OK......there are some intense discussions going on right now here at CAPTALK. So, for something less serious I thought maybe we can all share the farthest we have gone from our home SQD for a CAP activity. They can be missions or IACE or anything else that took you far from "home".
I will start......mine would be the Philippines for IACE. It was an awesome trip where I made some friends that I consider to be very close. (Anyone else go there as a cadet, would love to trade stories etc.)
OK....now everyone else!
The first time for any good distance, I went from Misawa AB Japan to Kadena AB Okinawa for a Summer encampment. The second I went from Belleville IL. to Maxwell AFB for NSC.
In 1997,when my National Guard unit was called up to support Operation Joint endeaver I traveled from Vilseck GE to the National Conference in Las Vegas.
I went from Virginia (National Captial Wing) to Grissom ARB in Indiana for Region Staff College in 2003.
My two farthest CAP activities would be from Syracuse, New York to:
O'ahu, Hawaii for 2007 HIWG Encampment
United Kingdom for 2003 IACE
Farthest I've gone? Probably from Milwaukee to Nebraska on a KC-135 orientation flight with the 128th Air Refueling Wing. Plus I get to drive to Nebraska this November to help with their Wing Cadet Competition.
Gulf Coast ~900 miles.
In 1979 I was selected with another cadet from the Houston area to go on a trip with about 50 cadets from across Texas to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton ,OH. We drove to Austin's Bergstrom AFB and flew on a C-130 from there to Wright-Pat. We went up on a Friday and flew back on the following Sunday. That was a cool trip for a 7th grader who had only flown once before then. It's not the farthest trip listed here but seemed like the other side of the world for me!!!
In 1982 I went from Kadena AB, Okinawa to Maxwell AFB, AL for NSC. The next year we sent a cadet from Kadena to Maxwell for COS.
JEFFREY C WANDELL, Lt Col, CAP
Quote from: mikeylikey on September 16, 2007, 06:49:52 PM
I will start......mine would be the Philippines for IACE. It was an awesome trip where I made some friends that I consider to be very close.
Coolness. I went to the Philippines for IACE in '75.
As an experinment that year, they did not send senior escorts, so it was just another cadet and me. ;)
To restore the balance in the Circle of Life, I just returned from IACE to Ghana. There, I was an escort without any cadets.
Talk about your perfect IACE exoerience.
Ned Lee
I reside on the Central Coast of California.....so:
farthest west - Hickam AFB, Honolulu HI for Chaplain Service Region Staff College
farthest northeast - Philadelphia, PA for National Board/Conference
farthest southeast - Maxwell AFB, Montgomery AL for National Staff College (as student and staff member) and USAF Chaplain Service Institute
Have traveled throughout the state of California as staff member for CLC/SLS and UCC, Chaplain Service Region Staff College (and in neighboring state...Nellis AFB, Las Vegas AFB), Wing Conferences, SARXes and actual missions, as well as various cadet activities (BCS/ATS, Encampment (although it is my backyard)...and California is a large state :)
From March AFB, Ca. to Maxwell in the back of a C-130 for NCC.
Quote from: Flying Pig on September 16, 2007, 11:34:50 PM
From March AFB, Ca. to Maxwell in the back of a C-130 for NCC.
Did you actually mean "From March AFB, Ca. to Maxwell in the back of a
BLACK VAN"? >:D
Quote from: Ned on September 16, 2007, 10:21:13 PM
Quote from: mikeylikey on September 16, 2007, 06:49:52 PM
I will start......mine would be the Philippines for IACE. It was an awesome trip where I made some friends that I consider to be very close.
Coolness. I went to the Philippines for IACE in '75.
As an experiment that year, they did not send senior escorts, so it was just another cadet and me. ;)
To restore the balance in the Circle of Life, I just returned from IACE to Ghana. There, I was an escort without any cadets.
Talk about your perfect IACE experience.
Ned Lee
Thats SWEET! IACE with no Cadets is awesome, perhaps we should do away with cadets in IACE altogether! It would be the "International Air Exchange".
How was Ghana by the way?
I haven't been out of the country in a year. I'm seriously considering volunteering for IACE. I've never looked into it before, but I think it's time to start. I just hope I can go to a country I haven't been to before.
