After meeting meetings...

[Trung Si Ma]

Nin -

Royal Oak Cadet used to go to the Big Boy's on Woodward and 13 1/2 Mile after the meeting and the Birmingham Composite went to an all you can eat fried fish place by Berz Airport.

[RADIOMAN015]

After a full day at work and generally about 3.5 to 4 hours at the evening meeting, I'm ready to go home & rest rather than socialize (since I also have to get up early to go to work the next day) -- Perhaps IF our meetings were on a Friday night or weekends during the day, I'd have a different response.

A very few senior members may occasionally stop at the local tavern right off base.   Some of us keep in contact via telephone/cellphone & emails at other than meeting times.   Our cadets are younger and usually have their parents or another family member driving them to meetings, so they are pretty much gone home after the meeting, since next day for them is also a school day.   Of course some of them are into the IM/text messaging via cellphones, as well as using the telephone to socialize at other than meeting times!!!!

I think again it's more of a time constraint/rest requirements rather than not wanting to socialize with other volunteers!
RM 

[BuckeyeDEJ]

When I was a squadron commander in Ohio, we met at a World War II bunker-themed restaurant across the airport from our meeting place (an ARNG aviation support facility).

We didn't spend a whole lot of time on CAP business, but it certainly helped our morale and helped us grow together.

Wow, maybe I'll have to start that where I am now -- right now, several of us just hang out a little later at our building, after everyone else is gone.

[Major Carrales]

WIWAC, it was Long John Silvers, then Godfather's pizza as a couple older cadets worked there and one of the seniors was the store manager.

Was Godfather's Pizza a Florida thing?  I don't see it around anymore but I thought it was a FL place.

You from FL?

There was a Godfather's Pizza in Kingsville, Texas' Southgate Mall when I was in Middle and High school.   It closed back in the mid-90s.

[jeders]

When I was a cadet it was Mezami's, a little coffee shop around the corner from wear we had our meetings.

[NIN]

Nin -

Royal Oak Cadet used to go to the Big Boy's on Woodward and 13 1/2 Mile after the meeting and the Birmingham Composite went to an all you can eat fried fish place by Berz Airport.

Berz or Oakland/Troy?  Berz was way the hell out in Macomb County..

My squadron (South Oakland) was formed out of the merger of the former Farmington Squadron (later "Starfire" Squadron, but it was the same unit) and the Columbia Cadet Sq from Clawson, and we met at the Reserve Center in Southfield next to the old AMC building.

I grew up in Macomb County, only lived in Oakland County later.

EDIT: BTW, that Big Boy was one of my favorites anyhow.

[Trung Si Ma]

Berz or Oakland/Troy?  Berz was way the hell out in Macomb County..

My squadron (South Oakland) was formed out of the merger of the former Farmington Squadron (later "Starfire" Squadron, but it was the same unit) and the Columbia Cadet Sq from Clawson, and we met at the Reserve Center in Southfield next to the old AMC building.

I grew up in Macomb County, only lived in Oakland County later.

Back in the early 70's, what is now Oakland/Troy (KVLL) was called Berz and there was more than the current single runway.  We had a CAP Building out there for Accretion (sp?) Senior Squadron and then Birmingham Composite met there during the summers.  I grew up in Clawson, but we didn't have our own squadron then.  At one point, there were cadet/composite squadrons in Royal Oak (20068), Southfield, Farmington, Birmingham (20199), and Oxford.  There was a squadron in Roseville, but it combined with South Macomb.

Memories.

[NIN]

Back in the early 70's, what is now Oakland/Troy (KVLL) was called Berz and there was more than the current single runway.  We had a CAP Building out there for Accretion (sp?) Senior Squadron and then Birmingham Composite met there during the summers.  I grew up in Clawson, but we didn't have our own squadron then.  At one point, there were cadet/composite squadrons in Royal Oak (20068), Southfield, Farmington, Birmingham (20199), and Oxford.  There was a squadron in Roseville, but it combined with South Macomb.

Memories.

Sweet. I learn a little more. 

South Oakland's unit supply was, when I was the CO, located at in the utility room at the end of one of the t-hangar rows at Oakland/Troy.  We had crapton of stuff in there.

Accretion (now there is a weird name I haven't heard in years!) folded into South Oakland when I was the commander in 1997.  Fully 90% of their membership were non-participating members who just hadn't been move to patron status.  Their commander, Bill, uh, Bill... Crap, I can't remember his name, was actually from Roseville.  We absorbed about $200 in their coffers and a crapload of badly out of date records.  And basically no membership.

Bill Webb (formerly the cap.gov administrator) was originally I think in the Birmingham Squadron before it folded its tent up.

And I commanded two units in Group III (Utica-Sterling and South Macomb) and was a cadet in Van Dyke and South Macomb...

EDIT: and to keep this on topic: Utica Sterling used to hold its "After Meeting Meeting" (the "AMM") at the Big Boy in a plaza at 18 and Van Dyke.   

