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Operations => CAP sUAS Discussions => Topic started by: etodd on June 07, 2019, 03:47:49 PM

Title: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 07, 2019, 03:47:49 PM
Has the sUAS Program ramped up yet in your Wing?  Curious as to who is rolling it out.

I know there are teams building and training in Delaware, South Dakota, Colorado, Alabama, Maryland, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. With Iowa about to start.

Others?

Going to be a slow process, as you need a real go-getter, self starter type person who is preferably already a Part 107 holder with experience, who can then get qualified as an Instructor / Check Pilot ... and is "willing" to then train other Instructors across the Wing, who can then train Squadron members.  Its a slow process. And some Wings may have trouble finding that candidate to be the lead. Its a heavy commitment of time.

Let us know how your Wing is doing.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: husker on June 07, 2019, 05:47:49 PM
For those members in SouthEast region, we'll be holding an sUAS course at WESS next cycle.  May be a good way to get some folks jump started into the program.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 07, 2019, 07:05:38 PM
Quote from: husker on June 07, 2019, 05:47:49 PM
For those members in SouthEast region, we'll be holding an sUAS course at WESS next cycle.  May be a good way to get some folks jump started into the program.

Fantastic idea.  We are fulling rolling out in the Alabama Wing, but not sure of the other Wings in the SER.

During the courses in WESS, how many of the items in the F5u, SQTR, and F91u would a member get checked off? How close to completion so that us Check Pilots in the field can quickly get their F91u completed and sign them off as sUAS Mission Pilots?
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Kayll'b on June 07, 2019, 09:01:03 PM
Washington has been doing some things with sUAS at Washington all missions academy. I'm not sure if they've used them in any SAR yet though.

-Kayll'b
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 07, 2019, 09:44:21 PM
Quote from: Kayll'b on June 07, 2019, 09:01:03 PM
Washington has been doing some things with sUAS at Washington all missions academy. I'm not sure if they've used them in any SAR yet though.


Thats the AE STEM kit training. Its different than the new program rolling out nationally.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Paul Creed III on June 07, 2019, 10:16:40 PM
Quote from: etodd on June 07, 2019, 03:47:49 PM
Has the sUAS Program ramped up yet in your Wing?  Curious as to who is rolling it out.

I know there are teams building and training in Delaware, South Dakota, Colorado, Alabama, Maryland, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. With Iowa about to start.

Others?

Going to be a slow process, as you need a real go-getter, self starter type person who is preferably already a Part 107 holder with experience, who can then get qualified as an Instructor / Check Pilot ... and is "willing" to then train other Instructors across the Wing, who can then train Squadron members.  Its a slow process. And some Wings may have trouble finding that candidate to be the lead. Its a heavy commitment of time.

Let us know how your Wing is doing.

Ohio is working on training pilots and technicians now who will go out and train others.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Huey Driver on June 08, 2019, 06:28:21 AM
Arizona has resources and several (recently) Form 5'd UAS pilots.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 09, 2019, 03:54:15 AM
Quote from: Nor'easter on June 08, 2019, 06:28:21 AM
Arizona has resources and several (recently) Form 5'd UAS pilots.

For sure.

Lt Don Fry is doing a great job there:

https://www.azwg.org/2019/05/17/air-force-team-to-evaluate-readiness-of-civil-air-patrol-members-across-arizona-to-conduct-disaster-relief-search-and-rescue-missions/ (https://www.azwg.org/2019/05/17/air-force-team-to-evaluate-readiness-of-civil-air-patrol-members-across-arizona-to-conduct-disaster-relief-search-and-rescue-missions/)
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Fubar on June 09, 2019, 07:26:27 AM
Quote from: etodd on June 09, 2019, 03:54:15 AM
Quote from: Nor'easter on June 08, 2019, 06:28:21 AM
Arizona has resources and several (recently) Form 5'd UAS pilots.

For sure.

From the article linked:

QuoteArizona Wing overcame a lack of operational guidance on sUAS flight and ground team release procedures and safely executed an effective sUAS SAR demo sortie.

