson, Washington, Iwo Jima, Lincoln) we had a guided tour of the National A&S museum at the mall from a guy they gave a piece of Skylab, went to Arlington National Cemetery, visted the Tomb of the Unknowns, Library of Congress, etc and got to tour the city. We even visited our Senator.

It was by far the best "field trip" I've ever done in CAP - I guess it was like a junior CLA.

[gistek]

Spent the weekend on the USS Yorktown once.

Squadron paid for it with a grant from our State Representative.

We took our Blues & Corporate, but wore DDR t-shirts and kakhi's as our "uniform" most of the time.

It was mostly Scout troops there and when they assembled us for th safety briefing the Officer put his hand up in the scout quiet sign. I watched for about 10 seconds as scouts raised their hands and continued talking. Then I called our squadron to attention and everyone got suddenly quiet. Our C/OIC (officer-in-charge) ordered the squadron to At-Ease and the Safety Officer began his briefing.

Explanation of C/OIC - that unit likes to give up and coming cadets a chance of leadership for events so the Cadet Commander can have a break. For the duration of the event anything that requires a command decision is the responsibility of the C/OIC not the C/C. If the C/C is there, he or she acts as adviser.

It gives the senior members and line staff a chance to evaluate prospective leaders and it looks really good on the cadet's resumes and job applications. I always told them to be sure to list it as work experience with a salary of "vol."