Quote from: Stonewall on September 17, 2007, 12:54:09 AM
I haven't been out of the country in a year. I'm seriously considering volunteering for IACE. I've never looked into it before, but I think it's time to start. I just hope I can go to a country I haven't been to before.
I can't wait until IACE "Saudi IRAQIA" is offered. I would volunteer in a heartbeat!
I am looking to IACE as a Senior Escort perhaps this coming summer. I would like the UK, or perhaps Italy if offered. Anyone else want to volunteer with me.
Quote from: Ohioguard on September 16, 2007, 10:15:20 PM
In 1982 I went from Kadena AB, Okinawa to Maxwell AFB, AL for NSC. The next year we sent a cadet from Kadena to Maxwell for COS.
1983 we had a guy from Oki at our Summer Encampment in Michigan. Mike Brennan, maybe? My "grey matter database" is missin' a few records these days.. :)
Quote from: mikeylikey on September 17, 2007, 01:02:40 AM
Quote from: Stonewall on September 17, 2007, 12:54:09 AM
I haven't been out of the country in a year. I'm seriously considering volunteering for IACE. I've never looked into it before, but I think it's time to start. I just hope I can go to a country I haven't been to before.
I can't wait until IACE "Saudi IRAQIA" is offered. I would volunteer in a heartbeat!
I am looking to IACE as a Senior Escort perhaps this coming summer. I would like the UK, or perhaps Italy if offered. Anyone else want to volunteer with me.
You cool with hanging out with an enlisted guy?
I was thinking of applying for IACE for 08. Germany, Australia and the UK on my list (my luck is I'll get Canada..)
NIN...."1983 we had a guy from Oki at our Summer Encampment in Michigan. Mike Brennan, maybe? My "grey matter database" is missin' a few records these days.."
Your grey matter is right on. Mike was one of several shinning stars that we had in the Okinawa Cadet Squadron.
In 1984 we had the first and to this date the only Spaatz cadet from an overseas unit, Jeff D. Morris.
Warm regards
JCW
Quote from: Stonewall on September 17, 2007, 01:19:27 AM
Quote from: mikeylikey on September 17, 2007, 01:02:40 AM
Quote from: Stonewall on September 17, 2007, 12:54:09 AM
I haven't been out of the country in a year. I'm seriously considering volunteering for IACE. I've never looked into it before, but I think it's time to start. I just hope I can go to a country I haven't been to before.
I can't wait until IACE "Saudi IRAQIA" is offered. I would volunteer in a heartbeat!
I am looking to IACE as a Senior Escort perhaps this coming summer. I would like the UK, or perhaps Italy if offered. Anyone else want to volunteer with me.
You cool with hanging out with an enlisted guy?
You cool with hanging out with an Officer? As long as you don't tell I won't. ;D
Farthest IACE - Belgium '95 - Quite the trip one hot summer in Europe. Met a princess (in her 80's) and the only Belgian Ace from WWII.
Farthest Non-IACE - Two round trips to lovely Maxwell AFB. Once for NSC, the other for ARCHER.
Quote from: Ohioguard on September 17, 2007, 01:40:36 AM
Your grey matter is right on. Mike was one of several shinning stars that we had in the Okinawa Cadet Squadron.
In 1984 we had the first and to this date the only Spaatz cadet from an overseas unit, Jeff D. Morris.
Mike was good dude. He shows up with pips and no encampment and that darn Okinawa patch, as I recall, and we're all like "Yeah, uh, dude, we don't know what to do with you.." so we made him a Squadron First Sergeant (as a C/WO.. or maybe he was a C/FO.. can't remember precisely..). He wound up being my squadron's first shirt and a wicked helpful one at that.
What an awesome year that was..
March AFB, CA to Eileson AFB, AK for encampment
OHWG to New Zealand for IACE
Norton AFB, CA to Maxwell AFB for NSC
OHWG to CAWG for encampment
ALWG to CAWG for encampment
Compared to others, I haven't been that far...just from Tallahassee to Emmitsburg, MD and back for ICS TTT (it was for CAP...the wing commander signed my paperwork as sponsoring agency), butit was worth the trip. All the way up on the Blue Ridge Parkway and all the way back on backroads through West Virginia and Kentucky. I just set the laptop up to take me the shortest distance from point to point and let it lead me down some of the most picturesque 1 and 2-lane roads you can imagine....most were even paved. Some of the pics are at http://photos.tallahasseecap.org under my name.
