About a month ago, while working recruiting at the Blue Angels Air Show in Pensacola FL, I spoke with a couple SMs from a MS Wing squadron. In conversation I explained how hard it was to get our cadets to the FLWG encampments with them always being 6 plus hours away. He stated that this coming year MS and AL Wings were holding a joint encampment in Biloxi or Gulfport which is only about 2 hours away! Unfortunately I goofed and didn't get any contact info for those great guys! If anyone knows anything about that particular encampment or who I can contact in regards to it please let me know!
Thanks
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Sorry I can't help with the contact info for the AL/MS encampment, but this brings up an interesting observation.
There are 52 wings and thus theoretically 52 summer encampments. Many of our cadets find themselves in a situation where either through scheduling or geography it would be more convenient to attend encampment in an adjacent wing. But information about out-of-wing encampments is devilishy hard to find unless you know someone who knows someone. And it's nearly impossible if the adjacent wing is in another region.
Why is that? It seems like it would be so simple for the encampment schedules and contact info for the encampment director to be listed in the cadet programs section of the national website. If our goal is to increase retention of our Phase I/II cadets and get more of them to encampment, surely this is a no-brainer. Per information provided in a recent TLC class, 78% of our cadets never make it to the first milestone, the Wright Brothers award for C/SSGT.
If we can list this basic scheduling info for the Professional Development class schedules (SLS/CLC/UCC/Staff Colleges) why not for the encampments?
[Self-Edit:] From another related thread it turns out there is a listing on the cap.gov cadet programs page (duh!). But as was pointed out most of the entries aren't current so it's not all that helpful. But at least it gives us a clue as to whom to contact in another wing.
http://www.cap.gov/visitors/members/cadet_programs/index.cfm?nodeID=6504&audienceID=4 (http://www.cap.gov/visitors/members/cadet_programs/index.cfm?nodeID=6504&audienceID=4)
Quote from: stillamarine on December 15, 2007, 09:46:03 PM
About a month ago, while working recruiting at the Blue Angels Air Show in Pensacola FL, I spoke with a couple SMs from a MS Wing squadron. In conversation I explained how hard it was to get our cadets to the FLWG encampments with them always being 6 plus hours away. He stated that this coming year MS and AL Wings were holding a joint encampment in Biloxi or Gulfport which is only about 2 hours away! Unfortunately I goofed and didn't get any contact info for those great guys! If anyone knows anything about that particular encampment or who I can contact in regards to it please let me know!
Thanks
I can be reached at 425PAO@GMAIL.COM
Email sent
OK, the 2008 AL/MS Encampment Website is complete. There is still some forthcoming information to post, but it is operational. Cadet Command Staff will be announced very soon. We will begin accepting cadet staff applications soon afterwards. Senior officers may make application at any time.
Website>> http://almsencampment.com/
If the NHQ cadet programs isn't regularly current/up to date about encampments then everybody who is doing encampments or who have encampments may want to consider using the CAP website directory instead as they will probably maintain more current data than NHQ will as far as encampments and squadron websites.
I don't know of the link on top of my head at the moment.
Hi Scott,
Welcome to CAPtalk... ;D
Hey Al! Good to be here. Looks as if you are a fixture here too!
Fixture, tool, or some other kind of mechanical device, YMMV... :D
Basic Application for the AL/MS Encampment are being taken now! Head to the website referenced above for all the details!
The website << http://almsencampment.com >> has been updated with new information and instructions. Just go to the "Forum" page, and click "Read this first" for the instructions.