[addo1]

 Flip coin here... Chili's or Sonic... same items too... the CAP "bus" got to make a chow stop on the way home...

[brasda91]

When I got back active in my squadron, a few of the cadets and seniors would go into town for a bite.  I never did, needed to get home.  When I work days, I need to be up by 0345hrs.  By the time I leave CAP and drive home, get breakfast and lunch packed, clothes laid out and any misc housework done, I'm usually behind on getting to bed.  I also work nights, which leaves my wife to rangle with the 2yr old.  So she's not very cooperate about CAP when I'm not working.

Then as the cadets graduated h.s. and left for college and I took over command, everyone heads home.  The majority of meeting nights when the meeting ends sometime after 2030, I'm still there talking with seniors or trying to get a few papers filed.  My wife knows the meeting is over at 2030hrs and expects that I'll be home by 2100hrs.   

[brasda91]

Do any of you married SM's feel a bit guilty by stopping and eating when your other half has been at home and had ham sandwhich for supper?  You know what I mean?  You go to the meeting and afterwards stop and have a nice dinner, be it McDonald's or the local tavern.  Personally, I don't think that's fair to my wife.  I guess maybe that's another reason why I don't push it.

[Stonewall]

Do any of you married SM's feel a bit guilty by stopping and eating when your other half has been at home and had ham sandwhich for supper?  You know what I mean?  You go to the meeting and afterwards stop and have a nice dinner, be it McDonald's or the local tavern.  Personally, I don't think that's fair to my wife.  I guess maybe that's another reason why I don't push it.

See this thread.

[drcomm]

Our folks go to Pizza Hut.  Several go regularly, others occasionally.  The times that I go I call my wife and she meets me there.

[BuckeyeDEJ]

Nin -

Royal Oak Cadet used to go to the Big Boy's on Woodward and 13 1/2 Mile after the meeting and the Birmingham Composite went to an all you can eat fried fish place by Berz Airport.

Berz or Oakland/Troy?  Berz was way the hell out in Macomb County..

My squadron (South Oakland) was formed out of the merger of the former Farmington Squadron (later "Starfire" Squadron, but it was the same unit) and the Columbia Cadet Sq from Clawson, and we met at the Reserve Center in Southfield next to the old AMC building.

I grew up in Macomb County, only lived in Oakland County later.

EDIT: BTW, that Big Boy was one of my favorites anyhow.

How in the world did American Motors get into this discussion... a good part of my childhood was spent with AMC.

When I lived (briefly) in metro Detroit, I lived across from the Glass House on Mercury Drive in Dearborn, but drove up to Van Dyke Cadet Sq, up off Metropolitan Parkway in Clinton Township, Macomb County. Bit of a drive, but I had friends in the unit.

Some of the cadets met at a nearby Wendy's, and even though I was invited along, I never joined them.

[Cecil DP]

When I was in the Boston Composite Squadron we would meet at a diner. Later on Wing Staff several of us would meet at a rest stop on I 495/95. Mu current squadon doesn't have a social meeting.

[D2SK]

We have a meeting debriefing at Applebee's where the food is 1/2 off after 10pm.

[NIN]

How in the world did American Motors get into this discussion... a good part of my childhood was spent with AMC.

When I lived (briefly) in metro Detroit, I lived across from the Glass House on Mercury Drive in Dearborn, but drove up to Van Dyke Cadet Sq, up off Metropolitan Parkway in Clinton Township, Macomb County. Bit of a drive, but I had friends in the unit.

Some of the cadets met at a nearby Wendy's, and even though I was invited along, I never joined them.

How long ago was that? I'm trying to remember when Van Dyke met that far north and east.  Metro Parkway in Clinton Twp is almost right on top of Selfridge.

WIWAC, Van Dyke was over on 14 Mile, on the Warren/Sterling Heights line, about 1 1/2 miles from the western edge of Macomb County.  Our main recruiting area was essentially all of the city of Warren and most of Sterling Heights (except the northern parts, which was the province of the Utica-Sterling Sq).  We moved over to around 13 1/2 and Schoenherr at a elementary school-turned-community center at some point in 1984 or 85.  I know that in the 1990s and beyond the unit moved around a lot more.

[MikeD]

Nothing post meeting for our squadron, since we meet on a (large) base and everyone lives far away.

Some (the younger/single) SM from our and our neighboring two squadrons meet at a local sports bar after joint SAREX's though.   

[hatentx]

What there are secret meetings of the CAP Illuminati going on after hours?  I never knew this... I thought I was part of the "in" crowd.  Oh well right.  We don't do anything really regular being that most of the cadets are younger.  Most of the SM are heading home to get ready for work the next morning but a few times we have all been seen going through the same drive though an the way home.

[NIN]

What there are secret meetings of the CAP Illuminati going on after hours?  I never knew this... I thought I was part of the "in" crowd.  Oh well right.  We don't do anything really regular being that most of the cadets are younger.  Most of the SM are heading home to get ready for work the next morning but a few times we have all been seen going through the same drive though an the way home.

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