Cadet Activities Color Scale

[MIKE]

Reflective Orange - Orange squadrons are Emergency Services/Search and Rescue centric.  The vast majority of activities will involve preparation for the accomplishment of this mission, this may include advanced emergency medical training and other specialized skill sets.   This is not to say that other activities are not provided, but typically at their most basic level so to allow for cadet progression.

Green - Green squadrons wear these things called Battle Dress Uniforms.  They will spend some time outside getting these uniforms dirty.  Green squadrons are much more military oriented than orange squadrons.  Particularly the greener parts of the military.  Green squadrons may actually get to shoot guns on occasion.

• Light green squadrons will mix some ES type activities with other get dirty activities with a military slant.
• Dark green squadrons might be confused with infantry companies, and have probably made ghillie suits or Ranger beads as a unit activity.  Don't forget the cam cream!

Blue/Green - Pretty self explainitory.  Some blue/green squadrons will be relatively neutral with a pretty balanced program, some will have blueish green tendencies, while others will tend to lean toward greenish blue.  None should be extreme.

Blue - An easy way to classify a blue squadron is that they typically do not do activities that would involve getting their service uniform dirty.  Don't want to bust a shirt garter.  If they wear BDUs at all, they are starched and boots polished such that you would not wear them in the woods, as they might get wrinkled or soiled.  However; not all blue squadrons will be as sharply dressed.

• A blue squadron (Type A) is the Aerospace Education centric squadron.  More of a sky blue or possibly black if they do a lot with space exploration.  They will spend the majority of time learning about aviation and space, doing model rocketry and/or orientation flights.  A sky blue squadron probably has a plane, while a black squadron likely doesn't.
• A blue squadron (Type B) is the Drill Team/Color Guard/Honor Guard squadron.  They will do whats required to be competitive/win.  Honor Guard squadrons want to do non-standard drill, spin parade rifles and wear blinged out uniforms. You would not think this would be compatible with the other type B units, but they are still very similar.

A commonality between type A and B blue squadrons is that the military nature of the unit doesn't typically extend very far beyond the drill and uniform, as opposed to the green and blue/green units.

[RiverAux]

Blue is obviously for AE-focused squadrons. 

[MIKE]

Blue is obviously for AE-focused squadrons.

Not just AE... work in progress.

[Major Carrales]

Interesting concept...pity you didn't range all CAP units from CADET, COMPOSITE to SENIOR SQUADRON.

There is huge room for commentray there.


CADET- INFRARED- Three Seniors and 60 cadets

R- Purely Cadet Program, the mini- ROTC type unit. FOCUS on CADET PROGRESSION, the INTER-CITY SQUADRON.

O- Mix of Aerospace and Cadet Progression, minor ES if any.  O-Flights, likely near a proximate senior unit that flies.

Y- Heavy into ES, Cadet Progression is a side-effect of ES works.  Lots of O-Flights. (sorry Yellow won't render well)

COMPOSITE- GREEN- A WHOLE CAP squadron with CADETS and CAP OFFICERS hitting all Mission Points.

B- A Cadet Program is present and strong but yields to the CAP Officers.  Likely, a DCC is assigned and given all responsibility.

I- A weak Cadet Program, likely stalling. 

V- 20 ES and Flying CAP Officers and five Cadets

SENIOR- ULTRAVIOLET What's  A CADET?

[Lancer]

Point to all this Mike? Just curious....

[MIKE]

Just a neat way to categorize units.  I was thinking about it for some reason, so I figured I would post it.  Originally thought of it as a poll, but I have to get the colors down first.

[BillB]

OMG, Mike was going to do a poll

[MIKE]

I don't spam them like some people, and I try to make them somewhat meaningful.

[RiverAux]

Bill said it first (in public)!!!   :angel:

[ZigZag911]

Actually, I find it intriguingly analytical, accurate in its descriptions, and highly entertaining.....and yet one more proof that most of us on this board have too much time on our hands (or ingest too much caffeine each day, gotta be one or the other)

[arajca]

Actually, I find it intriguingly analytical, accurate in its descriptions, and highly entertaining.....and yet one more proof that most of us on this board have too much time on our hands (or ingest too much caffeine each day, gotta be one or the other)

Could be both.  :angel:

[NEBoom]

Actually, I find it intriguingly analytical, accurate in its descriptions, and highly entertaining.....and yet one more proof that most of us on this board have too much time on our hands (or ingest too much caffeine each day, gotta be one or the other)

Could be both.  :angel:

Is both...

It's an interesting way to look at it though.  We all know there are units of every variety out there.  My impression is that most of our rural area units are orange, with orange-light green or orange-blue tendencies.  We have a couple of blue units, but even they have blue-green or blue-orange tendencies (what kind of a color would blue-orange be anyway?).  I really can't think of any that are one solid color though.

[SarDragon]

(what kind of a color would blue-orange be anyway?). 

A Florida Gators fan, of course!

[MIKE]

I didn't envision blue/orange as being possible.  Total opposite ends of the scale.

[SarDragon]

Yup, Gator colors!

[NEBoom]

I didn't envision blue/orange as being possible.  Total opposite ends of the scale.

Yet we have a unit here that is HUGE into Color Guard comp (and supposedly working up a drill team), but is also big into Communications, and has a ground team.  I'd put them far more blue than orange, but they do both things.

[BillB]

GO GATORS  Hey I'm 3 miles from the University of Florida

[BlackKnight]

Instead of picking discrete colors, why not create one of those RGB/RYB color wheel graphs.  Sort of like a "mood ring" for a balanced squadron.   As you move towards the edges you become more un-nnn-ba-ba-ba-llanced. 

We can assign number values to each activity type the squadron performs and the number average would provide your location on the color wheel...

[Reality check: Anyone posting to this thread has WAAY too much time on their hands!]

[jimmydeanno]

I think it is a great way for people to associate squadron climates with their own.  People naturally understand color (for the most part - blue + yellow = green, red + blue = purple), so it gives a great visual representation of where their squadron lies and where they'd like to be, in the same way people can look at the colors of the ribbons and associate what the requirements for it were.

[MIKE]

The base colors are based on the uniform worn.

Reflective Orange - Orange Reflective Vest
Green - Woodland Camouflage Battle Dress Uniform
Blue - Service Uniform

[SAR-EMT1]

I didn't envision blue/orange as being possible.  Total opposite ends of the scale.

NO... NOT THE GATORS

THE University of Illinois Fighting ILLINI

[SAR-EMT1]

BTW... my composite squadron has a blend.

The cadet side of the house is Orange and Green
the Senior side of the house is Orange and Blue-green.

[RogueLeader]

Wow, this is pretty cool, not to mention fairly realistic.