Work with me here people, I've been stuck inside for 10 days now due to a back injury. I'm playing with gear, looking at old photos, going through my patch collection, surfing the net and I found my stash of every single ID card I've ever owned, except for the ones when they were paper. Dern it, I wish I still had one of those.
Here's a bit of history. And yes, my first name is Peter.
I hope your back gets better; and yes, that is pretty cool!!! 8)
I too hope your back gets better. I was about to jump on you because your 1991 ID card didn't show that you were authorized to work with cadets, until I happened to notice that you were a cadet. I see Harwell signed your Communications card, but I don't recognize the Wing Communications officer. My recollection is that was during Don Cunningham's reign as Wing King.
BTW you'll notice the expiration date on my cadet ID card says Aug 91. I joined in Feb 87 so it should have read "Feb 91". I had been promoted to C/Amn and gone to the '87 encampment at Tyndall before getting my ID card. That's 6 months it took for them to find my paperwork and officially make me a member. I had to carry around a signed and notarized copy of my application as proof of membership. I'm just glad the encampment commander accepted it. I still got a 341 for not being in possession of my CAP ID.
some of those look a familiar, always nice to look back on days gone by.
Thank god we got rid of those paper CAPID's!!!
Oh 341's that one of those things I wish people wouldn't consider Hazing! Our wing CC vetoed them 6 years ago
Quote from: Stonewall on August 20, 2007, 08:25:44 PM
BTW you'll notice the expiration date on my cadet ID card says Aug 91. I joined in Feb 87 so it should have read "Feb 91". I had been promoted to C/Amn and gone to the '87 encampment at Tyndall before getting my ID card. That's 6 months it took for them to find my paperwork and officially make me a member. I had to carry around a signed and notarized copy of my application as proof of membership. I'm just glad the encampment commander accepted it. I still got a 341 for not being in possession of my CAP ID.
I take some of it back. That would have been in Sam Speiker's reign as Wing King. The guy at Wing HQ was Angelo Donedeo, and I think he could have lost his own head if it hadn't been tied on. I waited over nine months for my first promotion, and finally ran into Colonel Speiker over at Sebring at a SarEx. He pulled me aside and asked if I hadn't been a commissioned officer in the military, and when I said yes, his next question was why was I still a slick sleeve. I told him that he was going to have to ask that question at Wing HQ because I didn't know the answer. Three weeks later I got promoted. I'm surprised that you got a 341 for an ID that hadn't been issued yet. Seems to me to be a perfect excuse.