Maxwell Composite Squadron?

[ProdigalJim]

Anybody here know anything about Maxwell Composite Squadron? Anybody have thoughts about the unit? Anybody here FROM Maxwell Composite Squadron? Asking for a friend...

[Brad]

Didn't know there was such a creature. Kinda cool to have squadron-level meetings near NHQ.

CAP Squadron Locator results:

MAXWELL COMPOSITE SQDN
Unit Contact: James A Harris
Contact Phone: (334) 233-1919
Contact e-mail: jharris846@knology.net
Meeting Address: BUILDING 1211,
MAXWELL AFB, AL 36112
Unit Web Address:
Meeting Time: 1830 TUESDAY
Charter Number: SER AL032
Unit Notes: Prospective members must contact someone in the unit prior to attending a meeting! Doing so will ensure smooth access to our facilities._x000D_ _x000D_ While the Cadets meet every week, the Senior Members meet ever 2d and 4th Tuesday of the month at 1900.

http://capal032.weebly.com/

[a2capt]

.. Kinda cool to have squadron-level meetings near NHQ.

Every good enterprise needs a proving grounds ..

[husker]

Its a relatively "normal" unit (if there is such thing), that has very little to do with NHQ.  I spent 5 years as a cadet there, as well as a good part of my senior career.  The unit commander is a good guy.

[Eclipse]

Its a relative "normal" unit (if there is such thing), that has very little to do with NHQ.

I suppose that's better and more workable for the members there, but the kind of thing that
has frustrated and confused me for years.

Most wings have a unit that meets at or near HQ - with ready access to wing staff and resources,
these units should serve as the example for the rest of the wing, and the Maxwell unit
should be the textbook of what a unit looks like for the rest of the organization.

Yes, I know, chain of command, echelons, etc., etc., but it's not like these things are generally
recognized, except when convenient anyway, so there should be some "home team advantage".

I mean purely from a pragmatic perspective, if a unit that meets in Wing's backyard, struggles,
what can you expect from one somewhere in "fly over"?

[LTCinSWR]

Didn't know there was such a creature. Kinda cool to have squadron-level meetings near NHQ.

Not many people remember the days when National Headquarters was at Ellington AFB (now Joint Base Ellington) when CAP was part of CONARC (maybe some of the historians know). Ellington still exists and like other CAP units has had its ups and downs.

[Phil Hirons, Jr.]

CAP Squadron Locator results:

MAXWELL COMPOSITE SQDN
Unit Contact: James A Harris
Contact Phone: (334) 233-1919
Contact e-mail: jharris846@knology.net
Meeting Address: BUILDING 1211,
MAXWELL AFB, AL 36112
Unit Web Address:
Meeting Time: 1830 TUESDAY
Charter Number: SER AL032
Unit Notes: Prospective members must contact someone in the unit prior to attending a meeting! Doing so will ensure smooth access to our facilities._x000D_ _x000D_ While the Cadets meet every week, the Senior Members meet ever 2d and 4th Tuesday of the month at 1900.

So on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday it's just cadets? 

Might want to rephrase that one.

[Brad]

So on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday it's just cadets? 

Might want to rephrase that one.

A squadron I used to belong to does that. They do composite squadron activities on the weeks that seniors and cadets meet, and they do cadet squadron activities on the weeks that cadets only (and the senior support staff for cadets of course) meet.

[lordmonar]

I think he was implying....that there were NO seniors presents on the "cadets only" nights.

[ProdigalJim]

Its a relatively "normal" unit (if there is such thing), that has very little to do with NHQ.  I spent 5 years as a cadet there, as well as a good part of my senior career.  The unit commander is a good guy.

Thanks, good to know. That's what I was looking for.

[Private Investigator]

Its a relatively "normal" unit (if there is such thing), that has very little to do with NHQ.  I spent 5 years as a cadet there, as well as a good part of my senior career.  The unit commander is a good guy.

Was the confederate flag on the squadron patch then?   

[Private Investigator]

http://www.incountry.us/cappatches/SER/AL/al032b.jpg

[husker]

Yes.  I have a couple iterations of the patch somewhere.

[Private Investigator]

I was doing a patch project and the Maxwell Composite Squadron was included.

[Nuke52]

I was doing a patch project and the Maxwell Composite Squadron was included.

Is it particularly sunny at your location?  Most of your posts seem to end with a sunglasses emoticon...

[PHall]

I was doing a patch project and the Maxwell Composite Squadron was included.

Is it particularly sunny at your location?  Most of your posts seem to end with a sunglasses emoticon...

He's a PI trying to not be noticed...

[Eclipse]

http://www.incountry.us/cappatches/SER/AL/al032b.jpg

That is not the confederate flag, that is a tribute to Evel Knievel.

[Nuke52]

I was doing a patch project and the Maxwell Composite Squadron was included.

Is it particularly sunny at your location?  Most of your posts seem to end with a sunglasses emoticon...

He's a PI trying to not be noticed...

Ha--that's a good one!  It all makes sense now...  [Darn it, why didn't I think of that myself??]

[LSThiker]

http://www.incountry.us/cappatches/SER/AL/al032b.jpg

That is not the confederate flag, that is a tribute to Evel Knievel.

To bad that he was born and laid to rest in Montana.

[Private Investigator]

I was doing a patch project and the Maxwell Composite Squadron was included.

Is it particularly sunny at your location?  Most of your posts seem to end with a sunglasses emoticon...

Have you not heard? Every day is a holiday, every meal is a feast!