Worst SAREX experience

[Spaceman3750]

It pains me that they would change any ES position age requirement from 18 to 21.  I was a 20 year old scanner/observer and GTL and I'm of the opinion that a well trained cadet is typically at least as well studied and every bit as well focused as their senior member counterpart.

I think it has a lot to do with aligning with FEMA standards. 2 years ago, the rumor mill was saying that the GTL age was going to be raised from 18 to 21 to align with FEMA standards. That hasn't happened yet, though I expect that it will at some point (just hopefully not before I turn 21 ).

[JeffDG]

I was a 20 year old Logistics Section Chief at the last Eval and my section earned an Outstanding. Would a cadet the same age be any different, besides likely having more time in the program than I had?

Mark

How do you do that when the SQTR for LSC has an "Age Eligibility: 21 years" in the Prerequisites section?

The Branch Directors require 18 year olds, so cadets are eligible for those, but of the Section Chiefs, only the Planning Section Chief does not include a 21 age of eligibility in the prereqs (and don't ask my what PSC doesn't...I haven't a clue!)

Good point. That was listed in the NESA task guides, but not on the SQTR that was in EServices when I qualified as an LSC.  At that point, the age check was 18 for that position. Some time after June of 2011 and September of 2011 they changed it to a 21 year age requirement. I'm not sure when that was because the next time I looked at the SQTR (Teaching another LSC) it was a the end of September and it had the 21 year old age requirement. With my birthday having just past, I got really lucky that my qualification didn't go away.

Mark

May want to check it out then.

Someone messed with a bunch of SQTRs online about that time.  For example, LSC went from requiring MSA or CUL to requiring MSA AND CUL.  I was trying to get some people qualified in Logistics at the time, and after an e-mail, it was quietly changed back.

[cpyahoo]

Hey CAPCadet902!  *raising my hand*

Guilty!!!  I put a Hawk Mountain sticker on the back of one of our new vans.  Wanted to see how long it would take someone to notice.

Looks like you won!  Nobody from my wing has noticed yet!

[Duke Dillio]

I don't remember when this was but the person who planted the practice beacon put it underneath a high voltage transmission tower with the antenna resting on the tower itself.  This particular line ran from New Mexico to Wyoming and beyond IIRC....  Need I say more?

[Spaceman3750]

I don't remember when this was but the person who planted the practice beacon put it underneath a high voltage transmission tower with the antenna resting on the tower itself.  This particular line ran from New Mexico to Wyoming and beyond IIRC....  Need I say more?

I always wanted to put one in the windfarm my group CC works at... "The signal's here. No, it's there! Now it's over there!"

[bflynn]

Reading through this thread - My boss at work has a saying - it's difficult for him to motivate people, so his primary job must be to keep from demotivating them.  People bring their own reasons for wanting to do this.  Part of the leadership's job is keep from destroying the morale.

My worst SarEx was a year or two ago.  We mustered, signed in and a thunderstom parked over the airport and didn't move.  We sat in the pilot's lounge for about four hours until they pulled the plug on the exercise.

[SarDragon]

Reading through this thread - My boss at work has a saying - it's difficult for him to motivate people, so his primary job must be to keep from demotivating them.  People bring their own reasons for wanting to do this.  Part of the leadership's job is keep from destroying the morale.

My worst SarEx was a year or two ago.  We mustered, signed in and a thunderstom parked over the airport and didn't move.  We sat in the pilot's lounge for about four hours until they pulled the plug on the exercise.

BTDT. X5. 

[Maverick925]

My first year in college, I transferred to a unit in NJWG so I could keep trying to advance in the Cadet Program.  One day, we had a statewide SAREX.  There were two mission bases.  Teterboro - where I was - in the north, and Trenton in the south.  I was the MRO at Teterboro Base.  The only other person working comm at Teterboro that day was a cadet who was "kinda" interested in radios.  I was what was then listed as ROA-A.  Shortly after the exercise started, there was a total power failure at Trenton.  Their commo equipment was inoperative.  So...instead of them sticking someone in a van and using a mobile radio, they decided to use the repeater network, and I was handling radio traffic for the entire state.  Eighteen years old, trying to teach another cadet the ropes of commo, and we had to handle radio traffic for the entire SAREX for the remainder of the exercise.

To this day, it astounds me how there were either no senior members approved as an MRO, or no one that was willing to do the job.  The SAREX went off without a hitch, and I haven't filled the MRO role since.

[SarDragon]

Trenton is no more South Jersey than San Francisco is Southern California. That's just what the folks up north would have you believe. 

[Maverick925]

Trenton is no more South Jersey than San Francisco is Southern California. That's just what the folks up north would have you believe. 

To a person like me, who lives in Philly, Trenton is Central Jersey.  However, from going to college in Northern Jersey (Bergen County), I've come to be taught that Trenton is either South Jersey, or the dividing line.  It's amazing how much North Jersey people dislike the south and vice versa.

[SarDragon]

And there are the Pineys. 

Now let's get back to crappy SAREX experiences.

[Huey Driver]

NJ once again proves to be a largely discussed topic on CAPTalk

And back to the SAREXs.

[JROB]

Guilty!!!  I put a Hawk Mountain sticker on the back of one of our new vans.  Wanted to see how long it would take someone to notice.

Looks like you won!  Nobody from my wing has noticed yet!

I noticed during SLS. I guess I'll have to find a NBB sticker for my van

[bflynn]

I don't remember when this was but the person who planted the practice beacon put it underneath a high voltage transmission tower with the antenna resting on the tower itself.  This particular line ran from New Mexico to Wyoming and beyond IIRC....  Need I say more?

Wow...

That has to be at least as fun as putting it in a car

[a2capt]

... or 4 of them in aircraft at one airport, with one in a car circling the airport at random?

Simulating an airport after a tornado

[BTCS1*]

... or 4 of them in aircraft at one airport, with one in a car circling the airport at random?

Simulating an airport after a tornado

Now that's just mean!