Heh. I ran this through Google Translator which shows this means, "Nobody in charge has provided any procedures so we did our own thing and we didn't kill anybody."
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 09, 2019, 01:01:50 PM
Quote from: Fubar on June 09, 2019, 07:26:27 AM
.....which shows this means, "Nobody in charge has provided any procedures so we did our own thing and we didn't kill anybody."

Yes, I totally thought that statement was very odd, since CAPR 70-1u covers Flight Releases. If anyone on the team was also an aircraft mission pilot, they would know the procedures very well:

This from CAPR 70-1u

Quote
9.10.2. Flight Release

9.10.2.1. A flight release is required prior to departure for all CAP sUAS sortie activities. Except as indicated below, each flight release must be issued via the eFlight Release function in WMIRS.
       
9.10.2.1.1. If WMIRS is not available, the CAP sUAS Sortie/Flight Release Log (CAPF 99U) may be used to temporarily document the flight release. A flight released via CAPF 99U must be recorded as an eFlight Release in WMIRS within 24 hours unless the NOC is informed of extenuating circumstances.

    9.10.2.2. The sUAS PIC must obtain the flight release from a designated FRO via in-person or telephone conversation and notify the FRO of any changes made prior to departure.

9.10.2.3. The FRO is responsible for verifying appropriate information, authorizing a CAP sUAS pilot to fly as pilot in command in CAP aircraft, documenting the appropriate mission symbol,

9.10.2.4. An FRO may not release a flight on which he or she is serving as part of the sUAS team in any capacity.

9.10.2.5. ICs or other incident staff officers on supervised missions may only release sUAS flights related to that mission at their FRO level of authority. Sorties with operational risk management scores requiring approval from a higher authority must still be referred to higher authorities (see paragraph 9.10.1.4.).

Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: THRAWN on June 09, 2019, 04:29:26 PM
Quote from: etodd on June 09, 2019, 01:01:50 PM
Quote from: Fubar on June 09, 2019, 07:26:27 AM
.....which shows this means, "Nobody in charge has provided any procedures so we did our own thing and we didn't kill anybody."

Yes, I totally thought that statement was very odd, since CAPR 70-1u covers Flight Releases. If anyone on the team was also an aircraft mission pilot, they would know the procedures very well:

This from CAPR 70-1u

Quote
9.10.2. Flight Release

9.10.2.1. A flight release is required prior to departure for all CAP sUAS sortie activities. Except as indicated below, each flight release must be issued via the eFlight Release function in WMIRS.
       
9.10.2.1.1. If WMIRS is not available, the CAP sUAS Sortie/Flight Release Log (CAPF 99U) may be used to temporarily document the flight release. A flight released via CAPF 99U must be recorded as an eFlight Release in WMIRS within 24 hours unless the NOC is informed of extenuating circumstances.

    9.10.2.2. The sUAS PIC must obtain the flight release from a designated FRO via in-person or telephone conversation and notify the FRO of any changes made prior to departure.

9.10.2.3. The FRO is responsible for verifying appropriate information, authorizing a CAP sUAS pilot to fly as pilot in command in CAP aircraft, documenting the appropriate mission symbol,

9.10.2.4. An FRO may not release a flight on which he or she is serving as part of the sUAS team in any capacity.

9.10.2.5. ICs or other incident staff officers on supervised missions may only release sUAS flights related to that mission at their FRO level of authority. Sorties with operational risk management scores requiring approval from a higher authority must still be referred to higher authorities (see paragraph 9.10.1.4.).


Even odder is that fact that no matter how many times you quite quote it, it is still not an official regulation.

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Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 09, 2019, 04:43:45 PM
Quote from: THRAWN on June 09, 2019, 04:29:26 PM

Even odder is that fact that no matter how many times you quite it, it is still not an official regulation.

And yet over half the Wings in CAP are already implementing the program.

Yours will get there one day. Then your Wing Commander will give you the info you need.

Until then .... "What me worry?" 🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: PHall on June 09, 2019, 05:18:18 PM
Quote from: etodd on June 09, 2019, 04:43:45 PM
Quote from: THRAWN on June 09, 2019, 04:29:26 PM

Even odder is that fact that no matter how many times you quite it, it is still not an official regulation.

