SER Winter Encampment

[BillB]

I wonder how the Southeast Region Winter Encampment is doing. The temperature in the Camp Blanding area is 22 degress with a wind chill of 15. Must be a new experience for south Florida cadets.  (0600 PT ??)

[Stonewall]

What?  You mean besides the Encampment Safety Officer breaking his hip on the obstacle course?  I'd say it's going well.

Hear he's doing well after surgery.  Hey, things happen.  If we wanted to be safe we would have joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary.   

[mikeylikey]

What?  You mean besides the Encampment Safety Officer breaking his hip on the obstacle course?  I'd say it's going well.

OUCH?!?!

"Things not to do at Encampment, 2008 version"

[SJFedor]

What?  You mean besides the Encampment Safety Officer breaking his hip on the obstacle course?  I'd say it's going well.

Hear he's doing well after surgery.  Hey, things happen.  If we wanted to be safe we would have joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary.   

That's horrible......ly ironic.

*sigh* only in SER....

[flyguy06]

How did you hear about that already?

[stillamarine]

I know an email went out on the FL yahoo group the day it happened or the day after.

[RiverAux]

If we wanted to be safe we would have joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary.   

Like Auxiliarist Jimmin Chang?  An CG Auxiliary interpreter, he went 600 odd miles out from San Francisco on a AF helicopter (undergoing 2 underway refuelings) and ended up being hoisted down with the PJs (and later back up) onto the aft deck of a freighter, which had a crewman in medical distress. http://www.auxadept.org/navigator/2003SUMMER.pdf

[Stonewall]

How did you hear about that already?

Ummm...I live about 1 hour from the encampment, I had a cadet or two at the encampment and I'm plugged in...

If we wanted to be safe we would have joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary.   

Like Auxiliarist Jimmin Chang?  An CG Auxiliary interpreter, he went 600 odd miles out from San Francisco on a AF helicopter (undergoing 2 underway refuelings) and ended up being hoisted down with the PJs (and later back up) onto the aft deck of a freighter, which had a crewman in medical distress. http://www.auxadept.org/navigator/2003SUMMER.pdf

Yes, just like Jimmin Chang....  You do realize it was a friendly bash on a sister auxiliary group, right?  No different than me taklin' smack on the Navy, being an Army and Air Force veteran...  Please don't get offended by this.

[RiverAux]

Yeah, I knew.  I just thought it would be funny to respond to.   

[Stonewall]

From the SER WE website.

Is this guy wearing the "Ranger" patch on his left sleeve?  Is that metal rank?



click here for larger picture.

[mikeylikey]

^^ Oh no......someone's in trouble!   

Leave it to a Ranger...........

[BillB]

That looks like a Hawk Mountain shoulder patch so probably wearing all kinds of Hawk bling.

[flyguy06]

From the SER WE website.

Is this guy wearing the "Ranger" patch on his left sleeve?  Is that metal rank?



click here for larger picture.

Please dont ask. I had to get into him about several things. He wore bloused boots with his sercie blue citing he was a "Real" Ranger. So i called him out telling him thatif he were really in an airborne unit he would know that you only wear blused boots with a beret. he acted like he didnt know that and thats when I knew he was a perp. He means well.

You know what they say. Imitationis the best form of flattery.

As far as the metal rank. he says he just got promoted to 2d LT and didnt have the sew on. We didnt make that much of a deal about it. i am not a uniform Nazi.

[Stonewall]

Please dont ask.  I had to get into him about several things.  He wore bloused boots with his service blues citing he was a "Real" Ranger. So I called him out telling him thatif he were really in an airborne unit he would know that you only wear blused boots with a beret. he acted like he didn't know that and thats when I knew he was a perp.  He means well.

You know what they say.  Imitationis the best form of flattery.

If that's the case, he would understand and know how to follow regulations.  Very interesting.  Hope to meet this guy.  Is he in FL wing?

As far as the metal rank. he says he just got promoted to 2d LT and didnt have the sew on. We didnt make that much of a deal about it. i am not a uniform Nazi.

That's what I figured on the rank thing.  Well, at least, that's what I expected to hear.

[mikeylikey]

^ Becasue it takes all of five (5) minutes to sew your rank on.  No One there at the ENC asked this guy to do that?  I also noticed other things (as did others) but won't call him out, becuase I don't care.  I just hope someone down there gets him squared away! 

[BlackKnight]

... He wore bloused boots with his sercie blue citing he was a "Real" Ranger. So i called him out telling him thatif he were really in an airborne unit he would know that you only wear blused boots with a beret. he acted like he didnt know that and thats when I knew he was a perp. He means well.

CAPM 39-1 Reg citiation please... 
Not sure if I understand your comment. I can't find anything prohibiting boot blousing. In fact, in my wing all but the rank newbies blouse their BDU trousers. Berets may or may not be authorized, depending on wing commander policy memos. Most of the memos I've seen that allow berets prohibit CAP members to wear them on a military base.

And here we go converting an encampment thread into a uniform thread. 

[BillB]

Knight read it again...blousing boots wearing blues, not BDUs  (have to read it through the typos)

[BlackKnight]

Ahh!   Definitely a major NO-NO!

Thanks for the linguistics assist... 

[flyguy06]

... He wore bloused boots with his sercie blue citing he was a "Real" Ranger. So i called him out telling him thatif he were really in an airborne unit he would know that you only wear blused boots with a beret. he acted like he didnt know that and thats when I knew he was a perp. He means well.

CAPM 39-1 Reg citiation please... 
Not sure if I understand your comment. I can't find anything prohibiting boot blousing. In fact, in my wing all but the rank newbies blouse their BDU trousers. Berets may or may not be authorized, depending on wing commander policy memos. Most of the memos I've seen that allow berets prohibit CAP members to wear them on a military base.

And here we go converting an encampment thread into a uniform thread. 

We are not talking about CAP regs here. This member claimed to be a real Army Ranger and thats why he had his boots bloused. I reminded him that Rangers as well as other Airborne units ONLY wear bloused boots when they are wearing their beretsand ONLY when they are currently assigned to said unit. Blousing BDU's trousers is cool. We are talkig about blousing Blues

[flyguy06]

Yes. Please forgive my typos