Quote from: mikeylikey on September 17, 2007, 12:51:51 AM
How was Ghana by the way?
Extremely interesting.
We definately did some stuff that they didn't get to do in Belgium. 8)
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/nedlee6/CrocSitting.jpg)
It's not much, but it's kinda crappy. I was phoned at about 11:00 p.m. one night by my old commander asking me if I'd be willing to go to Wright-Patterson AFB to pick up the Group Van that had broken down a few months before at OHWG Encampment. I told him that I would pick it up the next day. My wife took a day off of work to go with me so that I would have a way to get my POV back. We woke up at about 7:30 the next morning. I got my BDUs on, and we headed to the unit's HQ that was about 15 minutes away from where we lived at the time. When I got there, I noticed that the keys to the van were gone. The spare key was with another member who just happened to be deployed to Alaska for training. Needless to say. My family and I didn't leave Cleveland until about 5 p.m. with a one year old. A four hour drive both ways. Plus I had to load the van with some stuff the local squadron was giving to my old unit. I was thanked by the unit commander allowing us to buy dinner that had to be kept under $15-$20. I swore to myself that I would never go that far again for any reason other than a SAR.
Quote from: NIN on September 17, 2007, 01:24:41 AM
I was thinking of applying for IACE for 08. Germany, Australia and the UK on my list (my luck is I'll get Canada..)
You are being targeted as the second senior escort for Ghana. But you are also in the running for the first exchange with Chad.
It's unlikely that you'll get Canada. They check with customs in each country before you travel there. Given the, um, incident at the border last time, you probably won't have to worry about out neighbor to the North. (In Detroit, they are 'our neighbor to the South' but you get my point.)
Leo
IACE - Belgium 2007
Quote from: Ned on September 17, 2007, 05:08:09 AM
Quote from: mikeylikey on September 17, 2007, 12:51:51 AM
How was Ghana by the way?
Extremely interesting.
We definately did some stuff that they didn't get to do in Belgium. 8)
Oh yeah. We had showers and running water. Most of our travel was by air conditioned bus - not by crocodile. And we got to wear shoes.
The farthest I have traveled for CAP:
IACE - Germany
Non-IACE - Germany
/Ghana looks interesting... might apply for that in a few years when my escort eligibility resets... but... the food doesn't look all that appealing... :-P
^ Umm.....Ghana, not thanks, too much wildlife. I would hate to be eaten by some alligator or crocodile.
Quote from: TankerT on September 17, 2007, 01:57:52 PM
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Non-IACE - Germany
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As I said on the photo from that particular extravagance...
From now on, your ΔΤΧ (Delta Tau Chi) name is: Pumpkin.
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For mine: Washington D.C. for NCC Staff in 2006... My regular trips are to Wright-Patt for Region and National Cadet Competition, and the next good long one will be with thou Mr. Turkal driving down to Nebraska *YAWNS*...
Quote from: mikeylikey on September 17, 2007, 12:49:49 AM
Quote from: Flying Pig on September 16, 2007, 11:34:50 PM
From March AFB, Ca. to Maxwell in the back of a C-130 for NCC.
Did you actually mean "From March AFB, Ca. to Maxwell in the back of a BLACK VAN"? >:D
Yes, but my memory was erased upon landing...so I dont remember. But if I told you I must remember? Oh no..so many memories are flooding back back.....Why was there a leprachaun flying?
Got the call Easter Weekend 2006... Iowa City got hit by tornadoes & the IA Wing needed help...their local squadrons were a bit busy, a holiday and all...so my squadron packed up and drove from St Louis to IA City. I know it isn't quite the same as some of you all going 1,000's of miles for CAP events, but this one was one of the most intense times of my CAP career. Within 30 mins of getting the "Call" there was 10 of us on the road. We did relief manning a shelter plus loading/unloading emergency supplies and passing out water/food/blankets etc...
...and then the next week Gen P shuts us down. :( (another thread...some other time)
QuoteFrom now on, your ΔΤΧ (Delta Tau Chi) name is: Pumpkin.
Thank you, Sir...may I have another.