And yet over half the Wings in CAP are already implementing the program.

Yours will get there one day. Then your Wing Commander will give you the info you need.

Until then .... "What me worry?" 🤣🤣🤣

etodd, attitudes like yours is why CAP is looked upon as a bunch stumbling amateurs by the professional SAR community.
We have no self discipline. Don't like a reg, ignore it!

Why the rush? Why not slow down, get the guidance out to the users and then get this program going in an orderly, controlled manner.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 09, 2019, 05:40:11 PM
Quote from: PHall on June 09, 2019, 05:18:18 PM

Why not slow down, get the guidance out to the users and then get this program going in an orderly, controlled manner.

Why yes thank you ... that is exactly how its being done. Slowly, one Wing at a time, in an orderly manner.  The Wings that are implementing and/or are already at Operation Capability have "slowly" rolled it out.

Its a very slow process. First you have to get the initial few Instructors and CheckPilots qualified. So they can then train Instructors for Squadron training. Those who jumped on board early are way ahead of the game. The Wings that are sitting back will still get at the destination, just a few months (years?) later. It really is up to Wing Commanders at this point as to participation.

As I've said elsewhere, when your Wing is ready to begin, you will get the information from Your Wing Commander filtered down the chain your way.  Its all good.  :)
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Huey Driver on June 11, 2019, 03:43:29 AM
Quote from: Fubar on June 09, 2019, 07:26:27 AM
Quote from: etodd on June 09, 2019, 03:54:15 AM
Quote from: Nor'easter on June 08, 2019, 06:28:21 AM
Arizona has resources and several (recently) Form 5'd UAS pilots.

For sure.

From the article linked:

QuoteArizona Wing overcame a lack of operational guidance on sUAS flight and ground team release procedures and safely executed an effective sUAS SAR demo sortie.

Heh. I ran this through Google Translator which shows this means, "Nobody in charge has provided any procedures so we did our own thing and we didn't kill anybody."

You do recognize that you're quoting a COMMENDABLE item of our Ops Eval report, right? We followed the (suggested) procedures and guidance from NHQ, and executed it in a superior manner that merited recognition from our USAF evaluation team. Let's redirect those spears you're throwing. NHQ needs to get on the ball and approve the *darn* series already.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: PHall on June 11, 2019, 04:58:00 AM
Quote from: Nor'easter on June 11, 2019, 03:43:29 AM
Quote from: Fubar on June 09, 2019, 07:26:27 AM
Quote from: etodd on June 09, 2019, 03:54:15 AM
Quote from: Nor'easter on June 08, 2019, 06:28:21 AM
Arizona has resources and several (recently) Form 5'd UAS pilots.

For sure.

From the article linked:

QuoteArizona Wing overcame a lack of operational guidance on sUAS flight and ground team release procedures and safely executed an effective sUAS SAR demo sortie.

Heh. I ran this through Google Translator which shows this means, "Nobody in charge has provided any procedures so we did our own thing and we didn't kill anybody."

You do recognize that you're quoting a COMMENDABLE item of our Ops Eval report, right? We followed the (suggested) procedures and guidance from NHQ, and executed it in a superior manner that merited recognition from our USAF evaluation team. Let's redirect those spears you're throwing. NHQ needs to get on the ball and approve the *darn* series already.

And I'll ask this yet again. What is the hurry? Why can't you wait for the guidance from National Headquarters to be released through normal channels?
Is there a super urgent need or requirement here? ???
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 11, 2019, 02:41:32 PM
Quote from: PHall on June 11, 2019, 04:58:00 AM
Why can't you wait for the guidance from National Headquarters to be released through normal channels?


Again ....

Its being done just that very way.  Normal channels down through Wing Commanders.  If your Wing Commander isn't starting up your Wing yet, then none of this CAPTalk sUAS Forum applies to you yet.

It'll come your way at some point.

QuoteIs there a super urgent need or requirement here?

