How many cadets are in your squadron?

[Bryce7454]

We have 9 Cadets, 2 are in-active, 1 is in College leaving us with 6 active cadets. We have 2 potential Cadets and 2 that are waiting until they are 12.
Typically we have 5 or 6 of the "Active" Cadets show up at meetings.

Which squadron?

[BFreemanMA]

Composite squadron. 53 on the books. About 30 or so show up regularly.

[Juice]

 Our Composite Squadron has 48 cadets on the books with 30-35 actively participating each week. We also has 36 Seniors on the books with 12-17 actively participating each week. 

[C/CMSgt Allen]

At one point in my squadron we had 63 cadets but it's way below that now.

[Bryce7454]

At one point in my squadron we had 63 cadets but it's way below that now.

Attendance has been faltering?

[C/CMSgt Allen]

We had leadership issues for a while. Our Squadron commander, and our Cadet Commander just left out of the blue.

[LTC Don]

As of the end of June, there were 995 cadet and composite squadrons.

323 had less than 15 cadets. Over 200 had less than 12 cadets. With an anecdotal participation rate of about 65 to 75% of roster strength, well you can do the math. This means that there are 200 to 300 units who aren't putting more than six or maybe ten cadets at a meeting at a time.

More concerning is the number of units that have less than five senior members. 41.

There were two units that had only one senior member assigned.  How does that even work?

I'm curious about meeting locations: School vs Church vs Stand-Alone Squadron Headquarters vs Other, and if there is a correlation as to squadron strength.

I've always believed that units that have someplace they can legitimately call home, but that also have administrative and classroom space tend to be more apt to thrive.

[TheSkyHornet]

As of the end of June, there were 995 cadet and composite squadrons.

323 had less than 15 cadets. Over 200 had less than 12 cadets. With an anecdotal participation rate of about 65 to 75% of roster strength, well you can do the math. This means that there are 200 to 300 units who aren't putting more than six or maybe ten cadets at a meeting at a time.

More concerning is the number of units that have less than five senior members. 41.

There were two units that had only one senior member assigned.  How does that even work?

I'm curious about meeting locations: School vs Church vs Stand-Alone Squadron Headquarters vs Other, and if there is a correlation as to squadron strength.

I've always believed that units that have someplace they can legitimately call home, but that also have administrative and classroom space tend to be more apt to thrive.

In our case, we use the "Community Room" at a local airport. It's a small GA facility, but at least we have the ability to roam around and play with some of the aircraft that the flight school has. It does have a classroom with a big whiteboard and projector. We also just got permission to tear out the school's old simulator and put our own flight sim computers in there. The meeting area is very dated, even with modern equipment. It's a dingy place to be. We do have the ability to put up just about anything on the wall we want, which is great for our posters and award plaques, but because we share a common space we do have to worry about other people touching our stuff and leaving all of their crap out when we walk in on our meeting day. We once got chewed out by a visitor because of a dirty U.S. Flag that was on the stand, even when we explained that the flag belonged to the airport, not our squadron. It's not a building interior that we're proud of, but it's what we have to work with. And we have to worry about leaving our own equipment out, making sure we lock everything up. We don't really have the often of setting up a permanent work station aside from our printer/scanner which the flight school keeps using even though we have a big sign that says "Civil Air Patrol use only."

The problem we have with our place is that, while it's on a main road, we're often confused with another bigger municipal airport a few miles away. A lot of prospective recruits go there instead of to our facility. We are also very limited as to our indoor space unless we can get the airplane hangar cleared out for us to use. It's not ours, so everything we do needs to be done by request and only if they can get it done. It usually ends up being a "we'll see the day of if we can manage that." We have quite a bit of outdoor space throughout the airfield, so long as we keep our bearing in some areas due to the potential for moving aircraft. Overall it isn't too horrible of a location. The plus side is we don't pay rent.

[SarDragon]

We don't really have the often of setting up a permanent work station aside from our printer/scanner which the flight school keeps using even though we have a big sign that says "Civil Air Patrol use only."

Remove and lock up the paper tray(s) when you aren't there. Problem solved.

[CAPDCCMOM]

^^^^ A well placed mouse trap can work wonders keeping people out of your stuff

[MSG Mac]

Take the power cord with you.

[SarDragon]

Take the power cord with you.

Too easy to come up with a replacement.

[TheSkyHornet]

I'm thinking of claymores....

And that should have said "option" not "often"