Field Trips

[addo1]

Share your favorite field trips you have done with your squadron.  On Saturday, my squadron took a trip to the Frontiers of Flight museum at Lovefield airport.  It was an awesome experience and we learned a lot about all aspects of flight!  

[SDF_Specialist]

Ohio Wing Drill Academy 2006. It was a blast!!

[fyrfitrmedic]

 My home unit has revived an old custom of a weekend trip to Gettysburg, including camping at Mcmillan Woods and a day hike around the battlefield.

[mikeylikey]

^  Thats awesome!  That is such a good day trip, as is Valley Forge and Philadelphia (Central Philly, the tourist part, not south, west, or east Philly, the "bad parts").

[SAR-EMT1]

USAF Museum at Wright-Pat

IL Aviation Museum at the Former Chanute AFB

Armour Museum at Knox

[A.Member]

I think every squadron should have a goal of making one major (long weekend or similar) trip each year (or perhaps every other year) to places such as:

• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• National Museum of the Air Force
• Pima Air and Space Museum/Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (the "Boneyard")
• Kennedy Space Center

I'd love to get our cadets (and officers) to one of these as well:
http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=3149.msg59098#msg59098

or here:
Reno Air Races

Of course, Blue Beret is an option for cadets to attend Airventure but it could make for a good trip as well. 

There are all kinds of cool places to visit.

[flyerthom]

We got to tour the Aggressor squadron at Nellis AFB.

[Flying Pig]

This one time at Wing Conference we snuck out and........Oh boy, look at the time.....

[JAFO78]

I would say going to Airventure was the best thing we did.

It was more then one squadron in our group. but we did not wear our uniforms because we wanted to build friendship and just have a great time. our meet up place was a area we called war Bird Alley. 

First time I saw B-29 fly.....w-o-w. And then we saw ...........w-o-w, and then......w-o-w.

[addo1]

I think every squadron should have a goal of making one major (long weekend or similar) trip each year (or perhaps every other year) to places such as:

• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• National Museum of the Air Force
• Pima Air and Space Museum/Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (the "Boneyard")
• Kennedy Space Center

I'd love to get our cadets (and officers) to one of these as well:
http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=3149.msg59098#msg59098

or here:
Reno Air Races

Of course, Blue Beret is an option for cadets to attend Airventure but it could make for a good trip as well. 

There are all kinds of cool places to visit.

I have been lucky enough to go to 3 out of 4 of the above.  They are fabulous!  

[Eclipse]

Ohio Wing Drill Academy 2006. It was a blast!!

I think unit CC's should make a distinction - and most do, between a CAP-event and a field trip.

I'm sure the Drill Academy was "fun" on the level those things are, but "fields trips" should be more low-impact "esprit-de-corps" activities like those mentioned - museums, Challenger Centers, even picnics and movies.

Something with group time, but no specific metric of completion or performance.

[Skyray]

My understanding is that our very own Kach is a tour guide at the grandaddy of all aviation destinations, Cape Canaveral.  some of you guys, especially the homeless central Florida ones, should contact him.

[SDF_Specialist]

Ohio Wing Drill Academy 2006. It was a blast!!

I think unit CC's should make a distinction - and most do, between a CAP-event and a field trip.

I'm sure the Drill Academy was "fun" on the level those things are, but "fields trips" should be more low-impact "esprit-de-corps" activities like those mentioned - museums, Challenger Centers, even picnics and movies.

Something with group time, but no specific metric of completion or performance.

It was optional participation. Of course, everyone did participate. You're right though. The unit considered it a field trip, but it was more of a CAP activity.

[NIN]

Now THIS is a field trip..

[A.Member]

Now THIS is a field trip..

I suppose.  If that's the best you can do... 

[genejackson]

Took my Squadron to the Airborne Museum at Ft. Bragg.  They absolutely LOVED it and when the workers saw who we were, they "assigned" us a private guide who actually was on Normandy.   Wow is the best way to describe the day these cadets had. 
Also, we told every cadet they had to bring a buddy and by the end of the month, we had a dozen or so new cadets and several new parents who signed up as Cadet Sponsor members.   

[Cecil DP]

Last year our squadron visited the 8th Air Force Museum in Savannah. Great trip. last month the Air Museum at Warner Robbins, GA.

I would like to see a trip to the Congressional Mdal of Honor Museum in Charleston

[addo1]

Now THIS is a field trip..

COOL!! VERY COOL!    I bet they had fun.

[addo1]

...who we were, they "assigned" us a private guide who actually was on Normandy...   

  Living history is the best!  At the Frontiers of Flight museum, we talked to a guy who fought under Patton.  He fought 93 combat missions.
His job was to silence the anti-aircraft fire before the carriers dropped the paratroopers.  He was 1 of 2 people in his whole squadron, that lived through the war. Amazing!!!

[brasda91]

USAF Museum at Wright-Pat

Armour Museum at Knox

I've done two encampments at Wright-Pat, museum is awesome.  I've heard it's expanded even more.

Our squadron just did a trip to Ft. Knox a few weekends ago.