In some Wings yes. There is a subset of this Program that has the Air Force as its customer. The AF is waiting for those Wings to get up and running with a sufficient number of sUAS MPs to be Mission Capable.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: THRAWN on June 11, 2019, 04:05:15 PM
There is an organizational sense of urgency with this. CAP is almost a decade behind in the use of the technology and there is the desire to remain relevant in the ES/EM/DR fields. Despite the repeated assertions that this is being rolled out through "normal channels", PHall is, as usual, correct when he points out that there is no official guidance. A draft proposal of a suggested regulation that keeps getting quoted like it is coming from the burning bush, isn't worth the paper it is written on. Or not written on. Or whatever. If this was such an urgent priority then the regulation would have been published along with the initial roll out of the program. That way, it wouldn't be getting spoon fed to a narrow subset of the ever reviled GOBN. At this rate, it's going to be another couple of years before CAP is capable of fielding an effective drone capability locally. Looking at this from a state and federal emergency management level, there are other assets that could be put to use well before CAP is even considered.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 11, 2019, 04:14:54 PM

I totally get where many of you are coming from, but will ask it this way:

My Wing Commander and DO appointed me to be the Wing Program Director of sUAS.  They told me to start using the documents and procedures given to roll out this program in my Wing.

We are not doing all this "on our own".  Its ALL coming down from CAP Nat Hqds.

Should I say no?  Should all my counterparts in all these other Wings go on strike as well and refuse orders from above, until they erase the word "draft"?

Are you calling for a rebellion? Time for a mutiny?

Bottom line is that your gripe is not with me, its with National.  If you would like to inquire, here is their phone number 877.227.9142
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Eclipse on June 11, 2019, 05:01:50 PM
The problem here is that a lot of people in CAP obey just the regs that are convenient,
and as soon as something FUN! EXCITING!  falls into their lap, within regs or not,
they will run out the door and start doing, then later complain that things went sideways.

Or conversely, the rest of the membership sees the GOBN doing FUN! EXCITING! in an extra-regulatory
fashion and either gets frustrated when they can't play, or uses it as an excuse to make up their own rules
regarding their FUN! EXCITING!

Professional organizations don't pick and choose which regulations they obey and which they don't,
including the ones about publication and approval of those same regulations.

There is no emergency here and the need for "urgency" passed about 10 years ago.

What many of us with seasoned RSRs see in this is another rushed program with high
expectations being touted as the next CAP savior which is likely going to get relegated to
the "good idea" closet.

A couple other things you should consider.

Unless every unit has a couple good UAVs, or at least groups, these things become
the new L-Pers / AP Cameras / Radios.  More often far from the mission, or in "Charlie's trunk, and Charlie's
in the Bahamas..."

Your physical proximity to NHQ means your CAP experience is not typical in any number of ways.

You have literally no idea the hundreds, if not thousands of man hours spent establishing relationships,
creating programs, and generally doing what is expected that have been destroyed by rushed programs,
1/2-baked ideas, and non stakeholders declaring "things".

This is why you are not getting the ticker-tape you expect.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Spaceman3750 on June 11, 2019, 05:27:58 PM
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Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: THRAWN on June 11, 2019, 05:39:37 PM
Quote from: Spaceman3750 on June 11, 2019, 05:27:58 PM
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Does this mean that Ann-Margaret isn't coming?
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 11, 2019, 07:39:48 PM
Quote from: Eclipse on June 11, 2019, 05:01:50 PM
The problem here is that a lot of people in CAP obey just the regs that are convenient,
and as soon as something FUN! EXCITING!  falls into their lap, within regs or not,
they will run out the door and start doing, then later complain that things went sideways.

Or conversely, the rest of the membership sees the GOBN doing FUN! EXCITING! in an extra-regulatory
fashion and either gets frustrated when they can't play, or uses it as an excuse to make up their own rules
regarding their FUN! EXCITING!

Professional organizations don't pick and choose which regulations they obey and which they don't,
including the ones about publication and approval of those same regulations.

There is no emergency here and the need for "urgency" passed about 10 years ago.

What many of us with seasoned RSRs see in this is another rushed program with high
expectations being touted as the next CAP savior which is likely going to get relegated to
the "good idea" closet.

A couple other things you should consider.

Unless every unit has a couple good UAVs, or at least groups, these things become
the new L-Pers / AP Cameras / Radios.  More often far from the mission, or in "Charlie's trunk, and Charlie's
in the Bahamas..."

