Meeting Length

[Patterson]

^ Eclipse I do not care what time a units "Official meeting time ends" is, I was only giving an example of my experience.  I was trying to get across that if the meeting is scheduled to end at 9:00PM or even 9:30PM, Squadron Commanders should meet that ending time!!

If you wrote that your meeting ends at 9:30PM on the CAPF 27 lets hold to that, or update you CAPF 27 and send through channels to National. 

Nothing bothers Parents like waiting a half hour for a meeting that is always scheduled to end at 9:30PM.  It is a disservice to everyone by going over the meeting end time.  UNLESS you let everyone know ahead of time.

Meeting schedules and deadlines and suspense is part of CAP.  Lets not just say "we end, when we end"!!!!!!!! 

[ChrisUSN]

On the unit finder it lists it for 9:00, the contact that it also lists told me 8:50 and another website like capmembers.com or something told me 9:30 the actual meeting went until 9:15 I can only stay until 9:10. So that is why I am confused.

And I also agree with you Patterson. If they say they're going to end at a certain time they should end at THAT time, I mean for the love of god we're representing the Airforce, The Military, and our country, they should be on time.

Posts merged. - MIKE

[Майор Хаткевич]

On the unit finder it lists it for 9:00, the contact that it also lists told me 8:50 and another website like capmembers.com or something told me 9:30 the actual meeting went until 9:15 I can only stay until 9:10. So that is why I am confused.

Again, this is a question for your flight staff to go up the chain. (most likely for the deputy commander of cadets).

I used to have a Squadron Commander that couldn't keep the meetings to normal times...he had a moratorium on promotions for about 6 months, and decided to do the boards for us after the end time...mine came up 30 mins after usual end time...I was pissed because my parents didn't know (and neither did I prior) and had to wait. After a conversation my step-father had with the commander, he decided to try to keep in bounds...

Thankfully, now the commander is gone to another state, and as I recall, not so active anymore.

[Eclipse]

^ Eclipse I do not care what time a units "Official meeting time ends" is, I was only giving an example of my experience.

Which unless you were trying insinuate that meeting past 9 was somehow "wrong" was not relevant to this discussion, especially
when even the original poster doesn't know the length of his meetings.

There is no indication by anyone here, either, that they are running over their "scheduled" time.

Form 27's are not intended to delineate meeitng times in anything more than a general sense.

ASK YOUR SQUADRON CC.
In fact, in the time you have been discussing this here, you could have simply called him, your flt sgt, flight CC, or Cadet CC and gotten your answer.

[ChrisUSN]

I emailed all the contacts I have in the squadron.

[Short Field]

ASK YOUR SQUADRON CC.
In fact, in the time you have been discussing this here, you could have simply called him, your flt sgt, flight CC, or Cadet CC and gotten your answer.

And since this is NOT a new change in your circumstances, it should have been discussed before you became a member of that squadron.  That is why a lot of squadrons have membership boards and a requirement for new potential members to attended three meetings before submitting their applications.

[Eclipse]

I emailed all the contacts I have in the squadron.

A couple of other "options":

1) Walk up to him and ask.

2) Call him on the phone.

Rinse, repeat if necessary.

If your unit does not have a public calendar, this may be a good time to suggest that, as well as volunteer to help put it together.