Your physical proximity to NHQ means your CAP experience is not typical in any number of ways.

You have literally no idea the hundreds, if not thousands of man hours spent establishing relationships,
creating programs, and generally doing what is expected that have been destroyed by rushed programs,
1/2-baked ideas, and non stakeholders declaring "things".

This is why you are not getting the ticker-tape you expect.


So in all of that, you didn't answer my question. Should I follow orders I'm getting from Hdqs to Wing down to me ... or should I refuse and tell them to stuff it?

Seems your problem is with National, not us guys in the field.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: THRAWN on June 11, 2019, 08:11:15 PM
Quote from: etodd on June 11, 2019, 07:39:48 PM
Quote from: Eclipse on June 11, 2019, 05:01:50 PM
The problem here is that a lot of people in CAP obey just the regs that are convenient,
and as soon as something FUN! EXCITING!  falls into their lap, within regs or not,
they will run out the door and start doing, then later complain that things went sideways.

Or conversely, the rest of the membership sees the GOBN doing FUN! EXCITING! in an extra-regulatory
fashion and either gets frustrated when they can't play, or uses it as an excuse to make up their own rules
regarding their FUN! EXCITING!

Professional organizations don't pick and choose which regulations they obey and which they don't,
including the ones about publication and approval of those same regulations.

There is no emergency here and the need for "urgency" passed about 10 years ago.

What many of us with seasoned RSRs see in this is another rushed program with high
expectations being touted as the next CAP savior which is likely going to get relegated to
the "good idea" closet.

A couple other things you should consider.

Unless every unit has a couple good UAVs, or at least groups, these things become
the new L-Pers / AP Cameras / Radios.  More often far from the mission, or in "Charlie's trunk, and Charlie's
in the Bahamas..."

Your physical proximity to NHQ means your CAP experience is not typical in any number of ways.

You have literally no idea the hundreds, if not thousands of man hours spent establishing relationships,
creating programs, and generally doing what is expected that have been destroyed by rushed programs,
1/2-baked ideas, and non stakeholders declaring "things".

This is why you are not getting the ticker-tape you expect.


So in all of that, you didn't answer my question. Should I follow orders I'm getting from Hdqs to Wing down to me ... or should I refuse and tell them to stuff it?

Seems your problem is with National, not us guys in the field.

It's actually with both. NHQ for expecting people to operate in the absence of an established official policy, and the yes-men who go along with "orders" in the absence of an official policy. If this was such a hot rock, the policy should have been fast tracked, made official, and this discussion would have never happened. Instead, somebody came up with a great idea, sketched a rough outline of how it should work and worry about making it a real regulation later. This is a prime example of why the greater EM community has declined to entertain CAP's attempts to become a resource.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 11, 2019, 08:19:08 PM
I get all that. I'm just the little worker bee. All your issues are way above my pay grade. Give National a phone call or email. I'm sure they would entertain your feedback.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 11, 2019, 08:58:40 PM
Quote from: Eclipse on June 11, 2019, 05:01:50 PM

... these things become the new L-Pers / AP Cameras / Radios.


Well of course they will.  I never say any different. The drone is nothing more than a new tool in the toolbox. I tell folks around here that all the time. Sure, there will be a flurry of activity in the beginning, just as there was 2 or 3 years ago when the Garmin Virb camera came out. We had training weekends and a few SAREXs to learn it ... then yep, it goes in the closet with the DSLR and everything else, waiting for an actual mission, SAREX, or local training time. Its all the same.

I gave a drone demonstration at a Squadron meeting a few weeks ago. We had pushed it out there on FB beforehand, and had a number of visitors. Well, three new Seniors have joined saying they want to be a part of this new sUAS Program. Am I the big cheerleader and excited? Heck no. I realize that the drones will be sitting in the closet soon, and have told the rest of the squadron they better get these new members interested in other aspects of CAP if they want to retain them.   In the same way its always been when a "professional photographer" joins CAP thinking they will be taking aerial photos several times a month. Nope. Nothing new here. Same old issues.


Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: bwana50 on June 15, 2019, 12:04:49 PM
KSWG is ramping up.

I'm excited about the prospects of the program, but I fear CAP is too late to the game.  We'll see how it plays out.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 15, 2019, 07:22:59 PM
Quote from: bwana50 on June 15, 2019, 12:04:49 PM
KSWG is ramping up.

I'm excited about the prospects of the program, but I fear CAP is too late to the game.  We'll see how it plays out.

Too late for what?  SAR? Sure. First responders who are already on the scene are buying their own drones. Even if we had been the first to get into drones years ago, all the first responders would be buying them now, and would stop calling us.  We are NOT first responders and really never will be.  90% of all Saves now are thanks to the cell phone forensics team, that can do their job at 3am with laptops by the bedside, while still in their underwear. (That last part has to be bugging some CAP folks. LOL)

FEMA and other EMAs, and similar? Yes, they are talking with CAP now and are very interested in what we can provide in terms of DAR.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 07:36:39 PM
Quote from: etodd on June 15, 2019, 07:22:59 PM
FEMA and other EMAs, and similar? Yes, they are talking with CAP now and are very interested in what we can provide in terms of DAR.

FEMA is and will continue to farm DAR out to paid contractors who sign service agreements and respond whenever called,
regardless of area, time, or type of incident.

Local EMAs are already doing it on their own.  In my AOR I don't know of any department of consequence
that doesn't already have either in-house or external resources, none of which are tied to CAP's response
bureaucracy and limitations.

As a private citizen I can take my toys over to the Village Hall  and do whatever they ask me to do in shorts and a tank
top on nothing more then a handshake, and potentially do it on my own.

In a CAP uniform I need hours of approvals, forms, several people to be involved on one level or another,
and that assumes the program is ever a "program".

Except the Village isn't going to ask me, because they already have their own toys manned by paid
employees, and in a large incident, will be burning that sweet, sweet FEMA money on contractors.

Other than in rare circumstances that are generally personality-driven, CAP has never executed well
in regards to the relationships required to get mission work, on either the Federal or local level.
That's due to a lot of things, not the least of which is the lack of manpower, and overlapping bureaucracies.

If your wing / AOR isn't already doing aerial surveys, DR, CD, or other local support, nothing is going
to change because the wing gets a UAV.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 15, 2019, 07:51:50 PM
Quote from: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 07:36:39 PM

If your wing / AOR isn't already doing aerial surveys, DR, CD, or other local support, nothing is going
to change because the wing gets a UAV.

So true with most everything CAP does. Not enough Commanders on every level, doing the tours of EMAs, cities, states, etc., shaking hands and selling CAP. It takes a special kind of person to do those things. Probably should be part of the Wing paid staff, if they are not already there. If already at all Wings, might be time to "encourage" some action on their part.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 08:46:01 PM
The wing paid staff?
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: CAP9907 on June 15, 2019, 09:18:06 PM
Last I knew the only paid staff at Wing HQ's are the civilian admin assistants (1 per Wing)...
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 15, 2019, 09:23:30 PM
Quote from: CAP9907 on June 15, 2019, 09:18:06 PM
Last I knew the only paid staff at Wing HQ's are the civilian admin assistants (1 per Wing)...

Well with CAP's status with EMAs and others being like Eclipse mentions above, maybe its time for each Wing to budget in a lobbyist. Who can go after all these organizations and get us in the door. The occasional visit from a local Commander obviously isn't doing the trick. Time to be aggressive.

Of course I should have put that in a new thread in a different category. LOL
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 09:31:30 PM
"Budget" from what?

"Lobby" who?

You've been in CAP far too long to not understand how it works, unless it's willful.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: baronet68 on June 15, 2019, 10:26:28 PM
Quote from: etodd on June 15, 2019, 07:51:50 PM
... the Wing paid staff...

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Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 15, 2019, 10:33:47 PM
Quote from: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 09:31:30 PM
"Budget" from what?

"Lobby" who?

You've been in CAP far too long to not understand how it works, unless it's willful.

Thats my point. "How it works" ... apparently needs to change or what is our future? A Cadet education program only by year 20xx?

"How it works" is letting us slip down to nothingness in the SAR world (except for the plain clothes Cell Phone guys).

How many posts here read like the one Eclipse wrote above?  Numerous.

"We've always done it this way" ... <<<    Time to wake up don't you think.

No budget? Ask not receive not. Time to hit up Congress or somebody?
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 11:01:35 PM
Honestly, you have no idea how CAP works.

CAP is a volunteer organization, that's literally the only way the paradigm and ROI works.  The failures
are in retention of people, organizational knowledge, and lack of strategic plans that stir members' souls.

Stick to being an operator, or invest some time in leadership roles, then get back to us with your "idears" in 5 years or so.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 16, 2019, 12:32:19 AM
Quote from: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 11:01:35 PM

Stick to being an operator ...


Yep. As I've said before, I prefer to just be a little worker bee.

Its fun to poke the bear every now and then though. ;)
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: SarDragon on June 16, 2019, 03:47:06 AM
Quote from: etodd on June 16, 2019, 12:32:19 AM
Quote from: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 11:01:35 PM

Stick to being an operator ...


Yep. As I've said before, I prefer to just be a little worker bee.

Its fun to poke the bear every now and then though. ;)

Winky smiley aside, the more you poke the bear, the less positive response you will get to your posts. Being a smart-ass isn't the best way to win folks over to things you are trying them are good.

Again, step back and look at what you are trying to achieve, and work toward reaching that goal without pissing off your audience. Right now, you aren't doing too well.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: CAP9907 on June 16, 2019, 03:58:16 AM
Quote from: etodd on June 16, 2019, 12:32:19 AM
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Its fun to poke the bear every now and then though. ;)

No, it is not.

~9907

*edit*,  What SarDragon said, agree*
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Fester on June 16, 2019, 04:49:55 AM
Quote from: Eclipse on June 15, 2019, 09:31:30 PM
"Budget" from what?

"Lobby" who?

You've been in CAP far too long to not understand how it works, unless it's willful.

Perhaps if he would invest the time and energy into progressing through our Professional Development program instead of just being happy being a butter bar "worker bee," he would have a better understanding of how things works? 

Just a thought.....
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: etodd on June 17, 2019, 12:07:04 AM
Quote from: Fester on June 16, 2019, 04:49:55 AM

Perhaps if he would invest the time and energy into progressing through our Professional Development program instead of just being happy being a butter bar "worker bee," he would have a better understanding of how things works? 


Oh I understand it a enough.  I just see how much "isn't" working, and like to push the envelope here as to where maybe things could go down the line. I mean really, do you think everything will be status quo 20 years from now? I think CAP will need to almost be totally reinvented at some point.

Yes, instead of bouncing my crazy ideas off my local folks, I use CAPTalk as a sounding board first. LOL

This whole drone program is one good example of how something that the AF and FEMA wants rolled out quickly, cannot be done in the "slow as Christmas" normal CAP framework.

Oh well ... lets revisit this conversation 20 years from now. Who nows? Maybe everything will be status quo, and still rolling along.
Title: Re: Is Your Wing Onboard Yet?
Post by: Fester on June 17, 2019, 06:53:50 AM
Quote from: etodd on June 17, 2019, 12:07:04 AM
Quote from: Fester on June 16, 2019, 04:49:55 AM

Perhaps if he would invest the time and energy into progressing through our Professional Development program instead of just being happy being a butter bar "worker bee," he would have a better understanding of how things works? 


Oh I understand it a enough.  I just see how much "isn't" working, and like to push the envelope here as to where maybe things could go down the line. I mean really, do you think everything will be status quo 20 years from now? I think CAP will need to almost be totally reinvented at some point.

Yes, instead of bouncing my crazy ideas off my local folks, I use CAPTalk as a sounding board first. LOL

This whole drone program is one good example of how something that the AF and FEMA wants rolled out quickly, cannot be done in the "slow as Christmas" normal CAP framework.

Oh well ... lets revisit this conversation 20 years from now. Who nows? Maybe everything will be status quo, and still rolling along.

It's pretty apparent to me that you don't have a firm grasp.  If you did, you wouldn't like to "push the envelope."